Gregg Nunziata talks with Richard Bernstein, former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, about the Supreme Court’s blockbuster term — election law, tariffs, the National Guard, and birthright citizenship — and whether the Court would stop a president who tried to seize ballots in the 2026 election. (Spoiler alert: he thinks there are enough votes on the Supreme Court to stop this). I enjoyed this episode, it covered a number of cases I was not aware of in the latest term of the Supreme Court.

Other examples of inbound/outbound RSS support

Dave Winer pointed to Ricardo Mendes from his linkblog on July 10 with the title “Inbound and Outbound RSS”. I took a look at the Mendes post, he describes using Indiekit and plugins to both read and write posts. I think this is very similar to my minimal blogging tool MyStatusTool. In the Mendez setup, it sounds like he is also reading feeds that do not include rssCloud support.

Mendez also mentions work by Aaron Parecki on the Monacle social feed reader/writer. This tool used the Micropub and Microsub specs for publishing and subscribing. The above link is from 2016, so you can see that this predates both the MyStatusTool and rss.chat tools.

Doing some outliner testing

I decided to try using the outliner code I posted yesterday using an Android tablet and Google Chrome. I was able to create several outlines, save them to the local filesystem, and then reload them – nice! I am still planning to make some updates to the outliner to make editing easier on a phone.

Becoming a retirement foodie

After starting my retirement, I recently noticed an article in one of my New York Times newsletters about Tina Fey, stating she only knows how to cook three things, and one of them was a soup recipe (Lemony White Bean Soup with Turkey and Greens) from the New York Times. I was intrigued, so I tried to get the recipe, but found that I had to subscribe to the NYT Cooking app – ugh. I went ahead and did a 7-day free trial, then downloaded the recipe as well as another one I had seen in another NYT newsletter (Three-Cup Chicken). Both of them were smash hits!

At the same time I subscribed, I also signed up for all 4 NYT Cooking newsletters. One of the first to arrive was “28 No-Cook Recipes for a Heat Wave“. From this list, I made Chickpea Salad Sandwich this week, and it was another amazing success (3 for 3!)! Man, I’m on a roll!

Two more takes on “America The Beautiful”

I could not stop – I had to look for videos of the University of Texas Longhorn Band performing “America The Beautiful”. I found these two examples, both brought tears to my eyes.

December 1990, Texas vs. A&M football game at Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, Wally Pryor announcing, Glenn Richter conducting the Longhorn Band

2011 UT Summer Band, Robert Carnochan conducting, Bates Recital Hall on the UT campus