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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This thread brought to you by someone who researches and teaches election stuff at a still-somewhat-reputable school.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Finally, the federal government has no role in actually running US elections. States do that (usually via counties). So there is no one subject to this order in a position to follow it.

There are plenty of things to worry about with Trump. The legitimate power of the presidency is already vast, and he constantly pushes at its edges to abuse the office further still. But this “order” is just empty blather on his part, not something that he has any ability to actually implement or require.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

It's also worth noting that the measures he calls for - voter ID, no vote-by-mail, etc - are nothing new. He and others have long advocated for them, and some states already implement versions of them. So everything in this "order", which has all the legal force of a "suggestion", is also old news.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Also, “Executive Orders” are not laws. They’re orders to the executive branch of the federal government. If you don’t work for the executive branch of the federal government (say, for example, you’re a state election official), presidential executive orders don’t apply to you.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Now, Congress might well be able to legislate some or all of the things in Trump’s putative elections order. And the current Congress has been generally compliant with Trump’s legislative wishes, so it’s not out of the question that they might advance a bill with provisions along these lines, or that some state legislatures might do the same. But no executive order can require them to do so. It’s meaningless.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

And this is not some borderline edge case. It’s addressed directly in Article I of the Constitution. See https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript for this and other fun facts about how our government is organized.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Just for the record, Trump can’t do this. The Constitution is very clear that the “times, places, and manner“ of elections for federal office are determined by individual states (though can be altered by Congress).

The president simply has no role in US elections (except to sign into law or veto whatever election-related bills that congress might pass).

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I've lost all confidence in the news, with only a few exceptions.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/01/theyre-talking-about-me-2/

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Dear fediverse,

I just had a video call over Signal with @joynewacc from Gaza.

Farah, or Joy, as she prefers to be called, is a 22-year-old Palestinian author and poet studying English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has been bombed by Israel.

She lives with her mother and four siblings in a shelter, trying to survive the genocide being committed by Israel.

Please help her and her family afford food during the famine that Gaza is experiencing. Please donate if you can and/or share this so that it might reach others who might be able to:

https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy

Joy used to have an account on BlueSky but they closed it. Please give her a warm welcome to the fediverse and let her know she is welcome here.

If you’d like to read her writings, you can find them at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XMS1kW6EYGnb%5FDF2P4BbRDDMClX9Sahx

#fediverse #Gaza #Palestine #solidarity #FreePalestine

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a delightful piece

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/01/teenage-clicks-stephen-shore-new-york-early-works

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

an ugly recital of rhetoric vs reality

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/01/labor-day-workers-trump

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TZAG, good people of Earth and beyond. Perhaps I can interest you in some Open Reel Ensemble?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaG5tVnpkwc

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I peeked outside this morning. Monarch populations are booming right now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/01/we-got-your-monarchs-right-here/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

People: are you okay?
Me: yeah ...

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
thisismissem@hachyderm.io ("Emelia 👸🏻") wrote:

Wow, I'm apparently doing 7 figures on Ko-fi (a platform I've discontinued using)

(I still have a fewer people supporting my work that way)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

@ivory "Search timeline" is very easy to open but limited, while the full-site search is buried much deeper.

Have you considered connecting these two UIs? e.g. suggest expanding to the big search if nothing is found in the timeline.

Or at least recognize any post URL pasted into the timeline search box to open the post, since that's a weird mastodon thing that shouldn't be so cumbersome.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
hyde@lazybear.social ("Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian:") wrote:

Today is officially the first day for the #Vim Carnival

September's topic is 'How do you use Vim?'

It's not specific to Vim, if you are interested, you can also write about #Neovim or #vi 😉

#blogging #blog #FLOSS #editors #terminals #carnivals #indieweb

#100DaysToOffload : 88/100

https://lazybea.rs/vim-carnival-sept-2025

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
thejuicemedia wrote:

The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYjooTz%5F1lA

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
rail@flufftech.net ("rail 🦊") wrote:

Longitude and Shortitude

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Deep dependency on a technology + lack of agency + disagreement with leadership creates anger.
Great observation by @andrewrk

This explains so well why after being a macOS developer for 20 years, I can't stand Apple right now.

https://andrewkelley.me/post/open-letter-everyone-butted-heads.html

Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Crazy how the guy who owns Home Depot is cool with ICE kidnapping working dads out of the parking lot on the regular, but is being a whiny little twit about tariffs. Guess he shoulda supported the pro-business nazi instead of the insane failed businessman nazi.

Anyway, fuck Home Depot.

Boosted by jwz:
becha@v.st ("Vesna Manojlović") wrote:

HOW TO BE A GARDENER:
- GET A [bachelor] IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
- BURN OUT
- BECOME A GARDENER

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Just ran into a basic flaw in the commonmark spec/parser.

https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/issues/807

Going to try and work around it in Kitten as I’m using Markdown-it, which implements the commonmark spec, and exhibits the same behaviour.

(This is going to delay the next release as I’m considering it a blocker.)

#Markdown #commonMark #parsing #bug

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

Excited to announce https://writes.casa/

This is an anonymous, minimalist writing platform!

With:

• weekly themes to inspire short texts of 300–1,000 characters.
• Daily reveals of the previous day's writings that create collective literary moments at 6 UTC.
• No account creation required, just optional signatures.
• multilingual content (EN/FR subdomains, with more to come soon).
• RSS feeds for slow reading
• SmolWeb compatible!!!

#SmolWeb #Writing #Fediverse #Literature #Anonymous #Privacy

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Playing some Divinity on Twitch with Drew
https://twitch.tv/ChrisWere

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

A thing that makes this difficult to discuss is that many people (across the political spectrum) demand simple narratives about Trump. “He’s our savior!” “He’s an all-powerful monster who can’t be stopped by the rule of law!” Or whatever.

Explanations that don’t fully fit a clean narrative, including much to do with elections, are upsetting.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@owa Not for nothing, but Apple have also starved Mozilla of the revenue it needed, while siphoning off profits each of the last five years that would have funded Firefox for a decade. Obscene doesn't begin to cover it:

https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-browser-engine-choice/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The area under these lines is a measurement of lost potential because Apple prevents real browser choice on iOS. An integral of fail; a decade of suck.

Join @owa to keep it from continuing:

https://webstatus.dev/stats?startDate=2015-01-01&endDate=2025-09-01

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
argyleink@front-end.social ("Adam Argyle") wrote:

gradient.style has finally
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source

🎉 https://nerdy.dev/gradient.style-is-out-of-beta

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
crispycat@calitabby.net ("crispycat :enbytroll:") wrote:

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