Milestone! and Subscriber Survey

Thank you to all 25,000 of You!

Pepperspectives hit 25,000 subscribers yesterday!

Thank you!

I’m so honored that you all take the time to read, respond and share the thoughts and perspectives I communicate here—along with the occasional cartoon and painting.

Believe it or not, the reason I started Pepperspectives a few years back was because after Elon Musk bought Twitter, I knew many of my followers (built up over 15 years) would leave, and I worried that pro-democracy voices like mine would be suppressed (both things came true). So I wanted to create an escape hatch for those who still wanted to dialogue with me….and I’m so glad I did. (And only wish I’d done it sooner).

Not only do I enjoy and gain so much from the community we’re creating here, but I’ve found the exercise of writing almost daily to be a great discipline—educating myself continuously, while challenging myself to think through so many of the issues of the day, and how to share them in digestible and easy-to-understand nuggets to a wide audience.

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BUT….I also think hitting this milestone provides the perfect moment to ask for your feedback. On the content you most enjoy, on how I can deliver it better, and so on.

So if you have a couple minutes, I hope you’ll answer a quick set of questions that will help me shape future content.

And now a rapid-fire set of Yes/No questions:

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Thank you!

Day 107 — March 19, 2025

The flashpoint over America’s rule of law continued, with a federal judge demanding information to assess if the Trump Administration intentionally violated his court order, and the Administration suggesting that it did not need to provide the requested information. According to the DOJ, the Court’s questions marked “continued intrusions into the prerogatives of the Executive Branch.”

The Trumpian logic here is that not only should federal courts not weigh in on actions taken in pursuit of the Alien Enemies Act, but the court can’t even investigate if its own court order was intentionally violated.

The implications of this case are clearly enormous: Thanks to this Supreme Court, the president is already immune for actions he takes in office. Here, Trump is seeking to evade court review for actions he takes while in office, including defying federal court orders.