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Jerri-Lynn here. Compiling today’s Links reminded me of the warning I received when I first arrived at MIT in autumn 1979: keeping up with my studies would be like trying to take a drink from a fire hose. Alas, lots of worthwhile links ended up on the cutting room floor today. Some of those – pertaining to Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization – I’ll discuss in a post to be launched later today.
As for all the links that did make today’s cut, enjoy! If readers think I missed anything Link-worthy, please mention my oversight in today’s comments. I always try to read the Sunday comments before I post Monday’s Links, so as to pick up on anything I may have otherwise overlooked. Thanks!
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Good God, I can’t publish this… The Critic
From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary New Statesman
Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada BBC
‘C.L.R. James’ Review: From Trinidad to Trotsky WSJ
The Victim Cloud Harper’s
Three cheers for booing in the theatre The Spectator
Iconoclasm of the Vanities: Why We Are Destroying Statues American Affairs
The End of the Art-Baby Problem The New Republic
Ada Calhoun comes to terms with a neglectful father in ‘Also a Poet’ WaPo of Inefamyens
Bob Stanley’s pre-history of pop breathes life into a lost musical era New Statesman
A Brief History of Women’s Eyebrows in Art Hyperallergic
The resurgence of Venice’s prized dorona grape BBC
19th-century letters between two sisters reveal early records of avian life in Madras Scroll
Queens of Infamy Longreads
The Ultimate Summer 2022 Reading List Literary Hub I’m posting this for its list of lists, as I don’t think much of the compiler’s prime recommendations, other than the recommendation of Mohsin Hamid’s latest, which is on my to-read pile. I’ve enjoyed many of his previous novels, although some I found not as fine as touted. These lists will prod me to get serious about this summer’s reading. Curling up with a good book is one of the only ways I’ve found to escape being overwhelmed by the flood of contemporary bad news.
#COVID-19
Biden officials to keep private the names of hospitals where patients contracted Covid Politico. So, exactly is that personal risk assessment supposed to work?
How hiring the wrong medical “expert” derailed US pandemic response Ars Technica
“In the Worst Case, It Could Take a Few More Winters” Der Spiegel
Covid-19 ‘magic mirror’ reflects widening fissures in Chinese society South China Morning Post (re Šilc )
Monkeypox
Monkeypox Virus Mutating More Than Expected, Say Scientists Bloomberg
Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is ‘abysmal’ NPR. This link led me to wonder what places with a functioning public health system, e.g., Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, are doing about monkeypox testing. This is what I found after a cursory search: Taiwan reports imported monkeypox case Outbreak News Today. Note the detail about contact tracing.
By the way, note that in addition to monkeypox, @WHO also removed smallpox. A closely related airborne virus is apparently inconvenient at the moment…
Also a missed opportunity to add SARS-CoV-2 to the examples. It is a virus most people know about I should think… https://t.co/jTJHv5d1Er pic.twitter.com/GQjWxOXROm
— Maarten De Cock (@mdc_martinus) June 24, 2022
New Not-So-Cold-War
Fall of Severodonetsk is Russia’s biggest victory since Mariupol Al Jazeera
An Iron Curtain descends on Europe and the USA Gilbert Doctorow
Swiss customs say Russian gold import arrived from the UK Mining.com
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EU candidates Ukraine, Moldova face long road to join the bloc Deutsche Welle
Italy’s PM Says EU May Convene Extraordinary Summit On Energy As Russia Reduces Gas Supply Republic World
No, We Can’t Afford €100 Billion for Rearmament Jacobin
G7 face battle for unity as cost of Ukraine war mounts BBC
What would a ‘Marshall Plan’ for Ukraine entail? Deutsche Welle ((re Šilc)
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SCOTT RITTER: The Fantasy of Fanaticism Consortium News
Russia Is Running Out Of [Whatever The Media Claim] Moon of Alabama
Haven’t “unnamed Western intelligence officials”—along with named thinktankers, “experts” & OSINTers—been making this same prediction since March? https://t.co/u9uwnnhbtP
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) June 25, 2022
Old Blighty
The Pointless Keir Starmer Craig Murray
‘What have we done?’: six years on, UK counts the cost of Brexit Guardian (re Šilc )
Iran
Iran and EU agree to restart nuclear deal talks on Borrell visit Al Jazeera
Gunz
The Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling Yesterday Shows It Isn’t Pro-Life Jacobin
TRIGGERED: GUN CRAZY IN AMERICA Crime Reads
Climate Change
Let Them Eat Fermented Protein Literary Hub
Global CEOs urge G7 leaders to step up climate action FT
Unusual early-season threat in Atlantic’s main development region Yale Climate Connections
‘They Own the Ocean’: Gwadar’s Struggle With Illegal Fishing The Diplomat
The Mexican Energy Option Consortium News
Woke Watch
The most pressing diversity issue in publishing? Groupthink Prospect
Groves of Academe
The Hysterical Style in the American Humanities Chronicle of Higher Education
The Supremes
The shame of the Supreme Court RobertReich.com (furzy)
Abortion
A Piece of Pizza and a Beer London Review of Books
The Dobbs Decision Unleashes Rage and Revisionism Jonathan Turley
‘Crossing the Line’ to Get an Abortion Capital & Main
Roe v Wade: The world reacts to US abortion ruling BBC
Trump privately called a Roe v. Wade reversal ‘bad’ for his party NYT. Really depends largely on whether the DNC Democrats do anything more than ‘fight for’ restoring abortion rights in no choice states.
