Heather Cox Richardson on the NRA
In today’s installment of Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson, historian, offers a brief history of the NRA’s shift from “sports” to “gun rights.”
And speaking of AOC
She’s leading an effort (one of many, of course) to raise money for Texans in need.
Death wishes
Donald Trump expresses more interest in preserving “beautiful monuments” than in preserving American lives. Truly, Trump equals death.
A dark thought, but I’ll air it
The Trump* cult — No mask? No test? No problem! — really is a death cult.
“Vote as if your life depends on it”
Tony Schwartz, Donald Trump*’s ghostwriter: “Understanding what we’re truly up against — the reign of terror that Trump will almost surely wage the moment he believes he can completely prevail — makes the upcoming presidential election a true Armageddon. “Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does.”
A “lethal aversion to reading”
“It's not a stretch to say that if the president read, thousands of lives might have been saved”: in The Week, Windsor Mann writes about Donald Trump*’s “lethal aversion to reading.”
Meltdown
From the Financial Times, an utterly damning summary of the Trump* administration’s response to pandemic.
Emma González for Congress
She addressed a rally for gun control and called B.S.
The New York Times : “End the Gun Epidemic in America”
“It is past time to stop talking about halting the spread of firearms, and instead to reduce their number drastically — eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition.”
Days and shootings
In the United States in 2015, mass shootings are outnumbering the days of the year.