Lots 'o Links

You can end this tumultuous week by reading the posts at Maggie's Farm, Larwyn's Linx, Liz Sheld's Morning Greatness, and Stephen Kruiser's Morning Briefing. 

Here's what the left is posting over at the Daily Kos' Abbreviated Pundit Roundup.

Troyern, which means to be sad, grieve, or mourn, is the word discussed in Harold Ticktin's latest Yiddish Vinkl column.   "In 1903, Sholem Aleichem wrote: 'Yidishe mayses lozn zikh oys, tsum maynstn, troyerik' / 'Jewish stories end, for the most part, on a sad note.' (cambridge.org)"

There's a great app for readers called Refind, which you can download from the app store. Refind scans the entire web and picks what makes you smarter. Go deep where you want to expand your knowledge. And keep up with what matters to you with 10 personalized picks every day. Read more about it here at Medium.  

One of the Refind picks yesterday was Dan Goodspeed's Dan's COVID charts, in which he "takes normalized COVID data and tries to present it in useful, interesting ways", with colorful visualizations.
Wait till you see this shocking chart called cases since June by state partisanship.