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- A top White House adviser warned Trump administration officials in late January that the coronavirus crisis could cost the United States trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death—and he was ignored.
- White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham is leaving the job without ever having briefed the press.
- Major League Baseball really wants to start the season in May by having all 30 teams play games at stadiums with no fans in the greater Phoenix area.
- The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights will be turned into an emergency hospital as part of the fight against the pandemic.
- At least the pandas are getting it on during quarantine.
- Mayor Bill de Blasio yet again defended the fact he is driven 12 miles most mornings to Prospect Park to walk around, even though he lives far closer to Carl Schurz Park and Central Park: “I go get my exercise like everyone else,” he said. “I go to my home neighborhood. It’s part of what helps me just continue to work nonstop."
- This is what Italy looks like a month into lockdown: desperate, hungry and scared.
- Adam Sandler & Jimmy Fallon teamed up for another quarantine song called “Don’t Touch Grandma.”
- The Daily Beast talked to someone who worked on Cats about how editing the buttholes out of the film was hilarious at first, and then became a total nightmare for the VFX crew.
- Wisconsin is holding its primary today in the middle of the pandemic, after the Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court blocked a lower court's order to delay it to June.
- Here's what Tracy Morgan has been up to with his wife during their quarantine: “We’re role playing. She’s playing a young maiden whose grandfather was infected with coronavirus & I’m the scientist who discovered the cure.”
- Listen to new singles from Westerman, Hazel English and Woods.
- And finally, this is the ideal situation for using "serenity now:"
Published Apr 7, 2020
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