May 3, 2022
Bringing Rural Voters back to the Democrats
What Democrats Don’t Understand About Rural America. Chloe Maxmin is a state senator (D) in Maine. Canyon Woodward was her campaign manager in 2018 and 2020.
"As two young progressives raised in the country, we were dismayed as small towns like ours swung to the right. But we believed that Democrats could still win conservative rural districts if they took the time to drive down the long dirt roads where we grew up, have face-to-face conversations with moderate Republican and independent voters and speak a different language, one rooted in values rather than policy." [more inside]
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
"Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I’ve learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I’ve jotted down bits of unsolicited advice each year and much to my surprise I have more to add this year. So here is my birthday gift to you all: 103 bits of wisdom I wish I had known when I was young."--Kevin Kelly (more advice, previously, from the man who brought you Cool Tools). [more inside]
Use [Chisel] on [Spinning Ghost] - Get [Burl Vase] and [ASMR Vid]
David Adamsen is a woodworker out of Maine, with a delightful YubTub channel full of vids showing how his luxurious woodturning creations come into being. Come for the delicious wood art, stay for the soothing and wordlessly meditative twenty minute vids of blurs turning into shapes and wood shavings.
A Spooky Classic in Your Inbox, in Real Time!
It's May 3rd, the date of Johnathan Harker's first diary entry, which means Dracula Daily starts today! Sign up and every day somebody writes a letter or a diary entry, through the ending on November 7, you'll get that day's segment of the classic epistolary novel in your email.
Is it really the “New York Review of Each Other’s Books”?
“I am a homosexual,” he began. “I am a psychiatrist.”
“I am a homosexual,” he began. “I am a psychiatrist.” For the next 10 minutes, Henry Anonymous, M.D. — this is what he had asked to be called — described the secret world of gay psychiatrists. Officially, they did not exist; homosexuality was categorized as a mental illness, so acknowledging it would result in the revocation of one’s medical license, and the loss of a career.
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