New York Magazine: Do You Remember the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden? How the coalition that defeated Donald Trump crumbled. – I don’t agree with the title of this post. I think that coalitions can be rebuilt to keep Trump out of the Oval Office, but there has been some “splintering” since January 2021.
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OpenRss.com: Bluesky has launched RSS feeds – hmm, seems like old news, I wrote about it on December 22, 2023, but there is some screen captures on discovering the feed URL, and notes on how links are not embedded in the full text of the feed.
John Johnston: iPod podcasting nostalgia – John found an old iPod with a recording device that he used to make podcasts some time ago – and he made a podcast with it just this week – neat!
David Shanske: A repost of a Twitter thread attempting to describe the scope of the Israel-Hamas war
Nothing Is Simple: Using Org to track mushrooms!
Common Ground Democracy: Don’t Despair—Mobilize for Institutional Change (via Election Law Blog)
Fugue: A CEO’s Guide to Emacs – An interesting “why Emacs?” tale, followed by some specific settings/enhancements – meaty, but not overwhelming – nice!
GNU.org: An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp (links to multiple formats, will look at this sometime)
NBCWashington4: Prince William County admits election tally in 2020 shorted Joe Biden – A Northern Virginia county acknowledged it underreported President Joe Biden’s margin of victory over Donald Trump there in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes, the first detailed accounting of errors that came to light in 2022 as part of a criminal case. (via Election Law Blog)
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.