July rambling: Lord of Misrule

Code for the People is a new documentary short about the fight for the open web.

April 13, 2025

Workplace “flexibility” isn’t

As Data Centers Sidestep Tribal Consultations, Tribal Nations Are Fighting Back

A gripping documentary about the most courageous, legendary clean water activist anywhere: Texas’ own ‘Hellcat’ Diane Wilson

The Disappearing Las Vegas Buffets Hold a Mirror to the American Soul

Civil war erupts between Disabled American Veterans and its local chapter over $39k bequest

Hiker trekked 10 miles to safety after immpaling himself on pole

Some of the US aid money which left Afghanistan over the peaks of the Hindu Kush would eventually return to the UK, finding an unlikely safe haven on the streets of London.

The case for year-round Standard Time

The Pan Am Clipper Endeavor Is Found After Over 70 Years

Students at the University of Florida Discovered a 400-Year-Old Intact Pot That Reveals Conflict Among Indigenous, Spanish and English Powers

The Oatmeal: Oracle Scars

Ray

Cheryl Bentyne shines a new light

The Fugitive: The greatest ending to a serialized TV drama

What @ Meant Before Email

The Salt Shaker

“I just enjoy the moment I’m in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It’s like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the faucet.” – Alex Trebek

A Date with Destiny and A Hateful Glass of Wine and Wheel of Fortune… or Divorce? and The Pokémon That Got Banned for Something It Didn’t Do

Internet

The internet can belong to all of us. Code for the People is a new documentary short about the fight for the open web. Who built it, who’s trying to close it, and what you can do about it.

Directed by Bao Nguyen (Be Water, The Greatest Night in Pop, BTS: The Return) and featuring Matt Mullenweg, Linus Torvalds, Jensen Huang, and builders from around the world, the film is now streaming free at codeforthepeople.com.

Why everything seems to be getting worse

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

The government at “work”

What blind Lord of Misrule keeps showing he can’t avoid wrack and ruin, leans hard on dumb Big Lies, and expects different outcomes?

Officials admit to canceling grants to states that did not vote for FOTUS

These Americans say they’d be disenfranchised by SAVE Act

What if he gave an election fraud speech and nobody came?

His version of sex ed: More teen pregnancies, please.

Slashing CDC food safety efforts

HHS Changes Two Vaccine Committee Charters

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come; the worst year since 1991

He Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum

Army scales back legal services for soldiers in disability evaluation process

Regime narrows Endangered Species Act protections by removing habitat destruction rule

Regime Taps Climate Science Critic to Oversee Flagship Report

Republicans Are Trying to Give Big Oil Immunity for Causing Climate Chaos

FOTUS BOMBS at WH DINNER as CROWD GOES SILENT!!!

VS.

The impacts of the 2021 expanded child tax credit on family employment, nutrition, and financial well-being

MUSIC

Fantasy for organ and orchestra by Atsutada Otaka

When You Wish Upon A Star– Voctave

WHCL’s reggae past: Dead At The Controls, circa 1983-1985

Home To Us -Paul McCartney with Ringo Starr

Chinese Satellite – Phoebe Bridgers

Chromatic Symphony “Maria-Magdalena” by Kosaku Yomada

Circling The Sun – Peter Sprague, featuring Allison Adams Tucker

Les Cactus – Jacques Dutronc

Holding Back The Years – Simply Red

Come On – the Rolling Stones

Blue Bayou – Linda Ronstadt

Build Me Up, Buttercup – Cynthia Lin and her All-Ukulele Band

Gloria – The Shadows Of Knight

There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) – Billy Ocean

Invisible Touch – Genesis

Heatwave – Phil Collins 

Author: Roger

I'm a librarian. I hear music, even when it's not being played. I used to work at a comic book store, and it still informs my life. I won once on JEOPARDY! - ditto.

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