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Let’s think about an interesting thing I could do with a Substack newsletter. I have taken it upon myself for many years to try and understanding the plumbing of our

(1) Presidential emergency medical evacuation to Walter Reed is one of the most well-rehearsed contingency plans - certainly a very dramatic visual. Early this summer, the White House Military Office

I used to think that the @JoeBiden campaign had no counter disinformation strategy. Now I think that the President’s disinformation avalanche has had the effect of rebutting and limiting itself,

(1) How should TV news cover a president who makes existential threats to democracy as a habit without paralyzing the agency of voters and without giving in to the obvious

Be media competent. LA is not “on fire.” A few buildings are on fire. The streets outside a few hot zones (in areas crossing class & racial lines) are

Journalists do have a agenda. The quicker we admit it, the more crisply we can shape it. (Truth, participation, evidence, democracy, science, curiosity, anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian.). That’s our side. This is

The next president needs to appoint a continuity and resiliency of government commission alongside any 9/11-style investigations. That committee shall be empowered to make recommendations that Congress would pledge to