Morning Belz, April 15

Fantastic 20-yr-old piece on a slaughterhouse — NYT
Polarization due mostly to self-sorting, not gerrymandering — Cook
56% believe journalists purposely lie or exaggerate — Axios
Sanders disagrees with Tlaib’s “no more policing” — CNN
Today’s the 32nd anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy — YouTube*
Black Minnesotan on being followed by cops — MN Reformer
Time to start thinking critically about “long COVID” — Stat News
Dispatch from apt complex by Brooklyn Center police station — Strib
Long-term COVID risks in kids (probably minimal) — Emily Oster

*Truly horrific, and not that well-known in the U.S.. So well-known in England that it’s often referenced without even being partially explained.

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Sick children have delayed my Birmingham Amazon union vote trip but I hope to go tomorrow. We’ll see.

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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, in “Dune,” by Frank Herbert

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