Yesterday, Wonkette had a link to a site which tracks lower level elections all over the US – state level, of course, including primaries, but all the way down to city council level as well. I’m posting the link because I think we have learned the hard way that we ignore this information at our peril. Also, the ACLU emailed regarding four cases they are working on which will essentially affect everyone. I don’t have a link, so I’ll just list them. U.S. v. Skrmetti. Louisiana v. Callais. Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton. Mahmoud v. Taylor. All have been heard by the Supremes and decisions will start coming out next week. Finally, ACLU promises they will keep me (and some of you who are member-donors) updated on what the decisions mean for real people. Incidentally, has anyone heard from Freya? I haven’t and neither has Evelyn, who emailed to ask me if I had.
The F* News is on to something here that we should all latch on to. Granted that it’s nowhere near as easy to use for citizens as it is for foreign nations – that still needs work – but it should be something we can find a way to use.
What’s the point of learning history? Well, there are many reasons. One is that the truth is important in itself – another is to be able to accurately credit (and if appropriate discredit) those who preceded us for their accomplishments. But probably the best reason is in order to avoid making the same mistakes over and over. As a race, the human race is not very good at that. There are many ways in which we as a society have failed, and that failure has led to where we are now. Robert Reich here discusses just one of them.
