Opinion | The Best, Worst and Weirdest Political Stories of 2024

​My year-end awards in politics for hottest king maker, biggest flash in the pan, top mean girl, most disappointing draft pick and more.

The New York Times

🟣 Design for Real Life

by Eric A. Meyer @meyerweb.bsky.social @Meyerweb and Sara Wachter-Boettcher @sara_ann_marie

You can't know every user, but you can develop #inclusive practices that support a wider range of people.

#ReadForFree #design

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Design for Real Life

Finally posted again on #Medium after close to a year!

It's the first entry in my new experimental #blog publication (hence the self-referential chapter title).

I think I'm going to enjoy this new digital writing space!

#ReadForFree with this friend link:

https://medium.com/a-bookish-blog/chapter-1-in-which-e-talks-of-september-sunlight-and-secret-plans-7ae3edda4a15?sk=804c35c2d59e1ee93e26e10203561a67

#Blogging #Writing #Whimsical #Vignette #Publishing #Personal #Life #Creativity

The featured #painting is “Paisaje” by Henri Lebasque, 1915. So lovely!

Chapter 1: In which E. talks of September sunlight and secret plans

When I first saw this painting, it immediately brought to my mind the way that the light changes in September. When sunbeams go slantwise, the shadows grow long, and there awakens a curious feeling…

A Bookish Blog

Would it be too much to ask that only climate change deniers die of heat stroke? Or have they already died from Covid. #ClimateChange #Climate #ReadForFree

https://wapo.st/4c1q1b7

Eastern U.S. braces for extreme, long-lasting heat wave: How hot it will get

The Ohio Valley, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic will be particularly hard hit. Heat indexes over 100 will stretch from the Gulf Coast to Canada.

The Washington Post

“''The crackdown on women,' Dias and Graham reported, 'is, on its face, about biblical interpretation.'"

And who do you think wrote the Bible? I can guarantee it wasn't women. #religion #ReadforFree

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/opinion/genz-women-organized-religion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE0.zsrP.tAkvGA48oOfv&smid=url-share

Opinion | Young Women Predictably Flee Organized Religion

They’re increasingly identifying as feminist at the same time that some denominations are drawing conservative lines in the sand.

The New York Times

"Those last Trump positions — the restoration of white power, the rejection of a Palestinian homeland, the willingness to mobilize troops against peaceful demonstrators — show how deeply misguided those on the far left are as they protest Biden’s policies on Gaza. Their frustration with the president’s support for Israel is understandable. But in making Biden the enemy, including with chants of 'Genocide Joe,' the plans to trash the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the proliferation of vows of the 'uncommitted' never to vote for Biden, they are in effect working to elect Trump. This isn’t principled protest; it’s nihilism." #Trump #Gaza #Protests #ReadForFree

https://wapo.st/3Uin8e8

To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest

You must have been doing for the past eight years what Trump has been doing in court the past three weeks: napping.

The Washington Post

@TAI @tristansnell

From this article, it sounds to me as though some in the DOJ wanted to follow standard investigative protocols as used in cases against organized crime--from the bottom up to try to find links to Trump and his inner circle, links that some felt were missing---while others DID want to start investigating from the top down. Some felt Investigations were also hindered by the fact that it took a while for key players in the DOJ to be confirmed after Biden became president. The DOJ sounds like a big machine, with lots of moving parts, not all of whom worked well together.

It's too early in the morning for me to do a thorough summary of all the ins and outs given in the Washington Post report. Let's just say " the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine," whether we like it or not. #ReadForFree

https://wapo.st/3TFnjkI

FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year

In the DOJ’s investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump’s orbit.

The Washington Post

The U.S. was never intended to be an authoritarian theocracy. Attempts to legislate and impose evangelical "Christian" beliefs as national policy are unconstitutional. #GOP #GOPHypocrisy #1stAmendment #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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https://wapo.st/49QD915

Alabama judge says God opposes IVF. Religions hold varied views.

Some organized faiths support in vitro fertilization, while others oppose it.

The Washington Post