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April 17, 2025
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April 17, 2025
Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...
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April 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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March 31, 2025
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March 31, 2025
On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William Henry Seward wrote an astonishing letter to President Abraham Lincoln.
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April 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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March 30, 2025
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March 30, 2025
On the Fox News Channel this morning, Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett said: “President Trump has a long run vision of a golden age of America and we’re working really, really h...
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March 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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"...[T]his is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.”
March 24, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 24, 2025
Today the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped the story that senior members of the Trump administration planned the March 15 U.S.
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March 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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“... In fact, based upon their association with TdA, the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose. It demonstrates that they are terrorists with regard to whom we lack a complete profile.”

March 19, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 19, 2025
On the Fox News Channel’s The Five yesterday, the panel of Fox personalities expressed outrage that federal judge James Boasberg had ordered the Trump administration to stop its deportation of migrant...
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March 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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March 18, 2025
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March 18, 2025
On Saturday, U.S.
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March 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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At the same time Trump is breaking his promise to preserve and protect our country and its laws, he is also bragging about winning a golf tournament!
March 16, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 16, 2025
Yesterday, President Donald Trump reached back to 1798 for authority to expel five people he claims are members of a Venezuelan gang.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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"The Republicans’ legislation that a day is not a day seems to prove the truth of Burke’s observation that by trying to force reality to fit their ideology, radical ideologues will end up imposing tyranny in the name of liberty."

March 12, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 12, 2025
Trump’s 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel imported into the U.S.
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March 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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March 11, 2025
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March 11, 2025
The stock market continued to fall today.
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March 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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March 10, 2025
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March 10, 2025
Last week’s dramatically dropping stock market prompted Fox News Channel personality Maria Bartiromo to ask Trump in an interview that aired yesterday if he was expecting a recession.
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March 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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March 8, 2025
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March 8, 2025
Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to slash the federal government and to privatize its current services.
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March 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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March 6, 2025
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March 6, 2025
This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration is preparing to deport the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and have temporary lega...
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March 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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March 3, 2025
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March 3, 2025
As seemed evident even at the time, the ambush of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday was a setup to provide justification for cutting off congressionally approved aid to...
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March 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I am so ashamed of our current government!

February 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
February 28, 2025
Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.
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March 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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February 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025
This morning, Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought and Office of Personnel Management acting director Charles Ezell sent a memo to the heads of departments and agencies.
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February 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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February 23, 2025
"...Many of my friends in this body say it will be hard, we don't want to buck the President, we'll let the courts take care of it…. [T]hat's a copout. It's our responsibility to protect the Constitution...”
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February 23, 2025
Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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February 21, 2025
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February 21, 2025
In an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, billionaire Elon Musk seemed to be having difficulty speaking.
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February 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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February 18, 2025
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February 18, 2025
In a court filing last night, the Director of the Office of Administration in the Trump administration, Joshua Fisher, clarified the government position of billionaire Elon Musk.
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February 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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February 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025
Yesterday afternoon, in a bizarre performance, President Donald Trump hosted reporters in the Oval Office, the formal working space of the President of the United States.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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February 1, 2025
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February 1, 2025
Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...
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February 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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" This February 1, neither the Pentagon nor the State Department will recognize Black History Month.

Mine eyes have seen the glory."

January 31, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 31, 2025
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 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Well said, Dan Rather.
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We Got Who They Voted For The president chose not to take the high road DAN RATHER JAN 21 For what is supposed to be an esteemed, tradition-rich ceremony, full of grandeur and history, our...
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January 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Only one week into the new administration, and already the destruction of the United States is progressing. Healthcare, social justice, international relations, climate protection...all have been rejected with nothing to replace them.

January 24, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 24, 2025
“NUTS!”
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January 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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“So when all was said and done, the only country that opened [its] prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.”

January 22, 2025
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January 22, 2025
Marc Caputo of Axios reported today that Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes for that day’s events, including those who attacked police...
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January 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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What are we coming to?
January 21, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 21, 2025
“I JUST GOT THE NEWS FROM MY LAWYER… I GOT A PARDON BABY!
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January 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM