{"id":176228,"date":"2020-08-04T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/04\/linkage-30\/"},"modified":"2020-08-04T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:01:00","slug":"linkage-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/04\/linkage-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/nypd-civilian-complaint-review-board-editors-note\">We\u2019re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades<\/a> (<i>ProPublica<\/i>) The judge issued a restraining order against a number of parties, but neglected to include the indispensable <i>Pro Publica<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-columnists\/the-dhs-was-destined-to-become-a-secret-police-force\">Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force<\/a> (<i>The New Yorker<\/i>) Russian expat Masha Gessen speaks from personal experience.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2020\/07\/the-rot-of-the-st-louis-elite-goes-far-deeper-than-the-gun-couple\">The Rot Of The St. Louis Elite Goes Far Deeper Than The \u201cGun Couple\u201d<\/a> (<i>Current Affairs<\/i>) Not just racist nutjobs, but profligate and reckless Covid spreaders.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/31\/technology\/blocking-the-tech-giants.html\">I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.<\/a> (<i>The New York Times<\/i>)  Make them utilities, or break them up, or both.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wave3.com\/2020\/07\/28\/kentucky-town-hires-social-workers-instead-more-officers-results-are-surprising\/\">Kentucky town hires social workers instead of more officers &#8211; and the results are surprising<\/a> (<i>WAVE Channel 3<\/i>) Not a surprise<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/kansas-should-go-f-itself\">Kansas Should Go F&#8212; Itself<\/a> (<i>Matt Taibbi<\/i>) A review of Thomas Frank&#8217;s latest book, and its insight into the contempt that the &#8220;Technocratic Class&#8221; has for ordinary people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/02\/gaddafis-prophecy-comes-true-as-foreign-powers-battle-for-libyas-oil?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Gaddafi\u2019s prophecy comes true as foreign powers battle for Libya\u2019s oil<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) This is a feature, not a bug.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/going-medieval.com\/2020\/07\/30\/on-sex-with-demons\/\">On Sex with Demons<\/a> (<i>Going Medieval<\/i>)&nbsp; On Trump&#8217;s current favorite Covid expert doctor, and their fascination with demonic semen. As Anna Russel would say, &#8220;I&#8217;m not making this up, you know.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCVS94v-ZOZMyaHpH-YMGzrQ\">Karen Meme Channel<\/a> on Youtube.&nbsp; Yet another sign that our society is in decline.  Cannot watch more than about 15 seconds of any of these:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kRsoAT5kPu8?list=PLi6AU0QxiXGsngFwtdk75FXjPJ7gbDVP4\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades (ProPublica) The judge issued a restraining order against a number of parties, but neglected to include the indispensable Pro Publica. Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force (The New Yorker) Russian expat Masha Gessen speaks from personal experience. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-176228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}