I hope you enjoy the 4th of July.
Summer Concepcion, Talking Points Memo, Jan. 6 Panel Members Say New Witnesses Have Come Forward After Hutchinson’s Testimony.
Dan Balz, Washington Post, Why Republicans should be nervous about their candidates for governor
Dana Milbank, Washington Post, Et tu, Alito? Murder of stare decisis creates legal circus maximus.
Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, Will Reactionaries Impose a Red-State Social Order on the Rest of Us?
Trump rips Liz Cheney after she suggests Jan. 6 charges (nypost.com)
Trump is exhibiting all the signs of a cornered animal. He's so desperate to shed the scrutiny of his crimes he doesn't know where to strike. In a sense it's sorta like the tale in A Christmas Carol except Trump is being visited by the ghost of wrongdoings past.
Enjoyed the time off but for me the sheen on the "holiday" has long since been blasted off by history and present day realities. A lot of us weren't "free" on what's ironically called "Independence Day." And the nation subsequently birthed codified that lack of freedom in its Constitution while mocking us in its "Declaration of Independence." The vestiges of these founding hypocrisies, even after a civil war, have endured to this day, thanks to a continued inability to honestly reckon with the past.
Frederick Douglass captured the moment in 1852, and his words endure:
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, WHAT, TO THE SLAVE, IS THE FOURTH OF JULY