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Veteran WordPress core committers and contributors have described a “culture of fear” within the project, driven by co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s “outsized control” and the potentially career-ending consequences of opposing him. Many say the lack of formal governance has left them vulnerable to the whims of Mullenweg, whose recent actions have raised questions about the future direction of WordPress.

While data about WP Engine websites can be gathered from public sources, it's not clear whether the .csv file of WP Engine websites was obtained from a public source. There's some speculation that the data may have come from non-public WordPress.org access logs rather than DNS queries or a website crawler.

A few weeks ago, I sat down with my WordPress installation to see how difficult it would be to actually use a different API endpoint entirely instead of the default WordPress.org site.

In this video I am explaining the drama, but I am also sharing my opinion on how I think the WordPress founder is a bit hypocritical in some areas, and I offer some solutions for a better WordPress future.

Export only filtered lists of subscribers or emails instead of everything at once.

Not much time to write today and tomorrow.

Noodling with something. I’m still waffling on what form it will take if it ships. Just a static, no-text placeholder website for now: micro.one

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to do a variety of things on “Day 1” should he win the presidency: mass deportations, tariffs on all U.S. imports, cutting federal funding for schools that discuss race and much more. 

Today, host Martine Powers speaks with White House reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb about what Trump’s second term could mean for America.

Today’s show was produced by Emma Talkoff, with help from Ariel Plotnick and Bishop Sand. It was mixed by Rennie Svirnoskiy. And edited by Monica Campbell, with help from Reena Flores. Thanks to Gina Harkins.

Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its frail economy—into something very modern and profoundly different. And he’s covered our country so well ...

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With a second Trump presidency looming, listeners talk about the policies they hope he'll enact–or the ways they intend to resist.

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At the 38th 1/2 Street crossing. 🚂

As our centennial series continues, Alexis Coe, presidential historian, New American fellow and author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (Penguin Books, 2021) and the forthcoming, Young Jack: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1957 (2025), reviews the history of presidential candidates acknowledging losses.

Presidential Election Concession Speeches and Messages (APP)

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While Puerto Ricans living on the island can’t vote for the president, they voted for governor on Election Day. Mayra Vélez Serrano, political science professor at University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, offers political analysis of the race, where it looks like the pro-independence, third-party candidate Juan Dalmau is going to lose to the pro-statehood Republican (and Trump ally) Jenniffer González. 

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Astead Herndon, New York Times national politics reporter, host of their politics podcast "The Run-Up" and CNN political analyst, offers his analysis of Trump's win, after spending months during the campaign talking to voters across the country.

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My short-form podcast is back again! Timetable, episode 133, recorded today. It’s the best snapshot of how I’m feeling and what I want to do about it. Only 7 minutes long.

When you don’t know what to do, create.

As the fallout from the election settles, Americans are beginning to absorb, celebrate and mourn the coming of a second Trump presidency. Nate Cohn, chief political analyst for The Times, and Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent, discuss the voting blocks that Trump ...

After Donald Trump won the election, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who is becoming a senior figure in MAGA-world, declared on Fox News that he has a big mandate to govern exactly as he campaigned, while specifically listing what’s coming. This is alarming, since Trump campaigned relentlessly on a platform of explicit threats of authoritarian retribution and violence. We talked to David Kurtz, executive editor of Talking Points Memo and author of a good new piece on the election results. He reflects on how sobering it is that voters chose Trump in full awareness of the cruelties he’s planning to unleash—and discusses the immense task that lies ahead in containing the damage.
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Cross-posted from my Cornerstone of Democracy newsletter… On January 20, 2025, one of the supremely dangerous people in American history will re-occupy the White House, reclaiming all of the awesome powers of the presidency. Donald Trump and his extreme right-wing apparatchiks will issue a blizzard of executive orders, all designed to reverse decades of social, […]

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