Good to see that people are beginning to write about this. It's been obvious to me this is where election 2024 is headed for months now. The contest at the ballot box can be easily over-ruled in the courts. salon.com/2024/08/05/pla…

Rhyming Hard History A recently released Russian prisoner & a rhyme from 1940 Germany - the persistence of protest dailykos.com/stories/2024/8…

From a study of 1791 proposed policy changes 1981 - 2002 Proposals with 61-80% approval <40% chance of passing up to 90% approval passes >40% of the time even a proposal with 91-100% approval <60% chance of passing Democracy in America? by Benjamin I Page & Martin Gilens (2017)

youtube.com/watch?v=jFUhTm… Tiny Desk Concert with Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding Loved his music since the 1980s: Missa dos Quilombos, Sentinela, Clube da Esquina… Saw his farewell concert in Boston too youtube.com/watch?v=gfTjS0…

Harris/Vance look like they know how to have fun Trmp/Vance don't

Lee Felsenstein from Berkeley's Free Speech Movement to Community Memory & Homebrew Computer Club youtube.com/watch?v=IU7Bfe…

Art Blakey - A Night In Tunisia The drum solos from back in the day were on another level…

Back of the envelope estimate: about 750 million people without electricity in 2023 $14 solar phone charger & light walmart.com/ip/Portable-Ph… $10.5 billion total to end energy poverty globally As a business, this could probably make money too

Net Zero Energy - August 24, 2024 Links to developments in net zero energy buildings, buildings which produce all the energy they consume zeronetenrg.blogspot.com/2024/08/net-ze…

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - September 2024 hubevents.blogspot.com/2024/08/energy… Energy, environment, and climate events, mostly free, with experts from all around the world.

Building resilience & sustainability: how to speed up home efficiency & electrification canarymedia.com/articles/elect… solarizing restaurants as community resilience hubs theguardian.com/environment/ar… We know what to do. Now we just have to do it.

4 of the 5 Presidents who were elected while losing the popular vote were Republicans: Hayes, Harrison, W Bush, Trmp John Quincy Adams was the first but that was before the Republican Party

City Agriculture - September 4, 2024 Links to developments in urban and advanced agriculture all around the world cityag.blogspot.com/2024/09/city-a… Also a listserv

OK. That's it. If Dick Cheney is supporting Harris/Walz, I no longer can't./snark

Last time I saw James Earle Jones on stage, "Night of the Iguana" youtube.com/watch?v=1VtNUY…

It's sports not politics and certainly not a "debate" about policy by any stretch of the imagination. It's the Blues and the Greens, the chariot racing teams, used as proxies for political factions in Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire.

Who remembers China's retaliatory tariffs in response to Trmp's & $12 Billion in necessary aid to USAmerican farmers last time? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_adm… Funny how that’s fallen down the memory hole.