Since people are talking about how Jack Smith is focusing on lawyers, reupping piece from [👀] January noting how--at that point--at least 25 lawyers were subjects or witnesses.

At every stage this has provably added time to the investigation.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/01/09/at-least-25-lawyers-are-subjects-or-witnesses-in-the-various-trump-investigations/

Republicans spent 40 years destroying the Democrats’ brand, with a little help from the neoliberals within the Democratic Party. Now, Democrats have an opportunity to turn the tables and they damn well better take it soon! Will they do it?

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/are-republicans-facing-a-branding?r=nl8r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Why aren’t Republicans out in front of the idea that we need to build a modern electrical grid which supplies people and our businesses energy in a sophisticated and superior way, increasing American competitiveness in the 21st-century and overall helping everyone’s health?

Is there one single forward-looking idea anywhere to be found in today’s Republican Party? Newsflash, tax cuts for billionaires ain’t it. Standing in the middle of the tracks with your arms folded while the freight train known as the future obliterates you is not a genius political strategy in the long run.

But then, fully investing in developing anything that would help anyone outside their high-level donors is beyond Republicans at this time.

California’s EVs are already improving air quality and public health-
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/23583500/ev-electric-car-california-air-pollution-asthma-health

Last year, the top railroads made over $26 billion in profits and paid their wealthy shareholders over $20 billion in stock buybacks and dividends.

But these companies claim they can't afford to give rail workers paid sick leave?