Oppression:

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[O2] Paul Heideman writes about black oppression and for all of their faults the socialists are the best political friends they’ve had.
[O3] In the National Review, Gabriel Rossman has a good piece on the history of American lynching and how blacks and whites were lynched differently.
[O4] Slaves kept their freedom by hanging out in the swamps. In the Turtledove Southern Victory series, the swamps played a pretty big role after the black uprising as their last refuge.
[O5] A look at a slave revolt that was lost to history. On purpose.
[O6] Henry Louis Gates Jr writes about slave rebellions.
Relationships:

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[R2] Most people aren’t actually very promiscuous.
[R3] An account of a 30 year old virgin who is on the clock.
[R4] Brown widow spiders like older women so much they’re willing to die to be in their company, rather than be with young lady spiders.
[R5] Oh, great, so not only are the dateless missing out in the dating world, they can miss out in the classroom, too. (Being who I am, I consider this article sad. And not because of the dateless.)
[R6] Patrick MacDougald looks at how cheap sex is changing our lives and our politics.
Internet:

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[I2] So why do people leave one social site to another? An interesting look.
[I3] I am actually finally moving on from RSS, but Brian Barrett thinks we may be in for a renewal.
[I4] Russia banned Telegram, an encrypted message app. Google and Amazon helped. The Good Wife actually had a handful of episodes with a really nuanced look at the issue where they had clients on each side of the issue.
[I5] From the Information Age to the disinformation age, and how to make our way through it.
[I6] Felix Salmon argues that it’s time for Facebook to move on from Zuckerberg.
Vice:

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[V2] Good news! Cigarettes are apparently no worse for you than drinking an extra glass wine.
[V3] If you’re hurtin’, you’re livin’. (So glad to see a Vice article talking about actual vices.)
[V4] What life is like when you’re a heroin addict.
[V5] From a health maintenance standpoint, q-tips are bad, so this is less ridiculous than some of the things Britain has been doing lately. However, this is America so cold dead hands etc etc.
[V6] The vaping movement has always been conflicted in between “These things are wildly less dangerous than cigarettes” and the belief that it shouldn’t even matter.
Energy & Environment:

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[EE2] I feel like these people don’t know our president well at all. (I will grant that I don’t have a better idea, I suppose.
[EE3] Woohoo! Ocean wind farms!
[EE4] Britain is looking at repurposing mines for electric cars.
[EE5] Josiah Neeley explains how he came around on the carbon tax. Same here: Make it revenue-neutral and I’m in.
[EE6] As coal prospects are replaced with natural gas, some wonder if West Virginia is making the same mistakes all over again. One of the big differences between Texas and Louisiana is how they dealt with the energy companies. The negotiators in Texas no doubt got their cut but made sure at least some state interests were looked after. In Louisiana, they didn’t care so long as they got paid or otherwise couldn’t do better.
I3 I am a fan of RSS. I have used Feedly since Google dropped Reader. It makes it easy to follow the sites that I want, and I do not get a bunch of garbage I do not want. Personally, I never understood why the user would prefer twitter or facebook for getting updates on the sites they follow. I understand why the providers (facebook, twitter, etc) would not be big fans of RSS, though.
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