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Daily Bread for 5.24.21

Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will see periods of sun with a stray thunderstorm and a high of 85. Sunrise is 5:23 AM and sunset 8:20 PM, for 14h 57m 32s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94% of its visible disk illuminated.

The Whitewater School Board meets at 6:30 PM in closed session and 7 PM in open session.

On this day in 1935, the first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.

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David Leonhardt writes The biggest vaccination gap isn’t based on race or partisanship. It’s based on class:

Many unvaccinated Republicans and minorities have something in common: They are working class. And there is a huge class gap in vaccination behavior.

Here is a look at vaccination behavior by racial groups and political identification, based on polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation:

Here are those same groups subdivided by class, using a four-year college degree as the dividing line between working class and professional:

By The New York Times | Source: Kaiser Family Foundation.

As you can see, working-class members of every group are less likely to have received a vaccine and more likely to be skeptical. “No matter which of these groups we looked at, we see an education divide,” Mollyann Brodie, who oversees the Kaiser surveys, told me. In some cases, different racial groups with the same education levels — like Black and white college graduates — look remarkably similar.

Jeanne Whalen, Craig Timberg, and Eva Dou report Chinese businessman with links to Steve Bannon is driving force for a sprawling disinformation network, researchers say:

A sprawling online network tied to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui has become a potent platform for disinformation in the United States, attacking the safety of coronavirus vaccines, promoting false election-fraud claims and spreading baseless QAnon conspiracies, according to research published Monday by the network analysis company Graphika.

The report, provided in advance to The Washington Post, details a network that Graphika says amplifies the views of Guo, a Chinese real estate developer whose association with former Trump White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon became a focus of news coverage last year after Bannon was arrested aboard Guo’s yacht on federal fraud charges.

Graphika said the network includes media websites such as GTV, for which Guo last year publicly said he was raising funds, along with thousands of social media accounts that Graphika said amplify content in a coordinated fashion. The network also includes more than a dozen local-action groups over which Guo has publicly claimed an oversight role, Graphika found.

Graphika’s research sheds more light on Guo, a onetime billionaire real estate developer who, in addition to his relationship with Bannon, has drawn attention for the confusing mix of disinformation and invective he has broadcast since moving to the United States, including contradictory attacks on both the Chinese Communist Party and anti-CCP dissidents in the West.

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