The power of fear, cowardice, & avarice in a corrupted party is part of why the leader of an authoritarian personality cult reigns over Members who could stop all of this tomorrow.

But the NAR & “vessel theology” is the key to understanding Trump’s hold on them:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Apo...

5 years ago, I voted remotely online here in DC, after DC government failed to send me an absentee ballot in a pandemic:
www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-...
I still don’t think it’s a good idea at scale, but small experiments & pilots are the right way to manage risk.

Secret laws remain toxic for democracy

The People’s House belongs to all , not any one politician or party. That’s also true of the White House website, every part of which should be accessible to all Americans & scrupulously nonpartisan.

It is a national embarrassment that this White House is weaponizing US government resources for partisan purposes — a corrupt abuse of entrusted power. (It is also unethical for @cnn.com to grant US officials anonymity to defend corruption.)

It’s hard to be in a pot boiling with billions of other frogs

Beware a wag of the dog in the Caribbean or Middle East

“For New Mexico – and New York City — to deliver, it needs to hire a lot of people well & fast, streamline and right-size licensing & certification procedures, manage these processes through appropriate technology, & adjust along the way as the state learns from what’s working & what isn’t.”-