Individuals bear the costs of speaking out but don't capture the collective benefits for democracy. A classic externality - and one that could doom our system of government.

All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders We put them all in one place.

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

Collins: Is there a tangible concession in your view?

Davidson: Yeah, absolutely. It’s a commitment from Trudeau to help with fentanyl

Collins: He announced that plan six weeks ago.

Davidson: Well, at least he's reiterated it

Preemptive Pardons? I think the preemptive pardon issue—the idea that President Biden should use pardons for people who have not been charged yet but may be at risk under the Trump Administration—is a very difficult one ...

Reupping this piece from when preemptive pardons first came up now that Biden has issued them, explaining recipients have to accept them before they’re effective. joycevance.substack.com/p/preemptive...

My statement on President Biden's pardon:

The *least* you can do:

Refuse to patronize businesses that (1) disrespect Jimmy Carter - and the law - and (2) seek to ingratiate themselves to the orange shitgibbon & his flying monkeys by raising their flag to full staff before Jan. 28.

#HalfStaffOrNoBusiness

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

Damn. They make it look so easy being lawless grifters.

If you feel inclined to just give up and tune out right now, this is the most important thing you can read and take to heart. Marc Elias has worked more tirelessly than any human I can think of to actively help save our democracy, and his words here are incredibly important:

Unearthed Video Shows RFK Jr. Comparing Donald Trump To Adolf Hitler RFK Jr. has since apologized for making the remarks

BREAKING: RFK Jr. called Trump supporters idiots and compared Trump to Hitler in a new unearthed video.

The latest from @meidastouch.bsky.social: meidasnews.com/news/unearth...

There it is

Quote saying his political posts are because he loves his country and feels it’s his patriotic duty to oppose “this demented sociopath with every fibre of me being.”

Be like Mark Hamill.

We need to get back to reading and critical thinking Because 2024 feels different from 2016.

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

All of this ⤵️⤵️⤵️