Elizabeth Bear: This is good actually. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is good actually. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Biden pardons veterans convicted under military ban on gay sexwww.bbc.com The announcement, which came during Pride month, will affect thousands of veterans.

I notice I had to go to a UK source to find coverage from a major outlet.

Apparently that was just Google fuckery, and the usual suspects covered it. I didn't get push notifications from any of the ones I subscribe to, though.

What they choose to do push notifications for is significant too.

It's terrific news, but for the record, the major US sources covered it! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/u... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... apnews.com/article/bide... www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Oh good. Google failing me, then. The top hits they have me were Bloomberg and the Washington Times.

Ugh, Google is getting worse and and worse for search, I'm afraid. I hope better alternatives come along!

DuckDuckGo did a better job.

Duck Duck Go yields consistent news results for mainstream national stories such as this. Local stuff, not so much.

DuckDuckGo doesn't provide Google Books results. Ok, for news stuff it's not relevant, but I'm wedded to Google for my historical interests.

That’s all Google does anymore.

I didn’t get a push alert on iPhone from either NYT or WaPo on this. (I subscribe to both). Did get several on opinionists’ speculation regarding how his debate performance would land with voters.

Likewise

Yes - I first saw it here, posted as an AP link last week. apnews.com/article/bide...

Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex banapnews.com President Joe Biden is pardoning potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex.

Also, I've seen reports that the pardon for sodomy charges doesn't cover vaguer "immoral behavior" dismissals which were at least as common.

I got a push notification to my phone late last week via Google News from some major outlet or other (CNN, NYT, WaPo, something like that).

I think I heard it on either NPR or MSNBC last week.

It is. I'm old. I didn't even start questioning the criminalization of sodomy until the 90s, I'm very embarrassed to say. This is very good news.

This is one of those things that makes you mad nobody had done it yet

this should have been done at the same time as the repeal of DADT, without needing a president to step in

Sure. An a11y would have done this during week 1 though, not when they're desperate at end of term.

This is excellent good.

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