[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO reports on the history of Toronto's Wellington Street.


• Dangerous Minds introduces me to the grim American gothic that is Wisconsin Death Trip. What happened to Black River Falls in the 1890s?


• The Dragon's Gaze links to hypotheses about KIC 8462852, one suggesting KIC 8462852 has four exoplanets, another talking about a planet's disintegration.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper modeling the mantles of icy moons.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at small city NIMBYism in the Oregon city of Eugene.


• The LRB Blog reports on toxically racist misogyny directed towards Labour's Diane Abbott by Tory minister David Davis, "misogynoir" as it is called.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw reports on the elections in Indonesia, a country increasingly important to Australia.


• Peter Rukavina describes how the builders of his various indie phones, promising in their own rights, keep dropping them.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is optimistic that NAFTA will survive mostly as is.


• The Volokh Conspiracy examines the ruling against Trump's immigration order on the grounds that its planners explicitly designed it as an anti-Muslim ban.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that the treaty-based federalism of Tatarstan within Russia is increasingly unpopular with many wanting a more centralized country.