“Hopefully this experience will make us see clearly the crucial role we play in keeping society running so that we can stand up for our interests, for our lives. Like the Pittsburgh sanitation workers walking out to demand protective equipment. Like the G.E. workers calling on the company to repurpose plants to make ventilators instead of jet engines.” Essential reading from Sujatha Gidla, an M.T.A. conductor, in the NYT. We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.

+ For the first time in its history, New York City deliberately shut down its entire subway system for nightly cleaning.