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Tomorrow in "Eight Things To Know," powerful south Texas landowners have joined forces with tribes and local charities to oppose Trump's border wall construction.

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[the Rio Grande, near Laredo, TX]

"Few things are less American, less Texan, than losing or seceding our property to the federal government and creating a military installation on the border." -- from the Rio Grande Landowner's Coalition. The group includes one of the largest landowners in the US.

Also tomorrow, we report on Putin's birthday present. He turned 68 on Wednesday.

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We explain the link between #COVID and Neanderthals tomorrow in "Eight Things To Know."

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Tomorrow's edition of "Eight Things To Know" contains an update on the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. There is no good news.

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The Maryland Zoo has 3 new baby African penguins. This guy is an extremely endangered species and the Zoo is doing good work in saving them. We report tomorrow in "Eight Things To Know." You can become one of our readers by signing up for a subscription -->look.substack.com

Tomorrow we provide a simple explainer on Biden's role in Ukraine in the final years of the Obama administration. It's useful background for evaluating Giuliani's attempt to stir up dirt. You can become a regular reader of our work by subscribing here-->look.substack.com

Tomorrow in "Eight Things To Know" we begin with a look at Trump's self-defeating announcement of an unconditional pullout in Afghanistan.

It caught his nat security advisor as well as the Pentagon by surprise.

It's not smart, either.

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From tomorrow's Advice Column in "Eight Things To Know": "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." TR, May 1918

Jimmy Carter reflects on the failed Iran hostage rescue: "I could've been re-elected if I'd taken military action against Iran, shown that I was strong and resolute and, um, manly and so forth. I could have wiped Iran off the map with the weapons that we had..."

"...but in the process a lot of innocent people would have been killed, and so I stood up against all that...And so I think I made the right decision in retrospect, but it was not easy at the time."

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10 Oct

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Under a Feb deal w/the Taliban, US troop withdrawals from Afghan were to be conditioned on a reduction in violence and a severing of ties between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Neither condition has been met, yet Trump says he will pullout all troops by Xmas.look.substack.com/p/eight-things…

Analysts have warned that a precipitous US withdrawal will further destabilize Afghanistan. The Taliban called Trump’s pullout announcement, which came in a tweet, “a very positive step.” Violence in Afghanistan has escalated dramatically in recent months. Taliban is to blame.

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9 Oct

Prime Minister Winston Churchill with his daughter aboard the HMS Duke of York en route to America, December 1941.

British troops awaiting evacuation from Dunkirk, May 26, 1940.

FDR and Churchill aboard the HMS Prince of Wales, off the coast of Newfoundland, after signing the Atlantic Charter, August 1941. The principles of the Atlantic Charter served as the basis for the UN Charter.

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8 Oct

Lincoln is featured in our "Advice Column" in Wed's
"Eight Things To Know."
"Wise statesmen as [the Founding Fathers] were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants and so they established these great self-evident truths that when in the distant future some man,

"...some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.."

"...their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began." —Abraham Lincoln, Aug. 17, 1858.
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[Blue Room reception, 1862]

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3 Jul

1. The former superintendent of Mt. Rushmore explains why the Trump fireworks extravaganza is a bad idea, for reasons in addition to covid.

2. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

3. The stage at Mt. Rushmore for tonight's Trump event.

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9 Mar

I am starting to see articles noting the possibility that the #coronavirus may mutate. Mutation was the striking feature of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. People often describe the Spanish Flu as "coming in waves." The first and third "wave" were mild forms of the virus.

It was the second wave of the Spanish Flu, coming in October and November 1918, that killed millions. So what is the learning here? A virus can change form over time. A vaccine targetted to prevent one form of a virus may not prevent subsequent forms from causing infection.

This is a rapidly changing public health emergency. Listen to the advice of the CDC and state public health officials. For those of you who would like more info on the 1918 pandemic, here is the 2/21 report our history journal published.
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8 Mar

1 We live in a time when there are few public advocates for a national investment in science. It is a time for “common sense” solutions. Evidence-based scientific inquiry is denigrated as the province of “elites” & is viewed as offering no viable solutions to national problems.

2 But it hasn’t always been this way. In 1838 the fed govt made an astonishing commitment to science w/ the launch of the US South Seas Exploring Expedition [gen known as the Ex. Ex.], a 4-year mission to chart the sea areas & adjacent coastal regions of the entire Pacific Basin.

3 The Ex. Ex. consisted of six sailing vessels and 346 men and included a team of nine scientists and artists. The Ex. Ex. was one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of Western exploration, and would mark the start of government involvement in science.

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