This one also got to me about real life in Minnesota.
Krstie Kimball
7d
beyond beurre blanc.
If you don’t live in Minneapolis, I need you to know a few things about the occupation.
-the helicopters don’t stop
-there are so many abductions from cars that we have a towing moratorium and there are constantly cars parked haphazardly in the street—these are often running or have their hazards on and they often have glass from broken windows by the wheels
-even if you’re stationary in one spot, you will likely see ICE multiple times a day
-songs with honking or whistles on sports TVs in bars get people to stand up automatically
-most restaurants, even those that aren’t owned by immigrants, have locked their doors
-there was a military style checkpoint by the execution site of Alex Pretti last night and people had to prove they live there with ID or mail to get into their neighborhood
-whatever you see on the news or Instagram, it’s worse
Yes! I thought the endless sirens were terrible. But where I am in downtown Chicago, the helicopters are rare since Kristi Noem’s raid in South Chicago yielded not one “illegal.” (Such an insulting term for another human who has fled for his life in so many instances.) This story of Minnesota is warning to all of US. Coupled with HCR’s account of Trump’s riches and Jared Kushner in the Ukraine “discussions,” I am both sickened and horrified.
Trump's corruption is palpable, staggering. Trump is now going for $10 billion from American citizens via the U.S. Treasury, allegedly because some of his financial information was leaked. What will it take to satiate his appetite for plunder? $100 billion? $200 billion? While I am disgusted at those who voted for this sorry excuse for a human being, I am even more livid at our cowardly "representatives" who cower in their offices, afraid to discharge the duties of their oath of office. It's mind boggling, the stupidity and the cowardice.
Yes. Agreed. How many requests for donations are we all receiving daily?Flooding our personal mail and text?
"...final days of the campaign, the Wambsganss campaign spent $310,000 while Rehmet spent nothing, and Daniel Nichanian of BoltsMag posted that overall, Wambsganss spent nearly $2.2 million more than Rehmet in the campaign."
Our politicians need to be busy, making a difference, not making deals with known crooks and liars. Not asking us to give them more $$. They are all better off than most of us, with their healthcare etc etc etc. Effin' earn it.
Loren, at 91, I don’t have the luxury of much emotion. It takes energy that I can better spend writing, cooking, and housekeeping. Mostly I remember the Greeks who said “the gods laugh,” so I laugh at stupidity and greed as I fight for US. Instead of 10 GOTV postcards a day, going to plan 12 for as long as arm and hand can do them. Yesterday was a turning point.
Virginia, I find that my energy is less as I am aging. It does help me to learn what others are doing and that people like Heather are willing to keep us informed with connections from our past to show that we have been in a similar place before. We can peacefully dump this regime, but it is going to take a whole lot of us to do it; the regime has too much money and the weapons. We have the strength in numbers and we do need to get out more videos of the kids being gassed in Minneapolis and elsewhere so the right-wing can see what they have unleashed on this nation and for what, so they can have white in charge, an ignorant greedy, lying, racist, misogynist with dementia in charge! Yeah, that makes sense!
The right wing will never see beyond their self proclaimed mastery of the world. Dumb is doubtless, and numbingly self immolated. They are the echo of a god in divine madness. Stand back and watch them choose the narrowest approach. With absolute surety they will guide you, enlighten you, and confine you.
I fit into your age category and I too know that I am incapable (the spirit is willing but the flesh rebels) of all the energy that drove me when I was younger. That does not stop me from reading and trying to not only understand what is going on but ways that we, as we dodder a bit, we can still have an impact. I write to my representatives although most are thinking the way I am but I want them to know that they have support, and I wrote to the one who is unwilling to do other than follow the dictats of trump--and I tell him what I think in no uncertain, but always respectful, terms.
Thank you Professor Richardson. I hope the quote you wrote from Steven Miller is shared far and wide. The comparison with the “Mudsills” hit me hard. Are the uninformed and misinformed voters still oblivious to what Miller’s contempt and disrespect means for them? Heartened by the vote in red Texas. I resolve to show up for the next “No Kings” on Sat., March 28.
A true war zone indeed. Grateful for so many people reporting on it, for those who just keep showing up every day, for the cameras, for recording and documenting everything, for those teaching others civil resistance. Light amid the darkness.
I grew up in Minnesota and spent roughly six years in So Minneapolis while attending college, while my girlfriend went to MCAD (we lived just south of 26th Street between Nicollet and Lyndale) and until this moment had never been as heartbroken in my life, as I have in the last 8 days, reading everything on the situation I could find. But now the sorrow so much worse.
Just staggering.
How the City of Minneapolis allows ICE to maintain a cordon around the shooting site is beyond me, unless everyone just knows the DHS has the 8th Cir in its pocket
Franklin, I suspect everyone knows about the 8th circuit and that they can collect a grand jury in no time to come up with ridiculous indictments. I can't help but wonder how much each of them was paid to indict a clearly innocent set of journalists, in this case. I bet it was significant.
Thank you, Georgia, for this vital sitrep. Perhaps now those who were deceived by the Regime or its captive media to imagine the ChristoNazi invaders of Minnesota were backing off in response to peoples' protests have learned to heed our warnings and -- most of all -- to refrain from celebrating nonexistent victories.
Georgia, thanks for this report. We are definitely not seeing that side of the invasion in our media. We need people who live there to tell us the reality. This is an invasion force and they are practicing on Minneapolis getting ready for other cities. We are going to have to put even more pressure on our pathetic congress where even a lot of Democrats can't push the need to act to get rid of ICE completely, and seriously limit the Border Patrol and all other DHS operations. They are not keeping us secure in any way. Then Congress needs to look at the DOJ and get Bondi in to testify about what she is up to and impeach her if possible. The primary thing, get rid of Kristi Noem! She is a lying fool who is so wrapped up in her whiteness and privilege she can't possibly do the right thing for anyone.
