Morning Belz, Nov. 30

Brad Raffensperger: Vilified by both Stacey Abrams and Donald Trump — AJC
The feral hog hunt in Texas continues to be of interest — LA Times
Micklethwait: Pandemic shows American gov’t is broken — NPR
Tehran twisting in wind after brazen strikes — NYT
Iran’s president accuses Israel of assassination — Al Jazeera
Ohio GM plant closure spawns industrial migrants — WSJ
Antifa’s real, American comfort w/political violence growing — Persuasion
Churchill got an alcohol prescription to end-run Prohibition — Twitter

Soon
Fruitful visit to Tuscaloosa on Saturday for an Iron Bowl muted by COVID. Lots of work to do to sort it out into a coherent video. It’ll be more light-hearted than most of what goes out under the Scuffed News banner. These boys win the award for being most game for an interview, and these two guys win the award for best game-day outfits.

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“The fall of empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.” - Isaac Asimov, “Foundation,” 1951

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