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  • Why are so many cops not wearing masks while in public in recent weeks even though that's the official policy? An NYPD spokesperson offered this pitiful answer: “Perhaps it was the heat. Perhaps it was the 15 hour tours, wearing bullet resistant vests in the sun. Perhaps it was the helmets. With everything New York City has been through in the past two weeks and everything we are working toward together, we can put our energy to a better use.”
  • NASCAR has banned confederate flags from all races and events.
  • People leaving NYC have "survivor's guilt," and are turning to a Facebook group where they have a safe space to agonize about something literally no one else in the world besides them cares about.
  • Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has apologized for taking part in Trump's tear gas photo-op at a church in D.C. last week, saying his presence “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”
  • Demonstrators beheaded four Confederate statues and pulled one down using rope last night in Portsmouth, Virginia; a statue of Jefferson Davis was also toppled in Richmond, Virginia.
  • Here's how some Upper West Side retailers are getting creative about selling during phase one.
  • What if we're working from home...forever?
  • Vulture makes the argument for not censoring any "problematic" pop culture art and relics: "Things don’t stop existing because you drape a shroud over them any more than they stop existing because you cover your eyes, and rewriting the past is not how you write a better future."
  • Seattle is experimenting with an "autonomous zone" that is "part street festival, part commune" and totally police-free. Donald Trump of course is against it.
  • Trevor Noah tried to convince Joe Biden why he should "defund the police."
  • The Ringer has an oral history of the insane, brilliant, ahead-of-its-time Wonder Showzen.
  • And finally, what are you staring at?