Brett Palecek
@llamacek.bsky.social
Old skater, punk till I die Veteran. Love music if it comes from the heart, especially if it fights for something. Husband, Dad to blood kids, step kids and cats. "Stand for something or you will fall for anything!"
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June 29, 2025
June 29, 2025
There are four political stories people should know about tonight.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
June 29, 2025
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June 12, 2025
June 12, 2025
At a press conference for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Los Angeles today, Noem’s security assaulted Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), dragged him into the hallway, forced him to the floor,...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
June 12, 2025
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May 25, 2025
May 24, 2025
On Thursday the Trump administration told Harvard University that because it had not handed over information on foreign students’ protest activities, violent activity, and coursework, the university h...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
May 25, 2025
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May 20, 2025
May 19, 2025
The House Rules Committee will take up the Republicans’ omnibus bill this week.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
May 20, 2025
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May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025
While President Donald Trump’s billionaire sidekick Elon Musk has said he is pulling back from his work with the “Department of Government Efficiency,” he is with Trump today in Saudi Arabia, along wi...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
May 13, 2025
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Just thought this was funny. Had our first breakfast customer this morning. Very nice couple. When he shook my hand he did the whole got to dominate thing by turning his hand over top. HATE THAT! Any who...that's when I saw the little 47 on his FSU hat.
A handshake will tell a lot about someone.
A handshake will tell a lot about someone.
May 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just thought this was funny. Had our first breakfast customer this morning. Very nice couple. When he shook my hand he did the whole got to dominate thing by turning his hand over top. HATE THAT! Any who...that's when I saw the little 47 on his FSU hat.
A handshake will tell a lot about someone.
A handshake will tell a lot about someone.
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April 30, 2025
April 30, 2025
This morning the Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report showing an abrupt reversal in the U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
April 30, 2025
Now that is an amazing speech!
April 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Now that is an amazing speech!
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This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.
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📝 Today’s Letter from an American reminds us: democracy isn’t lost in a grand coup. It’s bartered away in glittering rooms. If we don’t defend it—locally, nationally, globally—it will vanish like smoke through careless fingers.
🏛️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📝 Today’s Letter from an American reminds us: democracy isn’t lost in a grand coup. It’s bartered away in glittering rooms. If we don’t defend it—locally, nationally, globally—it will vanish like smoke through careless fingers.
🏛️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 27, 2025
Last night a new club opened in the wealthy Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
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April 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.
@themarisatomei.bsky.social I just learned that you're one of the good ones. Saw your HCR post on FB. I have been reading her everyday since she started Letters from an American, have shared it everyday since election day 24. So happy to have you on our team. Huge fan since you were Maggie.
April 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
@themarisatomei.bsky.social I just learned that you're one of the good ones. Saw your HCR post on FB. I have been reading her everyday since she started Letters from an American, have shared it everyday since election day 24. So happy to have you on our team. Huge fan since you were Maggie.
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April 26, 2025
April 26, 2025
Early yesterday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent three U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
April 26, 2025
Only 1,361 Days To Go.
April 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Only 1,361 Days To Go.
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April 23, 2025
April 23, 2025
After previously suggesting that the U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
April 23, 2025
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April 22, 2025
April 22, 2025
Today is Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
April 22, 2025
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April 17, 2025
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...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
April 17, 2025
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April 16, 2025
April 16, 2025
In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
April 16, 2025
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April 15, 2025
April 15, 2025
A large crowd of protesters calling for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration sent to a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador, milled around the courthouse ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
April 15, 2025
Feeling kinda overwhelmed with wife medical issues, finances, work and the state of the country right now. But this guy has the uncanny ability to make me chuckle.
April 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Feeling kinda overwhelmed with wife medical issues, finances, work and the state of the country right now. But this guy has the uncanny ability to make me chuckle.