The Weekly Links: Nuclear Neighbors, Bad Pears and Metal Kittens

Here it is, our weekly roundup of things on the internet that Scene staffers read and found enjoyable or interesting or otherwise engaging. Most of us spend too much time online and we might as well share.

From The Atlantic: The Price of Privacy

From The Washington Post: The Nuclear Missile Next Door

From The New Yorker: How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens

From NPR: Ukrainian Holocaust survivors flee war again — this time to Germany

From The Washington Post: Libs of Tik Tok has become central to right wing politics

From Adweek: What Does the Future Hold for America’s Alt-Weeklies?

From Metal Injection: Rob Halford Names New Litter Of Kittens & Donates Autographed Cat T-Shirts To Kitten Rescue Group

From The New Republic: Will the Press Do Its Job to Help Save Democracy?

From the Associated Press: Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’

From the Columbia Journalism Review: Let’s make journalism work for those not born into an elite class

From The New York Times Magazine: Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan

From GBH News: You may have never heard of flight attendant 'crashpads' but they're all over East Boston

From The Washington Post: A food pantry's closure means more than lost meals for hundreds of families

From Bloomberg: Ford Needs to Take a Stand in Tennessee

From the Associated Press: Callery pears: An invader ‘worse than murder hornets!’

From ESPN: Untold