As we discovered during the site upgrade, blogrolls are not yet extinct, and their overall demise has been greatly exaggerated. So it’s time to ask whether there are any blogs that should be on the blogroll, but aren’t.
John Cole Mr. Bear and Miss Willow will be deciding which blogs are added to the blogroll, but I haven’t seen him them nix more than one or two, ever. So nominate away! Please.
You can see all the sections listed below. If you’re a reader/commenter and you are nominating your own blog, please let us know in the comments. Those go in the top category, regardless. For all other blogs, please include the category you think the blog belongs in.
One last thing that occurred to me – might we want to include a list of really great twitter feeds, for those of us who don’t have twitter accounts but sometimes look at them from our browsers?
Whether it’s a blog or a twitter account, please list the name of the blog and put the URL on a separate line. That will make it easier to add to the blogroll.
Readers and Friends of Balloon Juice
Angry Black Lady Chronicles
Carol Duhart
Cleek
Dorothy Winsor
Nuclear Diner (Cheryl Rofer)
The World According to Meh!
Tom Levenson
Way of Cats
What’s 4 Dinner
Zandar Versus The Stupid
On the Lighter Side
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Jesus and Mo
Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day
The Oatmeal
XKCD
Political Blogs
Andrea Chalupa
Avedon
Barry Eisler
Blue Virginia
Charles Pierce
just the first few…
Non-Political Blogs
Calculated Risk
The Stranger
Live Science
just the first few…
News Sites
Democracy Now
McClatchy
ProPublica
just the first few…
M. Bouffant
(Web of Evil (& Ennui)
mbouffant.blogspot.com
Been at it for 13+ yrs., over 19,000 items published.
WaterGirl
@M. Bouffant: It’s easier if you add the raw URL, so I took the liberty of breaking yours out since I hadn’t yet added that request to the post up top.
Roger Moore
If we’re going to include Twitter feeds, I can strongly recommend Hilzoy and Tbogg, both of whose blogs are sorely missed.
John Revolta
There’s a blogroll? Where is it?
Funny this coming up because I was just thinking about blogrolls today. LGM is celebrating their birthday and I was remembering how I found my regular spots; although I haven’t added a new one in a long time, I found them mostly by following longago blogrolls like the one at Sadly, No. I mighta found this place that way in fact! Blogs nowdays seem to stick them under the fold if they have ’em at all….
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore:
Because of the way WordPress behaves, it’s easier if you don’t link the URL. Like this.
Hilzoy
https://twitter.com/hilzoy
Tbogg
https://twitter.com/tbogg
WaterGirl
@John Revolta: I almost included instructions on where to find the blogroll, but I thought better of it. Apparently I should have thought better of thinking better of it.
The blogroll is in the FOOTER on every page.
Along with our lists of BJ Artists & Artisans, and BJ Published Authors.
encephalopath
Blogroll.
It’s like the gathering of Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm for the counting.
Benw
For those who like D&D: The Order of the Stick
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html
Baud
Blogrolls? LOL. You people are so old.
prostratedragon
A recent and authentic read-o: the Ballog Juice loonroll.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
It’s a Footsie Roll!
Haydnseek
Speaking of Twitter, is it possible to watch videos in tweets without actually signing up with Twitter? If so, I would really like to know how. If not, I guess I’ll just sign up and never tweet. Would that work? Also, once you sign up, is it difficult to cancel your account if you want to? I have no interest in anything other than looking at some of the videos that people post. Just reading the tweet doesn’t do me much good. Thanks!
cope
3 Quarks Daily
https://www.3quarksdaily.com/
Self described junction of science, arts, philosophy, politics and literature.
It’s one of three sites to which I have actually contributed money (this site and Mr. Pierce being the other two).
WaterGirl
@Baud: 87 is not old
edit: Do you know how many people cried out in anguish when we said we weren’t keeping the blogroll? It was like Star Wars when the planet exploded. You could feel a disturbance in the force.
Baud
@Haydnseek:
Yes, I do it all the time. Just play the video by clicking on the screen.
