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https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/04/19/racist-russian-propaganda-still-going-viral-conservative-facebook-pages/220001
Racist Russian propaganda is still going viral on conservative Facebook pages
April 19, 2018


https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/05/01/popular-conservative-meme-pages-facebook-affiliate-themselves-extremist-militia-movement/220076
May 1, 2018
Popular conservative meme pages on Facebook affiliate themselves with an extremist militia movement


https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/21/europe/world-returns-to-1930s-intl/index.html
July 22, 2018
In the long slog of recovery, traditional "good-paying jobs" have vanished in the US rust-belt towns that voted heavily for Trump.
The National Employment Law Project found in 2012 that 58% of the jobs regained in the US since the recession were in low-wage occupations, paying less than $14 an hour. Millions of mid-wage jobs had disappeared. In Britain, unemployment is low but again, the jobs that have come back are largely semi-skilled and poorly paid.
Inequality has widened dramatically in the past generation: in the US the richest 1% held 20% of the national income by 2016, while the lower 50% had just 13%. The trend, while less dramatic, is similar in Europe. And most research shows it's the poorest workers whose wages and job prospects are hurt by an influx of migrants.


https://www.livescience.com/63187-siberian-permafrost-worms-revive.html
July 27, 2018
In Siberia, melting permafrost is releasing nematodes — microscopic worms that live in soil — that have been suspended in a deep freeze since the Pleistocene. Despite being frozen for tens of thousands of years, two species of these worms were successfully revived, scientists recently reported in a new study.
Their findings, published in the May 2018 issue of the journal Doklady Biological Sciences, represent the first evidence of multicellular organisms returning to life after a long-term slumber in Arctic permafrost, the researchers wrote.