No thanks to this newsgroup, but I read elsewhere that
the local newspaper can be read through it's paywall
by selecting Reader View in the web browser and then
Reload the page.

So if you want to see the latest New York Times
missive that 'Trump was elected and therefore the
constitution is a failure, voting doesn't work and
must be radically changed' you can visit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-constitution-unitary-executive.html

select Reader View and then Reload the page.

Beware of the creeps who say that because they
don't like who was elected president that means that
the constitution must be radically changed!
If *every* journalist said so it wouldn't prove it
is true, only that all journalists are the same.






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On Aug 24, 2025 at 12:13:28 AM PDT, "Pluted Pup" <plutedpup@outlook.com>
wrote:

No thanks to this newsgroup, but I read elsewhere that
the local newspaper can be read through it's paywall
by selecting Reader View in the web browser and then
Reload the page.

So if you want to see the latest New York Times
missive that 'Trump was elected and therefore the
constitution is a failure, voting doesn't work and
must be radically changed' you can visit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-constitution-unitary-executive.html

select Reader View and then Reload the page.

Beware of the creeps who say that because they
don't like who was elected president that means that
the constitution must be radically changed!
If *every* journalist said so it wouldn't prove it
is true, only that all journalists are the same.

"There is a very good reason for that congressional
supremacy. Congress-- particularly the House of
Representatives-- is our most democratic, most
representative branch of government. It's Congress
more than the presidency (or any court) that makes
our country a democracy. But now Congress is our
weakest branch of government. It's wholly defined by
the president. When it's controlled by the president's
party, it's entirely supine. When it's controlled by the
opposition, it's defiant. But it's never truly independent.
It is not exerting its own will."

That's because it doesn't want to. Our modern Congress is terrified of passing laws. That's why they've created the zoo of federal agencies to do it for
them. They create the Department of Education, for example, so they don't have to do the work of actual regulation themselves. They pass it off to an agency so they can be blameless when half their constituents hate the results. We are ruled by unelected bureaucrats. Other than the budget bills, Congress rarely does anything of note and that's they way they like it.



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On 2025-08-24 07:13:28 +0000, Pluted Pup said:

No thanks to this newsgroup, but I read elsewhere that
the local newspaper can be read through it's paywall
by selecting Reader View in the web browser and then
Reload the page.

<snip>

I don't know how well any of them work, but there are websites and apps
that bypass paywalls.

Two websites are:
<https://12ftladder.net/>
<https://www.removepaywall.com/>

For some websites you can simply choose Select All from the Edit menu,
then Copy and Paste the text into any word processor app to read the
full article. Other websites you can view the page source and read the
full article, but it is in HTML code, so full of layout commands.


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Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2025-08-24 07:13:28 +0000, Pluted Pup said:

No thanks to this newsgroup, but I read elsewhere that
the local newspaper can be read through it's paywall
by selecting Reader View in the web browser and then
Reload the page.

<snip>

I don't know how well any of them work, but there are websites and apps
that bypass paywalls.

In order for that to work, the Web server still has to serve the page to
begin with. I try reading without javascript or reading without CSS,
which in Firefox is View > Page Style > No Style.

But if the page wasn't served to begin with, or only the first paragraph
was served, then there's no underlying text to read.

Two websites are:
<https://12ftladder.net/>
<https://www.removepaywall.com/>

These are archives. It's not available immdeiately.

This lists additional archiving sites.

https://byebyepaywall.com/en/

For some websites you can simply choose Select All from the Edit menu,
then Copy and Paste the text into any word processor app to read the
full article. Other websites you can view the page source and read the
full article, but it is in HTML code, so full of layout commands.

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