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Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
A recent change to how the U.S. Postal Service says it postmarks letters could discount the ballots of thousands of last-minute voters.
Many Americans have long assumed that tax returns, ballots and other mailed documents sent on deadline would be marked as sent the day they are dropped in a mailbox.
But the Postal Service announced Dec. 24 that it was making no such guarantees about postmarks. <…
I've got a bold plan to emphasize some text by making the letters thicker and darker
Pope Leo Confronts Trump: Don't Invade Venezuela -- and No "Solo Deal" in Ukraine (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-confronts-trump-dont-invade
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p172#a251202p172
Never forgot how completely fucking cartoonish the entire Adams administration was.
And that our current NY City Council just stood by and watched the whole thing without doing much more than sternly-worded letters.
And Governor Hochul, when given the opportunity, decided *not* to remove Adams from office.
Shuffalo, 7m 11s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/02/03
Looks like “ANNIE” is a TERF.
https://mastodon.social/@Thayer/116002682012736788
Per @…’s prompt, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList is #TheLastFive songs I’ve listened to:
5. Cat Power, “New York”—
FYI: If your #Mastodon #domainverification doesn't work, check if you do have upper case letters in your URL as this won't work as of this #bug report from 2022:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bobby Krlic & Bobby Krlic:
🎵 Anemone "The Letters"
#BobbyKrlic
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KjJMeQdxB26OkRissDS73
If you think you are starting 2026 with a disadvantage in life, just be thankful you aren’t setting out with this embarrassingly stupid tattoo.
#MemeChatGPT #MemesFor2026 #StupidTattoo
"A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods"
https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000791/000791.html
#Wordle 1,628 5/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ <1% of 231,265 (229)
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 2% of 272 (21)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 27% of 11 (3)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 47% of 3,242 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 64% of 3,956
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 45/99
I'm ok w/ this result, particularly since I'd rather have eliminated those 2 letters on my first guess rather than have to use them going forward. I only occasionally use them together in my starting word.
@axbom@axbom.meDonald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…
From Sat 24 Jan: Love Letters exhibition reveals the lengths we go for love https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/from-sat-24-jan-love-letters-exhibition-reveals-the-lengths-we-go-for-love/
December 3, 2025 -- Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday's special election ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-3-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p50#a251204p50
Crafting a robust #Strategy for an online business is like assembling a complex puzzle. My analytical side thrives in this, unraveling intricate issues until clarity emerges. Efficiency and Strategy — deserving of capital letters — are often undervalued! 🧩✨ Let's celebrate the power of a well-planned approach and its incredible potential.
Save important peat moss in Greater Manchester.
Trafford Council is applying for planning permission for the Carrington Relief Road, and we have until 27 February to object.
The Carrington Relief Road will cause harm to Carrington Moss, a 335 hectare peat moss, which Natural England considers to be an irreplaceable habitat. It will also damage or totally destroy 40 hectares of productive agricultural land, and increase traffic,.
Take action::
What unholy clucker-fuck fusion of cuisines is this?
I
MUST
GET
ONE
#Shitpost #Shitposting
Cornell's № 14 Corbin Zentner from Alpine, Utah has № 23 Sebastian Whitfield from Virginia Beach of the Princeton Tigers on his tail
Find more shots from this game on my Bēhance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/243329557/Cornell-vs-Princeton-(…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Bobby Krlic & Bobby Krlic:
🎵 Anemone "The Letters"
#BobbyKrlic
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KjJMeQdxB26OkRissDS73
I need to be more of a hard-ass when asked to write letters of recommendation.
January 3, 2026 -- Today was the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to submit ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-3-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p16#a260104p16
Wouldn't it be nice if the ACA tax credits were extended? I'm lucky, and it doesn't affect me directly. But indirectly? You bet. I have friends and acquaintances who will suffer if they aren't restored. I just contacted my Congresspeople, asking them to follow through on the discharge petition to have the house vote on this issue. It's easy you can do it too -The action network template makes it easy:
Wouldn't it be nice if the ACA tax credits were extended? I'm lucky, and it doesn't affect me directly. But indirectly? You bet. I have friends and acquaintances who will suffer if they aren't restored. I just contacted my Congresspeople, asking them to follow through on the discharge petition to have the house vote on this issue. It's easy you can do it too -The action network template makes it easy:
This is a tragic but also very touching story about life and how people deal with conventions and tradition in a way you would probably not expect:
after my dad died, we found the #love letters
https://www.je…
The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every "Best of" compilation, the discarded drafts, the love letters to lost eras, and I fed the entire body of work into the AI maw. My digital soul, offered up for digestion and analysis...
