Shop independent bookstores online?

https://twitter.com/ClareMalone/status/1334516530512617476?s=20

This seems Good. I hope their cut is reasonable.

Clare Malone (@ClareMalone) Tweeted: «Random/servicey, but just found out about https://t.co/6U2aycHK5T, that lets you order from the indy bookstore of your choice (shoutout @loganberrybooks!) and it’s such a great idea to give a good web ordering interface for these local shops.»

http://bookshop.org

Support Wikipedia

https://twitter.com/JohnL4/status/1336292383273652224?s=20

A lie can go halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots. If only there was a central repository of accurate truth maintained by conscientious curators.

Wikipedia has flaws but I believe it’s the closest we’ve got right now, and I believe it’s worth money. I just donated. (Please do, too.)

John Lusk (@JohnL4) Tweeted: @KateyQuarantine I still believe.

McCarthyism was never defeated. Trumpism won’t be either. – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/joseph-mccarthy-movement-trumpism/2020/12/04/d6e807ee-3460-11eb-b59c-adb7153d10c2_story.html

Hey @BulwarkOnline, standing athwart history, yelling “stop!”, eh?

«Less often noted is the counternarrative that began to build among McCarthy’s grass-roots supporters during those years, in which the sheer volume of criticism aimed at the senator became proof that he was right all along: that the country was, indeed, run by a menacing but elusive liberal-communist conspiracy aimed at taking down right-thinking, God-fearing Americans. Among those who signed on to this idea was William F. Buckley, the wunderkind intellectual of the emerging conservative movement, hot off the success of his anti-socialist polemic “God and Man at Yale.” In 1954, Buckley published a second book, co-written with his brother-in-law L. Brent Bozell, a future McCarthy staffer and speechwriter, in which they argued that the merits of McCarthy’s cause largely outweighed qualms about his style and methods. In a sign of the combative lost-cause ethos already taking hold among McCarthy’s supporters, they titled the book “McCarthy and His Enemies.”»

Swedish GDP in 2020 and 2021 (predicted)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/swedish-gdp-set-to-trounce-euro-zone-u-s-and-even-top-nordics

Headline doesn’t match article. Looks like best comparison is Norway, which has had an aggressive approach.

«“There’s been a lot of talk about Sweden having a milder lockdown than the other Nordic countries” during the coronavirus pandemic, Olsen said in an interview in Copenhagen. “You’d expect Sweden’s economic performance to be way better, but in reality what we see is that the Swedish performance is very close to what we see in the other Nordic countries.”

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Having a flexible exchange rate regime also helps.

A strong euro has made life more difficult for exporters in Finland and Denmark, whose currency is pegged to the European single currency, Olsen said.»