@gingerryder.bsky.social
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History and Article IV’s Guarantee Clause makes clear that a state’s governor cannot remove members of the legislature. No governor has ever claimed such power. It runs against the full history of Texas and American democracy as a whole.
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Governors Can Not Remove Elected Legislators. Period.
A democracy must have an independent legislature. Only voters elect and unelect representatives.
open.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
History and Article IV’s Guarantee Clause makes clear that a state’s governor cannot remove members of the legislature. No governor has ever claimed such power. It runs against the full history of Texas and American democracy as a whole.
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
August 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
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“.. Small businesses especially are grappling with the ability to stay in business.”
@bloomberg.com
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@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
August 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
“.. Small businesses especially are grappling with the ability to stay in business.”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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"Tangerine Tyranny"
When a lifelong
Republican wakes up and turns on the
GOP
When a lifelong
Republican wakes up and turns on the
GOP
August 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Tangerine Tyranny"
When a lifelong
Republican wakes up and turns on the
GOP
When a lifelong
Republican wakes up and turns on the
GOP
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#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…
www.propublica.org
August 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
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The Republican "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" certainly doesn't want to display its beauty in daylight.
May 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Republican "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" certainly doesn't want to display its beauty in daylight.
So it’s not just the US.
UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds
UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds
Equality Trust says billionaires getting ‘ludicrously’ richer, with top two now wealthier than whole of 1990 rich list
The number of billionaires in the UK has grown sharply – from 15 in 1990 to 165 in 2024 – at the same time as inequality in the UK’s overall wealth distribution has dramatically increased, analysis has found.
Timed to coincide with the Sunday Times’ rich list, the Equality Trust’s investigation also found that billionaires have become “ludicrously” more wealthy, with their average wealth skyrocketing by more than 1,000% over the same period. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So it’s not just the US.
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
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This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
newrepublic.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.
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The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health
Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.
cbsn.ws
April 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
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What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.
May 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.
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The Trump administration has shut down the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, which crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow. via @nbcnews
Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee
Four members said they were informed of the termination Friday, but it had already taken effect in late March, according to a CDC letter.
www.nbcnews.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The Trump administration has shut down the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, which crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow. via @nbcnews
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The whole administration is one giant conspiracy to scam U.S. taxpayers
Trump’s new vaccine research initiative will directly benefit NIH’s new principal deputy director, Matthew Memoli, who awards himself $500,000,000 for in-house vaccine research
Reports @katherinejwu.com
@theatlantic.com
Trump’s new vaccine research initiative will directly benefit NIH’s new principal deputy director, Matthew Memoli, who awards himself $500,000,000 for in-house vaccine research
Reports @katherinejwu.com
@theatlantic.com
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’
A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.
www.theatlantic.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The whole administration is one giant conspiracy to scam U.S. taxpayers
Trump’s new vaccine research initiative will directly benefit NIH’s new principal deputy director, Matthew Memoli, who awards himself $500,000,000 for in-house vaccine research
Reports @katherinejwu.com
@theatlantic.com
Trump’s new vaccine research initiative will directly benefit NIH’s new principal deputy director, Matthew Memoli, who awards himself $500,000,000 for in-house vaccine research
Reports @katherinejwu.com
@theatlantic.com
I don’t know what to believe anymore.
May 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I don’t know what to believe anymore.
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social You will enjoy this article.
An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor. A 93-year-old woman who never protested before. They're mad as hell at what Trump is doing to America, as they joined about 80 others in their senior complex in Haverford, Pa. for a "No Kings!" protest like no other
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
In Haverford, 80-somethings and 90-somethings take to the road to protest Trump
They saw the Holocaust, WWII and Vietnam, and these senior protesters on Philly's Main Line have seen enough of Trump.
www.inquirer.com
April 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social You will enjoy this article.
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I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?
Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
April 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?
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I'm honestly baffled why this angle is not being covered more thoroughly by MSM
There's a lot more to the deportation deal between Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele that you REALLY need to know about. WATCH:
The Real Reason El Salvador's President Cozied Up to Trump
YouTube video by Mother Jones
youtu.be
April 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I'm honestly baffled why this angle is not being covered more thoroughly by MSM
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Just weeks after creating a $50 million tax credit for private schools, Idaho has shut down a program that helped public school students pay for laptops, school supplies, tutoring and other expenses.
By @audreydutton.bsky.social
By @audreydutton.bsky.social
Idaho Gave Families $50M to Spend on Private Education. Then It Ended a $30M Program Used by Public School Families.
A Republican lawmaker said ending an Idaho program that helped public school students buy laptops and other materials wasn’t linked to the creation of a private school tax credit. The state’s most…
www.propublica.org
April 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Just weeks after creating a $50 million tax credit for private schools, Idaho has shut down a program that helped public school students pay for laptops, school supplies, tutoring and other expenses.
By @audreydutton.bsky.social
By @audreydutton.bsky.social
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An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor. A 93-year-old woman who never protested before. They're mad as hell at what Trump is doing to America, as they joined about 80 others in their senior complex in Haverford, Pa. for a "No Kings!" protest like no other
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
In Haverford, 80-somethings and 90-somethings take to the road to protest Trump
They saw the Holocaust, WWII and Vietnam, and these senior protesters on Philly's Main Line have seen enough of Trump.
www.inquirer.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor. A 93-year-old woman who never protested before. They're mad as hell at what Trump is doing to America, as they joined about 80 others in their senior complex in Haverford, Pa. for a "No Kings!" protest like no other
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social want to cry?read @ USAID-how peanut butter mix literally brought starving children from brink of death.T canceled it along w/stop payment to pay manufacturer-shut down T 1st week food purchased-millions of dollars of food allowed to rot. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid
The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social want to cry?read @ USAID-how peanut butter mix literally brought starving children from brink of death.T canceled it along w/stop payment to pay manufacturer-shut down T 1st week food purchased-millions of dollars of food allowed to rot. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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If you'd like to see and hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social deliver her blow-by-blow account of the lighting of the lamps in the Old North Church – where she gave this address – and the Ride of Paul Revere 250 years ago, someone did us the service of recording it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5l...
Heather Cox Richardson Speech - 250 Year Lantern Anniversary - Old North Church
YouTube video by VanTidesDIY
www.youtube.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If you'd like to see and hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social deliver her blow-by-blow account of the lighting of the lamps in the Old North Church – where she gave this address – and the Ride of Paul Revere 250 years ago, someone did us the service of recording it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5l...
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Insurance companies aren’t just players in the fight with doctors over money; they’re also the referees.
They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions.
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions.
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
www.propublica.org
April 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Insurance companies aren’t just players in the fight with doctors over money; they’re also the referees.
They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions.
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions.
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social