- New York Times: How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? Yeah, it’s that NYT editorial everyone has been talking about.
- Guardian: ‘Inverse vaccines’: the promise of a ‘holy grail’ treatment for autoimmune diseases. I won’t live long enough to enjoy the fruits of this research, most likely, but I hope it does come to fruition.
- Food & Wine: Why Your Favorite Server Quit — the Real Cost of Hospitality Burnout. The flip side of the recent article about the tip grift. Again, restaurants just need to pay their servers.
- Hollywood Reporter: ‘Andor’ Creator on That Stunner “Genocide” Speech and Its Real-Life Inspiration. Now that it’s all out I do want to watch both seasons of Andor.
- The Ringer : The Roots of ‘Andor’ Lore Run Deep. Just as a lot of things in the new Disney canon are twisted reflections of the old Extended Universe, the West End Star Wars game supplements are also being mined for Disney canon.
- Reactor: Princess Mononoke: Three Cheers for the Adversary? Princess Mononoke was the first Ghibli film I saw, and few anime films I’ve ever seen have come close to living up to it.
- Washington Post: ‘Sinners’ is a Black challenge to White Christianity. I wish I weren’t afraid to watch this movie. I’ve had trauma responses to horror movies (in particular vampire movies) in the past and I don’t want to retraumatize myself. But it sounds really fascinating.
- Wall Street Journal: Young Women Are Starting to Recession-Proof Their Lives. This is not a surprise to anyone paying any attention. Fortunately I actually like when you can see my roots.
- Eater: The Food That Makes You Gay. It’s not just quiche. There’s a whole history of gay food out there. (Also they didn’t even go into 19th century American ideas about food purity and sexuality, which I know just enough about to know they missed a bet.) Also, after I read this article, I found out it won a James Beard award.
- Huffington Post: I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened. By doing that, he became an expert.
- The Conversation: For 100 years, we have marvelled at planetariums. Here’s a brief history of how humans brought the stars indoors. As a confirmed planetarium lover, I learned a lot, and put some other things I already knew together.
- Vogue: The Astonishing Clarity of Artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand. I’m trying to read a lot of books by women this year and also to learn more about art by women. I’m now officially fascinated by this woman.
- BBC: The lost 1934 novel that gave a chilling warning about the horrors of Nazi Germany. Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. Now I want to read it.
- Fritinancy: Why did Allbirds lay an egg? This is a naming newsletter so part of the explanation is the problems with the name. (Yes, I have several pairs of Allbirds. They’re comfy and the walking shoes are mostly waterproof.)
- More to Hate (Kate Manne): The Misogyny of Mother’s Day—and How to Resist it. I have some feelings about this, as the kids say.
- The Big Smoke: Dave Brubeck: The white musician who fought a segregated America. Today I learned.
- AP: Late abortions are rare. The US just lost a clinic that offered the procedure for over 50 years. Warren Hern, who’s only a couple of years younger than my father-in-law, has finally had to retire. He’s been doing heroic work for people with doomed pregnancies. I’m glad he gets to retire, sorry his clinic has closed, and relieved that he hasn’t been murdered like other abortion providers.
- AV Club: The Black Widow movie was too little, too late. Gonna die mad about this.
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