Good article.
Was wanting to use the phrase “permission structure” in reference to something else, and here it is.
#4b
No, women aren’t likely to “boycott” men — but here’s why the idea matters | Salon
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My Way-Too-Soon Election Response | The Weekly Sift
https://weeklysift.com/2024/11/11/my-way-too-soon-election-response/
I keep forgetting how good this guy is.
NewsBlur
Time for this again. My absolute, most-favoritetest RSS reader. Freemium, but a subscription is absolutely worth it.
Most sites (including news sites and blogs) have an RSS feed, so you can build your own collection of newspapers to scan every morning, when you no longer trust the New York Times, The Washington Post, or CNN to deliver you useful news.
I tend to organize it into sections by topic category with a leading 3-digit number to affect sort order, but I just added an “080 Daily” folder to supplement my periodic scans of memeorandum.com.
The only nit I have is that you (apparently) have to add (or rename?) folders through the web UI, not the (Android) app.
Ok, update: here’s me going nuts with OPML, editing my exported opml to contain only the “daily” folder. Save this as *.opml and slurp it into your feed-reader, if interested. No guarantees it’ll work properly, but at least it’s got the details in some form other than a screenshot.
Mastodon can’t do code blocks (surprise!); this looks better on my blog.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf8'?>
<opml version="1.1"> <!--Generated by NewsBlur - newsblur.com-->
<head>
<title>NewsBlur Feeds</title>
<dateCreated>2024-11-11 16:28:04.107205</dateCreated>
<dateModified>2024-11-11 16:28:04.107205</dateModified>
</head>
<body>
<outline text="080 Daily" title="080 Daily">
<outline text="404 Media" title="404 Media" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://www.404media.co/" xmlUrl="https://www.404media.co/rss/" />
<outline text="ProPublica" title="ProPublica" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://www.propublica.org/" xmlUrl="https://www.propublica.org/feeds/propublica/main" />
<outline text="The Weekly Sift" title="The Weekly Sift" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://weeklysift.com" xmlUrl="https://weeklysift.com/feed/" />
<outline text="The Guardian" title="The Guardian" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://www.theguardian.com/us" xmlUrl="https://www.theguardian.com/us/rss" />
<outline text="Flaming Hydra" title="Flaming Hydra" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://flaminghydra.com/" xmlUrl="https://flaminghydra.com/rss/" />
<outline text="openDemocracy RSS" title="openDemocracy RSS" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://www.opendemocracy.net/feed/" xmlUrl="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/feed/" />
<outline text="Lawyers, Guns & Money" title="Lawyers, Guns & Money" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/" xmlUrl="https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed" />
<outline text="The Marshall Project" title="The Marshall Project" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://www.themarshallproject.org/" xmlUrl="https://www.themarshallproject.org/rss/recent.rss" />
<outline text="Democracy Docket" title="Democracy Docket" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://www.democracydocket.com/" xmlUrl="https://www.democracydocket.com/feed/" />
<outline text="SCOTUSblog" title="SCOTUSblog" type="rss" version="RSS" htmlUrl="https://www.scotusblog.com/" xmlUrl="https://www.scotusblog.com/feed/" />
</outline>
</body>
</opml>
Just subscribed to The Guardian
Just subscribed to The Guardian and you can, too!
On the decline of great nations
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-195/
«The joke is that yours is just a plain stupid country held hostage by a legendarily corrupt government.It shows that perhaps your country was once strong and great, but is now no more than the plaything of buffoons and tomfools.»
The writer is speaking of Nigeria, but, uh….
[Update: pretty good article, actually. We could be taking the first (second?) step down this road.]
“Half the battle is showing up”
Just had an (particularly feisty) Amtrak conductor include the sentence “half the battle is showing up” in one of her announcements.
I’m inspired.
Who is allowed to practice identity politics?
If your post starts out with “I don’t know why Harris lost,” I might read it.
Also: the mainstream media is generally worthless. I think Molly White listed some good alternatives in her recent post.
(«ProPublica, 404 Media, and Flaming Hydra are a couple of great publications, or the Institute for Nonprofit News has a great directory of many more. Subscribe to and/or financially support independent solo writers like Parker Molloy (The Present Age), Erin Reed, Marisa Kabas (The Handbasket), and Seamus Hughes (Court Watch). Pay for a subscription to your local newspaper. Maybe also subscribe to a non-US paper while you’re at it.»)
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/who-is-allowed-to-practice-identity
«So how does Dowd, Weiss, Stephens et al confidently assert the identity politics claim? These takes exist because this is a lazy pre-existing narrative to be sold, not because of any actual analysis of the electorate. These are writers who for various reasons have committed to an anti-woke narrative. And once you have committed to that narrative, you are determined to force it into every story, no matter how misleading.
…
It could be that Dems lost support because they did not throw vulnerable groups under the bus, but that is a different argument than claiming they campaigned on those topics.
You know who did run on identity politics? The person who will be President next January.
…
For example, Nick Kristof of the NY Times said that: “Democrats can compete if they focus more on minimum wages and child care than pronouns and purity.”
Which is weird, because Harris supported a $15 minimum wage, has proposed lowering the cost of child care for the working poor and even notched some progress on this topic as Vice-President, while supporting a child tax credit expansion. Kristof might say that voters were not aware of this, but **it doesn’t much help if their nominal allies in the media can’t get it right.** [Emphasis mine. – John.]…
To be sure, there are differences in types of identity politics.
Identity politics is sometimes about establishing empathy and respect for less powerful groups, people who are different from you. This is the kind of identity politics that Harris was accused of engaging in.
Identity politics is also about increasing the salience of shared group markers in order to celebrate that identity while also excluding and dehumanizing outgroups. This is the populist model of identity politics, which requires some outgroups to demonize, and which Trump engaged in repeatedly throughout his political career.…
Right wing politics that emphasize male, Christian and white identity is not defined as identity politics. As the perceived natural order of things, it is seen simply as politics.»
Talk Talk “It’s My Life” playing in a sushi shop in Penn Station (NY).
Is it just that good, or are we doing retro and I’m an old?
BBC.com: Gaza’s top Islamic scholar issues fatwa against October attack
Interesting.
Wind the clock
https://www.citationneeded.news/wind-the-clock/
This seems worth bookmarking. For people like me who are thinking, “well… now what?”
(Free Law Project! Neat-o!)
#MollyWhite #WindTheClock
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