Auntie Anne
I love First Draft, mostly for Athenae’s writings.
https://first-draft.com
John Revolta
@WaterGirl: Okay I see it now. Honestly I’m not sure I was even aware of the footer. Anything below “Post Comment” is terra incognita kinda.
WaterGirl
Can you guys please include the category each blog should go under?
SiubhanDuinne
I don’t have a Twitter account, but I like to follow both Daniel Dale (@ddale8) and Aaron Rupar (@atrupar).
WaterGirl
@John Revolta: I will refrain from saying that I announced where the blogroll was in no fewer than 5 front page posts.
Because I’m really not grumpy about it and I don’t want anyone to feel like they are being criticized! :-)
Baud
@John Revolta:
Here be dragons.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Thank you! It would be splendid if you guys could include the URL so I don’t have to google the @twitter account to find all of them.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Not if you’re Yoda.
ETA: Keeping with the Star Wars theme.
Emma
Nomination for Angry Asian Man, please: http://blog.angryasianman.com/
Phil Yu has been blogging since 2001, have been reading him for like 15 years now and would really love for him to be more well-known outside of the AAPI community. Should be in the political category, I guess, but he does a lot of posts on the lighter side as well.
Auntie Anne
@WaterGirl: First Draft should go under political blogs.
John Revolta
@Haydnseek: What Baud said. Lately though, when I click on a Twitter video at another site it just goes blank, so I have to click on the little blue birdie logo which takes me to their site, and then I can watch it.
Haydnseek
@Baud: I’ve tried that numerous times and it just doesn’t play.
West of the Cascades
Happy belated birthday! I still think Daniel Larison is worth reading (I believe I found him through an old version of the blogroll) – his posts are now directly at http://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/daniel-larison/.
Haydnseek
@John Revolta: Thanks! I’ll give that a try.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
I don’t have a Twitter account, but I like to follow both Daniel Dale (@ddale8) and Aaron Rupar (@atrupar).
Political, mostly.
Another Scott
You’ve listed some of my daily stops already. Here are a few more.
Twitter / Politics:
https://twitter.com/lolgop – general overview of national politics, often with a Michigan slant.
https://twitter.com/Popehat – lots of snark, from a former federal prosecutor
https://twitter.com/dick_nixon – lots of baseball, very pithy take on politics
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw – another lawyer (female?) who is excellent on Twitter.
Science News:
https://phys.org/latest-news/ – lots of up-to-the-minute science news, with pointers to original research.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/latest-news – news curated by AAAS, often with policy ramifications.
Economics commentary:
https://cepr.net/blog/dean-bakers-beat-the-press/ – Dean Baker writes clearly and succinctly about the way our economic system has been captured and what we can do about it to make it better.
https://delong.typepad.com/ – Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality. He reads a huge amount and can talk about Greek Plays and economic theory and his family history all at once. Can almost be too much at times. ;-)
Government news:
https://www.govexec.com/?oref=ge-nav – A decent one-stop-shop for government news from the policy side. Often points to articles in ProPublica and The Atlantic, but they have their own staff as well.
Voting news and policy:
https://www.brennancenter.org/
Politics / Commentary:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/ – Nancy LeTourneau is great.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/ – When Kevin is good, he’s very good.
https://www.eclectablog.com/ – They pull no punches, but aren’t wild-eyed crazies who live in Fairy Gumdrop Land. Often with a Michigan focus.
https://www.wonkette.com/ – Of course. commiegirl1’s team is great.
My $0.02.
(Thanks for fishing this out of the dungeon!!)
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
Does the willow have a blog?
zhena gogolia
For humor tweets and general-interest stuff, I like Patton Oswalt:
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt?
and Edgar Wright:
https://twitter.com/edgarwright?
and Paul Rudnick
https://twitter.com/PaulRudnickNY
debbie
Twitter: Stonekettle and David Farenthold. Maybe also Richard M. Nixon, if only for the irony.
zhena gogolia
For politics tweets, I enjoy the never Trumpers
Tom Nichols
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom?
