Three Things and Two Obits

• In Memoriam:
• Shobha Nehru, married into Indian political family (this begs to be a movie)
• Florence Finch, war hero
• The Rude Pundit writing about everyday people in Reno, NV.  Not at all rude.

  Why am I telling you these stories from a town you'll never visit, a place you probably haven't thought of more than once or twice in your life? [...]
  
  Because we live in a mean time. We are living through a coarsening of our country that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, even if this damned presidency were to end today, just 100 days in. That's the nuclear bomb that has gone off. One split second and we will suffer its corrosive effects for years.

• Chauncey DeVega's podcast features Timothy Snyder on resisting authoritarianism.
• Booman quotes Rev. William Barber on the history of Jim Crow.