Richard Catalano
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Retired Professor, 40 years developing the science of prevention through positive youth development. Loves democracy and votes 💙💙💙 I repost selected Substacks
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Retired Professor, 40 years developing the science of prevention through positive youth development. Loves democracy and votes 💙💙💙 I repost selected Substacks
I block 🚫 Magats 🚫 DM 🚫 Porn I block those without posts or few posts
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Trump is freaking out because his presidency is crashing. Be proud--we did this!!
It's the little things we need to savor :)
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"It’s the little things we need to savor in these stressful times. And one of those is watching everything connected to Donald Trump turn to poop. And the best part is: We did that!"
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Putting The Trump Regime's Corruption, Lawlessness, And Betrayal Front And Center In Our Politics
Let's make December a very good month for our democracy
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"As we go forward these next few weeks I think Democrats will need to start making the crimes, corruption, betrayal, and malevolence of Trump’s top advisors - Hegseth, Noem, Witkoff, Bondi, Kennedy, Vought, Sacks - a major topic in our discourse..."
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IMPORTANT Sunday Message from Meidas Founder
By Ben Meiselas
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"Republicans are fleeing a sinking ship. Military members involved in war crimes and literally sinking ships must contend with being put on war tribunals in a few years. The country is not being fooled by Trump’s cover-up of the Epstein files."
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November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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1 "Today former judge advocate generals (JAGs), military lawyers, in the Former JAGs Working Group issued a statement declaring that it unanimously “considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
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Tennessee’s Special Election This Week Could Shock the Nation
Democratic state representative Aftyn Behn is within striking distance in a district Trump won by 22 points, and voters have a chance to flip it on Tuesday.
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Friends, relatives and colleagues who are in Tennessee, vote for Aftyn Behn! Vote Tuesday December 2 and shake trumps world.
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November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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"Trump isn’t lashing out because he’s strong; he’s lashing out because he’s under pressure, badly advised, and increasingly aware that the media questions he hates are questions millions of Americans are asking too."
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Congress, damn it get off your asses... fuck the Thanksgiving weekend get back to work and impeach this bastard
Amen!
Saturday Afternoon News Updates - 11/29/25
I'm following all the news this weekend so you don't have to
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"Even on this Saturday, the collapse continues. This is a regime unravelling in real time, led by a man whose grip on reality completely gone. The American people see it. The world sees it. And democracy depends on confronting it with unflinching clarity."
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Trump And His Regime May Be Heading Towards A Legitimacy Crisis
Congress returns to a series of crises on Monday, and must act with great speed and ambition now
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"when Congress returns on Monday it must act with both great speed and ambition to challenge this weakened regime; mitigate the damage they continue to do; and loudly take the side of America and the American people against these corrupt, traitorous gangsters..."
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Donald Trump faces articles of impeachment before Christmas
Democrat Representative Al Green has told supporters he will introduce the measures as a privileged motion before Congress breaks for Christmas.
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Support these articles of impeachment when drafted!
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Ex-Trump Lawyer: 'The Constitution Is Not Adequate to Contain a President as Evil as Trump'
Ty Cobb warns Trump is not merely incompetent but, in his words, ‘evil,’ and driven by a desire to accumulate and abuse power.
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"“The Constitution really is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump,” Cobb said in an interview broadcast on MSNow, adding that the president’s recent actions reflected “a desire to accumulate and abuse power.”
Impeach!
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Impeach!
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November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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"Yes, these Republican Senators like Graham, Wicker, and John Thune are compromised by Russia...it mean[s] they refuse to uphold their oath of office to protect America because of the influence of a compromised Donald Trump..."
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November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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If impeachment articles aren't drafted before Christmas we should boycott Democrat fund raising.
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Trump's Continuing Mental Decline On Display
A trio of batsh*t crazy Truth Social posts confirms what we already know
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"Taken together, these posts capture the Trump doctrine in its purest form: racial resentment as policy, personal vendetta as law, and foreign relations as a loyalty test. It is government by impulse, anchored in conspiracy, cruelty..."
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The Mainstreaming of Extremism
This is how the normalization of hatred works. Not with a bang, but with a shrug.
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"When someone who denies the Holocaust and praises Hitler is treated as someone worth platforming versus unequivocally condemning, the line between mainstream conservatism and white supremacist ideology becomes dangerously thin, if not erased."
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Congress, damn it get off your asses... fuck the Thanksgiving weekend get back to work and impeach this bastard
Republicans are determined to let the Affordable Care Act tax credits expire.
These extremists haven’t done a damn thing to address the high cost of living.
And that’s why working class Americans are abandoning the GOP in droves.