Jennifer Rubin
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger
and, hate to say it, George Conway
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d
laura
Emptywheel has a twitter and a blog site – both excellent, but watch out, bmaz bites.
For twitter accounts I highly recommend:
Idabaewells
Bboyboulliabaise
Bestofnextdoor
PearlsFromMyrna
and yes to whoever recommended tbogg and hilzoy
John Revolta
@WaterGirl: I don’t read instructions. I’m an American, dammit!
Central Planning
How about The Rude Pundit? Not sure how you would classify that though.
ETA – https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
prostratedragon
Three suggestions:
Maybe non-political, maybe lighter side:
Daytonian in Manhattan
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/
Regular articles on the history of notable buildings and other publicly viewable structures in Manhattan
Environmental news:
DeSmog Blog
https://www.desmogblog.com/
Non-political economics site:
Jared Bernstein’s Blog
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/
Emma
Another AAPI-focused blog for the political category, Reappropriate: http://reappropriate.co/
Jenn Fang is another looongtime blogger whose work I’ve appreciated for over a decade.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Pharyngula on Free Thought Blogs by PZ Myers
Not sure what category it should be in. Myers talks about science issues as well as politics. I guess Politics.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula
LOLGOP on Twitter
Politics
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: It could if you would write one. :-)
BigJimSlade
Long Live the Blogroll!!!
WaterGirl
@debbie: I assume Richard M. Nixon is the same as Dick Nixon?
edit: URLs are super helpful so I can avoid all the googling. Maybe I’m being lazy, but I would rather ask 100 people to find the URL than to have to google 100 times.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: We’ll make the font for that one a lighter gray, to reflect your shame. :-)
FelonyGovt
Our own Schroedinger’s Cat writes an interesting blog about science, India and other topics, and I think it should be in the first grouping. I think it’s http://schroedingerscat.wordpress.com
W. Hackwhacker
We’re a political blog that has had Balloon Juice on its blogroll for many years. We’re also on the blogroll of some of your favorites, like No More Mister Nice Blog and Mock Paper Scissors, and would be proud to be added to yours:
https://hackwhackers.blogspot.com/
debbie
@WaterGirl:
One and the same.
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): We have Pharyngula under non political blogs.
randy khan
Anybody see the FDA letter on hydroxychloroquine and (just plan) chloroquine?
At the request of HHS, the FDA is withdrawing its emergency use authorization and approval to withdraw the drugs from the national stockpile. The report accompanying the letter is a really good narrative of the initial idea and why it wasn’t crazy (which it wasn’t), the subsequent studies of various kinds, and why the FDA has concluded that there’s no evidence of clinical benefit but significant potential for harm at the dosages that likely would be required even if there were clinical benefit. Considering the topic, it’s surprisingly readable.
Trump will still push it, though
germy
http://alicublog.blogspot.com/
(Roy Edroso’s blog)
WaterGirl
@W. Hackwhacker: will do! thanks.
Adam Lang
Well, there is always my “ten years of cute dog pictures” blog:
The Dogs of San Francisco
https://dogsofsf.com
WaterGirl
@germy: He’s on the blogroll under Roy Edroso.
prostratedragon
One more:
Non-political (but is anything, really?):
BLDBLOG
http://www.bldgblog.com/
Musings on architecture and structural engineering.
WaterGirl
@Adam Lang: That’s not a dog, it’s a dessert! :-)
But we’ll add it anyway.
debbie
@randy khan:
FWIW, the two are not interchangeable.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@WaterGirl:
Oh? Didn’t know that. Is the blogroll on the website at all or was it removed when the site was updated? I can’t find it
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
The blogroll is in the FOOTER on every page.
NotMax
OT.
FYI.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Allow me to assist. In Ohioese, “It’s at the way bottom of the page.”
Patricia Kayden
Please add to the blogroll
The Obama Diary
Joemygod
Wonkette
Littlegreenfootballs
Alicublog
soapdish
I was wondering about this not that long ago. I still find the way that political blogs are presented to be my favorite way to absorb news analysis (fewer hot takes, more contemplation, less trolling), but I haven’t added any in a long, long time.
