TAIBBI HAS A GREAT IDEA: If you aren’t reading Matt Taibbi’s Substack column (ditto Glenn’s on Substack) on a regular basis, you are missing all kinds of important analyses, information, rebuttals and resources. And today, Taibbi offers up a great reference source that has the potential to spark a revolution in digital news tools. Here’s how he describes it:

“This morning, I sent out an article titled: ‘The Library: Timeline of Foreign Censorship Laws.’ It’s neither a news article, nor a finished product. It’s simply a chronological list of primary source documents around the theme of foreign speech laws. Twitter Files and/or FOIA documents may appear in these collections.

“The idea will be to create similar reference homes for emerging news stories: about USAID contracts, the EPA ‘gold bars’ scandal, court challenges to the Trump administration, whistleblower complaints, declassified information about controversies like Covid, and anything else that comes up.

“We’re living through a period of revolutionary change and are awash in revelations and document releases, yet few outlets are making an effort to show core materials. As these stories come out, I’m encouraging readers who work in relevant fields, follow these narratives, or who simply want to pitch in, to write to: , especially if they know of documents that should be added.”

This is an idea that ought to catch on quickly.