Today's links

1. TSA boss doubles down on taking away health care from part-time screeners: They're touching your junk with diseased hands.
2. Akil Augustine on Radicalized: My book's Canada Reads champion lays out the case for Radicalized.
3. A former top Cigna exec rebuts Joe Biden's healthcare FUD: Wendell Potter is the prodigal corporate villain.
4. Ars Technica's Covid-19 explainer is the best resource on the pandemic: Beth Mole has outdone herself.
5. Boeing is even worse at financial engineering than they are at aircraft engineering: The $43B they incinerated through stock buybacks would sure come in handy about now.
6. Senate Republicans kill emergency sick leave during pandemic: Sick leave is cheaper than pandemics, but pandemics generate cost-plus contracts for the donor class.
7. The EU's new Right to Repair rules finally come for electronics: Snoods cocked at Apple and other US Big Tech monopolists.
8. How to run a virtual classroom: Masterclass from the 14-year-old Stanford Online High School.
9. This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
10. Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

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