Advice from an Insider: Ignore the Insider-Adjacent Crowd
https://blog.stephaniejones.com/2024/07/06/advice-from-an-insider-ignore-the-insider-adjacent-crowd/
Published: July 6, 2024 17:29
My name is Stephanie Jones and I am a Democratic insider. Not the kind who plays one on teevee, but a real honest-to-goodness one. As true as it is, it feels strange to say because actual insiders don’t go around calling ourselves insiders. Kind of like…
The Roberts Court, Project 2025 and the Civil Rights Rollback: The Good Judge Warned Us
https://blog.stephaniejones.com/2024/07/05/the-roberts-court-project-2025-and-the-civil-rights-rollback-the-good-judge-warned-us/
Published: July 5, 2024 12:00
I remember attending John Roberts’ confirmation hearings in 2005 (including the one in which my father, Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, testified), and noticing a cabal of young lawyers – all of them white Ivy League men – there to support him. I was struck at…
The Biden Replacement Theory and the Invisible Black Voter
https://blog.stephaniejones.com/2024/07/02/the-biden-replacement-theory-and-the-invisible-black-voter/
Published: July 2, 2024 13:01
I can’t help but notice that most of the calls for President Biden to be tossed out of the presidential race and replaced by a shiny new and younger but usually unnamed candidate have two weirdly connected features: 1) they also include jettisoning his…
The “Biden Replacement Theory”: A joke that’s not funny
https://blog.stephaniejones.com/2024/06/30/the-biden-replacement-theory-a-joke-thats-not-funny/
Published: June 30, 2024 13:03
If you’re going to engage in any discussions about replacing Joe Biden on the ticket, you should know a few unassailable facts that the media have left out of their hysterical drumbeat “coverage” of what “Democratic insiders” are saying: Democratic…
The Box
https://blog.stephaniejones.com/2024/06/20/the-box/
Published: June 20, 2024 12:20
The box is shaped like a treasure chest, about 18 inches long, 10 inches wide, 10 inches tall, dark distressed wood, wrapped in a copper ribbon and topped with a perfect, stiff copper bow. It once contained a Christmas present several years ago from a dear…