According to the newly-released U.S. Census data, Washington, D.C. was the only location in the U.S. where the white share of the population increased over the last decade.
Making Sense of the Census Sardonicky
Indigenous Peoples
The United States Is Not “a Nation of Immigrants” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.
#COVID19
The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs UnHerd
Cuba says early data suggests homegrown vaccine protecting against Delta Reuters
Modern Mathematics Confronts Its White, Patriarchal Past Scientific American
Wildfire smoke linked to thousands of coronavirus cases on West Coast SFChronicle
Climate change
July was world’s hottest month ever recorded, US scientists confirm Guardian
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The Threat of War (Nuclear) With China theAnalysis.news on YouTube
The Most High-Profile Al Qaeda Plot Foiled After 9/11 Was an FBI Scam The Intercept
Afghanistan
A Saigon moment looms in Kabul Asia Times
This was fast. As of Aug. 14, the Taliban have 21 of 34 provincial capitals under their control. Only three of the bigger cities — Kabul, Jalalabad and Mazar-i-Sharif — are not yet in Taliban hands.
- August 6 – Zaranji (Nimruz)
- August 7 – Sheberghan (Jowzjan)
- August 8 – Kunduz (Kunduz)
- August 8 – Sar-e Pol (Sar-e Pol)
- August 8 – Talquan (Takhar)
- August 9 – Aybak (Samangan)
- August 10 – Farah (Farah)
- August 10 – Pul-i Khumri (Baghlan)
- August 11 – Faizabad (Badakhshan)
- August 12 – Ghazni (Ghazni)
- August 12 – Kandahar (Kandahar)
- August 12 – Herat (Herat)
- August 12 – Qala-e-Naw (Badghis)
- August 13 – Lashkar Gah (Helmand)
- August 13 – Tirin kot (Uruzgan)
- August 13 – Chaghcharan (Ghor)
- August 13 – Pul-e Alim (Logar)
- August 13 – Qalat (Zabul)
- August 14 – Sharana (Paktika)
- August 14 – Asasabad (Kunar)
- August 14 – Gardez (Paktia)
Source: Moon of Alabama
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