You are assuming the people they hired havent spent thier whole life wanting to act like this. They didnt have to be trained, they've waited thier whole lives for an opportunity to attack thier neighbors. This is who they have always wanted to be.
Thanks for the wisdom. I think we are all going to have to go through cycles of letting the grief out, and then stepping back into the fight with a deeper understanding of what we have to build back
What finally got to me this weekend was realizing I couldn’t keep going with just self-care “band-aids” without facing the grief head-on.
Who could ever imagine in this country we would have a government sponsored Gestapo. The German Gestapo did not wear masks. This is the most likely shameful period in our history.
We should recognize the sexual victimization of terrorized children by the Trumpstein Cult is the immediate predecessor, perhaps even a test run, of the terror the MAGAstapo is now unleashing on anyone who refuses to kowtow to the ChristoNazi theocracy. Thus the vital, know-our-enemy relevance of the full text of the Jane Doe lawsuit against Trump and Epstein -- later withdrawn in response to credible death threats against the plaintiff: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf Please let us ensure this text is linked early (and therefore prominently) on as many Resistance sites as possible every day until the traitorous regime of ecogenocidal ChristoNazi pedophiles is no more. (I'll do my best to be responsible for this posting, but I am 85 years old and terminally ill, which means others need be ready to pick up the torch on days I am absent and after I am no more.)
Heir Stephen Miller is a BIG mudsill tool for Trump/MAGA's goals; Creating a White Nationalist America. He and his allies cannot imagine the glories enshrined in America's founding documents; Freedom, Equality and Diversity. Trump/MAGA/Miller will perish from this earth. Our glorious aspirations will not.
Ned, Trump said that taking the money ($10 billion lawsuit) of the American people into his own hands would enable him to use it for public good. What public good?? He's never done anything good for the public.
He said, "We could make it a substantial amount, NOBODY WOULD CARE...." Therein lies his perception of the American public. He can do anything he wants to, and we will accept and support it. Those who voted for him accepted his egotistical and self-serving words and actions. Republican Congress members have encouraged and allowed his confidence that he alone can run the government to enrich himself, his family, and his wealthy cronies-in-crime.
NOBODY WOULD CARE. We must show him that we DO Care.
Back (way back) in the day many people said being on Nixon’s hit list was a badge of honor. It now seems that same badge should attach to those accused by this administration of domestic terrorism. Wonderful poem.
Thank you. As I have said before, with that documentary film about the enormous USian support for Hitler, there's a bit to study, but it gives us the intellectual ammunition to shoot down one of the most dangerous ChristoNazi/mainstream-media deceptions: that Trump is merely an anomalous extreme, well within our political norms, when in fact his coup is as much of an invasion as the 1939 Nazi conquest of Poland -- only this time the Nazis are invading from within.
Sadly I agree The goons have an extremely broad view of what they believe is "impeding their mission," and "putting their lives in danger." And many believe they have complete immunity.
Above all, no more Nicole Goods and Alex Prettis and the many others who are dying without the videos to document their dying.
I have news from my daughter in MA that there is a movement to make the film about Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming” Number One on Netflix this week-end. Melania’s is not selling well, so it’s a great way to make Professor Richardson’s point in tonight’s newsletter.
Review of the book: in Poland it sold like hotcakes; the French translation was excellent (it was forced upon me by a French friend, who when I didn’t finish it in three days, made me take it with me so I would finish it).
We can spread our message which HCR has so clearly put out this morning. I have friends living the good life “above the drama” as they call it, who have never heard of Substack.
We can be as engaged as our circumstances allow and find that purpose in living that has energized enough of all mankind to somehow bring us this far.
The fact that we’re here, TOGETHER, fighting the good fight for GOOD versus EVIL gives us purpose.
Kristin, maybe our team will meet up eventually in the next life! All this good energy we are sharing is dissipating somewhere…does energy die? I’ll have to think about that…. I wish we could sit around a camp fire with warm beverage and discuss that! heart emoji!
In 1858, Senator James Henry Hammond (D-SC), a wealthy enslaver, rose to explain to his northern colleagues why their objection to human enslavement was so badly misguided. “In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life,” he said. Such workers needed few brains and little skill; they just had to be strong, docile, and loyal to their betters, who would organize their labor and then collect the profits from it, concentrating that wealth into their own hands to move society forward efficiently.
And the MF Republicans in Congress and in 20 US states absolutely refuse to raise the Federal and State minimum wage at all, much less to a living wage.
Someone working $7.25 an hour 40-60 hours a week cannot afford child care or food or housing or health care. The minimum wage in Norway is over 30 Euros an hour with a 33% tax rate, so AFTER taxes around $23/hour. This is there minimum wage. Plus state benefits include free healthcare and a pension among others.
I scoff at anyone who calls the USA a 1st world country.
One is scheduled, but waiting for approval, in my small, heavily republican town. The coordinator is expecting to hear by tomorrow. My husband and I will be attending. This will be our third. Sadly we see few young people, but maybe they attend the Boston or Worcester ones instead. At least one can hope that is the case. I don't know how we get them to realize all that will be lost if they don't rise up against this tyranny, that they will be old and gray before democracy can be restored.
There aren’t any young people in my small, heavily Republican town in MA. They have all gone somewhere else for the time being. Hopefully they are marching. All the ones I know are marching, kids in tow. They don’t realize as much as we gray-hairs do how long it would take to get democracy back.
