Comparing current, seemingly random brutality deployed by federal agents in Minneapolis and St.Paul with repression and terror of regimes in history: Soviet KGB terror, for example, was fundamentally random. “A regime based on terror … deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it.”
One small test will be whether recent special counsel reports about the president on justice.gov are left in place on the web.
In The Atlantic, Lora Kelley digs into the complicated reality of what role nominees for vice president have in determining election outcomes. This, plus polling about J.D. Vance, gives me optimism about Kamala Harris’s campaign, and I have some thoughts on Senator Mark Kelly’s credibility on a unique set of important issues.
Canadian news media engagement is down, less news is being consumed, and many Canadians do not even realize the shift has occurred. MEO’s Information Ecosystem Brief, “Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta’s News Ban in Canada”, looks at what happened when Meta banned news for users in Canada.
On the U.S. Supreme Court majority’s policy choices in Trump v. United States and Trump v. Anderson: “They’re not textual, they should not be constitutional, and they contradict the wiser judgment of the founders in key ways.”