Scripting News: Friday, January 24, 2025
BTW, Bluesky, for me, is already a greater flow generator than Twitter ever was. My post about never forgetting Trump's coup attempt has already been RT'd 2.8K times, about three hours after it was posted. In all my years of using the social web I've never gotten that much attention. I have 11.7K followers, far fewer than I have on Twitter. By 5PM it had been RT'd 10K times.#
I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget. Back when the NYT tried sometimes to report the news as it actually happened. #
Objectively, January 6, 2021 was even more of a "day which will live in infamy" than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It was more insidious because while Hawaii was an American territory, January 6 was an attack on the actual center of our government. Had the mob prevailed, the US would have been defeated, there and then. #
The Capitol police were our last line of defense, they received no help from military. #
The Supreme Court should count their blessings too, because their building is just behind the Capitol. #
Linkblog items for the day.
How to Weather the Storm. kottke.org
Before declaring democracy over, as our major news orgs and tech companies seem to have, remember there are still 50 states, most of whom still seem to accept that votes must be counted, and the winner is who gets the most, not the one who sends in a mob to trash the Capitol. scripting.com
Judge bars Oath Keepers founder, freed from prison by Trump, from visiting Capitol. politico.com
California farm workers scared to work over deportation fears. nbcbayarea.com
Dems Worry Sen. Whitehouse Considering Vote for RFK Jr. talkingpointsmemo.com
Cancer survivors share their stories and lives with NPR. npr.org
Team Trump Says Mark Zuckerberg Has 'More Ass-Kissing' to Do. rollingstone.com
2023: Jack Smith is doing the attorney general's job for him, 28 months after it should have been done. prospect.org
Krugman on why he left the Times. If you want to understand how the NYT became so awful, read this piece. He really spells it out in a way I've never seen before. Thank you PK for leaving and for telling the tale of why. We (readers) are getting a much better deal now. cjr.org
DOJ Suspends Black, Women's History Months. talkingpointsmemo.com
How Republicans Learned to Excuse Political Violence. thebulwark.com
There Is No Resistance. theatlantic.com
Teen Vogue: Billionaires Should Not Exist. teenvogue.com
Social Networks, Not Social Media. glass.photo
Donald Trump and the Return of Ransom-Note Politics. motherjones.com
Trump officials pause health agencies' communications, citing review. wapo.st
Trump Invited Adam Schiff on Air Force One. politicalwire.com
Donald Trump Wants You to Die. substack.com
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