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Why Florida Got The Emergency Medical Supplies It Requested While Other States Did Not, What Comes Next After Social Distancing, The Godfather Of Fake News

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STATE OF DISUNION Here's Why Florida Got All The Emergency Medical Supplies It Requested While Other States Did Not propublica.org The Department of Health and Human Services has come under fire as several states' requests for supplies from the emergency medical stockpile go unfulfilled. A chaotic distribution plan is buckling under a big problem: Nobody has enough. COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW, AND TEST Social Distancing Can't Last Forever. Here's What Should Come Next vox.com Scientists say a moonshot effort is needed to end social distancing and this pandemic. Will leaders listen? A DIFFERENT CURVE BALL WATCH: A Helpful Visualization That Shows Whether Or Not We've Succeeded In Stopping Coronavirus youtube.com One of the scariest things about pandemics is the exponential growth of cases. Here's a useful graph that helps us understand whether or not we've made progress in stopping the disease. KEEP IT UP, FOLKS Social Distancing Yields $8 Trillion In Economic Benefits, Study Finds washingtonpost.com Saving lives and saving the economy are complementary goals, two University of Chicago researchers conclude. CBD GUMMIES WE DIGG | SPONSORED Ten Of The Best CBD Gummies For These Stressful Times vermafarms.com Verma Farm's all-natural CBD products aim to be the most well-rounded offering for your mind, body, and spirit. TALES AS OLD AS TIME THE HULL TRUTH The Mysterious Final Voyage Of The Alta, Ireland's Doomed Ghost Ship wired.co.uk The MV Alta drifted in the Atlantic ocean for 18 months, before crashing into the coast of Ireland. Tracking and current data gives us intriguing clues about its final, fateful voyage. OLD NEWS The Godfather Of Fake News bbc.co.uk Meet one of the world's most prolific writers of disinformation. THE GRASS WASN'T GREENER Operation Limelight: The Rise And Fall Of Pot's Superman projects.sfchronicle.com How a fearsome, fast-talking union boss helped legalize pot, took kickbacks and ended up in prison. GETTING THE GREEN LIGHT Green Screen: The Oral History Of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' theringer.com No one believed in a movie about four overgrown turtles who are trained in martial arts and named after Italian artists. Then it made more than $200 million and launched a nationwide phenomenon. VIDEO OF THE DAY WHO LET THIS DOG OUT Dog Shows Off Its Virtuosic Athleticism On The Trampoline, Completely Overshadows Its Owner rumble.com "Kid, I'll show you what trampoline jumping really looks like." IN THE NEWS Amazon Fires Warehouse Worker Who Led Staten Island Warehouse Walkout Three Out Of Four Americans Under Some Form Of Lockdown Because Of Coronavirus General Electric Workers Launch Protest, Demand To Make Ventilators FDA Authorizes Emergency Use Of Unapproved Drugs To Treat Coronavirus FROM THE DIGG STORE Become A Master Of Ableton And Logic Pro X With Over 50 Hours Of Training store.digg.com Logic Pro X and Ableton Live 10 are two of the most popular and powerful music production programs on the planet. You can learn them both plus much more about music production in this $49.95 bundle. FROM THE ARCHIVES THE SPORK, BUT FOR ZOMBIES Meet The Entrepreneur Behind The Apocalypse's Must-Have Accessory (2012) buzzfeed.com Tim Ralston is building an empire selling the Crovel, a half-shovel, half-weapon for practical-minded doomsday preppers, spinning the American Dream out of our worst nightmares. In the woods and up the creek with the end times' greatest success story. IT'S OK, THEY'RE WEARING A WIRE The Mob's IT Department (2015) bloomberg.com How two technology consultants helped drug traffickers hack the Port of Antwerp. SEX, DRUGS AND RADIATION The Stalkers: Inside The Bizarre Subculture That Lives To Explore Chernobyl's Dead Zone (2014) roadsandkingdoms.com For the "post-apocalyptic romantics" who have taken to sneaking into the Zone, a visit to Pripyat has become the Holy Grail. Like trauma victims returning to the scene of the incident, they come here for reasons they can't fully explain. Today is Tuesday, right? View the Edition at Digg.com »

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Is It Legal For My Company To Absorb All Its Workers' $1,200 Stimulus Checks?, My Family Owns A Grocery Store — The Supply Chain Is A Real Problem, Did An Illuminati Conspiracy Theory Help Elect Thomas Jefferson?, and more.

