"Obama's signature quality was youth, and Biden's is age. Frankly, I'm less than a year younger than Joe Biden, so I believe utterly in his competence, his brilliance, his worldview. I really do. You have to live to be 80 to find this out: Anybody under 50 feels they're in a position to condescend to you. You get boxed into this position where people who deal with you are making assumptions about your intellect. It's very disturbing." (1/2) 🧵
"Most people my age are just fine. What can I say? It's a kind of good fortune that America is categorically incapable of accepting: that someone with a strong institutional memory, who knows how things are supposed to work, who was habituated to their appropriate functioning is president. I consider him a gift of God. All 81 years of him."
-- Marilynne Robinson https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/18/magazine/marilynne-robinson-interview.html (2/2) 🧵
Fuck Kevin McCarthy and every other Republican trying to make up imaginary wrong-doing by Biden to distract people from Trump's repeated very real and obvious criminal behavior. They care more about their power than the country, and history will not look kindly on them. #TrumpTreason#TrumpIndictment#MAGAshitheads
"But supply-side economics never produced the results its supporters promised. What it did do was move money out of the hands of ordinary Americans into the hands of the very wealthy. Economists estimate that between 1981 and 2021, more than $50 trillion dollars moved from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%."
Where are all the student protesters trying to pressure our government to stop the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Myanmar? Or in a dozen other places around the world?
It is richly ironic that the DOJ published a new rule the Federal Register requiring that state and local governments comply with WCAG 2.1 Level AA as an inaccessible PDF file (non-linearized.)
It’s possible that the only thing that will end Donald Trump’s appeal to his supporters, who see him as a strong man, is for a 13 year old girl to walk up and punch him in the face. He’d crumble like a bag of stale cookies.
“In the bathroom, I splashed cold water on my face and took some deep breaths. I didn't feel like I was going to throw up, but I also didn't not feel like I was going to throw up. I figured "mind over matter," and tried to will myself to feel better. I prayed that the next course would be somewhat more palatable, maybe a PB&J or a matzoh ball soup.
Tony Gonzales (R-TX) went further, telling Dana Bash of CNN on Sunday: "It's my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz [R-FL], he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good [R-VA] endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they're walking around with white hoods in the daytime."
The web would be very different (and much better) if all sites were simple, unstyled, semantically structured HTML, without any styling and only enhancements requested by the visitors affected the design. I say this as a graphic designer with 40+ years of experience.