The @Reuters series "Shock Tactics," by @jasonszep, @byPeterEisler, Tim Reid, @lisagirion, @grantmeaccess, Linda So, M.B. Pell and @levinsonc, has been named a @LoebAwards finalist: Read the series:

Ski training in Bamiyan in Afghanistan via Sajjad Husaini

This happens a lot but it really does suck when the paper of record treats the biggest story of your career as something that just happened to passively reveal itself.

A letter from the Coffee Grounds...

These subtitles by @BBCArabic are just glorious

Important reporting here that corroborates @levinsonc's scoop on Locate X from earlier in the year, specifically the fact that Secret Service was using the phone tracking technology.

A home-owner telling the 🇦🇺 prime minister and the media to move off his just re-seeded lawn is hilarious and, especially on this day and in this week, that they all dutifully did so is also deeply democratic.

The former Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair knows the US police system very well — and he is worried by what he sees: https://t.co/HX3kpFIsDS @TweetTheArticle @DasWoolf

This is genius: Step 1: end qualified immunity Step 2: sue cops in civil court Step 3: pay out damages to victims from police pension fund Incentive-compatible reform!

1/ A Thread on Markets It is the year 1500 and you enter a market in Renaissance-era Italy. There are buyers and there are sellers. Prices of the various goods are determined by the interaction by and among these individuals. Now in walks Mr. FEDerico, a man of endless means.

This pandemic will hopefully mark the end of the perversion of higher education. Since the 1980s, kids and parents have been forced to play a series of stupid finite games - grades, extra curriculars, influence peddling, donations for infinite assets: skills and knowledge.

Who’s hiring these days? Facebook’s “Well-being Team” is hiring. https://t.co/Vuj8eniYte

Lawsuit time! @propublica joins with @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @WSJ, @business in suing the @SBAgov to make it disclose the recipients of the small-biz lending program. With great bailout effort comes great responsibility to be transparent. https://t.co/VUojrcT1fO

The Parachute Paradigm:We tend to accept the claim that parachutes reduce injury among people who leap from planes, but the effect has never been proved in a randomized study comparing an experimental parachute group to an unlucky parachuteless control.

Be sure to check out the new reporting project from my former Protocol colleague, veteran Silicon Valley reporter @levisu, focusing on the impacts of Coronavirus on minorities and immigrants.

Worst payrolls in 50 years. S&P up. Tells you all you need to know about our society.

Contempt adds a refreshing acidity to the rage, gives your bread a complex texture.

Read this touching essay by a former colleague.