[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the recent municipal vote clearing the way for the construction of the Downtown Relief Line.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly wonders, in the context of growing inequality and poverty, how workers in the United States can be free.


• Centauri Dreams examines exoplanet TRAPPIST-1h.


• Joe. My. God. notes the upset of Taiwanese homophobes with the idea of marriage equality and reports on the possibility of a million people dying on account of Trump cuts to HIV/AIDS programs internationally.


• Language Log considers the use of the emoji in the Sinosphere.


• The LRB Blog looks at terrorism and the ways it interacts malignly with the news cycle.


• The NYRB Daily examines the anonymous "Berlin Painter" of ancient Athens.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer argues that the particular structure of health care locks it into certain plausible paths for reform.


• Torontoist argues that indigenous writers' concerns about inclusion need to be addressed.


• Towleroad looks at how some parents of gay children were pushed out of Shanghai's "marriage market".


• Window on Eurasia looks at the relative strengths of Ukraine's two churches and looks at Russia's trade with North Korea.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell examines the post-war economic structures of the United Kingdom in the context of struggles between multilateralists and unilateralists.