Source: TomDispatch
by Clarence Lusane

“Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly written in the 22nd Amendment that ‘no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice’, it may well be a majority vote of the Supreme Court that determines whether that applies to Trump. In the past, that court has gotten around the Constitution without a single word of it being changed. Rather, its judges have let an innovative interpretation prevail. In 1896, for instance, in Plessy v. Ferguson, the court ignored the unambiguous language of the 14th Amendment that demanded ‘equal protection’ and so upheld racial segregation by creating the fiction of ‘separate but equal’. It would take 58 years before that lie would be overturned.” (01/15/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/just-as-dangerous/

Source: The New Republic
by Matt Ford

“The public is coming around to the notion that the agency has to be eliminated. Fortunately, this administration and its Supreme Court allies have made that incredibly easy.” (01/15/26)

https://archive.is/4xfvE

Source: The Dispatch
by Katharine B Stevens & Jenet Erickson

“‘[F]ree’ child care is one of the rare proposals to attract support across the political spectrum — from progressives concerned about affordability and gender equity to conservatives hoping to boost family formation and the labor force. It looks like a simple, popular solution to several hard problems at once. But political appeal is not the same as sound policy for young children. This sweeping plan to shift the care of America’s young children from their families to paid providers is wrong for children, not what most parents want, and undervalues the family’s irreplaceable role in early development.” (01/15/26)

https://archive.is/jGN9y

Source: hypertext
by Brink Lindsey

“OK, so abundance has legs — but what kind of creature are they attached to? And where are those legs capable of taking us? What are the appropriate contours of the concept — we want an abundance of what, exactly? And what’s the social vision behind this desire for more — we want abundance for what?” (01/15/26)

https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/abundance-of-what-abundance-for-what

Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders

“Our big, important job, before we can change our systems, is to figure out how to dampen dynamics that hasten humiliation or deny dignity. In other words, how do we help people keep their cool?” (01/15/26)

https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-desire-for-recognition

Source: OtherWords
by Farrah Hassen

“On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis—a city long enriched by immigrants and now under assault from thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents. Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother of three, was driving alongside her wife, Becca. They were observing an ICE raid in their community. ‘We stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns,’ said Becca. Sadly, at least three other people have been killed by ICE officers in the last five months, according to The Marshall Project. Among them was Silverio Villegas González, a 38-year-old father and cook originally from Mexico, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop in a Chicago suburb. Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two (and, like Good, a US citizen) was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles.” (01/15/25)

https://otherwords.org/ice-puts-all-of-us-in-danger/