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It’s Memorial Day. On this day, we honor the more than one million brave men and women who have given their lives fighting for the American way of life. In the last three months coronavirus has ended the American way of life prematurely for almost 100,000 people, most of whom should never have been sick in the first place. Before this pandemic is over, it will end prematurely for many thousands more. Why? Because doing the things we know we should do is apparently just too hard. Because the president is bored. Because some people want to be able to go to Costco without wearing a mask.

I somehow doubt many of those veterans were fighting for that.

—Ben Dreyfuss

 

Donald Trump’s Real Memorial Day Message: I Am The Victim

These tweets are unhinged.

BY BEN DREYFUSS

 

Imperial College's latest coronavirus model has some bad news for Trump's reopening push

BY KEVIN DRUM

A Dollar General analyst complained about store workers getting screwed. He got fired.

BY JACOB ROSENBERG

Sunday's heart-wrenching New York Times cover marks nearly 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the US.

BY RUSS CHOMA

"A petulant child who refuses to follow the rules": Michigan AG slams maskless Trump

BY ABIGAIL WEINBERG

 

How a "Bunch of Badass Queer Anarchists" Are Teaming Up With Locals to Block a Pipeline Through Appalachia

“People that grow up in places like this, seeing their environment destroyed, it stirs them, it causes people to want to get involved, and that’s why I’m here.”

BY BECCA ANDREWS

 

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SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR ONCE

Don't Pretend You Didn't Know That Today Is Geek Pride Day

Today is a twofer: Memorial Day and Geek Pride Day. Geek day originated 14 years ago when Spanish blogger Germán Martínez wanted to celebrate geekness and pull together a community, so he chose the anniversary of the first Star Wars release as the date. About 300 geeks turned out in Madrid that day to play human Pac-Man, and a geeks’ bill of rights was written. The manifesto included “the right not to like football or any other sport” and “the right not to be ‘in style.’”

If you need a boost today, watch a cult classic; dust off an arcane video game; play too many Chess.com games; overuse semicolons; or help me solve a grammatical puzzle: Is “global pandemic” redundant? “Pan-” means all. The Associated Press says it’s redundant, but Merriam-Webster says it’s not, defining pandemic as “occurring over a wide geographic area,” not necessarily the world, so “global” enlarges it. Weigh in at recharge@motherjones.com. Bonus points if you know what a pleonasm is.

Recharge returns tomorrow with surprisingly good, inspiring news for the week ahead.

—Daniel King