Have a great last day of the year and a wonderful start into 2026, everyone 🥳 🥂
#NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear2026
Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-2-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p33#a260103p33
Classmates of Liam Ramos wrote letters to ICE agents: "You're scaring schools, people and the world."
Source:
#politics
Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging the adoption of device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes (Jason Parham/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pornhub-is-urging-tech-giants-to-e…
"Saltier seas in spring double the chance of extreme El Niño events, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://
Dutch answer to the removal of the boards at #Margraten US military cemetery, honoring black US soldiers who died while liberating the Netherlands in WWII. This grave injustice went counterproductive for the US government, as shown.
Courtesy to Dutch TV show ‘Even tot hier’ BNNVARA
#willyfjamesjr
fun fact: i learned that the letters "grub" stand for "GRand Unified Bootloader" before i found out what "a grub" is. so i was like, 18 or something when i first google-imaged "grub". i was like 😨
Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…
'Irreversible damage': DOJ farewell letters warn agency is buckling under Trump demands - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/doj-resigns/
They’re here!! 🤩
#TinyMomentsOfJoy @… @…
Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2025/12/07/ENEURO.0002-25.2025
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wilco:
🎵 Box Full of Letters
#Wilco
https://thebrotherszero.bandcamp.com/track/box-full-of-letters-wilco
https://open.spotify.com/track/1s7EkHScCg3jvGxxnI7jg0
The real problem here is that I was born to be on the Watcher's Council or a Man of Letters or in the Talamasca or on the tenure track at Miskatonic in a world where I make more money fixing your damn computer and also those societies don't actually exist
.......but, and hear me out on this....could they?
Rare chance to see Jane Austen’s will in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/rare-chance-to-see-jane-austens-will-in-the-national-archives-love-letters-exhibition/
February 1, 2026 -- On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p25#a260202p25
@… Yes, we are losing all that history that once used to be in paper letters. I have no idea what future historians will be able to see.
bissi faul heute
Shuffalo, 4m 44s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/01/29
An Honest Review of Go (from a Rust developer)
> I like Go’s condensed syntax when it comes to ergonomics. It’s way simpler to write type annotations without the colon or other characters and it saves typing time.
> I also like using uppercase and lowercase letters for visibility
https://benraz.dev/blog/golan…
#Wordle 1,625 5/6*
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 6% of 35 (50)
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WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 22/99
I don't think I've ever managed to eliminate 15 letters in my 1st 3 guesses before!
It feels a little too on the nose that the new project I started working on yesterday has the acronym ICE (no relation).
Just looking at those three letters is a bit uncomfortable.
December 1, 2025 -- President Donald J. Trump's behavior over the holiday weekend has increased concern about his mental acuity. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p52#a251202p52
This interview https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019013452/emergency-departments-to-use-ai-consultations-with-patients suggests a fait accompli of 'AI' saturating ou…
From Heather Cox
Richardson, Letters from an American:
<< Trump explained to Republican lawmakers: “You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just gonna be—I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.” >>
He KNOWS he deserves to be ousted!
Sent letters to both Ohio senators this morning demanding accountability from the administration. If you haven't written to or called you senator yet, now is the time.
Recognize this logo, maybe from a billboard outside your apartment or on a street you drive on? That's one of Jim Pattison's companies — you know, the guy who's doing a property deal with the USA's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE)
If you have a Liberal MP, you might consider writing to or calling them to let them know this is insane (for any number of very good reasons - you pick). As an historian, I can tell you that the archives are full of angry letters to MPs, cabinet members, and PMs and that at certain times waves of correspondence moving in the same direction have changed policy.
You might consider demonstrating too. A similar observation applies.
Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a r
Under Pope Leo XIV, American Catholics Are Uniting to Defeat MAGA Authoritarianism (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/under-pope-leo-xiv-american-catholics
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p65#a260131p65
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced dumb-ass legislation today
that would allow private entities to play at Pirates🏴☠️in the Caribbean
The "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act"
authorizes felon-president Trump to commission American pirates,
under "letters of marque"
to seize property and persons on land or sea.
Representative Tim Bimbo Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.
#Wordle 1,624 4/6*
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⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 3% of 38 (15)
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WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 45/99
Eliminating letters, helpful as always!
