Links 8/24/17

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Links for you. Science:

The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain
Community health leaders say D.C. isn’t doing enough to curb opioid overdoses (this seems really bad)
NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers and communities
I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked

Other:

So, Two White Women in MAGA Hats Walk Onto an HBCU … (no words…)
Is Rex Tillerson Destroying the State Department in Order to Save It?
Trump’s Advisers Are Nudging Us Closer to Catastrophe: They claim they’re trying to save the country, but by continuing to serve, they’re placing us all at incredible risk (related post here)
When the South Held the Keys
Heather Heyer’s cousin: Racism will get worse unless we stop it now
Life’s a Pitch
Ignore The Bullshit: iPhones Are Not Destroying Teenagers. The same people who proclaimed a narcissism epidemic among millennials now say teens are being ruined by smartphones. They’re wrong.
What Will Trump Do to American Workers?
Confederate Statues and ‘Our’ History
Failing All Tests of the Presidency
In Trump Country, Trump Supporters Support Trump (funny)
Jared Kushner’s firm seeks arrest of Maryland tenants to collect debt (what a shanda and a gonif)
Ten Years Later, Trying to Close a Rent Control Loophole in DC (this would help keep housing affordable, yet, oddly, it’s never discussed)
The Secrets to Their “Success”
Richard Florida Is Sorry
Israeli minister: Relations with Trump are more important than calling out Nazis
How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists

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