Thursday, July 3, 2025

Links 8/2/2020

How to Laugh Away the Far-Right: Lessons from Germany

In the many instances where far-right activity attempts to exhibit solemnity, gravity, or strength, a well-aimed joke is a powerful act of resistance.

Links 8/1/2020

Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up

Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.

The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools

How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2020

COVID-19 peak, or plateau? ~ Biden v. Sanders forces at platform committee ~ When you’ve lost Rod Dreher ~ Trump halts ad spend ~ Smugness ~ National security goons and the election ~ Warehousing, shipping for Xmas ~ COVID-19 immunity ~ WHO hires Cass Sunstein ~ Team masks

Quelle Surprise: NYT Article on U.S. Contact Tracing Deficiencies Doesn’t Fall for Big Tech’s Claim that Effective Contact Tracing Requires an App, But Fails to See What Good Health Care Has to Do with It

NYT piece on contact tracing doesn’t see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.

Links 7/31/2020

Vaccine Research on Covid-19: An Update

A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.

Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump

Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge

Kamala Harris or Susan Rice? The Veepstakes Appears To Have Kicked Out Two Truly Terrible Choices

If having Kamala Harris or Susan Rice isn’t unappetizing enough, as Lambert points out, the Dem VP pick is the presumptive 2024 Prez nominee.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/30/2020

COVID-19 in the five problem states ~ Biden’s ground game ~ Trump to postpone election or drop out ~ A taxonomy of state failure ~ GDP (ugh), employment situation, rail) ~ Boeing ~ Chinese seeds ~ DIV Covid vaccine ~ “The Stupids Do Covid!:” ~ Grinding games ~ The riots, forgotten ~ Circus Peanut Jello Salad

The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal

A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.

Links 7/30/2020

Mayberry v. KKR Plaintiffs File Amended Complaint, Refuting Standing Issues in Recent Kentucky Supreme Court Decision

Another front opens in the landmark public pension case, Mayberry v. KKR