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- One of Donald Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus—and apparently that person wasn't wearing a mask around the White House and Trump.
- JetBlue is flying three aircrafts over NYC tonight to thank first responders even though nobody wants them to do that.
- Have you come down with a vicious case of 2014 nostalgia while quarantining?
- Laura McGann has spent much of the past year reporting on Tara Reade's allegations against Joe Biden, and she calls it "the most difficult story I've grappled with since I started covering questions of gender and power during the #MeToo era."
- Fall into a Comedy Bang! Bang! k-hole with Vulture's exhaustive piece on its 103 best characters.
- The Justice Department has dropped its criminal case against Michael T. Flynn, Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, who had previously pleaded guilty to lying to F.B.I. agents about his conversations with a Russian diplomat.
- Here's a great Washington Post story about the woman who has gone $600K in debt to buy wholesale masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and face shields to give out for free to hospital workers.
- Self-explanatory headline of the day: "Super-Constipated Florida Lizard Breaks Records With Gargantuan Poop."
- Radiohead are adding their legendary 2006 Bonnaroo set to YouTube tonight; Jonny Greenwood called that particular performance “the best festival experience [he’s] ever had in America.”
- [Sung to the tune of Paula Cole's "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?"] Where have all the goslings gone?
- Stereogum has a great appreciation of the influence of Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider, who died this week.
- And finally, I just want to know why a guy is standing around doing nothing while this heroic dog saves his friend:
Published May 7, 2020
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