Belarusian cyber partisans hacked the Belarus KGB database & shared thousands of informant tips ('donos') over the last 9 years. People reported on their relatives & neighbors, many tips came from Russians. That's a disturbing reading, reminiscent of Stalin or Third Reich times.

A warning to America -- Timothy Snyder

The Spiegel Cover is quite something.

'Landesverräter' means traitor and it is a fitting term, but their revelations are even worse. The far-right AfD not only takes money from Russia and China, their manifest was even written in Moscow.

1.5 years ago the Russian government…

POTUS has no official role in the 1/6 count. When a candidate pressures/threatens the President of the Senate (Pence), pressures and lobbies state legislatures & members of Congress, and oversees a fraudulent elector scheme, his acts are private. And plotting to appoint an AG in…

Police aim sniper rifles at protestors at Ohio State. This is not what any of us — people bearing responsibility for universities — should be doing. It contravenes basic values and risks tragic deaths. dispatch.com/story/news/edu…

As I wrote on Tuesday, the *most* antisemitic thing happening on college campuses right now is the fact that Republicans have goaded college presidents, who now fear for their jobs, into joining the GOP in using Jews as a political weapon. puck.news/newsletter_con…

Really hating the mask here.

Look, I obviously know the circumstances are different, but there is a ton of overlap between what is going on now and the various iterations of the so-called campus free speech wars that we’ve seen for years. We know how this will unfold. Here’s a sneak preview.

More Carl Schmitt than James Madison in the Supreme Court yesterday.

As Trump’s lawyers are reminding us, a president who is above the law in principle is a vicious dictator in practice.

Frog in boiling water alert:

Who could have imagined 8 years ago that in the Trump era the Supreme Court would be considering whether a president should be above the law for assassinating opponents or ordering a military coup and that *at least* four justices might agree.