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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…

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/

From Sat 24 Jan: Love Letters exhibition reveals the lengths we go for love - The National Archives
Love letters relating to some of the most famous – and sometimes dangerous – love affairs in British history are on show at The National Archives from Saturday, 24 January 2026. Among the exhibits in a new exhibition, Love Letters, is a never-before-seen love letter from the Cambridge Five spy ring’s “fifth man” John Cairncross […]

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

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

And yes, all these sizes were referred to as "diskettes" (small disk), even the 8" one, even by their inventor, IBM.
Even in huge letters on the sleeve.

"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

The last post
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/21/denmark-postnord-postal-delivery-letters-society?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years
PostNord’s decision to end service on 30 December comes after fear over ‘increasing digitalisation’ of Danish society

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.

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…

Advances in artificial vision systems: a comprehensive review of technologies, applications, and future directions - Biomedical Engineering Letters
This review article focuses on recent advancements and persistent challenges in artificial vision prostheses designed to restore sight for patients affected by retinal diseases. It comprehensively examines various approaches, including epiretinal, subretinal, and suprachoroidal implants, as well as optic nerve and visual cortex stimulation strategies. The critical role of the retina in visual perception is explored, emphasizing how retinal degeneration affects the transmission of visual informa…

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

Paul's Address Book app updated! - Miscellanea Edintone
My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a refresh. More details here and you can try it and download it for free!

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…

Pornhub Is Urging Tech Giants to Enact Device-Based Age Verification
The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet.

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?

@… 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.

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.

Patriots of the Caribbean: Lee Bill Authorizes American Privateers to Seize Cartel Assets with President’s Approval
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation today that would allow private entities to stop drug cartel smuggling and violence. The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act authorizes President Trump, as provided under the Constitution, to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

More than 22 million Aflac customers impacted by June data breach https://therecord.media/22-million-impacted-aflac-breach

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

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

Join Paterson Joseph for his unique account of Ignatius #Sancho 's remarkable life. Sancho was born on a slave ship on the Atlantic around 1729, but later became a writer, composer, shopkeeper and respected 'man of letters' in 18th-century #London. A FREE Zoom event, 14 Dec 2025, 19:00 GMT <…

🇺🇦 #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

October 23, 2025 -- Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-23-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p51#a251024p51

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…

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…

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.

Robo-Buddhism
https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/robo-buddhism-kokoro-technology-and-spirituality-in-japan-today/

#buttplugs #sextoys #theyreNoFun

‘Stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain’: Toronto sex store receives letters from U.S. Department of War
Not one, but two letters were sent from the Pentagon to a Toronto-based sex toy store, found inside the boxes of returned adult items that had somehow made their way to a U.S naval base in Bahrain.

Moody Urbanity - TWO II 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 II 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Where rust fails miserably for me it's in the lifetime syntax. The feature is pretty awesome, but the syntax is orrible:
- for some reason giving short names to variables is a bad idea, but somehow the standard around lifetime names is single letters, often just 'a
- it's extremely unclear to me which lifetime is the declaration and which one is the use of it. Example:
impl<'a> Foo for Bar<'a> {}
Which one is the declararion of the two?

Tomorrow we have a Symposium at the Advanced Medical BIOimaging core facility #AMBIO of the @… , to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. There will be lots of great talks about microscopy stuff (single-molecule spatial omics, multi scale microscopy, light sheet,…

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…

Exploring Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana
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Dear folks at Frank's Red Hot™ marketing department:
#Shitpost #ShitPosting #IPutThatShitOnEverything <…

Soooooo many letters of recommendation this year. I'm still only halfway there.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Metronomy:
🎵 Love Letters
#Metronomy
https://metronomy.bandcamp.com/album/love-letters
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bW7mUdEV4jWxmdxcj8X3k

Had to make guess 4 to nail down the position of one of the letters. Then it was obvious. #Wordle
Wordle 1 673 5/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yet one more case of separating a child from his parent - because they crossed the border as refugees in 2023, where they followed the rules. (More details at the link below) You can send a letter protesting this horrific action, using the action network letter at https://act…

Reunite José and His Son — Separated by ICE Detention and Struggling
(abajo en español) Join the effort to urge ICE to reunite José Ramon Pirela Finol with his six-year-old son and release him from detention at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico! José Pirela has been detained by ICE since August 2025, when he was separated from his six-year-old son, for whom he is the sole guardian. José and his son came to the US in 2023 to seek safety from threats in Venezuela. José and his son were processed at the border and permitted to pursue th…

Yet one more case of separating a child from his parent - because they crossed the border as refugees in 2023, where they followed the rules. (More details at the link below) You can send a letter protesting this horrific action, using the action network letter at https://act…

Reunite José and His Son — Separated by ICE Detention and Struggling
(abajo en español) Join the effort to urge ICE to reunite José Ramon Pirela Finol with his six-year-old son and release him from detention at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico! José Pirela has been detained by ICE since August 2025, when he was separated from his six-year-old son, for whom he is the sole guardian. José and his son came to the US in 2023 to seek safety from threats in Venezuela. José and his son were processed at the border and permitted to pursue th…

"AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that continued growth in artificial intelligence (AI) use across the United States could add approximately 900,000 tons of CO₂ annually. This is not a small amount but equates to a relatively minor increase when viewed in the context of nationwide emissions.

