Morning Belz, Nov. 10
Militias, gov’t and Tigray clash in Ethiopia, hundreds dead — Reuters
LA vouchers lifted “test scores and college enrollment markedly” — UC Berkeley
Lisa Bender, Mpls city council president, won’t run for re-election — Star Tribune
11 things to know about the Pfizer vaccine — NYT
How the markets, er, responded to the vaccine news — Litquidity
4 to 5 pm dinner reservations, the new hot ticket— WSJ
Chaos in Armenian parliament at “painful” peace deal — Twitter
Denmark killed 17 million mink bc of coronavirus strain — Reuters
Soon
I spent Election Night with Trump supporters at a party in Wayzata (a wealthy western suburb of Minneapolis). Leila Navidi and I covered the same party four years ago for the Star Tribune. The 2020 version of that party will be the next video for Scuffed News. Here’s another clip, with easily the most engaging guy at the party. Hoping to have this video in the next few days.
Mine
- Black State Fair, Minneapolis — Scuffed News
- Trump voters in rural Minnesota — Scuffed News
- Stone Mountain confederate monument, Georgia — Scuffed News
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“Medieval technology could raise marvels of architecture 200 feet in the air, it could conceive the mechanics of a loom capable of weaving patterned cloth, and of a gear shaft capable of harnessing the insubstantial air to turn a heavy millstone, but it failed to conceive the fore-and-aft rig and swinging boom capable of adapting sails to the direction of the wind. By such accident of the human mind, war, trade, and history are shaped.” – Barbara Tuchman, “A Distant Mirror,” 1978
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