Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social)

Every incoming House and Senate Democrat should sign one letter to the President and the Secretary of Defense, copying the Joint Chiefs: this Congress has not authorized renewed war with Iran, and it will not pay for one. Article I isn't a suggestion.

As somebody who has spent years writing about liberalism as a philosophy rather than a party label, I need to say something about Abdul El-Sayed: I have never seen a politician who understands and practices it like he does. I've argued that liberalism starts from one question: Asked about the groups that spent millions attacking his character, El-Sayed said: "If you have an argument to make, make the argument and then the public can decide." Asked about capitalism, he went back to Adam Smith: "there are no markets without morals," and the central threat to markets is "monopoly, not government regulation." That is a man who has read the tradition and lives inside it. He is a true liberal. notesfromthecircus.com/p/wha…