| Early October link roundup | |
| Leaves, and societies, tumble down | |
| “He is a lazy and capricious emperor…” | |
| September sure comes at you fast | |
| “Some kind of vomitous slime mold…” | |
| Early September pile of links | |
| Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet? | |
| Triangulating | |
| Rituals of Childhood | |
| Late August tumblin’ | |
| 21 August link roundup | |
| 14 August link roundup | |
| Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention | |
| 7 August link roundup | |
| Kurzblog | |
| “If your enemies are hungry…” | |
| I’ll Tumble 4 Ya | |
| Salvo et secure | |
| Jenniffer González Colón, quisling | |
| Mid-July link dump, ça ira, ça ira, ça ira edition | |
| Chilling effect | |
| “Not dysfunction, but coalitional insurgency.” | |
| (Excerpts from) The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America | |
| “We Don’t Answer To Courts”: Trump Admin Refuses Compliance With Trans Passport Court Order | |
| Summer solstice tumblin’ | |
| Diversity of tactics | |
| Dead kids | |
| Federal Judge Grants Class Status To Trans People In Passport Case In Massive Win | |
| 'ang'eghQo' quv Hutlhbogh jagh neH ghobtaHvIS ghaH | |
| Níl ríthe anseo | |
| I drink my horchata warm because fuck ICE: a mid-June link roundup | |
| Posse comitatus | |
| Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and links; egg bacon and links; egg bacon sausage and links; links bacon sausage and links; links egg links links bacon and links… | |
| May 30th link roundup | |
| Boost (Mastodon):
“14,000 babies are about to die of starvation in Gaza, with food sent by the world sitting on the other side of a wall, and once again the British establishment is focused on us,” the group said in a statement on X on Thursday. “This is a carnival of distraction. We are not the story, genocide is.” #news #politics #Gaza #UK
Northern Irish trio say charge against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh is intended to stifle criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza Kneecap say terrorism charge is ‘political policing’ by Rory Carroll
— Steve Faulkner (@SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social) | |
| The worst timeline | |
| Joint Statement on Palestine | |
| Tumble (n): to suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat | |
| Get your hot, fresh links right here | |
| Ernst Fraenkel’s dual state model of authoritarian governance | |
| Is leatrom institiúideach trasfóbaigh é | |
| The roller coaster continues: a link roundup | |
| We are living through a moral panic about trans people | |
| Illegally Female | |
| Mid-month link roundup | |
| un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » | |
| “He’s a pathetic man-child.” | |
| Tumbling in anticipation and dismay | |
| Gavin Newsom, quisling | |
| On Trans Citizenship | |
| Link roundup, “Unceasing Stream of Shit Being Done to Trans People By Assholes” Edition | |
| Traveling while trans | |
| « Mais on va en fait ailleurs… » | |
| On the menu | |
| Link roundup, mid-February edition | |
| Liceat unicuique decetero exire de regno nostro, et redire, salvo et secure[.] | |
| Some goddamn nerve | |
| With its capitulation, the NCAA is embracing [Trump’s] cruelty | |
| Erased by executive order | |
| Taking a tumble right off the cliff | |
| “The systematic erasure of transgender people…” | |
| “A coup is underway…” | |
| Donald Trump’s Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People | |
| States Don’t Have a Right to Exist. People Do. | |
| The Chilling Line Trump Just Crossed On Transgender People | |
| Link dump, “where do I even start” edition | |
| Link roundup, Little Christmas edition | |
| Link dump, winter solstice edition | |
| Thanksgiving | |
| RT @SarahEMcBride: Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectf… | |
| Transgender Day of Remembrance 2024 | |
| Link roundup, “mix of optimism & pessimism” edition | |
| Transmissions: Dora Richter lived | |
| “Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.” | |
| The Counterculture Switch: creating in a hostile environment | |
| Black is the color | |
| The work | |
| “A monument to your work” | |
| Texas Teen Suffering Miscarriage Dies Days After Baby Shower Due to Abortion Ban as Mom Begs Doctors to “Do Something” | |
| Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism? | |
| Yet again, we note… | |
| Ireland and the Middle East | |
| whoop-de-doo | |
| mid-September tumbling | |
| Link roundup, end of summer 2024 edition | |
| DS9’s Bell Riots | |
| The Tumblelog Strikes Back | |
| Prick a libertarian and a fascist bleeds | |
| “And from his being at all times liable to prosecution in the common course of law” | |
| Convince them otherwise | |
| Link roundup, はなみ (hanami) edition | |
| March Madness | |
| Late February roundup | |
| Tumbleweeds | |
| Mid-month roundup | |
| Miscellany from the first week of November | |
| RT @Scott_Wiener: The level of right wing misinformation about this bill was astounding. All the bill did was ensure that in custody disput… | |
| RT @Scott_Wiener: This veto is a tragedy for trans kids here & around the country. These kids are living in fear, with right wing politicia… | |
