Today was the first day back to school for a bunch of kids, and Zoom crashed. California is burning again. Police shot another Black man on camera. And a man in China was reinfected with COVID-19. The bad news keeps coming back to haunt us. Even pumpkin spice.

Here’s a list of everything we talked about today:

• “Remote Learning Is a Bad Joke” from The Atlantic

• The latest on protests in Wisconsin after police shot Jacob Blake from NPR

• “First coronavirus reinfection documented in Hong Kong, researchers say” from the Washington Post

• “Pumpkin Spice Hard Seltzer Is Here” from October

• Finally, this good girl: