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- The CDC announced yesterday that the coronavirus variant originally found in England is now the dominant strain in the United States.
- A British doctor whose brother died from a blood clot after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine is urging people to keep taking the vaccine, explaining that her brother was "extraordinarily unlucky."
- Starting July 1st, Virginia will be the 16th state with legal weed.
- "What does love look like in a time of anti-Asian hate?" The Times published intimate and moving pictures taken by more than two dozen Asian and Asian American photographers focused on expressions of love.
- Simon & Schuster plans to publish Mike Pence's autobiography in 2023, ostensibly banking on "inside Trumpworld" paperbacks still being hot sellers in airports.
- Last night's episode of the Today, Explained podcast followed students at Seaman High School in Topeka, Kansas who want to change the name of their school because Fred Seaman, the namesake of Seaman High, was an exalted cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan.
- "If people start naming names, an awful lot of artists will have a lot of answering to do." Variety details an organized push by hit songwriters to stop artists from taking songwriting credit — and publishing revenue — when they didn't actually write the song.
- Oof, this couple moved into a new apartment right before the management company started offering three months of free rent to new tenants, and it seems like that's just something they'll have to live with.
- And finally, I like this dog's energy-conservation strategy:
Published Apr 8, 2021
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