Stranger Than Fiction

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• Supreme Court Rules for LGBT Rights in the Workplace “The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision holds that bedrock U.S. civil-rights law prohibits employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, extending federal workplace protections to LGBT employees nationwide.” - WSJ

• FDA Pulls Covid-19 Approval for Malaria Drug Used by Trump “The FDA has revoked its emergency-use authorization for two malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, for the treatment of Covid-19. The drugs were touted by President Trump and others.” - WSJ

• Trump is set to unveil proposals for police overhauls “The executive order aims to address the mass protests over police brutality, but the measures are expected to fall far short of the kind of sweeping changes that activists have demanded.” - WaPo

• Coronavirus recommendations ignored as case numbers rise “Even as the number of infections continued to rise Monday and hospital beds filled in some places, relaxation of restrictions designed to curb the novel coronavirus proceeded as people tired of staying at home clamored for an end to mandatory mask-wearing.” - WaPo

WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO

• 🎧 LISTEN: The neighborhood where police were banished

• ‘Nothing has changed’: Ferguson grapples with its legacy in wake of protests over George Floyd’s killing

• Change the world? Two students start with their neighborhood and find it’s not so neighborly.

THE COMMENT

“It’s remarkable, how much one can get used to, with a president who has made over 18,000 false or misleading claims since taking office. But all that seems more disturbing now, not only because the tweets and speculations have gotten more aggressive and outlandish, but because the upheavals in our country, the crises we face – the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, the tanking economy, the unrest inspired by the early stages of a necessary reckoning with racism – have made us wish, more than ever, for a leader who shows some honesty, common sense, or who just (we’re setting the bar quite low here) behaves like a responsible adult.” - Francine Prose

THE STRANGEST

• Ex-eBay employees charged with mailing spiders, cockroaches and pig mask to critics

THE AV ROOM