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  • Donald Trump initially encouraged governors to reopen their states—but after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp actually decided to do it, Trump told him he disagreed strongly with his decision.
  • Are people really leaving NYC permanently amid the pandemic, or is this just the usual cycle of articles about people who were already thinking of leaving the city going through with it?
  • Doctor are warning that the coronavirus appears to be causing sudden strokes in adults in their 30s and 40s who are not otherwise terribly ill.
  • Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, talking about his relationship with Trump and what reopening NYC might look like.
  • Elizabeth Warren's oldest brother, Don Reed, has died from coronavirus.
  • The Sopranos' actors Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa talked to GQ about their new podcast, life in isolation, and how their characters would react to the coronavirus crisis.
  • This summer in the city is gonna be tough for everyone, but especially kids: “I don’t know what we’re going to do, or where we’re going to go,” a 16-year-old told the Times, on behalf of NYC's 1.1 million public school students. “Summer is what you work for, you work for it the whole year.”
  • Wait, scientists "know" where aliens are, but they're in the "unobservable universe" we can't see? Did I get that right?
  • Grocery store workers talked to Vox about what they've been facing during the pandemic: “We didn’t sign up to be heroes, and we certainly didn’t sign up to be martyrs."
  • Relevant pigeon news of the day: "New York and Boston Pigeons Don’t Mix."
  • True love is editing your wife into every frame of the Cheers intro.
  • Listen to an acoustic version of a very good new Car Seat Headrest song, "There Must Be More Than Blood." (You can also hear the studio version here.)
  • And finally, dog IT is here to help: