Jeffrey Issac/Democracy in Dark Times: Public Safety As Convenient Pretext for Political Repression, From Birmingham 1963 to Bloomington 2024 – essay on how “public safety” was used as an excuse for repressing dissent in the 1960s, and how it is still used today.
January 2024
Axios: Dems could give Haley a boost in Iowa caucuses – Some Iowa Democrats and independents are planning to crash the state’s Republican caucuses Monday night and become “Republicans for a day” to vote for Nikki Haley — but mostly, against former President Trump. I noticed this on the national news, did not know that was allowed…
The Federalist: Lawsuit Uncovers How Raffensperger Tried To Memory-Hole The Election Law Trump’s Georgia Call Was About – interesting, worth looking into…
Des Moines Register (Iowa): Early call of Trump as winner of Iowa Caucuses stirs anger. Here’s why it happened – I watched NBC brake into their own West Coast newscast to announce this 45 minutes after the start of the caucus – come on people!
CNN: Iowa entrance poll: Most GOP caucus-goers don’t accept Biden’s 2020 win, say a conviction wouldn’t make Trump unfit for office – I did not know that “entrance polls” were a thing, I thought there were only “exit polls”…
Des Moines Register (Iowa): Final results from the 2024 Iowa Republican caucus. Looks like some guy named Ryan Binkley was running as well as the more familiar names….interesting…
Colin Walker points to Misu talking about writing consistently, and I love this quote from Colin: “if you don’t do the things you want to get better at then you never will and there’s no point moaning about it.”. I also needed to hear that!
Darek Kay: Style your RSS feed – tutorial on using XSL(T) for styling a RSS feed (via Sacha Chua)
This video shows using Emacs agenda mode and org-mode along with customized configuration to support a fairly detailed workflow for the Getting Things Done method.
I enjoyed watching this, I will need to pick one of these and try it out.