These extremists haven’t done a damn thing to address the high cost of living.
And that’s why working class Americans are abandoning the GOP in droves.
Impeach trump now!
"This is not normal. It is not stable leadership. It is not democracy functioning as intended. It is the unraveling of a president who no longer pretends to respect the rule of law, the dignity of the American people, or the sovereignty of U.S. allies."
Impeach him now!
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Impeach him now!
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Friday Afternoon News Updates - 11/28/25
By Ben Meiselas
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This is enough. Impeach him now! Impeach him weekly.
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Friday Afternoon News Updates - 11/28/25
By Ben Meiselas
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"This is not normal. It is not stable leadership. It is not democracy functioning as intended. It is the unraveling of a president who no longer pretends to respect the rule of law, the dignity of the American people, or the sovereignty of U.S. allies."
Impeach him now!
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Impeach him now!
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Lincoln Project
"In fact, America is turning on Donald Trump.
MAGA die-hards, Independents, judges, internet trolls… they’re all getting a lot more comfortable with telling this guy to kick rocks."
"In fact, America is turning on Donald Trump.
MAGA die-hards, Independents, judges, internet trolls… they’re all getting a lot more comfortable with telling this guy to kick rocks."
What A Year It’s Been—For me, Talking Feds, and the Country
Marking this Substack’s First Anniversary (Plus, a Sale!)
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" I left my post at the Los Angeles Times almost exactly a year ago because I could no longer stomach being a part of an institution that was patently currying favor with a madman tyrant."
Thank you Harry!
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Thank you Harry!
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Reposted by Richard F. Catalano
Republicans are determined to let the Affordable Care Act tax credits expire.
These extremists haven’t done a damn thing to address the high cost of living.
And that’s why working class Americans are abandoning the GOP in droves.
These extremists haven’t done a damn thing to address the high cost of living.
And that’s why working class Americans are abandoning the GOP in droves.
The Truth about the UCMJ and Unlawful Orders
Trump's threats against veteran lawmakers is an attack on the Constitution itself.
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"No, Mr. President. The truly seditious behavior comes from those who hold gilded state dinners with murderous regimes... The traitors are in your cabinet, waiting for you to fail so they can install their next puppet."
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Me too, maybe scotch if he's impeached, convicted and removed from office.
Trump Treats Troops To Ranty Thanksgiving Phone Call
While former presidents Biden and Obama do nice things for people
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No shame, no decency
"He opened with the news of a young National Guardswoman’s death and immediately folded it into his favorite political Mad Lib: tragic crime plus immigrant suspect plus Biden-blaming equals proof that only Trump can save America."
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"He opened with the news of a young National Guardswoman’s death and immediately folded it into his favorite political Mad Lib: tragic crime plus immigrant suspect plus Biden-blaming equals proof that only Trump can save America."
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Thankful for the Turkeys Running the Country
This Thanksgiving, we raise a glass to incompetence, political theater, and self-inflicted disasters; nothing entertains, frustrates, or guarantees blue midterms quite like sheer, glorious chaos.
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"So yes, today, I’m grateful. Grateful for every spectacular misstep, every botched announcement, every scandal that reads like satire. Because the American people are wide awake, and in 2026, they’re going to paint the electoral map a deep, decisive... blue."
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Republicans are now negative double digits on immigration.
So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
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So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
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Republicans seek severe immigration crackdown over D.C. shooting: "Deport them all. Now."
"We must IMMEDIATELY BAN all ISLAM immigrants and DEPORT every single Islamist," said one Republican senator.
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They always double down on the wrong thing, just like their remaining maga voters. You'd think someone would be questioning and firing Noem and Patel for approving asylum for the shooter. Not an immigrant problem, a trump regime problem.
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Republicans seek severe immigration crackdown over D.C. shooting: "Deport them all. Now."
"We must IMMEDIATELY BAN all ISLAM immigrants and DEPORT every single Islamist," said one Republican senator.
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Republicans are now negative double digits on immigration.
So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
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So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
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MAGA Is A Foreign Influence Op
Trump isn't Vladimir Putin's only American sucker.
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"a bunch of “red-blooded American MAGA patriots” were not American at all. They were running from Russia, Nigeria, Iran, India, Thailand, and Eastern Europe. Some of the loudest MAGA megaphones on the app were foreign-based operations pretending to be your neighbor.
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Wednesday Afternoon News Updates - 11/26/25
Trump is not handling things well as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches
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"Trump’s public unraveling is not a show of power. It is the frantic flailing of a political movement collapsing under the weight of its corruption, lies, and authoritarian ambitions. Where our institutions fail, the American people are...holding him accountable."
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