
Links 11/15/2020
Happy Diwali!
How India Celebrated Diwali Amid Coronavirus Pandemic. See Pics NDTV
Cruise line resumed voyages in Caribbean. It’s not going well [Updated] Ars Technica
Fences Can Cause ‘Ecological Meltdown,’ Study Finds TreeHugger
Experience: my parachute failed Guardian
“Today I Learned’: 40 Interesting Things People Haven’t Learned At School Bored Panda
Government climate adviser urges Boris Johnson to act now to be ‘credible’ on crisis Independent
Egypt unveils scores of ancient coffins, statues found in Saqqara Al Jazeera
‘This Is a Really, Really Big Deal’: Michigan Gov. Moves to Shut Down Line 5 Pipeline to Protect Great Lakes Common Dreams
#COVID-19
New stats reveal massive NYC exodus amid coronavirus, crime NY Post
The Pandemic Winter Is Coming to New York, and It’s Going to Be Unimaginably Hard NY magazine
Thanksgiving in a Pandemic Means Smaller Birds, Fewer Leftovers WSJ. I’m not sure this is not a silver lining to the pandemic cloud. Those who have celebrated many holidays abroad may have observed that other cultures make far less – and thus throw away far less- holiday food. Maybe this is a good lesson for those in the US to learn, regardless of what caused their enlightenment.
How P&G Launched a 24-Hour Disinfecting Spray Just as Covid-19 Hit the U.S.WSJ
The woman who fell from the sky Reuters
Coronavirus: Austria locks down as new wave grips Europe BBC
The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave ProPublica
As U.S. pandemic intensifies, North Dakota becomes 35th state to require masks Reuters
How to Avoid a Surprise Bill for Your Coronavirus Test NYT. Grifters gotta gruft.
8. Covid is a hard problem, and no one is handling it well. pic.twitter.com/vbJedtpYvV
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 14, 2020
Science/Medicine
From Coronavirus to a Cancer Vaccine? Der Spiegel
Covid-19 vaccines shouldn’t get emergency-use authorization MIT Technology Review
Health experts want to prioritize people of color for a Covid-19 vaccine. But how should it be done? Stat. All very well and good, until the side effects start showing up. Shades of Tuskegee.
Nagorno-Karabakh
Ethiopia
Rockets ‘fired from Ethiopia’s Tigray region’ hit Eritrea capital Al Jazeera
Peru
Peru impeachment protests: Clashes with police turn deadly BBC
Trump Transition
Million MAGA March: Thousands of pro-Trump protesters rally in Washington DC BBC
Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge New Yorker
As if We Didn’t Have Enough to Worry About … NYT Nick Kristof
Schwarzman defended Trump at CEO meeting on election results FT
2020
How Pence & GOP Senators Could Try To Steal The Election The Daily Poster
In Georgia, a laborious, costly and historic hand recount of presidential ballots begins WaPo
Georgia voters approve ballot measure that could direct millions to new recycling efforts Waste Dive I have mixed feelings about these efforts to chase the recycling fairy, as I believe they divert efforts away from confronting the full scope of the global plastics problem.; see the recent post by Yves about NJ’s new plastics policy.
Proposition 15 Goes Down Swinging Capital & Main
John and Gisele Fetterman Are Fighting for the American Working Class Teen Vogue
There Was No Knockout, So Democrats and G.O.P. Regroup for Next Round NYT
1 in 10 Go Hungry as Trump and McConnell Fixate on Challenging Election Results Truthout
Biden Transition
Joe Biden Is Already On The Warpath Against Brexit American conservative
A National Security Reckoning Foreign Affairs. Hillary Clinton.
Nancy Pelosi Should Not Be the Next Speaker of the House Jacobin
What Biden’s Win Means for the Future of Criminal Justice Marshall Project
Biden Asked Republicans to Give Him a Chance. They’re Not Interested. NYT
After White House Victory, Democrats Are Divided on What Is Next WSJ
Black Economist Floated for Labor Sec – Only 51% of Union Households Voted Against Prop 22 – Red Cross Workers Picket Payday Report
This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Imperialism In Pumps Caitlin Johnstone
Russiagaters always shared same xenophobic pathologies as Islamophobes. Here we have full crossover, in which our Russiagater doxxes a woman’s Tatar genes to prove she’s part of a Kremlin conspiracy to subvert America. https://t.co/1Raylut7q4
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) November 14, 2020
UK
Boris Johnson boots out top adviser Dominic Cummings Guardian
India
Delhi air quality worsens to ‘severe’ category on Diwali Scroll
The Unrevealing Nakedness of Milind Soman The Wire
‘How much does Obama know about India,’ asks Sanjay Raut after his remarks on Rahul Gandhi Scroll
How Modi has made a ‘Nehruvian’ half-blunder on China & ignored investing in the military The Print
China?
Don’t try to change China’s system, former official warns US SZMP
Our Famously Free Press
Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox The Atlantic
Class Warfare
Mold, Possums and Pools of Sewage: No One Should Have to Live Like This NYT
It wasn’t Trump that made the claim, but others (like Josh Hawley), and my article doesn’t say I agree with them. The point is Democrats since the Clinton years have ditched working class politics, putting votes up for grabs. I don’t think either party represents working people. https://t.co/VXNcDRAk1S
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) November 12, 2020
Antidote du Jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Anidote du Jour here.