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I haven't been keeping up with my many things make a post posts. So I put one together for the newsletter. The image above will make sense once you read it....

• Daisy Lampkin, yinz. 
• It's the hot dog tongs that get me.
• It's both a border and not a border but is, in fact, a border.
• Color me intrigued.
• Ooooof. 
• This is possibly the most level-headed examination of where our culture is on trans people in sports.
• "food-based spite politics."
• So much love (and hate) in this story of a little green sweater.
• This is a weird and wonderful story about a lost thing.
• Tell the truth with words we know.

• Can you just imagine what this shopfront has seen? 
• How I randomly discovered Craig Mod is a long story but I am so glad I'm here now. 
• Related: a food that squeezes joy from very little.
• Glass CSI.
• Anyone else remember "finding their colors?"
• How to thrive in the cold (with sled dog pixs).
• Deploy if you're feeling down.
• This was already a very, very good book. It is now the perfect book for these times.

• We don't deserve John Waters.
• You know what? I honestly didn't think I'd have any sympathy for this woman. Then I read the story.
• The research we need.
• How to build mental endurance, from professionals who have a lot of it.
• Women are the country's social safety net.
• Fifty pies - but without the obvious ones.
• Oh Fetterman, my Fetterman.
• What's next for the #resistance?

• I had the honor to see a couple of these pins in person. These women endured so much for something we take for granted.
• An answer to a question I didn't know I had.
• This diorama scared the bejeezus out of me every time I visited the museum as a kid. Maybe I was just picking up on the bad vibes?
• How gender (and race) shape our politics (and everything).
• I had the honor of logging my miles with a team of BAMRs.
• A friend from Knoxville sent this link to a short doc about Kentucky state legislator Attica Scott, who is leading a fight to pass a bill decriminalizing natural hair. Attica and I both wrote for the same newspaper back in the day (but never met each other in person) and it is so great to see what she's doing now.  
• When the minimum wage doesn't ever change, this is exactly what will happen. Don't even say these people should pick themselves up by their bootstraps. They don't even have boots.

• Jerry Saltz writes about art in ways I can understand.
• Women: we get the job done.
• I've had the honor of visiting Hiroshima. You cannot go there without viscerally feeling what it must have been like. And we partly have John Hersey to thank for bringing the story to the world. 
• We've done a terrible job with the virus thing, tho. 
• Follow the money.
• One of my favorite artists, deconstructed.
• Our country's failure.
• This 100% matches my memory of Pigeon Forge and Dollywood.
• Related to the above.
• The joy of running. Really.
• * CLIP AND SAVE: when and how to vote in all 50 states.
• They ate the seeds because of course they did.

• IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE: To Comptroller DiNapoli I say: No Shit. This really deserves its own post but, dang, I'm so tired of talking about collapsing county budgets ... and, yet, they keep collapsing and it's increasingly clear we are on our own.

• The main take-away from this thorough and clear piece about Covid-19: if we had a real administration, it could have been contained. Absolutely none of this had to happen. 
• Chaser.
• The only chart you need right now.
• Yet another reason why you should care about coroners.
• Lessons from the kink community.
• You should be watching Home Game. 
• Problem Areas was ahead of its time and just what we need now. Also: Wyatt Cenac shows you how interviews should be done. You can tell that he's really listening and responding sincerely.

• A new use for the old drive in.
• This piece is gorgeous and devastating.
• On writing letters.
• Trust me: There is no “them" and other great life advice.
• Robin Givhan is so good.
• If you want to get serious about police violence, start with looking good and hard at police unions.

And some shameless promo: you know you want to spend 10 minutes with Gary and me talking about what we're reading, yes? 

• The pandemic is exposing all of our society's fault lines. One of the biggest is how frequently we overlook domestic violence -- and how much worse it will get while we are locked inside.
• Rest assured, the rattlesnake round-up continued as planned.
• Worst. Marathon. Ever.
• I have always wondered this -- and how people can be hungry at all after intense work-outs.
• The instrument I will play in my head every time I hear any Train song.
• HOW HAVE WE NOT ALREADY DONE THIS?
• This review was just fun to read. 
• Am I laughing? Crying? Does it matter?

• I think I pulled something while laughing. 
• Every town should do this.
• Thank you, Captain Obvious.
• This is a very good speech.
• Being poor is a full-time job. 
• If nothing else, we are getting better at talking about post-partum depression.
• If nothing else, a reminder that pregnancy was the most likely killer of women for centuries.
• I will miss The Good Place.
• It works if you embrace it.
• We were not worthy.