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DeSantis Walks Back His Crusade

https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/15/desantis-walks-back-his-crusade/
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Fri, 16/02/2024 - 11:30
The book banning isn’t going well. Ron is now seeking some adjustments. Seems some members of his anti-woke mob are out of control. Here he is today: “With objecting – if you go to a school board meeting objecting. If you have a kid in school, okay. But if you’re somebody who doesn’t have a kid in school and you’re gonna object to 100 books? No, I don’t think that’s appropriate. So I think the legislature is interested in limiting what the number of challenges you can do, and maybe making it be contingent on whether you actually have kids in school or not. We just want to make sure we’re not trying to incentivize frivolous objections or any type of games being played.” Who could have ever predicted?

How The Border Deal Worked Out For Democrats

https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/15/how-the-border-deal-worked-out-for-democrats/
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Fri, 16/02/2024 - 10:00
They counted on MAGA to be stupid. Always a smart bet. This is an interesting tick-tock of the Border/Foreign Aid bill from the NY Times. (Gift link, here) It starts off recounting how the Republicans thought they could back the Dems into a corner by demanding a border component to Ukraine funding which they knew was vitally important to the White House. The Democrats decided that they would call their bluff and negotiate a border bill and one that would be seen as credible by serious border hawks. But they were not surprised when the Republicans balk: The possibility that Republicans would bolt from their own deal had occurred to Mr. Schumer from the start, given his previous experience. “We knew it way back then,” he said. But Mr. Schumer saw a political upside should that occur: Democrats would be able to say they tried and point to the Republican opposition for failing to halt a surge of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. “It’s a win if Republicans abandon us at the last minute,” Mr.

Coffs elders say Closing the Gap fails to make real impact

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/coffs-elders-say-closing-the-gap-fails-to-make…
Created
Fri, 16/02/2024 - 09:58

A GROUP of Coffs Harbour Indigenous Elders have voiced concerns that Closing the Gap initiatives continue to fail to make a real impact in their communities. Closing the Gap is a national agreement intended to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and governments to work together to overcome inequality experienced by Indigenous Australians. Advertise...

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Register for Clean Up Australia Day in Coffs Harbour

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/register-for-clean-up-australia-day-in-coffs-h…
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Fri, 16/02/2024 - 09:55

THE 34th year of Clean Up Australia Day takes place around the country on Sunday 3 March. A number of local clean-up sites on the Coffs Coast have been registered. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au...

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Coffs Botanic Garden is a top birding hotspot

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/coffs-botanic-garden-is-a-top-birding-hotspot
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Fri, 16/02/2024 - 09:45

  BIRDERS at the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden in Coffs are rejoicing with the tally of feathered friends already spotted this year on ‘their patch’. “Over 70 already this year,” Friends of the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden volunteer and keen local birder Cheryl Cooper told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of...

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Boambee Creek footbridge to be fully replaced

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/boambee-creek-footbridge-to-be-fully-replaced
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Fri, 16/02/2024 - 09:42

A BRAND spanking new rail footbridge across Boambee Creek will be in place by July 2024. Requiring major repairs, the ageing infrastructure provides much-used pedestrian access from Sawtell to the southern end of Boambee Beach. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981...

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RFC Remove support for Windows in production in Drupal 11

https://www.drupal.org/about/core/blog/rfc-remove-support-for-windows-in-produc…
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Fri, 16/02/2024 - 08:49

Drupal added support for IIS in 2010 and we have supported that and WAMP (Running Apache and PHP on Windows). Unfortunately, we have never been able to provide automated testing for these environments.  And since 2010, the use of Microsoft products for hosting websites has declined. Because of this, the Drupal core committers propose drop support for Windows when used on production web sites in Drupal 11.

Support for development on Windows will continue. Drupal will continue to accept bug reports for Windows used in development environments,

The following links show the usage statistics used when making this proposal.

How economists invented austerity

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/how-economists-invented-austerity/
Created
Fri, 16/02/2024 - 08:41
. To many conservative and neoliberal politicians and economists,​ there seems to be a spectre haunting the United States and Europe today — Keynesian ideas on governments pursuing policies raising effective demand and supporting employment. Some of the favourite arguments used among these Keynesophobics to fight it are the ‘doctrine of sound finance’ and the […]

The Plot

https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/15/the-plot-2/
Created
Fri, 16/02/2024 - 08:30
This was ultimately what they expected to happen. They wanted the real winners of the election to riot so they could justify calling for the Insurrection Act and put the military on the streets of America. That’s what Trump meant when he said that he pre-authorized the Department of Defense to be prepared to deploy troops in DC in the days before the Insurrection. And, in fact, that’s what Trump and Steven Miller are planning to do in the second term except this time they plan to use immigration as their excuse. They just want to use the military against Americans one way or another. There is no doubt that he will do it this time.

Seems Important

https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/15/seems-important/
Created
Fri, 16/02/2024 - 07:00
Guess what? The Biden administration is meeting its commitment to under served communities There was a bit of a brouhaha on Xitter in the last couple of days when an economic reporter for the NY Times posted that his friends in Brooklyn didn’t know about Biden’s economic successes and when confronted with the fact that the media bore some responsibility for that he fired back that he isn’t the Biden administration’s PR company. Let’s just say it wasn’t well received. Apparently, Biden hasn’t been entertaining enough for them to cover it. He needs to up his “PR” so the news media will feel it’s important to cover it. Having said that, here’s a shout out to Axios for reporting this, which I did not know before: There’s an unprecedented building boom underway in America. With it has come a less-noticed phenomenon: a surge of investment into communities left behind in the last economic expansion. Why it matters: Poorer counties with lower employment rates have attracted a large share of the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated for clean energy projects, semiconductor mega-factories and more.