HIPAA won’t protect you, if prosecutors want your reproductive health records Stat
Spurred by Roe overturn, senators seek FTC probe of iOS and Android tracking Ars Technica
Florida is a good testing ground for the politics of abortion. A Republican-dominated state with a population that leans pro-choice. Rs are already struggling with a political split. https://t.co/qKvMzAqy6U pic.twitter.com/TnY02uBdyC
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) June 24, 2022
Last month, California Governor @GavinNewsom included in his budget significant funding increases to enable people facing economic barriers to travel to California to obtain abortions (California democratically enshrined Roe into state law):https://t.co/Mh8tx7ypN9
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 24, 2022
Class Warfare
Why Are So Many Firefighters Still Struggling to Afford Housing? Capital & Main
Summer travel misery ahead as industry workers in revolt France 24
The Fall and Rise of the U.S. Top 1 PercentBarry Ritholtz (re Šilc)
Day 8 of the dancing Mitie strikers ✊ #endoutsourcing #followfriday pic.twitter.com/wiH2o1hWdo
— Helen O’Connor 💙 (@HelenOConnorNHS) June 24, 2022
Support for @RMTunion @RMT_Scotland !!!@The_SSP_ ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/zDWiCTIPnR
— Ankna Arockiam (@anknaarockiam) June 25, 2022
Waste Watch
Harley Davidson Now Won’t Void Warranties Over Third-Party Parts or Repairs Jalopnik. Turns out that all that was necessary to get a company to allow for a right to repair was for the FTC to do its job and regulate. Bravo Lina Khan et al. Ordinarily, I’d post on this development, if I didn’t have posts planned on the abortion ruling, and the Supremes decision not to hear Bayer’s glyphosate appeal.
FTC Chair Says Right to Repair is a ‘Top Priority’ Aftermarket News. From two weeks ago; still germane.
Imran Khan challenges NAB law amendment in Supreme Court Dawn
India
River Reflections: Impermanence, Erosion, Migration On The Brahmaputra India Spend
Inside the Fight To Decide How Pure India’s Drugs Need To Be The Wire
Centre gets NHRC notice on report that air pollution shortens lifespan of Indians by five years Scroll
PM Modi issues departure statement ahead of his visit to Germany and UAE on 26-28 June Firstpost
Gujarat Police Arrest Teesta Setalvad, Activist Who Pursued 2002 Riots Case Against Modi The Wire
From miniatures, manuscripts to textiles and photos: Art comes alive in BN Goswamy’s Conversations Scroll Essays written by a lovely, gracious man, whom I once had the pleasure of meeting.
Drowning: A silent killer Dhaka Tribune. Bangladesh moves to launch a network of community-based early childhood care facilities, in order to stop children from drowning: the leading cause of death for youngsters in this very wet country. I’ll watch this proposal with interest, as I know a Bangladesh NGO drastically reduced death from childhood diarrhea by widely distributing – and showing people how to use – measuring spoons for salt and sugar, to add to clean water, to make homemade rehydration solution. See Naked Capitalism here. The latest initiative raises an obvious question: if Bangladesh can afford to launch a nationwide plan for community-based early childhood care centers, why can’t the U.S. do the same?
China?
How’s the China-India economic relationship changed 2 years on from the deadly Galwan Valley border clash? South China Morning Post
Tunisia
Mass actions against President Kais Saied’s rule intensify in Tunisia People’s Dispatch
Syraqistan
Earthquake poses test of US resistance to the TalibanResponsible Statecraft
Click on full thread in the following tweet, including embedded video.
At least 27 migrants are dead after a mass attempt to breach the Spanish border fence yesterday.
Horrifying images show Moroccan security forces surrounding a pile of bodies at the base of the border wall — the dead, together with the injured and arrested.pic.twitter.com/q33v1v1Awb https://t.co/S8F6Sa79GK
— Max Granger (@_maxgranger) June 25, 2022
Antidote du Jour (via):
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See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
