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  • There was too much news today, starting with the fact Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction was overturned and he was released from prison on a “prosecutorial technicality” because the prosecutor who brought the case "was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby."
  • Phylicia Rashad, who starred alongside Cosby on The Cosby Show, became the only person in the country celebrating that decision.
  • In more prison news, Allison Mack was sentenced to three years in federal prison for her role in the NXIVM cult.
  • Donald Rumsfeld, the war criminal and former U.S. secretary of defense under two presidents, has died. He was 88.
  • Phew, okay, take a quick breather from all that hard news with an oral history of Terminator 2 :Judgement Day.
  • Okay, back to the heavy stuff: The Times analyzed thousands of videos from the pro-Trump Capitol riot on January 6th to get a better understanding of what happened, and how it happened.
  • Here is a must-read piece about science-fiction writer Isabel Fall, whose career (and life) was destroyed by Twitter after people misread her story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter." Her story has been "held up as an example of progressives eating their own, of the dangers of online anonymity, of the need for sensitivity readers or content warnings. But what this story really symbolizes is the fact that as we’ve grown more adept at using the internet, we’ve also grown more adept at destroying people’s lives, but from a distance, in an abstracted way."
  • On The Media looked at how some people have tried to claim and repurpose The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" as a Neo-Confederate anthem.
  • Not every animal can be saved from extinction, but this scientist posits that we could freeze their cells to preserve their genes.
  • According to a consumer safety report, fireworks-related injuries and deaths in the U.S. spiked in 2020 during the pandemic.
  • Questlove talked to Pitchfork about crafting his debut documentary Summer Of Soul and preserving and archiving Black culture and music.
  • And finally, I know that was a lot of news to absorb, so please enjoy...puppy: