Below are posts associated with the “2020 election” tag.

🔗 linkblog: Right After Primary Win, Bolduc Reverses Support for Election Lies - The New York Times'



What a cheap, cynical about-face. The fact that candidates think this is something they can do to drum up voters and then change strategy is worrying.


🔗 linkblog: Kentucky candidates struggle when describing 2020 election | Lexington Herald Leader'



Disappointing but unsurprising.


🔗 linkblog: Josh Hawley Just Gave Us the How It Started/How It’s Going for Jan. 6'



What cynicism to support people you once literally ran away from because you think it’s politically advantageous.


🔗 linkblog: With midterms in sight, few Republicans are defending Trump as they did in 2019 : NPR'



Look, there may be less of a coordinated defense, but ignoring the Jan. 6th hearings is almost as bad as defending Trump from them.


🔗 linkblog: Trump team didn't have the evidence and 4 other takeaways from Jan. 6 hearing : NPR'



‘I just know in my heart’ is terrible and terrifying reasoning for posing this level of a threat to democracy.


🔗 linkblog: Amid Jan. 6 Revelations, Election Lies Still Dominate the G.O.P. - The New York Times'



This is more worrying to me—and more damning for the GOP—than anything that happened on January 6th.


🔗 linkblog: 4 takeaways from the third Jan. 6 hearing : NPR'



Pence deserves credit for the steps he took on January 6th, but I agree that he has responsibilities to do more right now.


🔗 linkblog: The election system shuddered in 2020. Now, there are fears of an attack within : NPR'



Fascinating (if worrying) article on just how important the basic mechanics of an election are.


🔗 linkblog: How Trump’s 2020 Election Lies Have Gripped State Legislatures - The New York Times'



Glad that there hasn’t been much conversation about this in Kentucky, but it’s still really worrying stuff.


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’ - The New York Times'



Some of the scariest news I’ve read this week.


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Companies Donated Millions to Those Who Voted to Overturn Biden's Win - The New York Times'



Not happy about this.


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'A Year Later, Jan. 6 Becomes Just Another Wedge in a Divided Nation - The New York Times'



Worried about our present—and for our future.


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find - The New York Times'



Podcasts are one of the last bastions of the open internet, but that evidently comes at a cost. So long as Apple and Spotify are trying to corner the podcast market, they should be moderating their content.


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Trump says his supporters weren't behind the Jan. 6 attack — but I was there : NPR'



We must not forget that day or let others redefine it.


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Trump's 'Big Lie' endures and poses a threat to U.S. democracy : NPR'



Unhappy reading for the holidays.


🔗 linkblog: just finished 'How Trump and the 2020 race is weighing on Georgia Gov. Kemp in 2022 : NPR'



A sign of scary things to come. I haven’t taught my department’s information literacy class for several semesters; I hope it’s up to the task of combatting this sort of thing.




Despite the underlying problems with the Barabbas story, this seems like a good Friday to remember that we shouldn’t prefer violent insurrectionists over those wrongfully killed by the state.




First time I’ve read this much into Inauguration Day happening around the same time as my birthday.




I do not have any data to back this up, but it sure seems like Francophone news outlets have transitioned over the past two years from translating “impeachment” to just using it as a loanword.




Remembering Governor Andy Beshear’s comments from last May: “You cannot fan the flames and then condemn the fire.” I can think of lots of people who need to hear that this morning.


first thoughts about Capitol riot



I had a friend in Michigan with whom I disagreed on a great deal but who was still an important and supportive mentor for me. On November 9, 2016, we had a very tense conversation where he told me that I would see: The candidate’s bluster might be worrying, but he wouldn’t actually act on any of it. I haven’t talked to him in a few years, but I’m wondering what’s going through his head today.


une Épiphanie de 2021 trùs particuliùre



Pour le 6 janvier, Urban Federer, l’abbĂ© d’Ensiedeln (Suisse), Ă©crit au sujet de « la peur d’ĂȘtre perdant » de HĂ©rode et SaĂŒl, qui a inspirĂ© « une jalousie, laquelle les a poussĂ©s a la haine meurtriĂšre ». C’est un message pour l’Épiphanie pour tous les temps et tous les lieux, mais ça fait bizarre de le lire en particulier aux États-Unis ce 6 janvier 2021.




First line of this morning’s France Inter news broadcast: “A phone call worthy of an American crime novel.”




The Georgia transcript reads like a student calling after I’ve submitted grades but before the registrar’s deadline has passed, arguing that he’s earned a perfect score but is willing to settle for my bumping him up a couple points to get an A.




Every day that goes by in this election cycle just makes me more frustrated that we don’t have ranked-choice voting.