The biggest blog loss I feel is Booman Tribune. I went into the Google Wayback Machine to 2016 and those posts are still far superior to what Progress Pond is now.
If I had one blog to add I’d say Granola Shotgun.
https://granolashotgun.com/
TheflipPsyd
WaterGirl
@debbie: Oh, the bottom bottom!
Miss Bianca
@encephalopath: That’s it – I’m starting a blog called Something Nasty in the Woodshed.
WaterGirl
@Patricia Kayden: 3 are on there already, but will add The Obama Diary and Joemygod.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: Those are both over my head. Apparently I need to get out more.
Mustang Bobby
Bark Bark Woof Woof
https://barkbarkwoofwoof.com/
I’ve been at it solo since November 8, 2003. 29,594 posts. Commenter here since John came over from the dork side. Also, I’m in the Our Authors page as a playwright, Philip Middleton Williams.
BigJimSlade
Twitter suggestions:
Slava Malamud (hard to categorize – great snark, covers sports and politics and anything that might be going on):
https://twitter.com/SlavaMalamud
You already link to his block, but Charles Pierce has a twitter feed, too, of course:
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce
Joy Reid
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid
Dana Houle
https://twitter.com/DanaHoule
Kamala Harris
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris
RSchooley
https://twitter.com/Rschooley
There’s gotta be a dozen more I’m forgetting.
WaterGirl
@Mustang Bobby: Hi Mustang Bobby! I was just thinking as I put this post up that I never updated your entry after the last request. I tagged it and then lost track. Crazy time.
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: No, you just need to run, not walk, to your favorite spot for streaming or DVD acquisition and watch Cold Comfort Farm. Absolutely hysterical performances from everyone, especially Ian McKellan as a fire and brimstone preacher. It’s one of the rare, rare instances where the movie is even better than the book.
Don’t thank me, but you’re welcome. : )
BSR
I’ll nominate Diane Ravitch’s blog. She is a former under-secretary of education under Bush I. Helped craft “No Kid Left Behind”. Realized it wasn’t working and did an about face. She is one of the sharpest critics of the current trends of bashing teachers, promoting (even more) standardized testing, and increasing use of charter schools. I would call it political since education has become a political thing, but if you decide not, that’s fine.
https://dianeravitch.net/
Mustang Bobby
@WaterGirl: That’s okay! I have some more updates, which I will send you. Hint: I found a publisher.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: It’s not on Netflix.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
I second the nomination of Popehat’s Twitter feed, and also recommend The Hoarse Whisperer.
WaterGirl
@Mustang Bobby: wow!
raven
Man, how long did it take me to get Pat Lang removed???
WaterGirl
@raven: He’s not on there now!
edit: to answer your question… too damn long.
BigJimSlade
Glenn Greenwald
https://twitter.com/g– DAMN, I couldn’t keep a straight face.
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: check to see if your library’s got the DVD. It’s worth it, buh-lieve me.
WaterGirl
@BigJimSlade: Miss Willow and Mr. Bear say no to that one. John Cole might want to have a say on that one. Might.
Haroldo
My memory is very bad, and I don’t know if it’s still be written (it was very sporadic in the best of times) and I don’t see it in the blog roll, but, if memory serves, its sub-title was “Life in the Imperial City.” The writing was almost musical and the author was seemingly a student of Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Ah – here it is: “Stop the Sirit of Zossen 2.0”. (‘The Imperial City and the World’) The author, Dr. Leo Strauss, still tweets prolifically, it seems.
http://www.stiftungleostrauss.com/bunker/
?BillinGlendaleCA
Ask A Korean has a pretty good perspective from a Korean American(and immigrant) perspective:
http://askakorean.blogspot.com/
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@WaterGirl:
Ok. I remember when it used to be on the right hand side
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: I haven’t used my DVD in years.
