India’s Citizenship Amendment Act reminds me of the joke where a sergeant says: “All those Privates whose mothers are still alive please take one step backwards….not so fast, Private Jones!” Victims of religious persecution are all granted expedited citizenship… except Muslims.

Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans “it would also lead to the biggest take-home pay raise in a generation”

No Rights. No Games. 《Don’t let China host the Olympics while it is still running concentration camps!》

I still haven’t figured out who bothers me more: leftists who say impeachment is a distraction, or liberals who think it will save us? For me impeachment is like recycling, probably useless, but we still have a moral obligation to do it.

“Mayor Pete reminds me of so many techies who promise big, disruptive change while refusing to accept the full costs of achieving their idealism”

A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

This ‘Ponzi scheme’ surrounding development leaves most cities and towns functionally insolvent

Ahead of U.K. Election, Conservatives Pledge to Target Roma

2,000 transgenders excluded from Assam NRC list, plea filed in SC

What ‘The New York Times’ Got Wrong on Bolivia

Modi Makes His Bigotry Even Clearer - The NY Times Editorial Board on the new citizenship law

Andrew Yang is Taiwanese-American

Historian Ramachandra Guha, Mid-Interview, Detained By Police

Well known labour activist detained in Guangzhou

Baby Yoda is Indigenous

Peer review is central to the scientific mission and ought to be re-centered in our evaluation systems, not something to be done in an academic’s ‘free time,’”

Thread by @paulmozur: “China’s police are hard at work building the largest domestic surveillance network the world has seen.”

China’s Fudan University axes “freedom of thought” from charter “students were seen singing Fudan’s school song at the university’s canteen as a form of protest”

What are the similarities and differences between the ‘Game of Thrones’ and the ‘Romance of Three Kingdoms’?

Trump’s letter to Pelosi wasn’t written for you! It was written for Fox News: “Fox’s Lou Dobbs Calls Trump’s Pelosi Letter ‘Elegant,’ Guest Says It’s the ‘Gettysburg Address of Smear Job False Accusations’”

Police violence against students in New Delhi: Police were ‘uncontrollable’ as they unleashed violence, eyewitnesses say

Chinese criminal gangs spreading African swine fever via drones is probably how the world will end.

Anna Karina’s Closet Picks 《RIP》

On the one hand, I’m furious at the way Kindle limits the number of highlights I can export when saving my notes from a book. (My previous hacks no longer work!) On the other hand, highlighting fewer lines of text would probably make those annotations more useful to me.

Why a Medicare for All public option won’t work 《M4A only works the way it is supposed to -and how it works in much of the world-if everyone is enrolled》