making connections

And now I see this challenge to Citizens United. https://jacobin.com/2026/04/citizens-united-electoral-corruption-case

What a wonderful idea. This is a short but inspiring read. Now let's add to the list.

Read this. It's important. And it's true.

Did you know South Africa's apartheid government was secretly building nuclear bombs? This fellow's story is amazing. And I love the part where the judge in his treason trial read out his instructions for how best to destroy them, and then a few laters, they were carried out.

Very cool project in a prison, which is an alarming counterpoint to what online gaming companies do.

I'm already in favor of universal health care as something the U.S. desperately needs, but here's a different argument for it.

Checking something I heard today about Malcolm X reading a dictionary in prison, I came across this.

This will probably change drastically this year as the federal government gets downsized, but it's an interesting baseline.

Wonderful idea, I hope it spreads.

Unfortunately we all need to start verifying the news we read.

Now this is something worth thinking about. Though most of the free Internet would disappear.

I read all, or almost all, of his books and am sad to hear he died. I remember when his name came up at dinner and someone told my Mom that she probably wouldn't like his books. Of course she read one immediately and really loved his use of language.

This is quite an interesting custom of the U.S. Navy that I had never heard about. And apparently nowadays, of course there is a contest. See https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/06/14/a-big-bz-to-the-winner-of-the-navys-new-years-deck-log-poem-contest/

I had to post this. It was a public service, after all.

As someone who folds a lot of clothes, I think she makes some valid points. I wonder what else I waste time doing?