4 bucks to watch on Amazon Prime. I could check the library, thanks.
The Pale Scot
A respite site
http://iwastesomuchtime.com/index.ph
since M. Bronk is gone
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): That was before the site rebuild!
In the before Before Times.
Mary G
For ACA and medical/political twitter, I like
Charles Gaba https://twitter.com/charles_gaba
Andy Slavitt (Obama Healthcare head) https://twitter.com/Aslavitt
mali muso
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: love Hoarse whisperer on Twitter! One of my first stops every morning.
WaterGirl
@The Pale Scot: What would that fit under? Not really a blog, definitely not twitter. Hmm.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: What category would that go under, do you think?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Haydnseek:
I don’t have a Twitter account but browse Twitter and play videos there all the time. There has been a problem lately where Twitter videos sometimes won’t play on the Balloon Juice page, but if you click the tweet and go to Twitter it always plays there (in my experience).
JaySinWA
Ken White https://twitter.com/Popehat he does the RICO and free speech
Lawfare (various authors) https://www.lawfareblog.com/ for non-insane conservative opinion on legal issues
ETA, I see others are pushing Popehat.
JOHN MANCHESTER
I’m a longtime daily lurker and occasional commenter – You can add my Luminous Muse blog to Readers and Friends:
https://www.johnkmanchester.com/blog/
geg6
I would add TPM and New York Magazine’s Intelligencer to the news sites for sure.
And I don’t see LGM listed, though I may have missed it. Lots of us here read it, though.
WaterGirl
@JaySinWA: Lawfare is on there.
WaterGirl
@JOHN MANCHESTER: will do!
WaterGirl
@geg6: thanks
LGM is under Lawyers Guns and Money.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Perhaps an ash or a linden, but not a willow.
Steeplejack (phone)
@WaterGirl:
Any Twitter account is https://twitter.com/ + [@Nym – @], e.g.:
https://twitter.com/ddale8
https://twitter.com/atrupar
NotMax
Out of curiosity, virtually trundled over to the internet archive to pull up a random sample of my defunct blog in order to look at its blogroll and check some items there in order to see if they are still active.
From there, nominate the following for consideration:
Cold Type http://coldtype.net/index.html
Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/
The Progressive https://progressive.org/
.
Have not cross-checked here to see if already included
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Non-political since it mostly covers culture, but he covers politics too.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: What categories?
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: thanks.
Steeplejack (phone)
@WaterGirl:
https://twitter.com/dick_nixon is the one you want.
Monkeyfister
Tengrain’s Mock, Paper, Scissors: mockpaperscissors.com
First Draft: first-draft.com
You Might Notice A Trend: https://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/
Susie Madrak: https://susiemadrak.com/
… are my humble recommendations to this esteemed blogroll. All good, good folks.
Jorge (from Miami)
For college football fans, @edsbs and anybody else associated with @ShutdownFullcas (podcast dead for now). Also the Vacation Bible School podcast is quite interesting.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack (phone): thank you!
WaterGirl
@Jorge (from Miami): I’ll need a link to that one!
NotMax
@WaterGirl
As they are not technically blogs (and include a range of topics), guess all three could fit in News Sites, although they are more like web magazines.
p.a.
Slacktivist… ummm Americana? Liberal Evangelicalism? Recovered Evangelical? Politics Plus
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/
bonddad: political economy. NewDealDem posts there, comments here
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/
world’s healthiest foods: chock full of info, no sales pitch but a cookbook available
http://www.whfoods.org/index.php
WaterGirl
@p.a.: we’vevgot slacktivist, the others are new. thanks
Gary Ratner
dpcreferee.com
That’s me. Blogroll me!
I address something called direct primary care, a controversial health care delivery system. My main concern has been that some wildly exaggeragted claims about its effectiveness in reducing overall healthcare costs ( 85%, says one wingnut ) are used to support various forms of Medicaid parsimony. On the other hand, direct primary care doctors — when staying their own lane — have a potentially useful core idea: don’t take insurance and use the resulting overhead savings for longer visits. But, guess what? It’s complicated!
