[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Far Outliers notes how the new Suez Canal helped create a network of coal-using port cities across Eurasia.


• Hornet Stories notes that Serbia's out lesbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, marched in Belgrade's pride parade.


• Joe. My. God. notes a statement by the Pentagon that transgender troops can still re-enlist for the next few months.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a fundamentally ill-thought defense of colonialism by Bruce Gilley.


• Marginal Revolutions notes that Swedish support for the far right is linked to perceptions of foreign threats to employment.


• Out There looks at the last days of Cassini at Saturn.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes real estate shenanigans in greater Sydney.


• Drew Rowsome has a critical, but positive, review of closeted gay author Frank M. Robinson's autobiography.


• The Volokh Conspiracy sums up the outcome of the controversial monkey selfie copyright case.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Russian challenges to language legislation in Tatarstan hint at future challenges.