Happy Saturday, Ink readers!
Today, Americans everywhere, allies around the world, and many of you reading this right now will be getting out in the streets to make it clear that this country wants No Kings. Collected below, warnings from the past, courtesy of Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry. A reminder that nobody came to Dred Scott Chief Justice Roger B. Taney’s funeral. The words of those who’ve been on the receiving end of the worst this current regime has done. All that and more, in today’s edition of Weekend Reads — the most interesting and challenging writing we’ve come across in our work this week, collected here for our supporting subscribers, as you head out to work for an America of the people, by the people, for the people.
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Bringing the Paine
“One of the strongest NATURAL proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ASS FOR A LION.” What a tweet this would have made, caps and all. [The Conversation]