Here are screenshots from the closing bit of Seth Meyer’s recent A Closer Look segment on his late night show:
And because it’s worth watching, here’s the whole thing:
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It would be even more funny and frightening is the transformation was going the other way.
(By the way, here’s the article.)
Since 1981, the American conservative think tank known as the Heritage Foundation — imagine decade-old mayonnaise in human form — have released a publication under their series of books called Mandate for Leadership, a right-wing “wish list” of things they’d like the U.S. federal government to do.
The latest edition, commonly known as Project 2025, is over 900 pages long, which is large enough to obfuscate its intent and dissuade the casual reader from diving in.
To counter this, a group of comics artists have pooled their talent to create the Stop Project 2025 Comic, which clearly and succinctly explains some key (and terrible) ideas in Project 2025:
- Abortion
- Anti-trans discrimination
- Authoritarianism
- Children
- Christian nationalism
- Climate
- Cronyism
- Education
- EPA (Environment Protection Agency)
- Executive Orders
- Extreme Weather
- Healthcare
- Immigration
- Internet freedom
- Libraries
- Militarism
- Police Abuse
- School lunches
- Taxation
- Teachers
- Voting Matters
- War on the Working Class
It’s a great way to learn about the details about Project 2025, and contains citations so that you can look it up in that odious manual, too. Check it out!
In my dream last night, I heard a song I haven’t listened to in ages: The Dead Next Door, a little-played song from Billy Idol’s biggest album, Rebel Yell. It’s one of my favorite Billy Idol tunes, and I always thought it was an unexpected, underappreciated gem.
It’s been stuck in my head all day, and if you dare play it, it might get stuck in yours too.
I disagree with hustle huckster Gary Vaynerchuk on a whole lot of things, but I do agree with him on the topic of comfort zones.
Marc Canter (founder of MacroMind, which became Macromedia, which made Macromedia Director, the dev tool I used at my very first tech job), makes an excellent observation about Donald Trump’s McCosplay photo op: It’s got the same energy as 1988 presidential candidate Mike Dukakis’ cringey tank ride.
As Murphy’s Law would have it, moments after posting yesterday that I hadn’t yet put away our generator just in case the repairs to our neighborhood power didn’t stick…
…the power went out.
Shortly after that, our poor FedEx guy dropped off this heavy beast at our front door. I would have helped him, but I was in our back yard starting up the generator:
Just about every “battery generator” (a strange misnomer) went on sale during the period between Hurricanes Helene and Milton. EcoFlow seems to be the current favorite with both Wirecutter and a lot of its users, and they had a good package deal, so I ordered one. Alas, it arraived after Milton.
This is the Delta Pro, which stores 3600 watt-hours of energy, charges off a wall outlet, car “cigarette lighter” outlet, or solar panels. The package deal includes a 400 watt solar panel and a smaller power station, the River, whose job will be to power a CPAP and bedroom fan during power outages.
I’m charging the beast as I write this. More reports later, especially if I end up needing to use it!