Happy Saturday, Ink readers!
It’s been a year since the 2024 presidential election, and as the Trump regime prepares this week to steal food aid from millions — including people you know — we’ve been talking to those who are already looking ahead — Amanda Litman, Chris Murphy, Faiz Shakir, and David Hogg — and doing the introspection the Democratic Party can’t or won’t do on its own. And this coming Tuesday, November 4, is a critical election day, with a chance to start building a better future right now — in the New York City mayor’s race, with Proposition 50 (to redraw California’s electoral maps), in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, and more. In the meantime, we invite you to read some of the week’s most interesting and challenging writing, collected here for our supporting subscribers, in today’s edition of Weekend Reads.
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Lives of crime
Melley had interviewed many Social Register targets who owned large purebred dogs. “They all swore up and down that they had the best guard dogs in the world,” Melley told me. “They invariably would tell us that the burglars obviously had drugged the dog.” But Flynn said they didn’t need to. “The dogs loved Charlie,” Melley remembered Flynn saying, referring to Gallagher. Flynn’s accomplice played with the dogs, fed them from the target’s refrigerator, locked them in a bathroom, and released them when the robbery was done. [The Atavist]