We’ve made it to Wednesday. Progress.
What a terrible loss: Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88
After El Paso and Dayton, Three Ways to Think About Mass Shootings
More Adam Serwer, again, always: Conservatives Have a White-Nationalism Problem
‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says the Creator of 8chan, a Megaphone for Gunmen
SIGH: McConnell Campaign Responds to Viral Photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Cutout Being Groped
This is, uh, bad and scary! She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database.
A Pro-Impeachment Majority Among Democrats May Be Inevitable
Just Ideology? A Study Finds Another Predictor of Supreme Court Decisions
Ooh: Most detailed ever 3D map of Milky Way shows 'warped' shape
Heh: New England ‘Vampire’ Was Likely a Farmer Named John
And some longer reads for when you need a break:
I’M proud of Maya: Julián Castro’s unconventional campaign manager wants “to run a campaign that will make him proud”
Monica Ali: Reckoning with the Insidious Myth of Positive Discrimination
The Army’s Message to Returning World War I Troops? Behave Yourselves
Feeling Stressed Out? Pinterest Wants to Help
Psst, There’s a Secret ‘Gossip Girl’ Tour in New York
I have not been on the secret Gossip Girl tour but I DID go to the Campbell Apartment before they changed it and it was delightful. I also stayed at the Empire once but SADLY the rooftop bar was closed.
xoxo, Kate