Page 1 Roundup (06/17)

The Daily News: Fed-up community leaders defy NYC’s coronavirus lockdown orders and cut locks that closed several Brooklyn playgrounds

SMH: The mystery of the prolific Joyce Carol Oates 

The Daily Beast: Plaintiff Gerald Bostock ‘elated’ after Supreme Court LGBTQ victory. Now his case returns to Georgia

Ass Wednesday: Gym shorts edition

Dlisted: Can a peach contract chlamydia?

Washingtonian: The entire staff quit over this coffee shop’s racist and Covid-denying tweets. Spoiler: The anti-vaxx, conspiracy-believing owner claims they're not his.

Boy Culture: This is what you have to look like to play a character named 'Flex'

The WoW Report: No, NYPD officers weren’t poisoned by Shake Shack employees

Instagram: Towleroad legal editor Ari Ezra Waldman has started a new social media project focused on the history of LGBTQ-related legal cases

Montgomery Advertiser: Black lives apparently don't matter to the City Council of Alabama's biggest city

New York Post: Police bust man who shoved elderly woman to ground in NYC

BBC: North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South in Kaesong

Reuters: Florida, Texas and Arizona are unflattening the curve for all of us

The Randy Report: Molly on HBO's 'Insecure' told her boyfriend's brother that Asians are only people of color 'when it benefits them,' a charge I'd never heard leveled before

The Washington Post: Suspect arrested after man shot at Albuquerque protest

Democrats subpoena ex-Mueller prosecutor, antitrust official in probe of Barr’s Justice Department

The New York Times: Pence misleadingly blames coronavirus spikes on rise in testing; tells governors to 'encourage people with the news that we are safely reopening the country'

As meat plants stayed open to feed Americans, processors actually set record amounts to China

The Wall Street Journal: Beware of falling tofu: China takes on high-altitude littering

These T-shirts are raising serious funds for black-aligned causes

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