The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writes that the “storming of the Capitol didn’t happen in a vacuum, and it’s wildly dishonest to pretend it did. The goal of the rioters was to create a disruption, to create so much chaos that Congress couldn’t get through the formality of certifying Joe Biden’s election, to create a delay that would have afforded either state legislators or Republican members of the House of Representatives the opportunity to flip the election to Trump.” writes that “this is a dangerous powder keg — a Right Wing Speaker who believes the Big Lie, an increasingly unhinged former President, and a Republican base that believes violence may be the only way to preserve America as they know it.” writes that the “attack Jan 6 happened for one reason: Donald Trump. This was part of his illegal plan to stay in power despite losing. Yet here we are three years since Jan 6 and Trump still walks free while hundreds of his followers sit in federal prisons for the crimes they committed at his urging and on his behalf.” writes “It’s as if the coup attempt has never ended, its lead inciter remains determined to prove the rule of law does not apply to him, and the only thing that matters is power itself—perversely made that much more pleasurable if the hated libs and their beloved systems of justice and democracy are the ones taking the blows.” writes that “it’s a bit rich that the same conservative legal theorists who pride themselves on an ‘originalist’ approach to the Constitution — where the intent of the authors matters above all else — have twisted themselves into knots trying to read the clear, simple language of the Fourteenth Amendment while somehow squinting through a microscope to discover nearly unlimited rights to modern weapons of war in the Second Amendment. The constitutional mandate is clear.” writes “Only three days into 2024, legislators have already submitted 125 bills targeting the transgender community this year, surpassing the 50 bills filed at this time in 2023. The previous year marked one of the worst in U.S. history for anti-trans legislation.” writes that “until Substack, I was not aware of any major US consumer internet platform that stated it would not remove or even demonetize Nazi accounts. Even in a polarized world, there remains broad agreement that the slaughter of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust was an atrocity. The Nazis did not commit the only atrocity in history, but a platform that declines to remove their supporters is telling you something important about itself.”Comments
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