#Wordle 1,606 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 215,096 (118)
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 7% of 113 (6)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 44% of 9 (2)
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 2% of 568 (2)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 14% of 230 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 95% of 7,947
WordleBot
Skill 64/99
Luck 40/99
Damn that was close, and user error on guess 4 and not a wordle word for guess 5. Those guesses still helped me eliminate a couple of letters and know where the 3 letters I had belong.

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

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals
Mirror-invariance is the cognitive tendency to perceive mirror-image objects as identical. Mirrored letters, however, are distinct orthographic units, and must be identified as different; mirror-invariance must be ‘broken’ to enable efficient reading. Consistent with this phenomenon, a small, localized region in the ventral visual stream, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), exhibits repetition suppression to both identical and mirror pairs of objects but only to identical, not mirror, pairs o…

@… @… also,
Honey, I installed the kernel!
I'm teasing only because (We Get Letters) "a warning that you can’t delete the kernel." – there's no such warning 😉
The ease with which the kernel can be deleted has bee…

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/

Rare chance to see Jane Austen’s will in Love Letters exhibition - The National Archives
Two hundred and fifty years after her birth on 16 December 1775, Jane Austen fans will have a rare chance to see her will in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, opening on 24 January. The novelist was only 41 when she died on 18 July 1817, having moved to Winchester a few weeks earlier […]

New SQL Notebook: Home made font tracing
There are many tools outwhere to create fonts from bitmap images, be it handwritten fonts or fonts from old books. They all involve quite a lot of homework. Letters have to be written carefully on a grid, bounding boxes have to be defined.
I wondered if the process could be made a little bit more straightforward. I want just to scan a book´s page and the tool creates the font for me, identifying all letters.
https://www.belle-nuit.com/sql-notebook/index.html?url=../site/files/home-made-font-tracing.json

Fedorov and Shmyhal submit resignations, letters delivered to the Verkhovna Rada: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/fedorov-and-shmyhal-submit-resignations.html

I've been slow to post photos lately, but I made it the 2026 January Jicker this weekend at Barton Hall which was a fun indoor track event
#photo #photography #flrc

No wine, chocolate, or coffee but we’ll still have billionaires (or maybe even trillionaires).
Worth it, no? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115490957176403898

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…

The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.

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…

Trump’s Billion-Dollar Board of Peace
The new entity has a global remit and a steep price for a permanent seat.

Good ol' Roger Williams makes it into the London Review of Books! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/letters

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

Businesses should be required by law to send acceptance AND rejection letters for interviews, once a position is filled. Not even feedback, just yay or nay at a minimum. If a company can't fucking figure out how to auto-send an email with a binary decision, you shouldn't be allowed to hire employees to your business

I hope there's a special place in hell for all the MSc program directors that decided it was a good use of everybody's time to require recommendation letters.

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation at @… next weekend. "The #Fediverse: Embracing the Hacker Ethos for a Decentralized Social Media Experience". We may even have a special guest join us, @…

#OTD 2013: A time when Tesla still meant progress. One of the first Tesla Superchargers in Europe, in Zevenaar 🇳🇱. Until then, #EV fast chargers were often single devices, but this was one of the first hubs.

Alleged Mail Thief Arrested After Bragging About Crimes On Instagram Stories https://www.404media.co/ohio-mail-theft-postal-worker-robbery/

Ah yes, behold this relic I crafted ages ago. Is it good? Absolutely not. Do I cherish its beautifully terrible quality? Absolutely yes.
#Anarchism

new boots, new sign
#FuckIce #AbolishIce

I've got a bold plan to emphasize some text by making the letters thicker and darker

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:

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

Sometimes, when I get a native crash and I have no idea what happened, I paste the disassembly into aistudio and have it explain to me what is going on.
It might not be able to count how many letters are in strawberry, but it can pinpoint the root cause for a bug in Apple's Objective-C runtime.
This is a regression in iOS 26.1 beta:

404 Cooling insufficient...

Exploring Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138207/exploring-cotton-mathers-curiosa-americana

#Wordle 1,635 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 232,260 (1,134)
🟨⬜🟩🟨🟩 0 of 56 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 98/99
Luck 57/99
Even though today might have been better starting with my 2nd word, it was chosen because my starting word eliminated those 5 letters, I'm still always happy to have a starting word which eliminates all 5 letters.

