Rick Hasen, Randall Eliason, Jed Shugerman & me aren't pro-T. All of us are anti-T. But, we all agree Alvin Bragg's prosecution is being misconstrued by media talking heads as being about 'election interference.' There are also deep concerns about the DA's motivation & merits of the case.

Lincoln was shot 159 years ago tomorrow. The original AP report was just *slightly* guilty of burying the lede.

Gettysburg is an example of an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.

File under “lessons not learned.” This step doesn’t enhance “dignity”; rather, it leads, without question, to devaluing the vulnerable.

Thread: Here's what still troubles me about the New York case.

Everyone says the case is not about hush money, it's really about election interference and depriving the voters of important information. But how does that theory work, exactly? 1/

If you are a civic organization, law firm, or book club, you can order copies at a discount bulk rate. If you do, I would be happy to join you in person or via zoom for a discussion of the struggle for equal justice or Steve Bright’s legacy.

UPDATE: Romance is dead.

'Well the cases are zealously prosecuted, why shouldn't they be zealously defended?' Bright asked. 'My understanding is that's what the Constitution and what the canons of ethics require.' Demand The Impossible Southern Center for Human Rights

I’ve been hard on the Cavs but in the East nobody is rolling into the playoffs…

Lol this is a paradigmstic Yang tweet

Strong answer.

Very excited for this conversation with Rick Garnett🇮🇱 about John Inazu’s new book on disagreeing with empathy and respect. John is a natural for your podcast, Robert Wright!

Such a timely book! And if you need a 49-min. primer:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fai…

John Inazu Matthew Kaminski

“The rankings changes are designed to put a governor on moves down—or up—the rankings.”

As usual, Derek T. Muller nails it, and explains in part why our jump wasn’t even greater. Smoothing out volatility in the new compressed neighborhood.

excessofdemocracy.com/blog/the-2024-…

Just all, only, and objectively the important news of the globe, without agenda.

This is really a must-read piece from NPR senior editor Uri Berliner discussing how NPR morphed from a liberal newsroom with some bias to an organization dominated by activists set on telling readers what to think and refusing to account for mistakes.

thefp.com/p/npr-editor-h…