• Health Care Renewal: Spin it Again – Four More Go Through the Revolving Door From the World of Corporate Health Care to Top US Government Leadership Positions (Health Care Renewal) Needs to be fixed.
• How Dangerous Is Putin’s Russia? (The National Interest) An interesting insight from someone who actually speaks the language, unlike most reporters know neither the history nor the language or Russia.
• Fighting Gentrification: This White Family Refuses To Live In Any Neighborhood That Isn’t 100% White (Clickhole) Snarky.
• ‘The Onion’ Proudly Stands With The Media As The Enemy Of The People (The Onion) Not satire, I think. It’s hard to tell.
• How Liberalism Self-Destructed (Eudaimonia and Co) Money quote, “They made liberalism self-destruct — by turning it into a mechanism for the one exact thing, a millennium or so ago, it was created to destroy: feudal, dynastic, untouchable, predatory elites skimming off an economy’s surplus, amassing all a society’s wealth for themselves.”
• Russian mining firm puts Trump’s face on its asbestos products (The Guardian) Some sort of absurdist singularity has been achieved.

Anonymous promises to bring hellfire and brimstone down on “Q”.  It’s funny, but I am not sure if that is intentional.