Sunday

Cool Stuff

Amazing high resolution picture of Shanghai - zoom in on this amazing picture. It would be interesting to see a similar picture of New York for a comparison.  Damn, I remember when all pictures of China looked like this [link].

The World

Noah Smith on China:  Get Used to It, America: We’re No Longer No. 1


Inequality

People just don't understand. Found here [The Big Picture]

Scandals

Mystery company involved in Mueller investigation appeals to Supreme Court

"An unnamed, foreign government-owned company in a mystery court case is asking the Supreme Court to pause a grand jury subpoena it received related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation."

Would any like to bet on who the "foreign government" is? Rumors in comments here [Zero Hedge] 

It ain't Russia or it would have already been leaked. There is only one "foreign government" immune from leaks by American media.  

Politics

Two Populisms, Not One - In the US, the left populists could pull a lot of people from the right with just a few moves.

• Embrace gun rights.
• Push anti-corporate and pro-people policies hard, medicare for all, stabilize and sell Social Security, encourage unions, enable small-town-rural broadband, lower middle class taxes, higher rich people taxes, etc.
• Fight hard against the BS of the right-wing propaganda machine. 
• Get rid of the god-damned Clintons and the their establishment big-business Ds.