Maybe you read about the 4B movement on social media.

Women abstaining from child birth, marriage, and sex to protest Donald Trump's re-election.

But does it make any sense?

The birth rate is declining.

The marriage rate has declined like 60% over the past 50 years.

Gen Z is having less sex than they used to.

So I think the 4B movement is sort of redundant

because women are already making these choices. Join me as we break down the 4B movement

this week on Power User. Hey everybody, Ellie here with my weekly note to the cafe community.

As always, please keep sending me your thoughts, comments, or questions to letters atcafe.com. If the January 6th Select Committee makes a criminal referral to the Justice Department,

it will be politically splashy and legally meaningless.

If anything, a formal request from the committee to DOJ might make it

incrementally less likely that Donald Trump ultimately faces successful federal prosecution.

Now, according to the New York Times, the committee now believes it has enough evidence to formally

refer Trump to DOJ for potential prosecution, but the committee's members are split about whether

it's the right and optimal move. So first, let's understand what a criminal referral is, and

importantly, is not. A criminal referral is simply any request from any outsider for a prosecutor

to take a look at something. Prosecutor's offices receive these referrals every day all day.

We had a detective at the New Jersey Attorney General's office whose full-time job was to take

in and assess incoming referrals. Referrals can originate from anywhere, investigative and

regulatory agencies, defense lawyers, private companies, judges, elected officials, and legislative bodies, everyday citizens.

Some referrals are formal and specific, written by lawyers on fancy letterhead, while others are scribbled handwritten letters from civilians.

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