Pluralistic: Iowa's starvation strategy; The Red Team Blues Tour; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part three (19 Apr 2023)

Today's links

Iowa's starvation strategy: Maybe the cruelty IS the point?
The Red Team Blues tour: LA, San Diego, Burbank, San Francisco, PDX, Mountain View, Berkeley, Vancouver, Calgary, Gaithersburg, DC, Toronto, Hay, Nottingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Berlin.
Red Team Blues Chapter One, part three: Danny does THE THING.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

DC's security theater panned: The curtain-call's gonna be BRUTAL.
Weaponing and monetizing apophenia: 5G conspiracies have a business-model.
Awful voting-machine demands silence: ES&S; piggybacks censorship on Dominion's grievances.
Someone Comes to Town Part 27: My latest podcast installment.
This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Female Furies: Cecil Castellucci finds the story that Jack Kirby missed.
How to break up Google: A making things company, not a buying things company.
Facebook and Trump collaborate on rule-rigging: You can't break the rules if you make the rules.
NYC housing lottery favors the least-needy: The private sector cannot and will not solve the housing crisis.
Podcast: Part 8 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: Families are weird.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

White House street renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza": But when will Mayor Bowser rein in the violent white supremacists in Metro PD?
Little Green Men: Who are the secretive, armed men patrolling DC?
Kim Stanley Robinson on the Jobs Guarantee: Forced labor or dignified labor?
There's a bright side: Massive waves of voter registration, support for defunding the police.
Toxic familial surveillance: Tech supercharges intimate surveillance.
Consumer Reports joins the revolution: Which side are you on?
This day in history: 2005, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading