Discussing blanket pardons draws us off of the real issue, the concern that Trump will pervert the criminal justice system & use DOJ as a political tool, which is forcing the Biden administration into these considerations. Don't forget why we're here.

@harrylitman.bsky.social resigned from the Los Angeles Times. Read why, in Harry’s own words. Brave. Insightful. Principled. Bravo, Harry! open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

In politics clarity is its own opportunity. The storm of the 2024 election has created great clarity. The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and 3rd richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, are currently asking a group of Trump judges to end the right to organize & join a union in the United States.

Well right. Of course.

If you’re not already, you should be reading Timothy Snyder. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Can’t believe I almost made it through a Nov 30 w/o two acknowledgments:

Happy Birthday to the ancestor, still unbought and unbossed, Shirley Chisholm

Happy Anniversary to everyone who was there in the streets of Seattle to shut down the WTO and forever change global struggle

Customers, investors, and employees of corporate firms should pay close attention to what Ian is describing. Be alert to what companies do or don’t do. Use your voice to hold corporate leaders accountable.

Autocratic capture is a term we coined to describe how regimes uses regulatory powers to enforce political loyalty among business leaders. Remember Disney? So do American corporate leaders: protectdemocracy.org/work/desanti...

For years we’ve been warning about “autocratic capture,” a phenomenon in which a regime uses govt power to coerce political loyalty from business leaders.

This story suggests corporate America is eager to be captured. More on autocratic capture in the next post. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

When someone’s own mother calls them an “abuser of women,” my god.

That’s not just “different views,” or something to which the president is entitled “deference.”

That’s a clear sign of someone who should not be in a position of power and it’s precisely the Senate’s job to guard against that.

With Patel, the nominees have gone beyond mere election deniers to actual post-Nov. 3, 2020, coup conspirators.

Each time our nation has advanced closer to the more inclusive, pluralist, multi-racial democracy to which we’ve aspired at our best, that advance was preceded by a period of crisis and conflict.

This time is no different. A better democracy is on the other side of this crisis.

Eyes on the prize