3 eggs found, 18 lieutenants lost at base Easter egg hunt Duffel Blog. A couple of days late but still amusing.
The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore Literary Hub
The Strange Convulsion in Scottish Politics Craig Murray
COPS CROWDFUNDED THEIR K-9’S HOSPITAL BILLS — THEN QUIETLY ADMITTED THEY HAD SHOT HIM The Intercept
Japan’s Cherry Blossoms Hit Earliest Peak Bloom in 1,200 Years Treehugger
Talks collapse on Ethiopia’s Nile dam Deutsche Welle
Indigenous Peoples Are the Best Protectors of Forests, New UN Report Shows Treehugger
Facing Ka‘ena Point: On Turning Eighty New Yorker. Paul Theroux.
Modern Crime-Solving Methods vs. the Mystery of World War II Deaths NYT
Julian Assange
Everything The West Claims It Values Is Invalidated By Its Treatment Of Assange Caitlin Johnstone
All Eyes on Digital Payments Project Syndicate
#COVID-19
Coronavirus latest: EU life expectancy drops after decades of increases FT
Oxford/AstraZeneca jab could have causal link to rare blood clots, say UK experts Guardian
HK warned off Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine over variant concerns FT
Taiwan Begins Slow Early Rollout of AstraZeneca Vaccines The Diplomat
Public health experts urge Americans to not skip 2nd vaccine dose Fox5
U.K. Carriers Push Air Bridge to U.S. Amid Vaccination Success WSJ
Ending in February 2021’: Expert Covid committee’s ‘supermodel’ flounders as second wave surges Scroll
100,000 New COVID-19 Cases and Bad Governance Push India to Cusp of Disaster The Wire
CGD recommends Indian digital vaccination certificate solution architecture for US Economic Times
Detroit will send workers door-to-door to urge residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine WWJ 950
Brazil’s COVID-19 death surge set to pass the worst of record U.S. wave Reuters
Canada faces ‘very serious third wave’ of pandemic: Trudeau Al Jazeera
Covid-19 raises risk of depression and dementia, study suggests BBC
The Roots of the EU’s Vaccine Debacle Project Syndicate
Ivy League Acceptance Rates Fall to Record Lows Due to Covid-19 WSJ
Los Angeles Families Reluctant to Return Kids to School Capital & Main
California aims to fully reopen its economy June 15 LA Times
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The stability of an isolate of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage in aerosols is similar to three earlier isolates The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Biden Administration
There’s no point person in Biden’s HHS for its $187 billion Covid-19 fund for health care providers Stat
Schumer gets his game changer The Hill
Biden and the Democrats Are Getting Serious About Raising Corporate Taxes Truthout
Five ways an obscure Senate ruling could change Washington The Hill
Can Biden Finally Get Immigration Reform Passed? Capital & Main
Roundup: Biden infrastructure plan light on waste details, report highlights recycling data gap WasteDive
Jeff Bezos Backs Corporate Tax-Rate Increase and Infrastructure Plan WSJ
Black Injustice Tipping Point
Big Brother IS Watching You Watch
Your ‘smart home’ is watching – and possibly sharing your data with the police Guardian
Our Famously Free Press
This is exactly my experience. I’ve been a critic of corporate media outlets for 15 years but always assumed one could get basic facts (even if flawed) by reading them.
I now no longer think this. Their journalistic and business model makes me distrust everything I read there. https://t.co/HEqhVNfDW2
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 6, 2021
On the Miserable Necessity of Doing Censorship Stories in Pairs TK News. TK News. Matt Taibbi.
Meet the Censored: The U.S. Right to Know Foundation TK News. Matt Taibbi.
Class Warfare
Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax AP
Meet the Highest Paid CEO in S&P 500, Paycom’s $211 Million Man WSJ
1,100 Coal Miners Go on Strike in Northern Alabama Payday Report
Bezos, Musk top Forbes’ record-setting billionaire list Reuters
Democrats en déshabillé
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S CONSULTANT FACTORY The Intercept
Brazil
Glenn Greenwald Took on the Authoritarian Right in Brazil — and Won Jacobin
My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes Glenn Greenwald. Glenn predicts the MSM will largely ignore his book. I just ordered my copy.
Glenn Greenwald becomes focus of Brazil press freedom debate AP
Iran
Iran calls Vienna nuclear talks ‘constructive’, with next round set for Friday SCMP
EU to Turkey: Human rights issues are nonnegotiable Deutsche Welle
China?
China-Iran pact more than meets the eye Asia Times
China leaps into a central digital bank currency, but similar progress eludes the U.S. CNBC
India
IMF projects India’s growth rate to jump to 12.5% this year Scroll
Myanmar
Five killed in Myanmar as troops open fire on protesters Reuters
Antidote du Jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
