Friday, we meet again. Not heaps of links this week because I’ve been stuck in proposal writing land.
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Read
How six teenage girls organised Nashville’s biggest ever protest.
Cases of COVID-19 have been growing at over 1,000 new cases a day in Indonesia for the past few days, but the economy is set to re-open. Is Indonesia ready? Randy Mulyanto says: nope.
Rappler’s Maria Ressa has been found guilty of cyber libel in the Philippines. This is a very worrying development in the erosion of democratic norms in the country, says Sheila Coronel.
Yesterday I discovered this great food newsletter called Vittles. I don’t know anything about it but it seems to focus on chefs’ and restaurant owners’ own writing about food, and I would happily put aside days just to read all the back posts. This one on tortillas and corn was what pulled me in.
Watch/listen
Twitter is all abuzz with a new album from Phoebe Bridgers. I had a listen this morning and it’s gorgeous. I am old now and don’t listen to much new music (lol) so enjoy this rare musical interlude.
Brene Brown has a podcast called Unlocking Us. I hadn’t listened to it before this week but this discussion with Laverne Cox on her new documentary film Disclosure and the representations of transgender people in film and TV was great.
Tuesday’s episode of The Guardian Australia’s podcast The Full Story takes a look at solutions to end Indigenous deaths in custody, with Latoya Rule and Thalia Anthony.
Cook
I made these flourless cocoa cookies yesterday and they were incredibly good yet so simple to make.
Recipe here from NYT Cooking. No flour, no butter, no milk - just icing sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, vanilla, sea salt, and dark chocolate chips. Literally took five minutes to mix then 15 to cook. (via Gina Rushton’s openwindows newsletter)