https://electionlawblog.org/?p=149356

https://jarche.com/2025/04/working-for-capitalists/

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/08/milwaukee-officials-blocked-windows-preventing-observers-from-seeing-them-process-ballots/

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/08/supreme-court-starts-cleaning-up-kristi-noems-sloppy-messes/

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/08/why-are-there-so-many-aviation-accidents/

https://blog.andrewshell.org/essays/better-learning/

https://hinessight.blogs.com/salempoliticalsnark/2025/04/trumps-tariffs-are-a-loser-for-him-no-matter-what-he-does.html

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/to-conquer-the-primary-energy-consumption-layer-of-our-entire-civilization/

https://doc.searls.com/2025/04/07/days/

https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2025/04/07/18th-congressional-district-special-election-greg-abbott-sylvester-turner/

https://19thnews.org/2025/04/proxy-voting-new-parents-congress-fight-over/

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/07/5-dems-who-voted-for-election-security-reform-wont-say-if-theyll-support-the-save-act-again/

https://intellectualoid.com/2025/04/06/monday-april-7-a-tad-early/

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k4.mJFP.Hi4Prz0JqN39

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/divergence-from-the-interests-of

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/liberal-jewish-antisemitism-trump-protection.html

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/mobiles-tabs/how-apple-flew-5-flights-full-of-iphones-from-india-and-china-in-3-days-to-beat-trump-tariffs/articleshow/120044321.cms

https://redundant.bearblog.dev/reforms-needed-in-us-government/

https://linkage.lol/what-to-do-if-you-get-arrested/

http://www.jwpjazz.com/cullum.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cullum_Jr.#cite_note-JAC-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_City_Hot_Rhythm_Cats

https://www.missioncityjazz.com/

https://www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlight/2019-08-14/rivewalk-jazz-radio-show-founder-jim-cullum-jr-has-died-at-age-77

https://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44553875/womens-march-madness-2025-uconn-huskies-paige-bueckers-ncaa-championship-title-game

USA Today - Anti-Trump protesters gathered at hundreds of locations nationwide - Thousands protested Trump nationwide Saturday against Musk, budget cuts, tariffs; in favor of democracy, immigrants, empathy

NBC News - Demonstrators rally in ‘Hands Off’ protests against Trump policies and Musk-led government cuts - “Hands Off!” rallies took place in Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., New York City and other cities across the country on Saturday.

Hands Off 2025 - Main site coordinating April 5th protests (see here for map of protests and here for list of protests)

50501 - Fifty states, fifty protests, one movement

Associated Press - Angry protesters from New York to Alaska assail Trump and Musk in ‘Hands Off!’ rallies

The Atlantic - The Cardboard-Carrying Opposition Arrives - The “Hands Off” protest in Washington, D.C., drew thousands of people with a lot of feelings—but as-yet-inchoate anger at the Trump administration.

John Philpin - Trying out FeedLand

Werd.io - How to leak to a journalist

The 19th - What Cory Booker spoke about for 25 hours: the programs holding America together - Threats to public education, Social Security benefits and Medicaid funding were at the heart of the senator’s record-setting floor speech against the Trump administration.

The Federalist - Judge Admits ‘Substantial Concerns’ About ‘Security’ Of Georgia’s Voting System But Refuses To Address Them

Oregon Capital Chronicle - ‘These are not normal times,’ Sen. Cory Booker says in record-breaking Senate speech

Plain Org - Org app for IOS

Álvaro Ramírez - His blog

The Federalist - Five Ways Non-Citizens With Social Security Numbers Can Scam America

The Federalist - Catholics Thwarting A ‘Black Mass’ Shows You Don’t Just Have To Tolerate Everything

Election Law Blog - Watched Archived Video of SDP Webinar, Combatting False Election Information: Lessons from 2024 and a Look to the Future

Election Law Blog - “Nearly 60 bipartisan election officials express their opposition to the SAVE Act”

Simon Willison - Half Stack Data Science: Programming with AI, with Simon Willison

TechCrunch - WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff

Phil Windley - Long Live RSS

Chris Aldrich - Typed baseball scorecard - neat!

iA - Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish

I-Programmer - Pre-History of Computing

New York Public Library - Timothy Snyder: The New Paganism—A Framework for Understanding Our Politics

Radio Free America Bluesky - Bluesky account for news site

Radio Free America Feed List - Feed list from Dave Winer

Mother Jones - “I’m Not Joking”: Trump Again Floats Running for Anti-Constitutional Third Term - “There are methods which you could do it,” he reportedly told NBC News.

Krebs on Security - How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack

World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts - It offers 1272 articles written, translated and edited by 341 contributors, on puppet techniques, the major puppeteers and the history of puppets in several countries, etc.

Public Notice - John Roberts created a monster. It’s about to eat him. - The Supreme Court faces an existential dilemma of its own creation.

David Wilson/LinkedIn - Book recommendation on 737 MAX tragedy

Emptywheel - Clean on OpSec: Pete Hegseth Spilled Specific Details of an Attack in Advance

The Barbed Wire - HEB grocery stores making inroads in northern Mexico

Simon Willison - Incomplete JSON Pretty Printer

Simon Willison - Comment from Nelson Minar about the first meeting at Google on the Atom syndication standard - really? Is this worth anything?

PDX Eater - Where to find the best breakfasts in Portland

Tracy Durness - Slow craft: writing with a noncapitalist mentality (Part 6) - This is part six of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and finding enough. Each post stands alone, so you don’t have to read them all. Read the introduction on “the mindset of more.”

Bryan Alexander - Joining two anti-Trump events this month

I Programmer - AlexNet Source Code Now Open Source

Harold Jarche - a new understanding of my confusion

Waging Non-Violence - Who has time to think about nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons might be low on the list of concerns for Americans right now, but resisting them has never been more important.

Gothamist - Sandwiches in NYC have become enormous and too big to eat. So I tried some.

Viehumnaiste - Aggressiveness, a MAGA pre-planned technique – Let’s learn again!

C’est la Z - CS For All or All for CS?

Mac Stories - App Store Vibes

Citation Needed - “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI - The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR8Wj5MXaS4

CNN - ‘Use your power’: Hakeem Jeffries at a crossroads as Democrats urgently search for strategy

Time Magazine - What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

CNN - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Democratic Party needs to fight harder while rallying with Bernie Sanders

Beardy Star Stuff - So, you’re a frustrated Apple user looking for alternatives?

Waging Non-Violence - Portland is building a model for migrant solidarity under Trump - As ICE raids ramp up across the country, Portland’s Asylum Seeker Solidarity Collective is building trust and community through mutual aid.

Today I Learned/Simon Willison - Building and deploying a custom site using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages

Simon Willison - Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code

The Guardian - Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise - AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking over

The Bulwark - The Trick To Stopping Trump’s Chaos (with Larry Diamond) - John Avlon’s “How To Fix It” podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqLfXzzPB0g&t=115s

Doc Searls - It’s Over - The Voice of America is silent

Waging Non-Violence - Resistance is alive and well in the United States - Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.

Waging Non-Violence - Resistance to Trump is everywhere — inside the first 50 days of mass protest - From mass refusals to boycotts to walkouts, regular Americans are bravely pushing back against the administration. Their actions are diverse and multiplying — and already having an impact.

Talking Points Memo - Morning Memo - Trump Suffers Series Of Court Setbacks On Dramatic Day

Heads-Up News - Bernie Sanders and AOC to headline five resistance rallies in three days - Will they tell their supporters what to do next?

Rambling Git - What if Trump Tries Censoring US Blogs? Where to go.

Github - JFK Files converted to Markdown