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An honest editorial
An honest editorial
From the Las Vegas Sun: “Americans from both sides of the political spectrum should be alarmed by Trump’s words and behavior. The nation must confront the fact that beyond his hateful character, he is crippled cognitively and showing clear signs of mental illness.”
#democracy
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An honest editorial
A musical Illusionist
A musical Illusionist
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s next musical is titled The Illusionist, inspired by the movie The Illusionist, itself a very loose adaptation of Steven Millhauser’s story “Eisenheim the Illusionist.”
#StevenMillhauser
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A musical Illusionist
To-do
To-do
I like the prospect of a president with, as Kamala Harris says, a to-do list. Not an enemies list. And certainly not a Project 2025.
#lists
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To-do
Truncated? No
Truncated? No
On NBC Nightly News tonight, Lester Holt spoke of Kamala Harris’s “truncated campaign.” No. “Truncated” is about the end, not the beginning. If you start late and run the course, your effort has not been truncated.
#news#words
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Truncated? No
Goodbye, George Washington’s signature
Goodbye, George Washington’s signature
Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland is changing its logo to something more readable. So it’s goodbye to George Washington’s signature.
#handwriting
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Goodbye, George Washington’s signature
An October surprise
An October surprise
In today’s installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson writes about Madison Square Garden rallies, past and present.
#democracy#fascism
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An October surprise
Base indeed
Base indeed
Watching choice clips from today’s Madison Square Garden gathering, I can reach only one conclusion: Donald Trump suspects that he’s going to lose the election and is thus doing all he can he to stoke the rage of his base so that violence may follow.
#democracy#fascism
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Base indeed
Zoom!
Zoom!
I found this photograph by chance (swear), closing my eyes and clicking the mouse. Was the photographer more deliberate, wanting to catch this car in motion? Or did the driver just zoom into the frame?
#NewYorkCity#NYCMunicipalArchives#photography
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Zoom!
Recently updated
Recently updated
“Do not obey in advance”: Timothy Snyder posted a short video in which he comments on the Los Angeles Times and Washingon Post in light of this first lesson.
#democracy#fascism
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Recently updated
Zounds
Zounds
I just figured out what my New York Times and Washington Post subscriptions have been costing me.
#money#newspapers
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Zounds
“Do not obey in advance”
“Do not obey in advance”
From Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017): Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
#democracy#fascism
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“Do not obey in advance”
An editorial cartoon
An editorial cartoon
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the newspaper’s motto, appearing on the masthead.
#journalism
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An editorial cartoon
Duce redux, redux
Duce redux, redux
From a post I wrote in October 2016: I said in a letter to a friend today that Donald Trump has reinvented American presidential politics as neo-fascist entertainment. I remembered that post today.
#fascism
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Duce redux, redux
Donations by ZIP code
Donations by ZIP code
From The Washington Post (gift link), a ZIP-based guide to online donations to the Democratic and Republican candidates for president. In my little town: 312 donations to Harris ($60K), 125 ($20K) to the other.
#politics
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Donations by ZIP code
“The Department of Everything”
“The Department of Everything”
In “The Department of Everything,” Stephen Akey writes about working in the Telephone Reference Division of the Brooklyn Public Library.
#libraries
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“The Department of Everything”
The Gospel of Thomas and John Lee Hooker
The Gospel of Thomas and John Lee Hooker
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” Boogie chillen.
#CannedHeat#JohnLeeHooker
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The Gospel of Thomas and John Lee Hooker
How to remove Blogger comment justification
How to remove Blogger comment justification
I’ve wanted to remove the ugly full justification that Blogger applies to embedded comments. So I asked about it in the Blogger Community Forum — and I got the answer.
#Blogger
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How to remove Blogger comment justification