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Jon Thompson
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Retired journalist, erstwhile fly fisherman, dedicated folkie.
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Heather: “DHS and the violence of federal agents have exacerbated rather than silenced opposition to the Trump administration, causing a crisis for it as the American people increasingly turn against it.”

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February 13, 2026
At midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding, as popular fury over the violence and lawlessness of federal agents from Im...
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February 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Heather: “Today, the Environmental Protection Agency revoked the scientific finding that has been the basis for regulating emissions from cars and power plants since 2009.”

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February 12, 2026
In a ceremony at the White House yesterday, surrounded by coal industry leaders, lawmakers, and miners, President Donald J.
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February 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Heather: “Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game.”

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February 11, 2026
On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Heather: “After viewing the files briefly yesterday, Raskin told Andrew Solender of Axios that when he searched the files for President Donald Trump’s name, it came up ‘more than a million times.’”

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February 10, 2026
As of yesterday, members of Congress who sit on the House or Senate Judiciary Committees can see unredacted versions of the Epstein files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already released.
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February 11, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Heather: “U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans was established in the 1917 Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act, also known as the Jones-Shafroth Act.”

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February 9, 2026
Last night’s thirteen-minute Super Bowl half-time show featuring Bad Bunny had more watchers than any other halftime show in history: an estimated 135 million watched live, while millions more have st...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Heather: “At the urging of then-candidate Trump in January 2024, Republicans refused to pass a bipartisan immigration reform measure hammered out by Senate negotiators over months.”

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February 8, 2026
On February 9, 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) stood up in front of the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, at a gathering to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
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February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Heather: “According to Laura Strickler and Julia Ainsley of NBC News, the United States is currently holding more than 70,000 immigrants in 224 facilities across the nation, 104 more facilities than it had before Trump took office. Those detainees include children.”

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February 7, 2026
Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be a...
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February 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Heather: “Officials neglected to redact identifying information about survivors and even sexually explicit photographs of them, while blacking out the names of apparent friends and co-conspirators of the sex offender.”

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February 5, 2026
The past two days have seen a growing struggle between Democrats, who are demanding accountability from the Trump administration, and Republicans trying to hide what the administration is up to.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Heather: “MAGA leaders’ solution is to reject the results of any election that doesn’t put them in charge.”

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February 4, 2026
On the heels of last weekend’s special election in Texas, President Donald J.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Heather: “As voters turn against the administration, Trump is openly working to rig the 2026 election to guarantee Republicans win.”

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February 3, 2026
Yesterday, the day before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Heather: “The administration is openly working to replace American multiculturalism with white nationalism, launching raids by federal agents to terrorize Brown and Black Americans as well as white Americans who reject MAGA ideology.”

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February 1, 2026
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Heather: “Hammond was very clear about what he believed the world should look like. Black Americans should always be subordinate to white men, of course, but white women, too, were subordinate.”

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January 31, 2026
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:
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February 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Heather: “The administration is appealing to the MAGA racist and Christian nationalist base by demonstrating that it is willing to violate the Constitution to impose MAGA’s ideology on the nation.”

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January 30, 2026
As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrativ...
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January 31, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Heather: “Trump’s claims about the 2020 election have been thoroughly debunked, and dozens of court cases his followers launched have been dismissed. In contrast, a grand jury actually indicted Trump for trying to steal the 2020 election.”

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January 29, 2026
Public outrage over the violence of federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Heather: “Ossoff warned that Americans must be prepared as Trump tries to take away Americans’ right to choose their elected officials in 2026.”

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January 28, 2026
Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Heather: “The administration appears to be floundering as it tries to respond to the popular outrage.”

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January 27, 2026
The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands of federal agents has put wind in the sails of those trying to rein in the Trump administration at the same time it has sent t...
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January 28, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Heather: “But Americans are not buying it. They are coalescing around the idea of the American people versus an out-of-control government.”

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January 25, 2026
As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Heather: “Now the Trump administration is made up of radicals who are ignoring that Constitution and that Bill of Rights in their open attempt to create a white nationalist nation.”

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January 23, 2026
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans took to the streets today in bitter cold temperatures with wind chills of -20°F (–28°C) to protest the occupation of Minneapolis and St.
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January 24, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Heather: “Podcaster Joe Rogan has compared ICE to “the gestapo,” and Greg Sargent of The New Republic noted that a majority of both young voters and those without a college degree, those who tend to be easy for MAGA to reach, disapprove of ICE enforcement.”

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January 22, 2026
Vice President J.D.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Heather: “The president of the United States went on to give a virulently racist, insulting, rambling speech in which he complained that people call him a dictator but that ‘sometimes you need a dictator.’”

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January 21, 2026
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, a visibly exhausted president of the United States of America rambled in angry free association in a speech before the world’s leaders.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Heather: “The Trump administration is trying hard to project dictatorial strength and power, but the narrative is slipping away from it.”

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January 17, 2026
After the extraordinary pushback on President Donald J.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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U,S. Imperialism in Venezuela
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Shared on my "Resist and Heal" Substack.

#Venezuela #oil #politics #economics #Colonialism
A four-panel political cartoon in a comic-book style illustrates a narrative about Venezuelan oil and U.S. involvement. The top-left panel shows Donald Trump discussing "30-50 MILLION BARRELS" of oil under "U.S. SANCTIONS" next to a map of Venezuela with a lock. The top-right panel depicts a figure in front of a "DEPT. OF ENERGY" building pointing to a conveyor belt of oil barrels with the text "INDEFINITELY..." repeated. In the bottom-left panel, Trump holds a key and a thought bubble that says "BENEFIT BOTH," next to an oil tanker, pipeline, and a large dollar sign symbol labeled "PROCEEDS." The final bottom-right panel shows oil barrels marked with Venezuelan flags on a conveyor belt entering the "U.S. MARKET," with money bags labeled "VENEZUELA" and "U.S." being exchanged below.
January 16, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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In today’s cartoon, the first step is a lulu.

#Trump #Epstein #Greenland
#Accountability #PedoProtector #PoliticalCartoon #ReleasetheFiles #DrawnAndQuartered
A political cartoon looking over Donald Trump’s shoulder as he leans dangerously over the edge of a bottomless pit obstructing his path. Inside the pit, the word “EPSTEIN” is written, with “(DEPTHS UNPLUMBED)” beneath it. Trump is reaching forward toward a small sign on the far side of the pit that reads “GREENLAND,” set against a calm icy landscape. Trump’s posture looks off-balance and precarious, as if he might fall into the pit while focusing on the distant sign.
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Introducing the MAGA Health Plan:

✨ Don T Care ✨

Sick? Don’t care.
Poor? Definitely don’t care.
Insurance profits threatened? Now we care.
Political cartoon–style flyer titled “Introducing the MAGA Health Plan: Don T Care Health Plan.” A caricature of Donald Trump stands smugly with arms crossed while a grinning insurance executive holds a bag of money and stamps “CLAIM DENIED” beside a sick patient in a hospital bed saying “Cough! Help…”. Below, an elderly poor person walks with a cane holding a small money bucket, with gravestones in the background. Large text reads “Sick? Don’t care!” Bullet points list: “Huge rate hikes with no oversight,” “Denied claims for pre-existing conditions,” “Monopoly for insurance giants,” and “Just let them die!”
January 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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The image is a political cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz, published in 2018, which uses the Statue of Liberty to comment on immigration policies and rhetoric. The cartoon depicts the Trumpish statue with a scowling expression, holding a sign that reads "SEND ME YOUR NORWEGIANS," a reference to comments made by then-President Trump about preferring immigrants from Norway.
January 17, 2026 at 10:19 PM