Heather: "History is doing that rhyming thing again".
Oregon's Alex Bauhard: "Federal officer indiscriminately threw loads of gas ...'.
Judge Fred Biery: "The imposition of cruelty knows no bounds and are bereft of human decency".
Heather: "Judge Briery, under his signature posted the now infamous image of Liam's Blue Bunny hat".
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In 2025, 3800 humans have been detained inside the Diley Texas Detention Center. Liam & his Father have been released from detention. But, those detentions continue at about 170 persons per day.
Cruel & Unusual Punishment.
Now is the time to go back to TX Judge Biery to halt the on-going detentions & release ALL persons detained therein.
Yes, as it has me.I am fearful for the Haitian community in Springfield ,Ohio that ICE will unleash more fresh hell on these good people who helped to make Springfield the prosperous community that it is today. God be with these folks.
Georgia, my sister is getting close to the end of her 32 month battle with brain cancer. Reading this letter brought me closer to tears than anytime since my uncontrollable sobbing on first learning diagnosis.
Grief is such a hard emotion, I think because it is so connected to loss of present and future possibilities.
What is so hard now is that our personal grief is being crowded by a grief that we never fully expected. It is the loss of our assumptions about what our communal lives will be like, what we can take for granted,, what our children will experience.
What was true 15 months ago., now has to be fought for.
The phrase, lyric, Christian based “Family of Man” came to mind as I read Heather’s letter. That’s what I mourn. Because I still have my sense of humor (twisted tho it may be) I also think all living descendants of this Hammond guy should self deport.)
Thank you for this, Heather. It's your most important piece this year(so far).
In the early 70's, I wrote a paper on Margaret Sanger for Soc. 201. I've carried it forward here:
An old idea returns in modern language. Stephen Miller’s politics revive a caste system America once claimed to reject, where democracy is managed, and labor is stripped of voice. This essay traces that lineage from eugenics to authoritarian power, and explains why this revival, loud and cruel, is already failing...
I am a mere pauper of intellect in the presence of Heather Cox. Recognizing this, I beg to disagree on a few points of history. My feeling is that this coming together of a nation, first divergent colonies than as articles of confederation and ultimately, a nation after overcoming a central authority being England, much of the wealth achieved by early settlers were of the slave-owning class. And many of the founders who signed on the Declaration of Independence were wealthy slave owners who would not have been so enriched had they not accepted this institution. In 18th century parlance, all men were created equal didn’t conflict with the thinking of the time when they chose to believe that those of African heritage were not men.
Thomas Jefferson made a wonderful life for himself by a well ordered separation of chores of his enslaved. His nail making company was in itself a very profitable venture and he calculated the cost of metals to forge into nails, the amount to time it took of his slaves to fabricate so many nails per day and the cost of feeding and housing these enslaved. Thomas Jefferson was quite a smart man. Oh yes and he believed that all men were created equal. As did Washington.
It’s a terrible mind game we can play to excuse the weaknesses of Man one day then the next, make them heros of our founding. So we trudge along and try to do a little good in our time. We all need to be forgiving of our past yet not forget it. I’m reminded of the original engraving of the Emancipation Proclamation I once had in my booth for sale (glad it didn’t sell I now will never sell it) and it was shown in a Black community. A man walked past, looked at it and said to me, “I don’t know why you brought that thing here to sell.” He was right. The image is of Lincoln and his white cabinet hanging around.
We are a complicated species. Personally I prefer hanging with the feline species. They are easier to communicate with.
Totally agree. And just to add 'all men are created equal' meant men. White men. No women of any color or class or heritage. We supposedly got democracy from day 1, or a republic day 1, but women weren't given right to vote for decades.
I keep hoping that white men will get together to organize and start rallies everywhere with all white men who would stand up to the depravity of so many of their gender and color. I am quite sure there are millions more excellent white men than not but they are diffused in their participation. Speaking as a woman and survivor of DV, I think the power of such a display from men if it were about human rights, women’s rights, immigrants rights, climate and so much more would greatly advance our cause and inspire and give permission to our young men, as well.
If the barbarous founders felt they were perfect they would have felt everything they do must also be perfect. They did not believe they were perfect. They knew the Constitution was not perfect and that to come closer to being perfect they included the power to amend in Section I, Article V of the Constitution. In Federalist No. 43, Madison explained the reason for this power, “That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen. It was requisite, therefore, that a mode for introducing them should be provided.” Also, being well aware that no government is perfect, Jefferson wrote to “Henry Tompkinson” (Samuel Kercheval), in 1816 saying, “I am certainly not an advocate for frequent & untried changes in laws and constitutions ... but I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind ... we might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” Trump and the Roberts Six are good reason to be thankful for Section I, Article V and amend our Constitution. I hang with my Chocolate Lab. He is the only one who understands me.
Personally, I believe that in the bigger picture, Americans have become way to focused on the pursuit of happiness and have even twisted that to mean superficial and self-pleasing pleasure and not true contentment within our communities. We are so addicted to our material pursuits that we have forgotten what deep self-examination and deep generosity even look like. Many don’t know the value of eating real food, let alone the value of voting.
