Be honest, nowhere is safe
- At 245, America’s Old Enough to Be Honest About Its Founding (Intercept)
- ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass (Nation)
- A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite — ‘David Surozenski, a Republican, refused to add Trump flags to his display. “That’s not the way I was brought up,” he said. “The American flag political? No.”’ (New York Times) I can admire that.
- Nowhere is safe, say scientists as extreme heat causes chaos in US and Canada — ‘“Climate models are actually underestimating the impact that climate change is having’ (Guardian)
- Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean? (Ep. 467) — “… if you take less than 5 percent of U.S. waters and just grow seaweed, you sequester the carbon-output equivalent of 20 million cars.” (Freakonomics Radio)
- Errol Morris on Donald Rumsfeld: A Fog of Memos — “The trick was to marginalize the record, to litter it with so many contradictions that a rebuttal to any future historian could always be found.” (New York Times)
- Some major cities ranked by surveillance cameras per km (Marginal Revolution) D.C. doesn’t quite make the top 10. I didn’t crack into the linked report to see if this includes Ring doorbell cameras.
- Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald’s NSA “Scandal” (New Republic) Greenwald has become problematic for me. I appreciated, if wincingly, his defense of principle that tried to force people to recognize the rights, if not agree on the rightness, of folks across the political spectrum. I question the sycophants of the left-ish media cult. But I think Greenwald’s once solid orbit above bullshit has decayed.