These apologists are well past embarrassment now. Heck, she is a journalist whose article is edited by default. Many "liberal" academics have been more embarrassing in such apologetics even on their own unedited social media posts.

From a global low of 5,000 individuals in the 1960's, their numbers today are 135,000 globally.

That's an astonishing recovery driven by research, regulation and public support that led to international cooperation on whaling bans.

Take a victory lap, whale supporters!

In a way it's about not wanting to know because the developments are very much in parallel: the global right has increasingly shed any commitments to formal civic equality in favor of doubling down on a violent and exclusionary racial order. None so blind as those who refuse to see, etc..

This crime is horrific on so many levels. The Jewish community that feels fear, the racists who are emboldened, the brown/Muslim community that’s demonized, and degrading hope for change under a progressive new mayor. And if a false flag, undermining the fight against real bigotry. Makes me so mad.

Ironically, many Mongolists are trying to argue that this displacement of the bacterium did not take place during the 13th century invasions and migrations but somehow later in the 14th century through trade networks (many of which were collapsing), a point made by Norris in 1977 4/4

and her and my joint article which introduces the concept of the prodrome of the pandemic www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 3/4

For the most up-to-date assessment of that taking into account historical documents, genetics and archaeology, check out (both open access): www.history21.com/owit-module/... 2/4