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A federal court has allowed Tennessee to use its new congressional map, rejecting an effort to block it before the midterm elections. The map splits up the majority-Black district centered in Memphis, a change that weakens Black voting power. https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-redistricting-memphis-black-voters-south-b35a4b19c2c4818a660d3689cb8b1f82

Lower catch this year.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Blog moderation policy.

I'm also exploring Buttondown, a newsletter mailing list software, which uses Markdown as its native format for composing emails, as part of my job managing a WordPress site for a non-profit. Buttondown can subscribe to any RSS feed and turn the items into a draft email (with the items' content converted from HTML to Markdown) that you can then tweak before sending it out to subscribers. I was able to create a custom RSS feed out of WordPress that has <source:markdown> content for its items, and now I'm trying to convince the Buttondown people to parse that out and have it appear in the draft without modification.

It's in a private repo. It's just a hobby project, to learn more about all the various RSS feeds out there in the wild. I was able to add some of the demo.rss.chat functionality in it in a short period of time--creating and editing posts, creating a websocket firehose. Next up is adding and showing replies.

A recent donor: "I believe that rehabilitation requires introspection and the pride of achieviement, and the stories I have read clearly show the value of your work in fostering that achievement.  And I believe in the humanity of all of us, on both sides of prison bars." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Rep James Comer lied to Fox Business viewers by claiming Republicans do not want to cut social programs; they only want to be the arbiters on who qualifies for them. Over 4 million people are no longer on SNAP since last July because of being unceremoniously kicked off the ...

Guillaumin by the Road, 1866 #paulcezanne #romanticism

Trafalgar Square, 1943 #neoplasticism #pietmondrian

After Bob Myers convinced James to continue his career in Philadelphia, Golden State GM Mike Dunleavy is left with limited options to improve his roster.

ME (leaving offsite meeting): “Where can I wait for an Uber?”
HER: “Where did you park?”
ME: “What?”
HER: “What?”
Then we talked about insomnia. I knew I’d found another member of the tribe.

July 15, 2026: Gov. Shapiro runs into LeBron James at dinner and pitches him on playing for the 76ers July 24, 2026: LeBron James signs with the 76ers for his 24th NBA season

At least we've started building a new nest on the web outside the silos.

Just make sure they are challenged when they say their silo is the web. ;-)

Is there public info about your feed reader, Elixir? I tried doing a search and think I saw mention of it, or it could have been something else.

5 great new local songs, 5 great new songs from everywhere else, and 1 load of aural dung.

Big Tobacco studied nicotine analogs like 6-methyl-nicotine for decades but never marketed them. Now, Chinese vape makers are using them to sidestep US regulations.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy. On March 27, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14253 (Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History).  Pursuant to that order, the Domestic Policy Council recently completed a months-long review […]

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“South Carolina would be the first state to hold a Democratic primary for president in 2028 under a preliminary recommendation passed with 26 out of 49 votes Friday by a Democratic National Committee panel, capping an internal debate riven with racial overtones,” the Washington Post reports. ”Party officials also recommended New Hampshire, Nevada and Michigan […]

“Bahrain and Kuwait secretly sent jets to attack sites inside Iran, their first such direct retaliation against Tehran and an indication of the difficult position Arab states find themselves in as the war grinds on, people familiar with the matter said,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The airstrikes early this month targeted drone- and missile-storage […]

Wall Street Journal: “When the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s main tariff weapon in February, the president’s trade war seemed destined to enter a less capricious and more constrained phase.” “To Trump, though, court rulings are road maps, not roadblocks. February’s court ruling simply rerouted him to tools the court hadn’t explicitly prohibited. And fortunately […]