I did not hear Mike Pence say he would accept the election results.

For Page not to demand Pence actually answer her question on the peaceful transfer of power is a terrible failure of moderating. It was a good question, and it needs to be answered. The moderator needs to be, on some level, the audience's champion.

This ? comes up often on EP hotline: if you’re in line by the time your polling place closes—even if the line is super long—you can still vote. Polling places *have to* stay open until the last voter in line by closing time has cast their vote. Call 866-our-vote if any issues

Donald Trump deserves to lose this election, and to lose it by more than he will. He has governed cruelly, and he has governed poorly. Our disagreements are real, but there should be basic moral standards and professional expectations for our leaders, and he is beneath them.

This column is basically a long list of thank you’s to the coalition and organizers that made this win possible. And what a list! This election represents a shared victory, an intense relief, and, yet, only the beginning of the work that needs to be done.

Looking forward to this conversation!

This. To the "our institutions are resilient" crowd: The Republican Party is an institution! One of our most important. One of our most powerful. And it is not resilient. It's a catastrophe. And it stretches across all our other institutions, and controls many of them.

Most elements of Joe Biden's Covid-19 plan "are surprising only because they are not already happening," Ezra Klein writes. "All of this should’ve been done months ago." nyti.ms/3sDxfMi

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Kevin Alexis Arango Madrigal and the The COVID Tracking Project team. We'd be flying much blinder during this pandemic if not for them. We KFF have benefited from their data and will continue tracking everything we can. kff.org/coronavirus-co…

In emotional recounting, Rep. Jamie Raskin says members of his family hid under a desk during the Capitol siege, "placing what they thought were their final texts and whispered phone calls to say their goodbyes. They thought they were going to die." abcn.ws/2Z26umU

Majority rule and greater political equality — what Mike Lee called “rank democracy” — are the solutions to the extremism and instability engendered by minority rule.

Looking forward to this discussion this evening! 7pm Eastern, Zoom link with free registration

David Colby Reed, doctoral student in Team Danielle Wood & MIT Media Lab, speaks Friday 11 June at 11am ET on “Designing for Democratic Equality Among Future Spacefarers” during the seminar hosted by University of Edinburgh. Learn more and join the event: media.mit.edu/events/david-c…

Citizenship for Dreamers is just and long overdue. Foossa is proud to lend its voice to the campaign to urge Congress to address this harmful policy gap.

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Ezra Klein One stab: if Greek tragedy is the expression of the worldview that things are fated and fixed, multiverse/alt self stories are an expression of a worldview of deep contingency in the shape of your life.

A thread on a few of the more than 200 (!!!) research publications in 2022 ALONE that are developing ideas of #DesignJustice across multiple fields:

“I don't fucking care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the fucking mags away." -- Trump on Jan 6, according to WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson

.David Colby Reed and I are in this Bloomberg piece where we shared a bit of our story of buying and electrifying the 122 year old house that we just bought in Providence

Should have taken out a PPP loan and paid my student debt with it