Tuesday Morning Links!

* Active shooter drills are scaring kids and may not protect them. Some schools are taking a new approach.

The essence of our magical thinking. https://t.co/7isFUdm35f

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 15, 2019

* The adjunct underclass.

* Fire at Notre Dame. Fire was the scourge of medieval cathedrals. But they rebuilt from the ashes. Conspiracies and hoaxes. A warning from 2017. What’s Been Saved and What’s Been Lost. Rebuilding Notre Dame.

I'm still shell-shocked from Brazil's museum fire and the realization that between corrupt, incompetent governments and climate change, we're going to be watching irreplaceable cultural treasures burn for the rest of our lives.

— David Klion🔥 (@DavidKlion) April 15, 2019

As a refugee I can tell you that the things you've lost can never be rebuilt. You can only build for the future.

We are all refugees now. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

— Jenka 🌱🌿🍄 (@babiejenks) April 15, 2019

There won't be room to mourn everything we're going to lose. Pace yourself.

— Jenka 🌱🌿🍄 (@babiejenks) April 15, 2019

Everyone helplessly watching something beautiful burn is 2019 in a nutshell.

— Ryan McGee (@TVMcGee) April 15, 2019

* Palpatine post-ROTJ in the new EU.

* Homestuck may be the most important work of twenty-first-century art I genuinely do not have the time to try and figure out.

* 17 Writers on the Role of Fiction in Addressing Climate Change.

* If you want a vision of the future, imagine having a runny nose — forever.

* Weld is the first major intra-party challenger against a sitting president since Pat Buchanan took on George H.W. Bush.

* ICE deports spouse of U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan. Their daughter is now left parentless.

* A new policy proposal by the Trump administration calls for the surveillance of disabled people’s social media profiles to determine the necessity of their disability benefits. The proposal, which reportedly aims to cut down on the number of fraudulent disability claims would, monitor the profiles of disabled people and flag content that shows them doing physical activities. When it comes down to it, the policy dictates that disabled people shouldn’t be seen living their lives for fear of losing vital financial aid and, possibly, medical care. Veterans too.

* United States added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists for first time.

* Two’s a trend: Just two weeks after Burger King announced it was partnering with Impossible Foods to offer a new meatless burger, Del Taco has announced it’s partnering with Beyond Meat to offer new meatless tacos.

* Heroes with feet of clay.

* Artist Reimagines David Bowie Songs as Old Pulp Fiction Book Covers.

* I’m afraid the Dewey Decimal System… is cancelled.

* Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here’s how that turned out.

* I’m on it, Suze!

* I think Bernie should boycott Fox, but it couldn’t have gone better for him.

* Shoot a ninth season, you cowards. broke: Bran ruined the story. woke: Bran is the story.

* #10 really tells a story.

* And Gene Wolfe has died.