I see this predicament as our collective, maybe one last chance to become more selfless and to get in and roll up our sleeves and be part of the overall amazing set of guidelines we’ve been given by the Constitution. As someone who has been trying to wake up and doing everything I could for the last ten years with very little participation from others, I have hope that we are actually beginning to wake ourselves up and work together, en masse, to make a better life for all and to rid our lands of Miller-Thought and Trump-Speak. I have faith and I’m feeling relief that so many are stepping up now. If only they can put it together with voting, we’ll be alright. We’ll be, in fact, overwhelming…
Amy, thank you for this note. I’m sounding old here, when I say, when I was in school, in civics class we all studied the way the US was supposed to run. Ours was taught by Mr. Nettleton, a flaming right-winger. I remember him so clearly, standing at the front of the class and teaching what we needed to know about the rights and obligations of citizenship. He didn’t shade it towards his beliefs. We all, right and left, had to understand how to be good Americans. He was a great teacher. Thanks, Mr. Nettleton.
A lot of this self-centeredness is due to our current reliance on various technologies for friendship, support and alliances. When I was growing up, there was only one TV in the neighborhood, so kids would gather together to watch cartoons. Going to movies was also a group activity. Written communication was done by hand, and you usually knew the person you were writing to. Human connectivity was critical in our upbringing. And that has always been our power. We need to tear that connectivity away from our screens and back to real, living beings (of course it's ironic that I'm writing via a screen to people I have never knowingly met). Rallies are perfect for this. Encourage more attendance. Let's work together!
This is all true BUT the fact that women and people of color, through generations of civic struggle, eventually achieved citizenship indicates 1)there can be an arch toward greater freedom and inclusion and 2)this progress IS hard work. Defending democracy doesn’t ever stop and we can thank the brave people of Minneapolis for stepping up to do the hard work with energy, courage and verve in the winter of 2026. Thank you, Minneapolis and St. Paul.🙏👍❤️
Bill, this is so important. But I do think it amazing that wealthy, white slave-owners could write words that would electrify the minds and uplift the condition of all kinds of people, including almost by accident the people they thought they were leaving out. It’s ok to love them and be appalled by them at the same time.
Enslaved people were counted as 3/5ths of a person when it came to measuring the population for direct taxation, allocating Congressional seats, and Electoral College votes. Of course, this did not grant enslaved people a right to be represented or to have their grievances addressed. The Republicans and Democrats have traded places and now it is the Republicans who are trying to disenfranchise as many people as they can.
Think of Anti-Social Personality Disorder, from which empathy and conscience may be missing. Other people may be seen as toys for the malignant narcissist. Senator James Henry Hammond and his modern ilk sometimes make that explicit: “to breed,” as “toy[s] for recreation,” or to bring men “wealth and position,”
This is exactly correct. Under the Trump regime, the United States Government has become the Trump Organization writ large -- wealthy, powerful, unaccountable, incredible, and unrespectable.
So if there is a God who created Heaven and earth how do you explain this obvious vicious uncontrollable hatred and destruction of 'the least of these' and everyone else without significant power and money. And how explain history's fascists and brutal dictators.
As I recounted in a stand up in an open mic Methodist church one evening, I explained that God had made a terrible mistake allowing the wrong primate up the evolutionary trail. That he had given the passes to the Bonobos but Man saw what was happening and grabbed the tickets right out of their hands and ran like hell. I was later asked not to return to the open mic. But I felt good all over.
Exactly. Some things seem like acts of a supernatural power. And religious institutions are wonderful. And most nations are wonderful. But the uncontrollable devastation is hard to explain in religious terms.
They rule immunity for a sex-trafficking, underage girl rapist, for his pardoning of the biggest, worst drug traffickers, of over a thousand insurrectionist criminals like himself, and of any filthy rich who just pay him the bribes justices on that "supreme" court assume their due, too.
It is more psychological than religious. People who feel deeply inferior often go to great lengths to demonstrate their desired superiority over others. This happens by force, or making "deals" which are later changed/unpaid. Some people are able to change, often via therapy, but others keep running their game and ignoring the suffering they cause others because acknowledging others' pain would constitute the idea of equality. And here we are.
Hi there JB, you asked … well, here goes … hope I don’t bore you.
The scriptures say that God created man in his image - not physically, of course, but mentally, emotionally, intellectually. He intended all his creation to be for the good.
But ‘in his image’ also meant *free will … and how we use that free will has results.
Adam & Eve lost the privilege of God’s blessing & protections - for themselves & naturally their children - not fair - so Jesus came along and like a good ‘Christian soldier’ he laid down his life for us - doing so proved his loyalty his his father and his commitment to the cause of mankind’s welfare. It also proved resurrection to be possible. He also imparted valuable spiritual lessons for our benefit before departing, he gave us an updated version of the old testament rules & regs.
Satan, the devil, wanted more power than he already had in heaven - he was greedy egotistical & ungrateful - so he got kicked out of heaven & to earth. So “Woe to the earth, because he has come down to you in great anger, knowing *he has a short time left.” Rev. 12:12.
— a ‘short time’ because at the right time God is going to ‘set all matters straight’ via the return of Jesus, the apocalypse, judgement day, resurrection etc. THEN everything will forever after run ‘according to (the original) plan’.
In this spiritual warfare we can chose which side we wish to be aligned with.
True justice will - eventually - prevail.
In the meantime, we are learning that mankind’s forms of justice are not equal or superior to God’s, and in the future we will be more apt to listen to him & obey his commands … loving (respecting) one another the major command, as “love conquers a multitude of sins.”
* Sin in the orig Greek language translates ‘missing the mark’ - ie ‘missing the mark of perfection.’
