Six Quick Links for Friday Afternoon

Ian Manuel spent 18 consecutive years in solitary confinement from age 15 to 33. "The harrowing injustice I suffered as a boy should never happen to another child in this country." Solitary is straight-up state-mandated torture. [nytimes.com]

"Like many places, USA TODAY values 'equality and inclusion,' but only as long as it knows its rightful place, which is subservient to white authority." [hemjhaveri.medium.com]

"The National Academies of Sciences released a monster report on Thursday outlining how the U.S. could create a plan to block the sun should the world not reduce carbon emissions fast enough or if global warming becomes a threat to human existence." [earther.gizmodo.com]

It took 25 years to determine the cause of a mass bald eagle die-off because the culprit was "a specific algae that lives on a specific invasive water plant and makes a novel toxin, but only in the presence of specific pollutants". [theatlantic.com]

Flanked by six white men, Governor Brian Kemp signed Georgia's new voter suppression measures into law underneath a painting of an actual slave plantation. "The new, new Jim Crow" indeed. [twitter.com]

I Like That The Boat Is Stuck. "I like knowing that there can be a big problem that's caused by something as straightforward and comprehensible as a stuck boat." [stone-soup.ghost.io]

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