Friday Round Up! 7/5/24
Hope you're enjoying what might be our last Independence Day.
I’m currently sneaking out of a family reunion to get out this round up, so I’m keeping it short — but I have another piece with an analysis of the Supreme Court’s immunity decision which I hope to get out by tomorrow.
In the meantime, here are some preliminary thoughts on the podcast with Renato, along with a breakdown of the Court’s overruling of Chevron and what that portends. Make sure you look below for a new guest speaker coming up next month!
My clips from this week:
Articles worth reading:
This piece from Law Dork by Chris Geidner on Justice Roberts’s abandonment of his purported institutionalist principles
Upcoming events:
NEXT WEEK! Freedom Academy Book Club with Jim Sciutto, author of The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War, Wednesday, July 10, 10-11 a.m. I’m very excited that my former CNN colleague, Jim Sciutto, will be joining to discuss the new great power competition and what it means for the U.S. I love Jim’s work and insights into national security issues and this is a discussion you won’t want to miss! Paid subscribers will receive a Zoom link three hours before. This talk will be recorded and posted for those who can’t attend live.
NEW: 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.
NEW! 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.
More to come soon on the immunity case (and a class lesson later next week), so stay tuned! Hope you have a wonderful Fourth weekend — I’ll be singing this:
Now School House Rock will kick aside another song that my young nephew was singing and I couldn't get out of my head from yesterday. My God, I thought the same thing about being our last Independence Day. I had read some argument how although the President is now immune from prosecution for official acts, that anything carried out by subbordinates that is illegal can be prosecuted. Gee, ever heard of Presidential Pardons? I am not sure which was worn out most at the Trump White House: the revolving door of "the best" cabinet members / advisors, the counter at the pill dispensary, or the pardon printer they must have installed like a parking meter. I am cynical, but optimistic...is that possible?
You are my expert on this, Asha. Thank you for taking the time to update us. I saw your DEFCON 1 post earlier this week and am spreading the word as best I can.