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Conditioning funding on obeying court orders

Reining in ICE

February 5, 2026 at 1:02 AM

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Could Trump Really "Take Over" the Midterm Elections?

The short answer is no, but he will try. Here's his strategy.

Melania: The Movie. The Bribe. The Shame.

February 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM

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Lettuce Spray: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Bezos’s illegal payoff

February 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM

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Sunday thought: Green Shoots?

The past week

February 1, 2026 at 3:16 PM

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Cartoon: Amend the 2nd Amendment

A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Trump on Pretti killing: 'You can't have guns'

February 1, 2026 at 8:18 AM

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The Untimely Death of Civil Rights in America

And what can be done to resurrect them.

January 31, 2026 at 5:36 PM

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Cartoon: America 2026

January 26, 2026 at 2:13 PM

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Rise to the f***ing occasion Democrats

It happened again. ICE just executed another US citizen exercising his First Amendment rights to observe their actions in Minnesota. Where are our Democratic leaders? Why aren’t they on every cable ne...

January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM

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A Wealth Tax That Will Work!

Two likely contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination have taken opposite sides on California’s proposed wealth tax. One of them is dead wrong.

January 24, 2026 at 3:23 PM

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Minnesota’s General Strike, and America’s

It may be a precursor

January 23, 2026 at 6:57 PM

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Dem leadership is failing. This needs to be corrected.

Elie Mystal has a righteous rant against Dem Leadership in The Nation. I am not sure I could agree more than I do. www.thenation.com/… It’s a problem that whenever I listen to Democratic leaders like ...

January 20, 2026 at 8:57 PM

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Monty Python would have a field day

Greenland?

Sunday thought: It’s time again for good trouble

January 20, 2026 at 8:33 PM

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Bob Reich nails it once again. I like Reich: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Time to take action against Trump’s mayhem

January 18, 2026 at 2:56 PM

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What you can do to stop ICE’s mayhem

America’s Gestapo

January 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM

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Good news and bad news about ICE

The bad news renders the “good news” practically meaningless. If you get shot in the head, you will still be dead even if the person who shot you had no legal right to do so. The only way to ...

January 16, 2026 at 6:46 PM

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Cartoon: Trump's morality

A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump's pettiness is now tanking the US ...

The view from Minneapolis

January 14, 2026 at 8:44 PM

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Let there be (a bit of) light: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Living under ICE yet finding solidarity

January 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM

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His foreign and domestic policies are becoming one and the same, and their purpose isn't complicated.

Trump’s War Footing

January 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM

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The Constitution Prohibits Trump’s War on Blue States

This will be one of the major legal fights to come in the Trump regime.

January 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM

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Sunday thought: Even worse

Friends,

January 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM

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Stephen Miller’s new bullshit about immigrants

Miller and his boss are now targeting Minnesota’s Somali community

December 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Finally, the Supreme Court stops Trump

Friends,

December 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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It just went the way of the Washington Post's editorial page

Farewell to "60 Minutes"

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December 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM

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Cartoon: No soul

A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Trump is cool with disrespecting the dead if they're ...

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December 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM

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Cartoon: The worm

A cartoon by David Horsey. Related |� Republican gushes at Trump over bailout needed due to his ...