WaterGirl
@Gary Ratner: will do! thanks.
AM in NC
@cope: I second your recommendation of 3 quarks daily!
schrodingers_cat
@FelonyGovt: Aww thanks for remembering me!
I am also on Twitter and mostly tweet about politics over here and in India and Kittehs!
@ManyWorlds1Cat
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: When you didn’t say anything about your blog last time I posted the last “hey let us know if you want to be on the Friends of BJ blog list”, I assumed you did not want to be included.
Because of that, I would like to make sure that you like to be included. Yes?
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: Yes of course you can include my blog.
FelonyGovt
@schrodingers_cat
You’re welcome. Maybe one day I’ll learn to spell your nym correctly.
schrodingers_cat
@FelonyGovt: You spelled it right. It has two spellings one on the blog and my nym here. It is a long story.
Delk
BBC Food —Every recipe and food stories
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food
J R in WV
One of my favorites, don’t recall if it’s on the BlogRoll list, but is mentioned often here.:
John Scalzi’s blog : https://whatever.scalzi.com/ Sci-Fi, politics, off beat stuff.
Culture and politics…
glc
Some news sites.
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/international
The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/
With regard to the current blogroll, I’d definitely have filed Scalzi’s blog under non-political, but he’s certainly not shying away from politics (on the principle that politics is not shying away from us). Politics tends to take up more of his twitter feed.
John Scalzi on Twitter
https://twitter.com/scalzi
ETA:
@BSR: Ravitch – nice. I’d forgotten all about this one, brings back memories.
p.a.
@AM in NC: That’s still extant! Great! Remember it from long ago (internet time)
suezboo
I don’t know if any of us geezers mentioned it, but Teen Vogue has been excellent lately. Don’t know their url. Not with the kids, ya know. Political commentary.
MomSense
I like the professional left Podcast.
http://professionalleft.blogspot.com/?m=1
Driftglass and Blue gal both contribute at crooks and liars and at their own sites.
https://crooksandliars.com
https://driftglass.blogspot.com/?m=1
BigJimSlade
@WaterGirl: oh, yeah, a big NOOOO! from me, too. I was just making a little joke.
W. Hackwhacker
@WaterGirl: Namaste!
dimmsdale
good heavens, TERI KANEFIELD! Twitter and blog both. To the extent that often the “OMIGOD We’re Doomed!” posts and posters raise my BP, she pulls it down out of the red zone with clear-eyed legalistically-based commentary on limits to Talking Anus’s ability to snuff us all out. (sort of how Adam Silverman does it, though he’s much more military/LEO oriented, whereas Teri has represented indigent defendants and worked election security, lately in GA, as an attorney).
Blog (currently features her on-the-geound reporting on the GA elections)
https://terikanefield-blog.com
Twitter
https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield
For inside Capitol Hill stuff, love Angry Staffer:
https://twitter.com/AngrierWHStaff
For press and media critiques from a woman of color (Soledad O’Brien):
https://twitter.com/soledadobrien
For media and press critiques also, the indispensables: Jay Rosen and Dan Froomkin:
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu
https://twitter.com/froomkin
Thanks for the contributions, everybody, looking forward to reading thru the thread. (Yeah, I also follow Teen Vogue–not to over-use the term, they are woke as HELL over there).
WaterGirl
@BigJimSlade: Me, too. :-)
WaterGirl
All these suggestions are great! I’ll keep an eye on this post for a day or two to be sure I catch all the suggestions, and when I have looked at it for the last time, I will add a comment at the end.
Another Scott
@Miss Bianca: It is indeed hilarious. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
donnah
@W. Hackwhacker: I’ll vouch for Hackwhackers! I love, love, love them! Also voting for their recommendations of Mock, Paper, Scissors and No More Mister Nice Blog.
I check on all of them daily!
Geminid
If Twitter feeds are appropriate I’d recommend Rachel Bitecoffer’s. Good stuff, clear and concise.