The Washington Post's former letters editor, Alyssa Rosenberg, reflects on her role as a professional listener, offering readers a rare chance to feel heard (Alyssa Rosenberg/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/per…
Advances in artificial vision systems: a comprehensive review of technologies, applications, and future directions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13534-025-00513-4 "clinical value hinges on durability, effective resolution, surgical practicality, and user t…
Students table for the Big Red Buddies who volunteer to help Head Start
#photo
November 30, 2025 -- On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-30-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p11#a251201p11
The letters 'f', 'b', and 'i' can also spell 'fib'
FBI denies shutting down civil rights investigation into ICE shooter Jonathan Ross | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-shooting-investigation-jonathan-ross-fbi-b2904055.html
#Wordle 1,691 3/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 225,054 (205)
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 0 of 13 (5)
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WordleBot
Skill 69/99
Luck 68/99
I feel like there should have been lots of words left ending with those 3 letters...only 5, and looking at them I see why the bot gave my lucky guess a 47 skill rating, it only eliminated 1 word, a better guess would have gotten it down to 1 or 2.
"Quite frankly I was pissed off!" Growing online page chronicles Trump Justice Dept. resignation letters (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-justice-dept-resignation-letters-chronicled/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p76#a251123p76
In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-harvard-letters-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p53#a251224p53
#Wordle 1,658 5/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 232,980 (107)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 2% of 157 (4)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 38% of 3,777 (3)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 21% of 20,035 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 74% of 10,272
WordleBot
Skill 78/99
Luck 54/99
Getting 3 letters so early is so often a bad sign. I'm glad I got this one. I had to guess words as I thought of them because I kept thinking of words that used the few letters I had eliminated!
Rep. Kelly has filed three articles of impeachment against Secretary Noem:
🔸Obstruction of Congress: Secretary Noem willfully obstructed Congressional oversight and withheld Congressionally appropriated funds in violation of her constitutional oath and federal law.
🔸Violation of Public Trust: Secretary Noem compromised public safety, violated due process of American citizens, and directed unconstitutional actions.
🔸Self-Dealing: Secretary Noem abused her office for persona…
Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/bosies-passionate-plea-for-lover-oscar-wilde-in-new-exhibition/
November 29, 2025 -- In the wake of yesterday's report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-29-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p12#a251130p12
ready to be infected?
Shuffalo, 8m 20s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/01/26#i…
December 29, 2025 -- In an appearance on New York's WABC radio on Friday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-29-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p6#a251230p6
Trump has sent letters of invitation to various heads of government to join a new "Board of Peace",
which he will chair.
The organization was envisioned as part of the United Nations–backed effort for the reconstruction and transitional governance of Gaza.
But the new board’s charter, details of which have not been previously reported, appears to give the board a global remit, according to a copy we reviewed.
And the price of a permanent position on the…
#Wordle 1,657 4/6*
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🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 10% of 41 (8)
🟩🟩🟨⬜🟩 27% of 30 (1)
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WordleBot
Skill 96/99
Luck 51/99
You'd think getting the 1st 2 letters right away would make things easy, but after my 2nd guess was wrong, things got very tough, took forever to find my 3rd guess and a while going through remaining letters to get my 4th guess.
January 28, 2026 -- Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p51#a260129p51
#Wordle 1,621 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 225,353 (109)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 8% of 13 (12)
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 0 of 2 (3)
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WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 47/99
It's interesting how you process the clues, different letters linking to others and implying placement.
Of the 3 words left 2 were past tense so really unlikely.
Paul’s Address Book app updated! https://edintone.com/pauls-address-book-app-updated/ My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts has a refresh, new content and platfom.
December 27, 2025 -- Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p27#a251228p27
January 27, 2026 -- The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p60#a260128p60
January 26, 2026 -- Yesterday President Donald J. Trump blamed Democratic officials ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-26-2026-273
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p59#a260127p59
January 25, 2026 -- As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-25-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p53#a260126p53
January 24, 2026 -- This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-24-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p18#a260125p18
'Stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain': Toronto sex store receives letters from U.S. Department of War (Alex Arsenych/CP24)
https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/01/06/stop-sending-butt-plugs-to-bahrain-toronto-sex-store-receives-letters-from-us-department-of-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p68#a260106p68
January 22, 2026 -- Vice President J.D. Vance was in Minnesota for the administration today ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p38#a260123p38
Conservative Military Archbishop Says Catholic Troops Can Defy Trump Orders on Greenland (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/conservative-military-archbishop?triedRedirect=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p132#a260120p132
January 20, 2026 -- World leaders are gathered at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-20-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p48#a260121p48
November 19, 2025 -- Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-19-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p56#a251120p56
December 19, 2025 -- This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p17#a251220p17