Morning Belz, June 25

Links.

Yoga, wellness and QAnon in California — LAT
“Meritocracy” under siege — Spectator
In Georgia, new law runs out some election officials — NYT
Secretary of Defense jousts w/Gaetz on CRT — C-Span
More unmarked graves of indigenous children in Canada — BBC
The perils of political 180ism — Yascha Mounk*
Good interview with Pakistan’s prime minister — Axios

*or, as a friend of mine puts it, “negative partisanship”

Quote
"No one has to be ashamed for things they haven't personally done. But you have to acknowledge the way that legacy has shaped your life and your country. And in confronting that legacy, we can be liberated from it." — Nikole Hannah-Jones, to the American Library Association

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