Ben Crowder — #politics posts https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/politics/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #politics. Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:19:39 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Some not quite weeknotes https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-not-quite-weeknotes/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-not-quite-weeknotes/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT
  • America is back! I know there’s a lot of work ahead, but my goodness, what a wonderful surprise. Delighted and relieved and hopeful.
  • A boring but thankfully short update on tools: since I posted about retiring Liszt (and that retirement is now official, by the way; using plain text notes in Codex for to-do lists has been working well), I’ve also retired Storybook (I use my Codex app instead) and Momentum (replaced by the built-in stopwatch app and a step counter app). To simplify things further, the plan is to rewrite Codex in Go with a plain text store instead of SQLite, though I haven’t made much progress yet.
  • After that last update, I did finish the New Testament Doctrinal Mastery art set…and haven’t made any new art since then. Unclear if this is yet another temporary hiatus or the final end of my art phase.
  • I’m finally reading Les Misérables and it’s so, so good.

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  • Lea Verou on web components — seems reasonable
  • In Abeyance — fascinating newsletter about the built world
  • Interpolating stop motion up to 60fps via AI — great that it can do this, but I think maybe it loses something essential about stop motion too?
  • Jason Kottke on getting rid of euphemisms about slavery — amen

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    ]]>         From the Saturday issue of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American newsletter: People are... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/746/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/746/ Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT From the Saturday issue of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American newsletter:

    People are saying this is the end for American democracy, but I see the opposite. Radical ideologues who want the government to do nothing but protect property, build a strong military, and advance Christianity took over the Republican Party in the 1990s. They have been manipulating our political system to their own ends ever since. They want to destroy the government regulation of business and social safety net we have enjoyed since the 1930s. But they have done so gradually, and not enough people seem to have noticed, even when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took the shocking step of refusing to permit a hearing for a Supreme Court nominee named by a Democrat. Now they have gone too far, out in the open, and it looks to me as if Americans are finally seeing the radicals currently in charge of the Republican Party for what they are, and are determined to take America back.

    I sure hope she’s right.

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