Excellent reminder that we must get our younger folk to run for the local and state offices that so impact our daily lives. It may seem small, or dull BUT it is the foundation of how we operate as a democracy. The best of us has to participate and engage in discussion of issues and planning of action. Ben Franklin would organize all of us.
For four years under sessions and then especially under Barr, the Trump administration worked to politicize the DOJ. I have said for sometime now that Garland knows what he is doing and yes this is a sensitive issue. The first person the Rosen spoke to when it was clear he could was IG Horowitz. You want to change the focus of the administration off the legislation front and replace it with prosecutorial headlines. That obviously is not what Garland or the Biden administration want. I would only request that the newsletter tone down its drumbeat of attacks on Garland. I believe he is trying to rebuild the department and at the same time insure that if there has been misconduct by employees of DOJ it will be brought out. Horowitz did a very solid job of uncovering DOJ misconduct at the beginning of the Mueller investigation.
Whatever you do do NOT tone down your attacks on Garland and the people who want to sweep what the GOP and tRump did to this country. If this is not dealt with, as you say, the next time around we may not even get a little bump back from the precipice of fascism.
Your description of the GOP as increasingly “feral” is pitch-perfect. Thank you for focussing on positives in spite of the incessant second guessing of Manichin, the suicidal vociferousness of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, and the slow seep of poison from the noisy members of the fascist fan club into the body politic. I agree that the best antidote is politic al and social engagement, action-based advocacy, and unflinching devotion to democratic principles. Your columns are a boon in these seemingly dark days.
We need to fight the perception that whites are threatened, when they are not. The census data will show a decline in whites only because the Census Bureau uses the most restrictive possible definition of whites and the most expansive possible definition of non-whites. Anyone who might identify as white and something else (and that's a lot of people!) gets defined only as the something else. This choice is pernicious and inaccurate. See https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/myth-majority-minority-america/619190/
It may be that it the Attorney General is not doing his job in turning to Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate the Trump coup. It might be appropriate for Horowitz to investigate the Justice Department's role in the attempted coup. I'll add -- Michael Horowitz is a thoughtful man and a person of integrity.
Excellent reminder that we must get our younger folk to run for the local and state offices that so impact our daily lives. It may seem small, or dull BUT it is the foundation of how we operate as a democracy. The best of us has to participate and engage in discussion of issues and planning of action. Ben Franklin would organize all of us.
For four years under sessions and then especially under Barr, the Trump administration worked to politicize the DOJ. I have said for sometime now that Garland knows what he is doing and yes this is a sensitive issue. The first person the Rosen spoke to when it was clear he could was IG Horowitz. You want to change the focus of the administration off the legislation front and replace it with prosecutorial headlines. That obviously is not what Garland or the Biden administration want. I would only request that the newsletter tone down its drumbeat of attacks on Garland. I believe he is trying to rebuild the department and at the same time insure that if there has been misconduct by employees of DOJ it will be brought out. Horowitz did a very solid job of uncovering DOJ misconduct at the beginning of the Mueller investigation.
Whatever you do do NOT tone down your attacks on Garland and the people who want to sweep what the GOP and tRump did to this country. If this is not dealt with, as you say, the next time around we may not even get a little bump back from the precipice of fascism.
Your description of the GOP as increasingly “feral” is pitch-perfect. Thank you for focussing on positives in spite of the incessant second guessing of Manichin, the suicidal vociferousness of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, and the slow seep of poison from the noisy members of the fascist fan club into the body politic. I agree that the best antidote is politic al and social engagement, action-based advocacy, and unflinching devotion to democratic principles. Your columns are a boon in these seemingly dark days.
We need to fight the perception that whites are threatened, when they are not. The census data will show a decline in whites only because the Census Bureau uses the most restrictive possible definition of whites and the most expansive possible definition of non-whites. Anyone who might identify as white and something else (and that's a lot of people!) gets defined only as the something else. This choice is pernicious and inaccurate. See https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/myth-majority-minority-america/619190/
It may be that it the Attorney General is not doing his job in turning to Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate the Trump coup. It might be appropriate for Horowitz to investigate the Justice Department's role in the attempted coup. I'll add -- Michael Horowitz is a thoughtful man and a person of integrity.