Jim Bales
If there will be a list of recommended Twitter feed, I consider that of Patrick Skinner to be mandatory!
If there will be a list of recommended Twitter feeds, I consider that of Patrick Skinner to be mandatory!
@SkinnerPm
I could tell you about him, but that would deprive you the pleasure of discovering him for yourself.
I could tell you about him, but that would deprive you the pleasure of discovering him for yourself.
Best,
Jim
Bex
Chicago Sun Times columnist Neil Steinberg’s Everygoddamnday blog. For everyone who loves Chicago…and who doesn’t? http://www.everygoddamnday.com/
WaterGirl
I think I am going to update the Blogroll and add a separate Twitter Roll.
Sister Golden Bear
Another vote for Joe.My.God — A good aggregator for LGBTQ-related news, and general politics
https://www.joemygod.com/
As well as Hoarse Whisper
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer
Patrick Skinner
https://twitter.com/SkinnerPm
And Hilzoy
https://twitter.com/hilzoy
JAFD
Bret Devereaux’s blog – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry – has only been going for a year or so, but if you’re interested in classics / military history / ‘war in popular culture’, you’ll likely be a steady reader.
acoup.blog
IMAO, everyone should read
https://acoup.blog/2020/03/17/new-acquisitions-hoplite-style-disease-control-march-17-2020/
JAFD
Doug Muder’s The Weekly Sift is an every Monday commentary on the news, from a ‘New England Unitarian Minister’s’ perspective. I like it.
weeklysift.com
On lighter side
BoardGameGeek.com
just what it says
TheMiniaturesPage.com
for grownups who still play with toy soldiers
JAFD
@NotMax: You asked about New Jersey reopening, in earlier thread, is summarized in
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/06/nj-coronavirus-reopening-stage-2-starts-today-here-are-all-details-and-restrictions.html
Was grocery shopping this morn. Most adults masked, store well stocked, including TP and paper towels.
Is about half-mile walk to store, for most of it had no one within 30 feet, so pulled my mask (Very comfortable – thanks, Satby – if your friend makes one ‘baggier’ at bottom that’ll fit over my beard, please let me know.) down to get fresh air.
Hope all is well with you.
dimmsdale
Not exactly blogs, but there are daily/weekly email dispatches I subscribe to from people I first ran across on Twitter (I follow all these on the Twits too, worth searching out IMO): Judd Legum (“Popular Information”), Eric Boehlert’s “Press Run” (another ‘press critique do-not-miss’), John Stoehr (“The Editorial Report”), and of course Adam Silverman in the Ark Valley Voice ( https://arkvalleyvoice.com/category/thinking-security/ –he’s an infrequent poster, you’d think he had another job or something, but always worth a read.)
These are paid subscriptions; inexpensive enough that you can support alternate voices without it hurting too much.
PaulWartenberg
my political blog is at noticeatrend.blogspot.com
BigJimSlade
Another twitter account:
Jelani Cobb
https://twitter.com/jelani9
Cowgirl in the Sandi
Two Twitter feeds I read include Juliet Kayyam – a professor and homeland security expert and Asha Rangappa – who writes on law issues.
https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa
Emma
Hi, I’m back with Twitter account suggestions :D (no particular order, just going down my following list)
Courtney Milan: https://twitter.com/courtneymilan
Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens: https://twitter.com/CSMFHT
Noelle Stevenson: https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing
Attorney Problems: https://twitter.com/AttorneyProbs
Rooted in Rights: https://twitter.com/RootedInRights
Possum Every Hour: https://twitter.com/PossumEveryHour
Emma
Rui Zhong: https://twitter.com/rzhongnotes
Jiayang Fan: https://twitter.com/JiayangFan
N. K. Jemisin: https://twitter.com/nkjemisin
Shireen Ahmed: https://twitter.com/_shireenahmed_
Jay Rayner: https://twitter.com/jayrayner1
Anand Giridharadas: https://twitter.com/AnandWrites
Emma
Dick King-Smith (or rather his surviving family): https://twitter.com/DickKingSmith
Michael Harriot: https://twitter.com/michaelharriot
Laura Seay: https://twitter.com/texasinafrica
Dr. Amanda Dettmer: https://twitter.com/amanda_dettmer
Ben Finkel: https://twitter.com/Benjamin_Finkel
Patrick Weekes: https://twitter.com/PatrickWeekes
Emma
Sorry, WaterGirl, I’m on a roll, CAN’T STOP, but feel free to pick and choose as you wish from my list, lol. Tried my best to have a diverse list of people who don’t already have a million followers.
