This week, I have been mostly reading:

• Stack — xkcd by Randall Monroe:
  
• Forget Bernie vs. Warren. Focus on Growing the Progressive Base and Defeating Biden. — Naomi Klein at the Intercept: A few days ago, I shared what I thought was a fairly innocuous observation about a fundamental difference between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Warren spends most of her campaign unpacking and explaining detailed policy proposals, many of them excellent, while Sanders splits his emphasis between his own strong plans and his calls for the political revolution he has consistently said will be required for any substantive progressive policy wins. “Smart policies are very important,” I tweeted. “But we don’t lose because we lack smart policies, we lose because we lack sufficient power to win those policies up against entrenched elite forces that will do anything to defeat us.” Within seconds, I was in the grip of a full-on 2016 primary flashback. I was accused of being a shill for Bernie and an enemy of Warren (I’m neither). My feed filled up with partisans of both candidates hurling insults at each other: She gets things done, he is all talk; she’s a pretender, he’s the real deal; he has a gender problem, hers is with race; she’s in the pocket of the arms industry, he’s an easy mark for Donald Trump; he should back her because she’s a woman, she should back him because he started this wave. And much more too venal to mention.
• Urban Jungle — George Monbiot: One of [Land Rover's] ads features the supermodel Adwoa Aboah driving through Brixton, staring at the interesting street life as if on a human safari, and talking about its “amazing soul and rhythm … People here are real”. It gives the impression that the car is passing through market streets where traffic is prohibited. Why? Because these are the places with the most “amazing soul and rhythm”. […] Another of the ads urges drivers to “Set off on an adventure. Discover Edinburgh, one of the UK’s most forward-thinking cities”. A forward-looking city should ban such cars from its streets. Land Rover’s ad agency promises to roll out this campaign across the world, naming cities in South Africa, China and Columbia. Wherever interesting urban cultures persist, a Range Rover will plough through them. Land Rover, get your filthy wares out of our cities. These ads are horribly reminiscent of the commercial Jeep tours through Rio’s favelas. Residents say the tours make them feel humiliated and objectified. The tourists sit behind the car windows, safely removed from the natives, filming exotic poverty as they are driven past people’s homes.
• Pidgin Pigeon — Bizarro by Dan Pirraro: