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  • The reason why coronavirus cases are decreasing around the country? Restrictions are working.
  • Protests have broken out after police shot a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin as he opened the door of a parked vehicle on a residential street.
  • Tech guru Jaron Lanier offers some thoughts on the damage social media is doing to people, what might be coming down the pipeline, and completely bodies those of us obsessed with Twitter: "People who are addicted to Twitter are like all addicts—on the one hand miserable, and on the other hand very defensive about it and unwilling to blame Twitter.”
  • Jerry Seinfeld has no patience or sympathy for people bemoaning the end of NYC (particularly the comedy club owner who wrote a viral LinkedIn piece on how he's moving to Florida): "Real, live, inspiring human energy exists when we coagulate together in crazy places like New York City. Feeling sorry for yourself because you can’t go to the theater for a while is not the essential element of character that made New York the brilliant diamond of activity it will one day be again."
  • Breonna Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer recounts the nightmare of Breonna’s tragic killing in an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates for Vanity Fair.
  • After her 15-year-old daughter said she was seeking to emancipate herself from her parents, Kellyanne Conway announced that she's leaving the White House at the end of the month to focus on her family.
  • John Oliver took a look at the progress, or lack thereof, that Trump has made in creating his border wall on Last Week Tonight.
  • The Times argues that the key to NYC's recovery will happen in the boroughs outside of Manhattan.
  • Watch the first trailer for Showtime's The Comey Rule, which I personally have less than zero interest in ever watching.
  • A woman was arrested for a third time for defacing the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower.
  • Justin Townes Earle, the singer-songwriter and son of Steve Earle, has died. He was 38.
  • Tame Impala performed three songs on the latest edition of Tiny At Home Desk Concerts.
  • And finally, I want to be friends with this dog: