Updates
- Originally published, December 25, 12:30 pm.
- December 26, 7:45 am:
- I haven’t actually done the reboot yet, but it looks like things are now sufficiently stable to resume work. I will get to this later.
- There is a new blog post,” entitled “Things I shouldn’t have to say about borders.”
- December 26, 12:58 pm:
- I’ve now gotten through the reboot. The system is up. Enough of it seems to be working well enough that I can resume work. This will happen later.
- December 26, 3:16 pm:
- The articles I’ve been holding off on archiving are now shown below. Scroll down. Yes, I know. Way, way, down. Note that I haven’t even begun with today’s email.
- December 27, 12:36 am:
- For the moment, at least, I am caught up.
- December 27, 7:24 pm:
Via Politico (added on December 25, at 4:00 pm):
These screenshots are both from the same Washington Post newsletter. Remember when the second wouldn’t have been noteworthy?
Oh no, it’s the “most dangerous man in America”. Watch out! pic.twitter.com/gZwqdTfInU
— Christoph (@Halalcoholism) December 24, 2018
So that’s it then. Anyone who says “Merry Christmas” is enabling this nonsense. https://t.co/3a1ZDlL2qJ
— David Benfell, Ph.D. (@n4rky) December 24, 2018
(Added on December 25, at 9:42 pm)
And a reminder…hypocrisy is a sin. #MerryChristmas pic.twitter.com/QvYHMhvygD
— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) December 25, 2018
(Added on December 25, at 5:10 pm)
We’ve laid out the record of Beto casting votes against his party & for GOP bills for Trump’s deportation vote, Wall Street dereg, corporate tax cuts & chipping away at the ACA. Please use the comments here to defend these votes on their policy merits. Go. https://t.co/RFsb4662ZU
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 23, 2018
This has been posted for 10 hours. For all the thousands of tweets directed at me, nobody has even tried to address it. Anyone wanna take a crack at defending the votes on the policy merits, or nah? https://t.co/MWRqflrerI
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 24, 2018
It’s what @TheDemocrats do. It’s what we saw when, in 2006, they were elected to control of both houses of Congress with a mandate to get us out of Iraq but instead supported the war. It’s what @POTUS44 did when he continued the war, refused to prosecute war criminals, and 1/2 https://t.co/bLxyStpFdk
— David Benfell, Ph.D. (@n4rky) December 25, 2018
refused to prosecute the bank fraudsters. If you’re a Democrat, this is what you support. Because they keep doing it while they redefine “progressive” to mean #neoconservative and #neoliberal. And they’re promising to keep doing it. 2/2
— David Benfell, Ph.D. (@n4rky) December 25, 2018
via Existential Comics:
(added on December 25, at 6:37 pm)
“You may be wondering why I’ve gathered you here.” pic.twitter.com/nEuoj27gul
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) December 25, 2018
Probably no one in the world noticed, but my main site has probably been performing erratically for the last few days. I am nearing completion of a major software upgrade on my server, an upgrade I had deferred until I felt I could defer it no longer. It’s actually gone relatively smoothly but the real fun comes when I do the next reboot and see if I can fix all the services that are broken.
Because I’m not in a situation where I can trust the web site to perform correctly, I’ve held off on archive updates, which also means I haven’t had updates here. There wasn’t much when I began putting this issue together; there’s more now. It follows.
Donald Trump
So, um, here’s your Christmas present: Donald Trump is unhinged (you already knew that) and now unchecked.[2] The White House is now fully a continuation of The Apprentice. Enjoy the show. And remember that it isn’t just the folks you see on the screen who might not survive. With that “bigger” “red button” that “really works,” all of us are at risk.
Thomas Wright, “Trump, Unchecked,” Atlantic, December 21, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/trump-administration-after-mattis/578890/
Daniel Politi, “Trump Is Reportedly Considering Firing Mnuchin Over Stock Market Woes,” Slate, December 25, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-is-reportedly-considering-firing-mnuchin-over-stock-market-declines.html
Gig work
Amber Petrovich, “The gig worker’s lament,” Washington Post, December 26, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gig-workers-lament/2018/12/26/085fce64-cd76-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html
- [1]Amber Petrovich, “The gig worker’s lament,” Washington Post, December 26, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gig-workers-lament/2018/12/26/085fce64-cd76-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html↩
- [2]Thomas Wright, “Trump, Unchecked,” Atlantic, December 21, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/trump-administration-after-mattis/578890/↩