By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Bird Song of the Day
Eastern Bluebird, Sharpsburg, Washington, Maryland, United States. “Male Eastern Bluebird singing at dawn.”
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Politics
“So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
Capitol Seizure
“Pence says Trump ‘endangered my family’ on Jan. 6” [USA Today]. “‘President Trump was wrong,’ Pence said during remarks at the annual white-tie Gridiron Dinner attended by politicians and journalists. ‘I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know history will hold Donald Trump accountable.’”
Abortion
“Virginia judge uses slavery-era law to argue human embryos can be considered property” [FOX]. “A Virginia judge determined that frozen human embryos are legally considered property, using a 19th century law regarding
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