“A colorful crew this is not — although its racial and gender diversity would fulfill Biden’s pledge to name a cabinet that looks like America. But after four years of chaos, dull looks gorgeous.” americaninterregnum.substack.com/p/reasons-to-b…
“Republicans at the state level have made a notable habit [of] stripping offices of power when Dems take them over. As they pack their belongings, administration officials can do something kindred in spirit: stripping their successors of policy options.” americaninterregnum.substack.com/p/reasons-to-b…
We’ll be doing these updates on the transition, and the last embers of Trump’s crashed legal gambit, thrice weekly through Jan. 21. Read here & subscribe: americaninterregnum.substack.com/p/reasons-to-b…
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I’m not a boomer — but the best move I made for my mental health and stability, over the last few years, has been mostly tuning out Facebook and Instagram.
FB's platforms are built by design to manipulate human psychology — to foster engagement and to keep people on the site.
Insta has pretty pictures — and both sites give me easy access to old friends. But the only way to win, when engaging on either, is not to play.
“Facebook knowingly pushes polarizing misinformation, particularly to conservatives, because it’s addictive and despite knowing exactly what they’re doing and why it’s wrong and making the world worse.”
Presuming that the rule of law holds and a free and fair vote count proceeds, we’ll publish this through January 20, 2021. If that presumption proves false … well, we have much bigger problems than a newsletter.
As if to prove my point in the newsletter that the right-wing justices of the Supreme Court have taken a side, this news comes about its latest foray into stifling votes:
What has me livid about the president’s coronavirus pageant is that the infections he insists on causing won’t _stay_ on the White House grounds. People who work around him have to come back into our communities — and shop in our grocery stores, and send kids to our schools.
He’s putting all of us in D.C. and its environs at risk. He’s putting the work we’ve done to combat the spread of the coronavirus at risk. He’s putting our ability of kids to see their friends at risk. And he’s doing it for insane, bulls–– reasons.
Recall the Maine wedding cluster of infections? Tracers identified 8 resulting deaths — none involving people who attended the wedding.
It’s no wonder the White House refuses to allow contact tracing. We might learn that Trump’s idiocy killed people. wcvb.com/article/8th-de…
Trump finds every hole in our systems, every gap in our norms, every spot where our supposed “guardrails” are made of papier-mâché.
Caring for the commander in chief in a military hospital means that as a patient, they can order whatever the f– they want. So here we are.
Anyhow, he’s going to hotbox the entire White House permanent staff — not the political flunkies who signed up for this ride, but the household workers, groundskeepers, and others who expect a president to show even a modicum of care for their welfare. Spare a thought for them.
Anyway, I now care as much about how well he fares through this disease as much as he apparently does.