#maydaypac

[lessig]

This I totally completely love — beekeepers for reform!

This is how we win: Every single group begins to recognize how corruption is their issue too. 

Here's the link to the video. 

[lessig]

When [nothing seemed] to help, I would go and look at a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.

Jacob Riis (thanks to Matt Patterson for the quote, and Daniel Simon for the original version, findable here )

[lessig]

First data release

2013.11.07 Reporting Back from MAYDAY.US

[lessig]

the great sin in the age of internet journalism

For refusing to talk before having the data to have something to say, we earned this piece in Politico. The data is back, so re substance, soon. Meanwhile, note the anonymous members of the "reform" community (believers in transparency, no doubt, all) who demand this "egg-head" go home. My kids will be so happy! 

[ellnmllr]

We're Gonna' Need It

This morning, my husband RIchard says to me, "After last night's election results, we should be thrilled that DC approved the legalization of marijuana."

Yup. That sounds about right. It's got to make the next few years a little easier to take.

And the election results have got to make you wonder whether the folks at MayDay PAC, and EveryVoice had already been smoking something when they bet big on 'corruption of money in politics' as an electoral issue.  Can't wait to see how they try to spin their way out of this one.

[lessig]

hey, vote. And if you need help with the "for" bit, check out our Vote-For-Reform map. Thanks to Incitement Design for the great images. 

[adamholwerda]

watch this thing http://mayday.us

[gregajennings]

"Our democracy is corrupted." And Lessig makes so much sense.