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  • The Atlantic has an uplifting piece about how New York has survived other crises, and will do so with this one as well.
  • The Times reports that Donald Trump is completely incapable of listening to his own experts: "The president veers off on tangents and getting him back on topic is difficult, they said. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports...Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview."
  • Republican lawmakers from Staten Island are embracing calls to reopen New York.
  • Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in connection to their role in the college admissions scam; if the judge accepts it, Loughlin will be sentenced to two months in prison and Giannulli will be sentenced to five months in prison.
  • Lana Del Rey announced she's releasing a new album in September, and also took this moment to lodge some complaints about glamorization, feminism, and her pop-music peers.
  • Paterson, NJ has become a pioneer in creating a contact-tracing program to curb the spread of coronavirus.
  • Some NY lawmakers are pushing for marijuana to be legalized to help the state deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • I know the subway stations are getting cleaned much more regularly, but I still wouldn't have sex in them.
  • Michael Cohen was just released from a federal prison due to the coronavirus, and is expected to serve the rest of his three-year sentence from home.
  • Wilco premiered a beautiful new Big Star-ish song called "Tell Your Friends" on Colbert last night.
  • And finally, what if all your dreams came true all at once?