| The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries ❧ Current Affairs (r/politics) | |
| No plan, except to beg | |
| RT @MaryEmilyOHara: From @POTUS: "Affirming a transgender child’s identity is one of the best things a parent, teacher, or doctor can do t… | |
| RT @MaryEmilyOHara: BREAKING: President Biden @POTUS has issued a statement condemning Texas for targeting transgender kids and their famil… | |
| Sup @D4GordonMar, Mayor @LondonBreed, I’m very disappointed you’ve decided to ruin the #GreatWalkway 5 days a week. I don’t see how you can square this with the progressive values you espouse. @walksf @KidSafeSF @sfbike | |
| RT @walksf: Thank you Supervisor @MattHaneySF & Mayor @LondonBreed for your leadership. Yesterday was so disappointing & we're hoping there… | |
| RT @LondonBreed: Visit https://t.co/KPyvOePvrY to sign up to get notified by text or email when you're eligible for a vaccination in San Fr… | |
| RT @eqca: .@SCOTUS made the right decision today. LGBTQ+ parents should continue to be recognized on their children's birth certificates.… | |
| RT @JoeBiden: To transgender and gender-nonconforming people across America and around the world: from the moment I am sworn in as presiden… | |
| RT @JoeBiden: At least 37 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed this year, most of them Black and Brown transgender… | |
| I hope SF does the same! @LondonBreed @RafaelMandelman https://t.co/wfeDMsMeGn | |
| RT @hober: @LondonBreed @RafaelMandelman please make Shared Streets and all the new parklets permanent! They’re wonderful quality of life i… | |
| @LondonBreed @RafaelMandelman please make Shared Streets and all the new parklets permanent! They’re wonderful quality of life improvements regardless of the pandemic. | |
| RT @LondonBreed: We don't have months to get this under control, we barely have weeks.
We can get this under control if everyone wears mas… | |
| RT @LondonBreed: On April 11th we had 94 people hospitalized with COVID-19. By mid-June we were down to as low as 26 people.
We’re now ba… | |
| RT @SCOTUSblog: And the ruling in Little Sisters of the Poor could mean that between 70,000 and 126,000 women will lose access to free cove… | |
| RT @SCOTUSblog: Today's pair of decisions on religious employers will have broad consequences for workers. According to some estimates, the… | |
| RT @SCOTUSblog: #SCOTUS rules that federal employment discrimination laws protect LGBT employees | |
| RT @LondonBreed: We're making free COVID-19 testing available for everyone who is going in to work, regardless of whether they have symptom… | |
| @cmclymer @HRC @Lavernecox @janetmock @SarahEMcBride ❤️ | |
| Not many, unfortunately. HRC’s loosening of the State Department’s rules around updating the gender marker on your passport in IIRC 2010 comes to mind.
(P.S. Hey, Will! It’s been a while.) (r/neoliberal) | |
| RT @emilymaxima: If anything, @POTUS has just shaken readiness for the DoD and cast chaos among the ranks of ppl who actually do the work. | |
| Universal Healthcare Access is Coming. Stop Fighting It and Start Figuring Out How to Make It Work (r/politics) | |
| district plans by the hundredweight (r/politics) | |
| RT @RidT: Presidential infosec, post-DNC hack
—@POTUS uses private email
—"old, unsecured" Android phone
—@POTUS has no 2FA
—Spicer tweets… | |
| RT @evan_greer: Reminder: Truimp's incoming National Security team have called for Chelsea Manning's execution. @POTUS time is running out!… | |
| Your Silence Is Deafening: An Open Letter To the Target Boycotters (r/politics) | |
| Silicon Valley through a PRISM (r/politics) | |
| Shame on You, Voter! A Case for Not Voting (r/politics) | |
| The forces of change on the US legislature (r/politics) | |
| Sins of Omission: What's Wrong With Gruber's Health Care Reform by Bryan Caplan (r/politics) | |
| The bogus numbers behind SOPA: "If only because I’m offended to see bad data invoked so routinely and brazenly, on general principle, it’s important to try to set the record straight." (r/politics) | |
| Taxi Fares and Big Government (r/politics) | |
| "To the extent that most of what you learn in school is useless (and, believe me, most of what you learn in school is useless), any test that makes sure you actually learned it is going to be testing information that you don’t actually need. Blaming the test for that hardly seems fair." (r/politics) | |
| Illinois Supreme Court Deems Rahm Emanuel Sleazy Enough To Run For Mayor Of Chicago (r/politics) | |
| Text of President Obama's Tucson Memorial Speech (r/politics) | |
| Yglesias' Against Utopia: "The underlying issue is that if you’re committed to any form of reasonably liberal politics, which almost everyone in America is, then you’re committed to a world of endless ideological disagreement and interest-group pluralism." (r/politics) | |
| Let's drop some science onto this TSA controversey: some notes on x-ray backscatter imaging from a radiation transport physicist intimately familiar with the processes by which x-rays deposit energy in tissue. (r/politics) | |
| Backscatter | |
| MPs told: Drink up, the Pope's coming (r/britpolitics) | |