No matter your condition, you always have options and choices. And no matter how depraved a person is, there is always the chance that in a moment, he or she will have a flash of insight and completely change. The Christians believe this is called a “conversion experience.” But it exists in secular religion too. Thanks for the disquisition, JJEh.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem by John Milton that retells the biblical story of the Fall of Man, focusing on Satan's rebellion against God, his temptation of Adam and Eve, and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Written in blank verse, it is considered one of the greatest works in English literature, exploring themes of free will, obedience, temptation, and the nature of good and evil through its complex characters, particularly the charismatic Satan, who is often seen as a tragic hero.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem by John Milton that retells the biblical story of the Fall of Man, focusing on Satan's rebellion against God, his temptation of Adam and Eve, and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Written in blank verse, it is considered one of the greatest works in English literature, exploring themes of free will, obedience, temptation, and the nature of good and evil through its complex characters, particularly the charismatic Satan, who is often seen as a tragic hero.
JBR, There’s the big question in a nutshell. When you get to the answer be sure to let the rest of us know. But really, those tendencies in humans are what religions at their best were made to help correct. If you can take a thug and get him to believe his best chance lies with becoming non-violent, we are going in the right direction.
This Texas election result is a political earthquake! Questions are churning in my mind:
– Are we, with this political earthquake in Texas, entering a new political era?
– Is Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement” becoming a “Kiss of Death”?
– Could Texas’ redistricting turn out to be a historical dummymander!
My sincere hope for the November midterm elections is precisely this – and that Trump endorsements become the "Kiss of Death" for hundreds of Republican candidates, up and down the ballot!
AI- and crypto-aligned super PACs, alongside Trump-affiliated fundraising operations, have stocked tens of millions of dollars for the 2026 midterms, positioning themselves to play heavily in both parties’ primaries and key Senate and House races.
A new “Leading the Future” super PAC, funded by prominent tech figures including Sam Altman’s circle and major venture capitalists, has raised over $50 million and is planning multi-race interventions from Ohio and California Senate contests to targeted House primaries in New York, Texas, New Jersey, and elsewhere.
Traditional big-money players like AIPAC and GOP megadonor Paul Singer are also routing tens of millions into nominally pro-Democracy or pro-Israel vehicles that increasingly shape Democratic primaries, sharpening intra-party fights over outside money and ideological direction.
The oligarchs are looking to put money into Democratic primaries to swing the elections by getting weaker nominees on the ballot. This is an enormous new danger. It is about eroding trust, and having to build in extra time and energy to be sure you know where each candidate stands.
One of the things that has been really worrying me is seeing 7 candidates in the Democratic primary for my congressional district. My first thought was, who is funding them, and why do all these people have the hubris to think they should get my vote? Now I am thinking it is to flood the zone, and foster party fracture.
Yes, this is all very real. Moreover, Trump himself has accrued an astounding war chest of at least $500 million. Imagine his dilemma! Will he use it for grift or to help political allies so he can preserve power? What is a greedy narcissist to do??
HERE'S HOW THE CHRISTONAZIS ARE ALREADY STEALING OUR ELECTIONS
(A Thom Hartmann Exclusive)
To enlarge upon Dr. Richardson's oft-repeated warnings about stolen elections, here is vital information from Thom Hartmann about how the thievery is accomplished, including credible statistical evidence showing how the ChristoNazis' purging of Blacks, Hispanics and white progressives from the 2024 voter rolls put Trump in the White House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-q1lWsnlhg&t=5s (Election discussion starts at 9:09)
“In December 2024, I was personally involved in an NSA‑authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won—by a wide margin. Trump lost dramatically. There are multiple layers of complexity to this cover‑up, including transnational organized crime syndicates that extend far beyond the United States and our elections. To that point, I work in the human trafficking sector, which intersects with the stolen election(s) and has ties to Trump and Epstein—not to President Biden, Vice President Harris, or Governor Walz, but to the Democrats and other allied interests responsible for burying the audit.”
— Adam Zarnowski, ex-CIA agent and author of Jörmungandr
An example of what you refer to is Jasmine Crocket running for Senate. While I keenly appreciate her great takedowns of Trump, it’s delusional to think she can win a general election in Texas. I wonder who whispered in her air?
Democrats have a terrific Senate candidate in James Talarico. Crocket should have stayed out of the race.
(And don’t even get me started on the number of Democrats who think they can become the next Governor of California! That field of candidates needs serious consolidation.)
When you have enough money that a few hundred million is in the noise, you can do a lot to screw up elections. Seed the whole field early to keep down name recognition of the strongest candidates, and draw money towards the candidates with fringe issues. Then focus on the leaders with attack ads down the road ahead of the primary. You have a good shot at getting a less-qualified candidate with lower name recognition into the general election.
I agree. James Talarico is a great candidate -- the real stuff. I understand she's been attacking him lately, which does not exactly endear her to my heart at least. I'm betting hers is the main voice whispering in her own ear. With so many out there, it doesn't take much, sadly.
I'm really amazed at your ability to pull darkness out of good news. Seriously, couldn't you have at least said something like 'wow, yes, that's great news about Texas!'?
Please consider stopping for a moment to savor a critical victory -- others here (as well as you) need precisely that kind of good news to go on. Myself, I used to live deep in the heart of....This is BIG stuff. It deserves to be celebrated, not buried! And I seem to remember LOTS of Democrats competing in lots of primaries all across the country -- for decades. This is hardly anything new.
Thanks for this! I look forward to reading G. Elliott Morris’ complete analysis. The DownBallot mentioned it in their article. (By the way, for the best info on elections, I highly recommend a subscription to The DownBallot.)
The "Trump-Endorsed" candidate slathered that bit of info on every one of her campaign signs. She was absolutely certain that would do the trick.
Apparently, "Trump Endorsed" went POOF and turned into the "Kiss of Death." What's the phrase from that 90s series, Sex and the City? Oh yes....."just like that."
