Yesterday, I had a flash – the Trump/Vance ambush of Zelensky on Friday 2/28/2025 was a “George Floyd moment” – the humiliation of a world leader on live TV. C-SPAN video is embedded below, confrontation starts at 39:50.
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Brad Enslen posted a link to this excellent post by Annie Mueller on how to get clarity on a situation and figure out what you can do about it. She analyzes the Trump-Zelensky-Ukraine situation, and it is EXCELLENT! Read this! I took one of her actions (make donations).
My heart hurts for Ukraine, and I am ashamed of how our country’s leaders treated Zelensky on Friday. I just made a large donation to an organization helping Ukraine. I have posted a list of such organizations, please see if one of them touches your heart.
I have created some posts on my thoughts about WordLand on my WordLand test blog, including social networks built on RSS – check it out if you are interested.
Yeah!
RFK confirmed as HHS secretary – really? Trump has really managed to keep Senate Republicans in line, only one bozo was kicked off the clown car – ugh!
Dave Winer again talks about twitter-like apps using RSS. I created mine (MyStatusTool) in May 2023, and Colin Walker created a PHP version (PHP-MST). Working versions are here and here. When is Dave Winer going to create his tool?
In November 2024, I wrote about Lauren Kapp, who led the @kamalahq social media effort. I noticed yesterday that Lauren had a post on LinkedIn recapping her work in 2024, did not say what her future plans are – hope it is something good!
Interesting that Dave Winer did not know that YouTube had feeds (posted in 2016!) and that he did not point directly to Andrew Shell’s blog, but pointed to a search of his site for “Andrew Shell”….
In the US today, the Electoral College is meeting to cast electoral votes for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Per CNN, Donald Trump has already received enough votes to win the presidency. I tried to find where the Oregon Electoral College meeting is, but did not find anything. Quite a difference from four years ago, when almost all of the electoral college meetings were televised.