| Private Manning and WikiLeaks have[…] created the possibility that millions of Americans will now come face to face with the same ugly truths that led Manning to conclude that he had obligations to humanity weightier than an oath to the state. (r/politics) | |
| Effective immediately Maryland recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Could it be, the Full Faith & Credit clause *means something*?!?! (r/politics) | |
| It's nonsense to say the U.S. is ungovernable (r/politics) | |
| Morality and Nationalism | |
|
Citizens United v. Federal Election
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| U.S. Shifted Party, Not Ideology (r/politics) | |
| Both Bush and Obama saw opportunity lurking behind every crisis. That's why we're in so many quagmires today. Let the next crisis go to waste! (r/politics) | |
| "The names of Asquith, Bethmann-Hollweg, Berchtold and Poincare are barely remembered, yet on any reasonable accounting they belong among the great criminals of history." (r/politics) | |
| Expand the House? (r/politics) | |
| The complexity of tax preparation | |
| Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to the 110th Congress (r/politics) | |
| Epistemological modesty: "I fear that we have a group of people who haven’t even learned to use their new phone system trying to redesign half the U.S. economy." (r/politics) | |
| What is your top priority President Obama needs to address tonight in his speech to Congress? (Flickr) | |
| Calvin Coolidge exemplifies the leadership that is lacking in Washington today. (r/politics) | |
| We need cynics (r/politics) | |
| President Ford was right, even though it cost him re-election. Obama would be smart to follow his lead. (r/politics) | |
| Nick Gillespie hits the nail on the head, repeatedly and with great force: http://reason.com/news/show/130522.html #jeremiad #politics #econ | |
| Obama: Continuity We Can Believe In (r/politics) | |
| "In the wake of their party's devastating losses in the last election, a delegation of Republican leaders has come to Capitol Hill requesting a rescue package of $25 billion." (r/politics) | |
| SF City Attorney to file legal challenge to Prop 8 (r/politics) | |
| How to Watch the Election and Know What's Going On (r/politics) | |
| Who's that man with the stache who moved on to the judicial branch? (Taft!) Can ya dig it? (r/politics) | |
| "Everybody has an incontestable and absolute right to his or her vote, but that doesn't mean it's always right to vote. Abstaining can be a way of looking after the public good, too." (r/politics) | |
| Public Choice | |
| Connecticut Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage! (r/politics) | |
| Obama-Os & Cap'n McCain's: Hope in every bowl! A maverick in every bite! (r/politics) | |
| Vicious nonsense | |
| The late, great David Foster Wallace on John McCain during the 2000 campaign (r/politics) | |
| Harvard stupid | |
| Easily the funniest Veep Debate Liveblog (r/politics) | |
| The perplexing banality of "libertarian paternalism" (r/politics) | |
| Bottoms Up! Don't lower the drinking age to 18--get rid of it. (r/politics) | |
| Time to Declare the original al-Qaeda Defeated (r/politics) | |
| What's really wrong with Congress (r/politics) | |
| Swing Vote | |
| No Secret Software | |
| Self-Swiftboating (Lessig on Obama) (r/politics) | |
| U.S. Religious Landscape Survey -- Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (r/politics) | |
| Disconnect | |
| Senate privatizes their restaurant, 20 years after House (r/politics) | |
| Moral high ground | |
| Politweets - When Twitter gets political (r/politics) | |
|
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| Liberalism, nationalism, and the immigration debate | |
| Hmm. I only counted three reasons not to vote for Ron Paul, and seven reasons to vote *for* him. (r/politics) | |
| Debunking The Health Cost Myth (r/politics) | |
| Neoconservatism | |
| Hamline University Student Suspended After Advocating Concealed Carry for Students (r/politics) | |
| I am not afraid to say the West’s values are better (r/politics) | |
| Red shirt for Burma | |
| Cut medicine in half | |
|
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
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| Immigration and institutions | |
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The Eventful Politics Project
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| The Eventful Politics Project (Flickr) | |
| Price discrimination | |
| Recess appointments | |
| Schilling for Senate | |
| suggested reading | |
| Barnett’s Legitimacy | |
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Election 2006: Rationality, Voting, and Political Change
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| Free to do | |
| Comparative inequality | |
| The real political spectrum | |
| "Quality Education - Not Politics" (Flickr) | |
| Happy Patriot’s Day | |
| Scituate protects its property rights | |
| Happiness and income | |
| Microlending for startups | |
| Fat, drunk, and… black? | |
| links for 2006-01-31 | |
| French nuclear declaration | |
| Google censorship | |
| Kelo backlash: Scituate | |
| Favorable view | |
| Rights: the Good News, the Bad News, and How to Win Big | |
| My March Meme Migrations | |
| Crypto | |