I am these cost 25¢ per song years old.
I wonder how much the artists got paid being played on these compared to Spotify or any of the other streaming services? Assuming they did in fact get paid.
Think how annoying it is when some AH plays their phone on speaker. Now imagine a diner full of tables all playing their own tunes on speaker (the only way you could).

What unholy clucker-fuck fusion of cuisines is this?
I
MUST
GET
ONE
#Shitpost #Shitposting

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

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/

Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition - The National Archives
A passionate plea for clemency from Oscar Wilde’s lover Lord Alfred Douglas goes on show in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, opening in January. The letter addressed to Queen Victoria on 25 June 1895 begs her to exercise her “power of pardon” in the case of the poet and dramatist who was beginning a […]

Exploring Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138207/exploring-cotton-mathers-curiosa-americana

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

Demand Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters. From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.   The killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, bu…

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

Demand Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters. From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.   The killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, bu…

Rouging!
https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2026-01-10&l=rgimnou&p=320&r=Queen Bee&c=600ef7d6ad434a093fa0ccf874b9d3b6&smid=url-share<…

I got Queen Bee!
How many words can you make with 7 letters?

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

How Private Equity Made Piracy Great Again
#culture #media

#Wordle 1,593 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 <1% of 228,956 (53)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 17% of 18 (10)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 13% of 8 (6)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 11% of 166 (3)
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 14% of 1,101 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 75% of 365
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 40/99
Pulled it out, but you're really not puzzling out the answer when there are so many words that fit that initial 3 known letters, each using different letters (well I guess the last 2 did share a letter, so if I had thought of all of the words when I made guess 3, I should have tried one of them first.
Actually I see there were 2 pretty common first letters among the 10 remaining words. And it ended up that getting the answer was just lucky.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

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.

Paul's Address Book app updated! - Miscellanea Edintone
My 'address book' inspired by the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of Acts, has had a refresh. More details here and you can try it and download it for free!

Exploring Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana
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Can a visual neuroprosthesis communicate with the brain? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/can-visual-neuroprosthesis-communicate-brain-2025a1000yhe Archived at

Can a Visual Neuroprosthesis Communicate With the Brain?
A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired blindness.

'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

Das Wort "Carryout" war mir unbekannt, und doch vermochte ich es zu finden.
https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2025-12-06&l=oacrtuy&p=248&r…

I got Genius!
How many words can you make with 7 letters?

Exploring Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138207/exploring-cotton-mathers-curiosa-americana

Well, President Donald J. Trump finally has his Nobel Peace Prize. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-16-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p18#a260117p18

Surprisingly affordable - even with the tariffs.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

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. <…

Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
The Postal Service is no longer guaranteeing when it will postmark mail, which could jeopardize some ballots that arrive after Election Day.

December 16, 2025 -- While President Donald J. Trump was gloating over the horrific murders ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-16-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p53#a251217p53

Donald 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…

Trump Plasters His Own Name on U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters
This is not Donald Trump’s building, but he’s certainly acting like it is.

January 15, 2026 -- You know what Americans aren't talking about very much today ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-15-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p31#a260116p31

'Why is Sherrill DOGE-ing New Jersey?': Resignation letters to longtime government workers cause confusion (Daniel Han/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/sherrill-doge-new-jersey-union-00729507
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p29#a260115p29

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/world-war-i-message-in-a-bottle-found-in-australia-and-delivered-to-familie…

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later
Letters from WWI soldiers that were placed in a bottle and thrown into the ocean were recently found in Australia and delivered to relatives.

“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors

Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Are Asked Why They Chose to Remain Incognito
Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from business interests whose donations were not disclosed by the White House.

December 12, 2025 -- Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state's next governor. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-12-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p26#a251213p26

Vanishing act: How UVA's presidential search missed what took us an hour to find (Letters/Augusta Free Press)
https://augustafreepress.com/news/vanishing-act-how-uvas-presidential-search-missed-what-took-us-an-hour-to-find/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p47#a260111p47

December 10, 2025 -- Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p32#a251211p32

January 10, 2026 -- Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-10-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p19#a260111p19

January 8, 2026 -- On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-8-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p47#a260109p47

November 7, 2025 -- The repercussions from Tuesday's vote, in which Democratic candidates ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-7-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p7#a251108p7

December 6, 2025 -- On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p26#a251207p26

January 5, 2026 (Monday) -- Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2026-monday
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p63#a260106p63

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