1. We all woke up to the news that Trump tested positive for the rona and this really just sums it up for me:

Thoughts and prayers, bro.

 

2. Kottke shared a post with a couple people talking about using clear language for slavery instead of antiquated euphemisms and it’s a must-read. Language matters. From the Twitter thread he linked:

Instead of “Slave families lived in plantations owned by white slaveowners who hired overseers to maintain discipline”

You have: “Black Families were held hostage in death camps by white human traffickers who employed torturers to torture and kill them”

Different, huh?