People are wasting time trying to figure out how individuals this gangster régime think. 🛑 Decent people simply can not get there. ⚖️So, assume a worsening evil and fight it 💡. . . NOW!🗽
Hear hear. More screeds against Trump and his clique of freaks isn't much of a substitute for strategy. Decent people have their work cut out for them.
The news from Texas bears special mention. A 32-point (or whatever it was) swing -- in Texas -- from ruby-red to a clear way out of the morass shows several things:
1. MAGA is cracking. It's happening faster than most of us even thought possible. Things that used to be somehow considered in their favor have been suddenly flipped on their heads. Minnesota may well constitute what Churchill once called 'the end of the beginning.'
2. The GOP in Congress is beginning to splinter. Trump picked up the phone to call Schumer to say 'shutdowns are bad. Let's not have another shutdown' to which Schumer's first response was rightly 'well, you have to reign in ICE.' and told him to tell Thune to allow DHS to be separated from the main budget. Factions in the House GOP (still out of session because Speaker Bobblehead doesn't want the cracks exposed) are grumbling that Trump gave away too much. Once the House re-convenes, expect those cracks to widen even more.
3. People are waking up all over the country. Abducting 5-year-olds, killing demonstrators, arresting reporters is succeeding only in generating huge waves of disgust and anger. Even deep in the heart of Texas. Think about what that means in swing/purple states.
Others will no doubt discern other positive developments. So much out there to do. Organizations like Miles Taylor's Defiance.org are seeking funds to defray the legal costs of journalists facing persecution (not just Don Lemon, who already has excellent counsel). if you live in a red or purple states, consider becoming a poll watcher. Make sure the name you sign for your ballot with is the same one in your voting records.
The headlines should be the resistance. Friday was a national day of action.
Friday was also black friday for a number of investors. Silver down 25%. I am in financial discussion groups. Even the Republicans thnk Trump is an idiot. Only a small sector does well.
To see what the effect is, use AI to see how tariffs have affected a given company.
I live in Baghdad By the Sea, where our number 1 industry, tourism, is dead. No Venezuelans, Brasilian toursits at all. Few Canadians.
We should be following the antics of the 4 Minnesota House Republicans, put microphones in front of them continually. Speak to their donors. Family.
District 1: Rep. Brad Finstad
Chief of Staff: David FitzSimmons
Deputy Chief of Staff: John Altendorf
Legislative Director: Meagan Daly
Communications Director: Jenny Luepke
Director of Operations: Aaron Farris
District 6: Rep. Tom Emmer
Chief of Staff (Personal Office): Taylor Reaves
Chief of Staff (Majority Whip Office): Robert Boland
One truth most vital about Donald and his fellow thugs: their human emptiness.
That’s why they always end up resorting to violence – murders, commissions of cruelties, trafficking-profiting rapes – all enveloped in lies, sloganeered excuses, and monochromatically-labeled stereotypes of others.
The opposite away from that, of course, owes to the imaginative debts many have instead to those who’ve shown, modeled ways of dealing with life including writing and other arts that well foray life’s complications.
I’ve lately found an example of this in a compendium of people writing on the Japanese manga artist and animé director Hayao Miyazaki – Jessica Niebel, Pete Docter, Daniel Kothenschulte, and Toshio Suzuki in a volume from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, titled simply “Hayao Miyazaki.”
Best is an early part citing Disney. Miyazaki acknowledges the great debts Japanese animé had to Walt’s pioneering studios of the 1930s and ‘40s. He pays tribute especially to Disney’s technical mastery. But characters in even Walt’s best features typically stayed in simple character limitations. Miyazaki and his peers in Studio Ghibli sought much fuller characters, in much more complicated nature and other settings.
Art can enlarge the human this way. Can embrace more, more deeply.
So let’s be sure, as we recover from today’s ruling despotisms, that we soon free our teachers to open ways into the books and other arts they most love.
I so agree re Art. I have an MA in Art History - which I taught in a Welsh art college for many years, and a JD. People often asked me how I made the move from art to law -- to me they have some similar traits -- really, really looking at things, figuring out how to solve problems, and working toward a goal. I am retired from the law now, but art is still central to my life.
Thank you, Heather, about the story of the slave owner politician, Hammond. What a vile man who existed then and now, with Miller taking his place, in more ways than one. Miller must just salivate thinking about pepper spraying citizens and their children, especially those with black and brown skin. I feel like I can taste that spray but I also can feel the resolve of the American public. The strength of us is in our resolve to stick up for one another and stick together like glue. Not a one of us is better than the other. We are ONE so get used to it! Demand from your reps and senators that not one penny goes into this ridiculous budget. If your reps voted yes, CALL THEM and tell them they’re toast! I don’t know about you but I was shocked to learn who the 23 senators were.
Hammond was an exceptional scumbag. A real human POS. He’s right now complaining to Epstein as they both lay burning in hell that he was born way too early and really wishes he could have spent time on the island and in the mansion. Epstein was right up Hammond’s alley.
'But Hammond warned that the North was making a terrible mistake. “Our slaves do not vote,” he said. “We give them no political power. Yours do vote, and, being the majority, they are the depositories of all your political power. If they knew the tremendous secret, that the ballot-box is stronger than ‘an army with banners,’ and could combine, where would you be? Your society would be reconstructed, your government overthrown, your property divided…by the quiet process of the ballot-box.” '
The above is exactly why Trump is going after the mid-term in any and every way he can. Note the juxtaposition of having Maduro in jail and the seizure of ballots in Fulton County, GA. If he can get Maduro to "admit" to election tampering (remember the outrageous Hugo Chavez interfered conspiracy?) he has his excuse, due to international interference, to commandeer voting machines and/or have ICE/DHS or military posted at polling places.