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HELP ISN'T ON THE WAY GOOD QUESTION Is It Legal For My Company To Absorb All Its Workers' $1,200 Stimulus Checks, And Other Advice Column Questions digg.com A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days. CLEANED OUT ON AISLE 9 My Family Owns A Grocery Store. The Supply Chain Is A Real Problem slate.com "Our stores haven't gotten a frozen load in two stores in two and a half weeks. And I haven't seen toilet paper in a while." MONOPOLIES TO BLAME The United States Tried To Build A New Fleet Of Ventilators. The Mission Failed nytimes.com As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America's acute shortage. SOME WEIRD VIEWS OF EVOLUTION IN HERE The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed The Trump Administration newyorker.com A damning interview with Richard Epstein, the NYU School of Law professor whose articles "Coronavirus Perspective" and "Coronavirus Overreaction" helped guide the White House's initial response. TECH WE DIGG | SPONSORED PayPal Has 300 Million Members – Yet Few Have This Upgrade joinhoney.com If you ever shop online, you need to read this. AN OUTSIDE CHANCE END OF THE TRAIL The Frontier Couple Who Chose Death Over Life Apart outsideonline.com "We have gone to some effort to hide our bodies, as we do not want them found. Please do not waste time and money looking. It would serve no purpose. We are gone, leave us to our peace." GET NIC CAGE IN HERE, STAT Did An Illuminati Conspiracy Theory Help Elect Thomas Jefferson? politico.com The 1800 election shows there is nothing new about conspiracy theories, and that they really take hold when we don't trust each other. WAFFLING OVER THE DETAILS 30 Years Later, We Still Don't Know What Really Happened During The Belgian UFO Wave theweek.com At first, the witnesses claimed, all you noticed were the lights. FROM OUR FRIENDS AT NOWTHIS FROM OUR FRIENDS AT NOWTHIS Give Your Evening News A Well-Deserved Upgrade With KnowThis nowthisnews.com Let NowThis bring you the reporting and analysis you need to navigate the world with KnowThis — an evening newsletter that breaks down the five biggest headlines of the day, just in case you missed them. Sign up here for free. VIDEO OF THE DAY A PRACTICALLY PERFECT PARODY Man Updates 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' From 'Mary Poppins' With Coronavirus-Inspired Lyrics youtube.com Daniel Matarazzo adds some levity to our quarantined world with a song about a "super bad transmittable contagious awful virus." IN THE NEWS Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines Through April, Acknowledges Virus Could Kill 100,000 In US Justice Department Reviews Stock Trades By Lawmakers After Coronavirus Briefings Maine Sheriff Investigating Claim That Armed Men Cut Down Tree To Force Neighbor's Quarantine Instacart Makes More Changes Ahead Of Planned Worker Strike DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE The 8 Best Board Games To Keep Us Distracted digg.com Board games make everything better — doubly so since we're stuck indoors with our families with little to do now. So pick up a few of these top choices, and get plenty of game time in while we wait for the outside world to improve. FROM THE ARCHIVES GRAPPLING WITH THE CONSEQUENCES The Dukes Of Oxy: How A Band Of Teen Wrestlers Built A Smuggling Ring (2015) rollingstone.com How a crew of hard-partying Florida teens cashed in on an epidemic and built a multimillion-dollar OxyContin smuggling ring. SPIRITED AWAY The Great Whiskey Heist (2016) mensjournal.com How one distillery worker enlisted friends, family, and a few fellow steroid enthusiasts to liberate hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of premium bourbon, one barrel at a time. RING THE ALARM What Happens If You Commit A Murder While Sleepwalking? (2014) priceonomics.com Does a murder still count when the assailant unconsciously and involuntarily kills? Monday is just another day. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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