[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• At Antipope, Charlie Stross wonders--among other things--what the Trump Administration is getting done behind its public scandals.
• blogTO notes a protest in Toronto aiming to get the HBC to drop Ivanka Trump's line of fashion.
• Dangerous Minds reflects on a Talking Heads video compilation from the 1980s.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on a murderous attack against Indian immigrants in Kansas.
• The LRB Blog looks at "post-Internet art".
• Lovesick Cyborg notes an attack by a suicide robot against a Saudi warship.
• Strange Maps links to a map of corruption reports in France.
• Torontoist reports on Winter Stations.
• Understanding Society engages in a sociological examination of American polarization, tracing it to divides in race and income.
• The Volokh Conspiracy notes the many good reasons behind the reluctance of cities around the world to host the Olympics.
• Window on Eurasia notes that where the Ingush have mourned their deportation under Stalin the unfree Chechens have not, reports that Latvians report their willingness to fight for their country, looks at what the spouses of the presidents of post-Soviet states are doing, and notes the widespread opposition in Belarus to paying a tax on "vagrancy."
• Arnold Zwicky looks at the linguistic markers of the British class system.