🎩 tip to @birchtree.me through whom I’ve discovered you can retrocast the weather channel in all its vaporwave glory. 🎶
🎩 tip to @birchtree.me through whom I’ve discovered you can retrocast the weather channel in all its vaporwave glory. 🎶
M. Gessen with a gut-check at the end of a week of elation for U.S. pro-democracy folks:
Autocrats rise to power in times of fear and dislocation. They get elected on promises of stability and security. Most of the time, they also promise a return to a glorious imaginary past, when the world felt safe and you didn’t feel poor. They never deliver. Instead of stability, they bring chaos, confusion and often war.
Rather than expose the autocrat as a liar, however, the instability affirms the worldview that brought him to power in the first place. The world, it seems, really is terrifying. Life really is hard and getting harder. We really are on the verge of catastrophe…
The classic mistake the opposition to such leaders makes is to affirm the terrifying worldview but argue for a more measured, reasonable solution…But if the autocrat is essentially right in his analysis, what is the argument for voting for someone else?
If you live in the U.S. and you’ve never heard of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact you should do a bit of reading.
I think The Preamble is one of the best publications providing explainer style analysis at the intersection civics, current events, and political wrangling. It has a viewpoint but I wouldn’t call it explicitly partisan. A recent post on the state of the U.S. relationship to Israel is a good example.
Looks like Dems have a trifecta in Michigan state governance with fairly comfortable margins in the legislature. Can we please, PLEASE get a comprehensive sunshine/transparency/FOIA bill passed in the upcoming term? @votepenelope.bsky.social
📷🎃Halloween sketches
Engrossing article on NPR’s site about the winners of the Siena Drone Photo Awards. Read it on a big screen if you can.
📷🍂 Track Fall’s progression with me through my front yard Maple. We’re in the late stages now.
Guess I’ll starting perusing https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/ again.
