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G.O.P. Platform, Rolled Over From 2016, Condemns the ‘Current President’

nytimes.com

Adopted at the party’s 2016 convention, it has been carried over through 2024 after the executive committee of the Republican National Committee on Wednesday chose not to adopt a new platform for 2020.

The platform censures the “current” president — who in 2016 was, of course, Barack Obama — and his administration for, among other things, imposing “a social and cultural revolution,” causing a “huge increase in the national debt” and damaging relationships with international partners.

Classic. You couldn’t invent better ineptitude than this.

Joe Biden’s heartfelt speech on grief

washingtonpost.com

There will come a day, I promise you and your parents, as well, when the thought of your son or daughter or your husband or wife brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner or later.. But the only thing I have more experience than you in is this: I’m telling you it will come.

Blogroll

colemanm.org

In the early days of blogging it was common to have a “blogroll” in the sidebar to link to friends, colleagues, and your favorite sites, with a focus on other blogs rather than just your favorite websites or products. So I created one with my favorite internet destinations, with all flavors of topics I’m interested in.

I’m going to do this again, too.

Closing the microblogging Slack

manton.micro.blog

It is not sustainable for me to work on new Micro.blog features at the current pace as well as be responsive in Slack. If someone has a question about Micro.blog, I want to point them to the best place to get a thorough answer, and that’s email.

Slack also has a couple problems:

  • It’s a proprietary platform that doesn’t fit well with our goals for Micro.blog. For example, you can’t have your own domain name for Slack, which makes migrating away very difficult.
  • Because the search is limited to only recent messages, it is less useful as a resource to new members.

Totally agree with this. Manton has been great on support, but I wondered if it was sustainable. And more importantly, I very much agree with the openness argument.