Comfort maybe, def not junk:

• Harper’s Magazine
• The Economist
• Granta

Your local library probably has a subscription to the first, maybe even to the $econd. Granta’s a quarterly and I can’t say I’ve ever seen it in a library but its been around a long time and back issues are readily available @used bookstores.

As an American of (partial) Nordic descent, I’ve always been proud of my link to those “more civilized” countries of the region. It’s shocking now to read what’s going on in Finland with its Nazi infestation, one that (apparently) reaches into the highest levels of government.

cool-retro-term for all your old-school CRT needs. 1.8M executable.

Their local community college is about to lose accreditation (from the NWCCU) because the school’s board is controlled by right-wing nut-jobs:

The NWCCU investigation team found that donors pulled back more than $4 million in pledges and major gifts. Last December, credit rating agency Moody’s lowered NIC’s bond rating, which may make it more expensive for the school to take out loans.

In an e-mail exchange with a student, Banducci painted himself as an adversary fighting “liberal progressives” that were “deeply entrenched.” In the same e-mail, Banducci said he was “battling the NIC deep state."

You read that right, the old community college deep state.
https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/regional-news/2022-04-04/northwest-higher-ed-accreditation-agency-puts-north-idaho-college-on-warning-status

And now they’re importing this kind of QAnon lunacy into the public secondary school system. Those kids just don’t stand a chance.