Ed Yong: https://twitter.com/edyong209
Frankie Huang: https://twitter.com/ourobororoboruo
Jim Sterling: https://twitter.com/JimSterling
Mark Galeotti: https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti
Darth Putin: https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB
70s Dinner Party: https://twitter.com/70s_party
Emma
Last comment, I swear. I very recently discovered this website called “Challenging Performance”: https://challengingperformance.com/ It’s part book-in-progress, part signposting of historical Western classical music performances and academic works on them, and part repository of innovative WCM performances. As someone who played classical piano relatively seriously through my childhood up to the end of college, it’s so refreshing to see people challenging modern notions (i.e. within the last 50 years) of what WCM should sound like, using historical documents and actual recordings that early 20th century composers and musicians made. Carl Reinecke’s version of Mozart would ensure that he never places in modern competitions or conservatories, yet I think only an utter idiot would suggest that he was technically or musically incompetent. (Link for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADxuDONsguY&ab_channel=RobertHill) This is also very personal LOL, because my teeny hands force me to roll chords all the time, like Reinecke does, so he’s now my new musical hero. And he rolls chords more often than not! Yes, I am unreasonably (nah, reasonably) excited about this in the middle of the night!!!
Lumpy
Heather “Digby” Parton’s blog “Hullabaloo”:
https://digbysblog.net
Does The New Republic count as a blog?
https://newrepublic.com
Deep dives on polling, etc from “Electoral-Vote”:
https://electoral-vote.com
David Cay Johnston’s “DC Report”
https://www.dcreport.org
Thanks!
Smalla
For the TwitterRoll: Propane Jane™
@docrocktex26
Chat Noir
I have a few suggestions:
Steve Benen is always a good read: http://www.msnbc.com/maddowblog
Kevin Kruse (historian): https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse
Shauna (Goldengate Blond) (politics and general stuff): https://twitter.com/goldengateblond
Darth (animals and politics): https://twitter.com/darth
BigJimSlade
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer
Sourmash
taskandpurpose.com
From their website:
About Task & Purpose
Task & Purpose is a military and veteran-focused digital media company enjoyed by millions of readers each month. Founded in 2014 by Zach Iscol, Brian Jones, and Lauren Katzenberg, Task & Purpose provides authentic reporting and perspectives on the stories that matter to military members, veterans, and the broader American public.
Our journalists have reported on American veterans being abused in Kuwaiti prisons, the deported veterans being forced to work for Mexican cartels, the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota, and drawn national attention to a longstanding legal rule barring service members from suing the government — even in the face of gross negligence, among many noteworthy examples.
Reporting everywhere from The Pentagon to The White House and beyond, Task & Purpose journalists have also garnered important exclusives, such as the first known insider attack in Syria, confirmation of the first Medal of Honor being awarded to an airman since Vietnam, and the practice of private housing companies forcing families into silence in order to have their problems addressed.
Our contributing writers have included Medal of Honor recipients, President Barack Obama, Senator John McCain, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, leading influencers, noted authors, and more than 500 military service members and veterans who have shared their hard-earned knowledge and expertise with the broader community.
The parent company of Task & Purpose is Grid North Group, which also includes HirePurpose, a job site for military service members, veterans, and spouses that has helped more than 50,000 veterans with employment and 100+ Fortune 1000 companies, and MilSpouse Festivals, an event-based network for military spouses to be able to build community.
WaterGirl
Thanks for all the great suggestions! The window for this round of nominations is now closed.