Can’t we do better than building open source versions of the social media silos that rose in the 2010s?
[The] core driver and cause of the low standing of the Democratic Party right now is not wokeness or immigration or Joe Biden’s age but the fact that Democrats are simply not effective at advancing the policies they claim to support or protecting the constituencies they claim to defend. Put simply, they are some mix of unable and unwilling to wield power to achieve specific ends.
And:
…if your goal is to show that you can address the needs and fears of ordinary citizens, the best way to do that is to try to address those needs and fears, and do so as they exist in this moment.
— Democrats’ Hamlet Moment Isn’t the Start of a Solution But the Heart of the Problem (Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo)
I am learning, not for the first time, that the Aeropress is a forgiving way to make coffee, coffee is forgiving of different ways to make it, and you can make yourself insane trying to follow all the various Aeropress recipes you find on the internet.
Sick and Unhoused, the System Failed Him at Every Turn. Then, He Was Shot by Police. (Voice of San Diego)
Trump spread a bizarre conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced by a robot clone. (Rolling Stone) — Trump is mentally incompetent.
A Christian asks Carl Sagan about God YouTube
Riot gear, smoke grenades, flash bangs, and mass arrests are dangerous and unnecessarily escalatory. Bystanders and families easily could have gotten hurt.
This is unacceptable.
— Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (@sarajacobs.house.gov) May 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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For Aeropress coffee nerds
My coffee, which I make in an Aeropress XL, hasn’t been great lately, so I experimented with hotter water this morning.
We have a third tap on our kitchen sink, an instant hot water tap suitable for making hot beverages. However, it does not dispense boiling water, which is not up to code. I wondered whether that was the problem — whether the water was simply not hot enough. So I tried boiling water in a kettle instead.
According to the Internet, you should not use boiling water with the Aeropress. Instead, you use water at 195 degrees Fahrenheit. We don’t have a kettle with a thermostat, so I asked ChatGPT how long I should let water sit off the boil to get to the proper temperature. ChatGPT said two to three minutes. This is within the range of answers I find when I Google the question, so I tried it this morning.
I think that improves the flavor. The coffee is hotter, which is better.
ICE threw flash-bang grenades at a crowd and handcuffed a manager in a raid on a popular San Diego restaurant late Friday afternoon. Appalling. Times of San Diego
Annie Andrews is running against Lindsey Graham. Her campaign video here is outstanding. A case study in how Democrats should communicate. YouTube