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I have been appreciating @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's writing a good deal these days www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-more-y...

The word “terrorism” is used constantly by authoritarian governments to justify eroding basic civil liberties, and it is far better to provide civil liberties to everyone than to give the government wide license to determine who gets them and who doesn’t. www.currentaffairs.org/news/trust-m...

This is how people counter dumb executive orders…a great story. www.cbsnews.com/news/concert...

"The goal of 'America First' isn’t 'America First.' It’s 'Trump Forever.'"

Thank you Cate Klepacki for your courage and your service! "My colleagues at USAID are the kind of people who run toward the fire. Around the world, in the midst of humanitarian crises, they provide lifesaving aid to those most in need." #saveforeignassistance www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

January 6th will not be erased

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.

2009 Obama 28°F 1977 Carter 28°F 1961 Kennedy 22°F It’s not about the cold… it’s about the small crowd size.

Proposal: We make January 6 a national holiday. Every year, the party out of power is given an attempt to capture the government in DC with a two-hour head start before the major police responses begin.

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Here is my response to Donald Trump’s latest malicious lies:

The Washington Post’s editorial cartoonist quits after editors spike cartoon mocking tech billionaires (including WashPost owner Jeff Bezos) for sucking up to Trump open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Posting this story about how Ann Telnaes got censored not least bc it'll disseminate the image Jeff Bezos censored. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Today being the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, on December 5, 1933, we pause to remember the particularly measured and balanced reaction of perhaps greatest judge of the 20th century, Judge Learned Hand, to Prohibition's end: