Links for you. Science:
Archaeology’s Information Revolution
T. Rex Was Likely an Invasive Species
Plasmid-mediated colistin resistance (mcr-1 gene): three months later, the story unfolds
State laws boost flu vaccination rates in health care workers
Not Very Responsible Use of Antibiotics
Other:
The Emerging Center-Right Policy Agenda (just as bad as you might think)
Harry and Louise Now Support Sanders’ Medicare-for-All Plan. With Good Reason.
Social Security Privatizer Larry Fink of Giant Asset Manager BlackRock is a Clinton Treasury Secretary in Waiting (“…if Clinton wins the Presidency and announces Larry Fink as her Treasury Secretary nominee, NC readers will recognize this as a Timothy Geithner moment, that electioneering promises have just been repudiated. Be warned.”)
DC Metro Stations, Ranked According to Escalator Outages
Sexual Assault Survivors Say the U.S. Attorney’s Office Isn’t Explaining Why It Declines Their Cases
U.S.-Korea Trade Deal Resulted in Growing Trade Deficits and More Than 75,000 Lost U.S. Jobs (Clinton is going to pounded on this, if not by Sanders, then by Trump)
What Have We Learned Since Rodney King?
You read it here first, AB readers.
NASA’s Graveyards: Haunting Images Reveal Remnants of the Space Race
How political science helps explain the rise of Trump (part 3): It’s the economy, stupid
You Fucked Up – You Trusted Us!
Why the Critics of Bernienomics Are Wrong
Metro’s top boss orders frugality: No ‘non-essential’ spending (this might be penny-wise and pound-foolish…)
Clash of Republican Con Artists
Trade, Trump, and Downward Class Warfare
NFL May Be Permitted to Impose Indefensible Suspension
Hillary’s Emails: Convenient Privileges vs Classified Trust (leaving aside the conclusion which is too strong my taste, it’s a good discussion of security classification)
mikethemadbiologist
I liked Garcia’s piece on Clinton’s email. (FWIW, I share his bottom line conclusion.) I have one quibble though – perhaps because it was so obvious to him that he didn’t think to mention it. The point of a classified system is to restrict access to information which has been deemed critical to national security. It’s “critical to national security” that distinguishes classified from unclassified:
(a) National Security Information (hereinafter “classified information”) shall be classified at one of the following three levels:
(1) “Top Secret” shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
(2) “Secret” shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security.
(3) “Confidential” shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security.
Reference = http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/quist2/chap_7.html
Stuff gets overclassified all the time and there’s a process for appealing the classification status. (And it is illegal to classify information for the purpose of concealing evidence of a crime.) What you don’t do though is unilaterally decide “Oh, that’s overclassified. I’ll just handle it with the appropriate level of security it deserves.” If a little person pulls that they lose their job and possibly go to jail. There should be no exception for people in high places.
Tremendous stuff per usual. The Marshall Project link is really something.