' "as Alex Baumhardt of the Oregon Capital Chronicle recorded, “federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland…indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs” at marchers, including children. Portland, Oregon, city councillor Mitch Green reported: “I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions.” '
Let's not be naive Pollyannas! The Regime is bent on total domination of the population. The lower and Federal courts are only a stopgap. The SCOTUS majority is all in for the Regime and their agenda: Unitary Executive with god-like power and full immunity.
10 or 20 million of us in the streets means nothing to them. We need 100 million. I think we'll have that, but will it be too late?
Excellent warning, Steven Robert Levine. Today is more serious than yesterday. All of US have to be involved. I’m thinking of the French who realized in 1942 that they had to “do something.” Our Vichy is even larger than theirs. In fact it is more the size of the German army and Gestapo.
“Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class." Does he really not know American history or does he think we are just that dumb? Literally, ALL US *citizens* have been imported (save the Native Americans) since 1607, before the founding of the country.
Fantastic news from my state of Texas. I’d just about given up on persuading Texas voters to ever vote for a Democrat. Absolutely wonderful to know that it CAN happen!
If you want crystal-clear clarity about today's Republican Party, take Dr. Richardson's essay tonight recounting the horrid "mud sill" theory justifying slavery in the 1800s and add to that Hillary Clinton's brilliant essay this week in The Atlantic "MAGA's War On Empathy." It's hard to fully grasp our upside-down world. The Republican Party that established itself by eliminating slavery is now totally corrupted and run by folks deviously working to reinstate it. Since every current Republican is now complicit or actively involved in this scheme, I guess it's our job to echo and amplify the truth in every way we can. As in, the Republican Party is the Party that sends 5 year olds to detention centers, and sends masked men to shoot citizens in their cars and in their backs. I don't think we can point this truth out enough, because it's so horrifying, we all want to forget it.
I seem to remember DoucheBag Miller got his start way back in high school in Los Angeles (?) demanding that students not be held responsible for littering, arguing that picking up litter was janitors' work, or something both pissy and ridiculous like that.
He was an adolescent douche bag back then peddling neo-Nazi chicken shit for free. Now he's a grown-up one getting paid lots and lots of money for it.
Wingnuts have trashed Hillary Clinton for so long they have convinced themselves she’s literally a witch (she is in fact a churchgoing Methodist,) and Lady Macbeth in a pantsuit.
Before she died, my mother used to tell me stories of how far-right types would trash Eleanor Roosevelt. Every time she visited a coal mine, reminded people about poverty and its ill effects, when she became the voice of her husband on admitting more refugees from Europe into the United States, her working with the Park Service to get Marian Anderson to sing in front of the Lincoln Memorial -- the right called her a witch, a demoness, a communist, a labor agitator. Who did she think she was? Shouldn't she confine herself to holding tea parties? Etc.
When Hillary came along, their hatred for strong, powerful women simply re-emerged. And we all remember the demonic language about Michele Obama. Misogyny has long had such a foothold here. Melanoma is exactly what they want --- how did Maureen Dowd summarize her boondoggle film in yesterday's New York Time entitled "Slovenian Sphinx Film Nixed...."a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda..."
I recall reading Joseph P. Lash and his two volume biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor was indeed vilified by the right wing. The late right wing columnist Westbrook Pegler vilified Eleanor, and Southern white Democrats didn’t like her advocacy for Black people. All of that came back when I saw the same thing happening to Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
Hillary was right! Remember the “great right-wing conspiracy” she told us about in 1995 or so? She was right! Remember the “basket of deplorables” she told us about half of Trmp’s supporters? She was right! When she has stood up and spoken out, she has been right! But at what a cost! Thank you, Hillary.
She was, but her detractors are the sort of people who can dish it out, but can’t take it. The wingnuts claim persecution, but they’re happy to persecute people they don’t like.
We cannot celebrate the 250th birthday of this nation unless we remove this administration from the White House. If we have to do it by dragging them bodily from the building with our bare hands, we must do it!
The Texas special election will harden the GOP’s resolve to rig the mid terms. We need a massive Democratic turnout to take the House and Senate. Impeachments and indictments to follow.
Steven Miller has no idea what it means to have a country that relies on ‘others’. He sees himself as an elite. He probably doesn’t even flush his own toilet. A day will arrive when he doesn’t get a return phone call from his precious and then he will be finished in the political arena, because he needs a host. He’s a parasite.
This reminds me of the videotape of him when he was in high school at Santa Monica High reminding students there were janitors to pick up trash. He was as obnoxious then as he is now, although he has a bigger audience. My mother taught us to pick up after ourselves when we were done eating or if things needed to be cleaned after doing something.
People like Stephen Miller and Eli Crane just don’t understand our culture. They get us wrong every time. We need to “educate” them, or purge them. Their choice. Whichever they choose, they need to get with the program that is clearly spelled out in the Declaration of Independence and implemented by the Constitution.
While Miller has accurately read history, he is wrong in that our founders deliberately set out to do something different. He doesn’t understand what that difference is.
Eli is just too stupid to get it. I recognized that when he first ran for Congress while I lived in AZ.
Thank you, Heather, for ending on some good news.
I was crying uncontrollably in the middle. I almost never cry.
The news this week has just gutted me.
This one also got to me about real life in Minnesota.
Krstie Kimball
7d
beyond beurre blanc.
If you don’t live in Minneapolis, I need you to know a few things about the occupation.
