Friday Round Up! 7/12/24

Looking ahead to what's next in the Trump cases and the prospect of Project 2025...it's going to get worse before it gets better.

This is a very short round up because I am packed and ready to go to Costa Rica for eight days! However, I am leaving you with a special edition of the podcast, where Renato and I were joined by CNN legal analyst and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Norm Eisen, who helped us break down the implications of the Supreme Court’s immunity decision on all of Trump’s trials. Norm also discussed one of the ramifications if Trump is elected in November, namely, Project 2025. (Make sure you scroll down to the upcoming events to learn about an in person event on this topic!)

We were hoping that Norm would be the happy panda for this week’s episode. It didn’t quite turn out that way…give it a listen:

My articles this week:

• I wrote about why asymmetrical polarization makes it almost impossible to create a neutral principle for regulating social media content for CAFE Insider

Upcoming events:

• NEW! On July 23 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., I will be part of an amazing lineup of speakers for a conference at NYU entitled Autocracy in America — A Warning and a Response sponsored by State Democracy Defenders Action, Principles First, and Democracy Forward. The event is open to the public and tickets are $25. I hope you will come and learn how we can come together and fight two swing the pendulum back towards our democratic values!

• Zoom Office Hours, Wednesday, July 24, 10-11 a.m. We’ll discuss the latest. Zoom link will be sent three hours before the discussion. This will not be recorded.

• Guest Speaker Andy Norman, author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think, Tuesday, August 13, 12-1 p.m. EDT. We’ll be discussing the psychology of disinformation over the next few weeks in the Substack class, Democracy in the (Dis)Information Age (it’s a great time to jump in, especially if you want to learn how you’ll be manipulated by foreign and domestic propaganda as we approach the election!). Andy will explain how we can develop “cognitive immunity” and become more resilient to attempts to hack our brains. Paid subscribers will receive a Zoom link three hours before the talk. This talk will be recorded and posted for those who can’t attend live.

  I’ll be back in two weeks with the next round up!