{"id":2877,"date":"2025-08-01T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2025-08-24T18:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:37:53","slug":"links-for-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"Links for August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Republican tariffs now projected to cost US households an average of $2,400 \/ year. Also, it will increase unemployment.<\/a> “Consumers face an overall average effective tariff rate of 18.3%, the highest since 1934.”
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Dust-Licking Pimps. Mark Twain and Quincy and Immigration<\/a><\/a> by Jess Piper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No Californian gentleman or lady ever abuses or opposes a [Chinese person], under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the East. Only the scum of the population do it – they and their children; they, and, naturally and consistently the policeman and politicians likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum…<\/p>\n\u201cRoughing It<\/a>\u201d, Mark Twain<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/toxicheritage.com\/indy-toxic-heritage-pollution-place-and-power\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNFL\u201d Shooting Wasn\u2019t Random. Another manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparency<\/a>. by Ken Klippenstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political books that look interesting:<\/strong>
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anton Schmid<\/a>. “He was one of only three Wehrmacht<\/em> soldiers who were executed for helping Jews.<\/a><\/sup>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How SUVs Are Making Traffic Worse.<\/a> As larger, taller sport utility vehicles took over US roads, they also aggravated highway congestion, according to a new study. It\u2019s yet another ill effect of \u201ccar bloat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People. What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE\u2019s work?<\/a> by Jonathan V. Last<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Element origins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why bad arguments sound convincing: 10 tricks of logic that underpin vaccine myths<\/a> by Martin LaMonica<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need \u2014 Colonies grew 15-fold<\/a>. “By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shingles vaccine reduces heart attacks, stroke<\/a>
Vaccinated individuals:
72.9% lower risk of herpes zoster ophthalmicus.
83.7% lower risk of postherpetic neuralgia.
28% lower risk of hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction.
42.5% lower risk of hospitalization for stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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