EVEN IF PRATT LOSES, THAT HE AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE WILLING TO SPEAK THESE BLUNT TRUTHS IS A HUGE BLOW TO THE DEMOCRATS, WHO HAVE SPENT A LOT OF EFFORT TO SUPPRESS BLUNT TRUTHS:

SPOILER: IT DID LESS THAN NOT HELP.

SAME PLAYBOOK, SAME PLAYS:

WHO KNEW A LGBTQ+ RIGHTS GROUP (STONEWALL) COULD BULLY?  Ex-BBC news executive breaks ranks and says BBC was steamrollered by Stonewall.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

AND NOW, A FIRESIDE CHAT FROM MAYOR FRANKLIN DELANO MAMDANI:

It’s an “unexpectedly” appropriate comparison:

FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.

—Frontiers of Freedom, December 14th, 2015.

New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II.

—Steve Usdin, Tablet, April 29, 2018.

A controversial executive order leads to internment camps:

The executive order didn’t specify Japanese-Americans as a group, but the U.S. military detained more than 100,000 people in the next six months and moved them to camps and facilities with armed guards and barbed wire.

There were 10 camps set up nationally, and about 120,000 people were interned in the camps during the war. About two-thirds of them were Japanese-Americans who were born in the United States. People of Italian and German heritage were also detained.

The controversial moves were met with legal challenges, which eventually were unsuccessful in freeing the detainees from the camps, despite the serious constitutional issues involved.

—The National Constitution Center, February 19th, 2024.

WHAT’S UP AT CIA? A CIA veteran tells a Senate committee that political leaders in the agency reversed the draft assessment that Covid was leaked from China’s Wuhan lab. But just before the hearing opens, the CIA’s Director of Public Affairs releases a bruising condemnation of the proceedings. Apologies demanded, but not given. Silence from the White House and CIA chief John Ratcliffe. My latest Washington Stand post explores the behind-the-scenes eruption that seems to be brewing.