pinboard April 29, 2021

• (400) https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1387570363127767043/photo/1
  RT @jonathanchait: Republicans are charging Biden with sneaking a radical agenda past the voters who didn’t want it. But all his proposals were in his campaign platform and are extremely popular.
• (400) https://twitter.com/julianzelizer/status/1387580156127154186/photo/1
  RT @julianzelizer: From the archives
• Untitled (https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/health/health-department-announces-confidential-covid-19-testing-data-for-thousands-of-residents-was-compromised/article_0f081096-628d-58b1-97f2-4707d082618a.html)
  RT @derekwillis: <sharp intake of breath>
• (400) https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1387455369526616064/photo/1
  RT @derekwillis: <sharp intake of breath>
• Scientists detected racial bias in a product sold by Optum, but the problem likely extends to algorithms used by major health systems and insurers – The Washington Post
• Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’
• (400) https://twitter.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1387506156201988099/photo/1
  RT @SlenderSherbet: Chat, le grand illusionniste.

  📸: Reddit user artbartram

• (400) https://twitter.com/The_Lunar_Tick/status/1387449982073122820/photo/1
  RT @The_Lunar_Tick: @kairyssdal His famous picture of everyone else in the universe.
• (400) https://twitter.com/MovingImageNYC/status/1387159266159730696/photo/1
  RT @MovingImageNYC:
• (400) https://twitter.com/UPROXX/status/1387130686495248384
  RT @MovingImageNYC:
• Biden’s Two-Part Economic Strategy Was Years in the Making
  A demand-side agenda plus a supply-side agenda to push the poorest half up the ladder.
• Transform – Acceptiva
  RT @franck_boulegue: Matt Zoller Seitz’s wife Nancy Dawson died a year ago. She cofounded Transform, a nonprofit that gives free clothes and makeovers to transgender youth seeking a new look to compliment their new identity. You can donate here: @mattzollerseitz
• 🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
  How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning
• Funeral pyres burn. Gravediggers know no rest. India's COVID-19 crisis is a 'nightmare' — Los Angeles Times
  Infections and deaths continue to climb at alarming rates as India’s second COVID-19 wave threatens to topple its healthcare system.
• Blake Bailey’s Life as a Man
• (400) https://twitter.com/bethreinhard/status/1387394975206367234
  RT @bethreinhard: This is same group that Ted Cruz has been cozy w/ for yrs…
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/ted-cruz-maintains-ties-to-right-wing-group-despite-its-extremist-messaging/2021/04/23/64387376-8e58-11eb-aff6-4f720ca2d479_story.html
  RT @bethreinhard: This is same group that Ted Cruz has been cozy w/ for yrs…
• Getaway
  86. This time you tell yourself you’ll stay put like you were told to. Sit with the engine idling and bide your
• Biden to propose free preschool as part of American Families Plan – MarketWatch
  RT @kylegriffin1: Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out in his American Families Plan.

  The admin said the investment would benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000.

• Supporting India during the current COVID crisis
  RT @sundarpichai: Devastated to see the worsening Covid crisis in India. Google & Googlers are providing Rs 135 Crore in funding to @GiveIndia, @UNICEF for medical supplies, orgs supporting high-risk communities, and grants to help spread critical information.
• (400) https://twitter.com/moylato/status/1387139670962843658
  RT @BrandyLJensen: i was immediately like “how does he get out of the car” and the answer is quite satisfying
• (400) https://twitter.com/Jake_Wolff/status/1326193156086505481
  RT @RSmythFreelance: I do hope all other writers are still as haunted by this tweet as I am.
• On the Counterintuitive Appeal of the Literary Time Loop
• My Octopus Girlfriend
  In the eyes of a dilettante like me, the entire world of octopodia—from Hokusai to William Burroughs—appears as one big sprawling tapestry of sexual titillation and deliquescence.
• Gurugram: No ambulance, families carry Covid-19 victims in autos, private vehicles for cremation – Coronavirus Outbreak News
  RT @IndiaToday: Families are forced to carry #Covid19 victims in auto-rickshaws and private vehicles for cremation in the absence of ambulances in #Gurugram | #coronavirus | @TanushreePande
• (500) https://apne.ws/WkTfWPI
  RT @AP: BREAKING: FBI announces federal civil rights investigation into fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., the Black man killed by North Carolina deputies. An independent autopsy shows that he was shot five times, including in the back of the head.

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