Yeah, I know, I’ve shared this before, but I just saw it again on a “Best Super Bowl tv ads” list (which list included none of this year’s) and this was on it and I was limp in the hands of fate. Enjoy! I always do. (I love how the wife looks at the husband when he starts the car and he sort of shrugs with his eyebrows.)
“India has expanded rural tap water access from 16.7% of the population in 2019 to 81% in 2026, connecting 125 million rural households to clean, running water. In sheer numbers, this is the biggest, fastest, and most important sanitation drive in human history. Why has it not been more widely reported? PIB Delhi“
Wow! Yes, why haven’t I heard about this until now? (Fix the News)
Times New Resistance
Minneapolis designer Abby Haddican has made a typeface called Times New Resistance. The letters are identical to Times New Roman (and it even appears as such in font menus, except there’s “an extra space between the words Times and New”) but when you type with it, it autocorrects a list of words: “For example, the word ICE autocorrects to the Goon Squad and the word Trump autocorrects to Donald Trump is a felon.” Here’s a partial list:
The idea is that you install it on your MAGA relative’s computer and then sit back and watch the fun. It even works when you copy/paste text or on pre-existing text. Free to download on Haddican’s website. (via @kylevanhorn)
(Dana sez, h/t Kottke)
Quote for our times. #SenatorLisaMurkowski #SenatorDanSullivan #thelatestbegich
And when the history of our time is written, congressional leaders—particularly Republican congressional leaders—will be remembered as more important, and much more culpable, than it seems at this moment. Describing their careers as inaction would be too charitable; they have been enablers not only of the particular crimes of the Trump administration but of the more general aggrandizement of the presidency and the subordination of the entire legislative branch—the branch created by Article I of our Constitution to make laws and exercise oversight of federal agencies. They are, in a very real sense, in gross violation of their oaths of office, and so too are the representatives and senators of both parties who have contributed over the years to the reduction of Congress to its current miserable state. It was inevitable that the void left by Congress’ abandonment of its constitutional duties would be filled by the energies—and fantasies, and fundamental incompetence—of a man once accurately described by J.D. Vance as plainly unfit for the office to which he has twice been elected by the American people. —Dispatch Editors / January 28, 2026
Outro…
And before Seeger, there was Guthrie. Plus ça change.
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