Morning Belz, April 7

Links.

That picture is being passed off on social media as a home owned by Putin in Sochi, Russia. It’s not. It’s just a rendering from architect Roman Vlasov. But it’s still cool.

America’s roads and bridges are fine — Yglesias
Correlation: White grievance and the insurrection — NYT
Western Wisconsin is booming — Axios
How gov’t helped develop the vaccines — MN Reformer
More than 1,800 outbreaks at meatpacking plants — FERN
Plaintiff in UK hormone-blocker case tells her story — Persuasion
When will China move against Taiwan? — Tyler Cowen
The decline of Central American oligarchs 🔒 — Economist

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“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.” — Zora Neale Hurston, 1928

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