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  • A group of intellectuals, artists, reactionaries, people who don't like being criticized on Twitter, and TERFs signed an open letter warning against an “intolerant climate” in the culture. People had some strong opinions about it.
  • Patricia Lockwood writes about coronavirus, and because it's Patricia Lockwood, it's brilliant and hilarious and the best thing you'll read today: "I knew I was out of immediate danger when I stopped worrying about what my corpse would look like and allowed my husband to shave my head to the skin with cat clippers while I stood naked in the bathtub," she writes. "I knew Jason was out of immediate danger when my offer to make him soup was met with a long silence and then the hideous response: ‘You’re the one who likes soup.’"
  • A GOP state lawmaker in Ohio—who doesn't wear a mask because the face is the “image and likeness of God”—is urging constituents to “STOP GETTING TESTED” for COVID-19 in a Facebook post: “Are you tired of living in a dictatorship yet?”
  • Community-led, free-food refrigerators, sometimes nicknamed “friendly fridges,” have been popping up on city sidewalks since February.
  • A Newark woman went for a mile-long ride under the city of Passaic during a flash flood on Monday, and she was eventually "shot out" into the Passaic River.
  • Vox explains why Arizona is suffering the worst coronavirus outbreak in the country right now.
  • Florida resident Daniel Maples lost his job after being recorded threatening a customer at a Fort Myers Costco.
  • Christian Cooper, the Black bird watcher falsely reported to the police by Amy Cooper in Central Park, is not cooperating in the case: “On the one hand, she’s already paid a steep price,” he said. “That’s not enough of a deterrent to others? Bringing her more misery just seems like piling on.”
  • We're living in a golden age of comfort TV.
  • Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs fighting in Iraq, is fighting back against "nativist smears" from Tucker Carlson.
  • Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher who became infamous for raping a 12-year-old student and later married him, has died of cancer. She was 58.
  • And finally, DID YOU SEE WHAT HE DID??