-the helicopters don’t stop
-there are so many abductions from cars that we have a towing moratorium and there are constantly cars parked haphazardly in the street—these are often running or have their hazards on and they often have glass from broken windows by the wheels
-even if you’re stationary in one spot, you will likely see ICE multiple times a day
-songs with honking or whistles on sports TVs in bars get people to stand up automatically
-most restaurants, even those that aren’t owned by immigrants, have locked their doors
-there was a military style checkpoint by the execution site of Alex Pretti last night and people had to prove they live there with ID or mail to get into their neighborhood
-whatever you see on the news or Instagram, it’s worse
Yes! I thought the endless sirens were terrible. But where I am in downtown Chicago, the helicopters are rare since Kristi Noem’s raid in South Chicago yielded not one “illegal.” (Such an insulting term for another human who has fled for his life in so many instances.) This story of Minnesota is warning to all of US. Coupled with HCR’s account of Trump’s riches and Jared Kushner in the Ukraine “discussions,” I am both sickened and horrified.
Trump's corruption is palpable, staggering. Trump is now going for $10 billion from American citizens via the U.S. Treasury, allegedly because some of his financial information was leaked. What will it take to satiate his appetite for plunder? $100 billion? $200 billion? While I am disgusted at those who voted for this sorry excuse for a human being, I am even more livid at our cowardly "representatives" who cower in their offices, afraid to discharge the duties of their oath of office. It's mind boggling, the stupidity and the cowardice.
Yes. Agreed. How many requests for donations are we all receiving daily?Flooding our personal mail and text?
"...final days of the campaign, the Wambsganss campaign spent $310,000 while Rehmet spent nothing, and Daniel Nichanian of BoltsMag posted that overall, Wambsganss spent nearly $2.2 million more than Rehmet in the campaign."
Our politicians need to be busy, making a difference, not making deals with known crooks and liars. Not asking us to give them more $$. They are all better off than most of us, with their healthcare etc etc etc. Effin' earn it.
Thank you. My Daily Rant.
Can we pay him to go away?
You couldn't pay him enough to go away, he's a bottomless grifter and enough would never be enough.
Rise Up Angry!
Loren, at 91, I don’t have the luxury of much emotion. It takes energy that I can better spend writing, cooking, and housekeeping. Mostly I remember the Greeks who said “the gods laugh,” so I laugh at stupidity and greed as I fight for US. Instead of 10 GOTV postcards a day, going to plan 12 for as long as arm and hand can do them. Yesterday was a turning point.
Virginia, I find that my energy is less as I am aging. It does help me to learn what others are doing and that people like Heather are willing to keep us informed with connections from our past to show that we have been in a similar place before. We can peacefully dump this regime, but it is going to take a whole lot of us to do it; the regime has too much money and the weapons. We have the strength in numbers and we do need to get out more videos of the kids being gassed in Minneapolis and elsewhere so the right-wing can see what they have unleashed on this nation and for what, so they can have white in charge, an ignorant greedy, lying, racist, misogynist with dementia in charge! Yeah, that makes sense!
The right wing will never see beyond their self proclaimed mastery of the world. Dumb is doubtless, and numbingly self immolated. They are the echo of a god in divine madness. Stand back and watch them choose the narrowest approach. With absolute surety they will guide you, enlighten you, and confine you.
I fit into your age category and I too know that I am incapable (the spirit is willing but the flesh rebels) of all the energy that drove me when I was younger. That does not stop me from reading and trying to not only understand what is going on but ways that we, as we dodder a bit, we can still have an impact. I write to my representatives although most are thinking the way I am but I want them to know that they have support, and I wrote to the one who is unwilling to do other than follow the dictats of trump--and I tell him what I think in no uncertain, but always respectful, terms.
"Come Out Ye Cowards ICE" Dedicated to Renee Good & Alex Pretti
.https://youtu.be/Ze0XKVYZRBw?si=UjZytcrCtYKpUfwN.
I share your thoughts, Virginia. Sickened and horrified.
Millions of sickened citizens share your anguish Virginia, we are all insulted. Keep the fight 💪
Thank you Professor Richardson. I hope the quote you wrote from Steven Miller is shared far and wide. The comparison with the “Mudsills” hit me hard. Are the uninformed and misinformed voters still oblivious to what Miller’s contempt and disrespect means for them? Heartened by the vote in red Texas. I resolve to show up for the next “No Kings” on Sat., March 28.
Benjamin Franklin wrote:
"We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately".
We have the numbers, that is our weapon. We must vote, while we can, and, we must peacefully assemble, whenever we can. The whole world is watching.
A true war zone indeed. Grateful for so many people reporting on it, for those who just keep showing up every day, for the cameras, for recording and documenting everything, for those teaching others civil resistance. Light amid the darkness.
I grew up in Minnesota and spent roughly six years in So Minneapolis while attending college, while my girlfriend went to MCAD (we lived just south of 26th Street between Nicollet and Lyndale) and until this moment had never been as heartbroken in my life, as I have in the last 8 days, reading everything on the situation I could find. But now the sorrow so much worse.
Just staggering.
How the City of Minneapolis allows ICE to maintain a cordon around the shooting site is beyond me, unless everyone just knows the DHS has the 8th Cir in its pocket
Franklin, I suspect everyone knows about the 8th circuit and that they can collect a grand jury in no time to come up with ridiculous indictments. I can't help but wonder how much each of them was paid to indict a clearly innocent set of journalists, in this case. I bet it was significant.
Thank you, Georgia, for this vital sitrep. Perhaps now those who were deceived by the Regime or its captive media to imagine the ChristoNazi invaders of Minnesota were backing off in response to peoples' protests have learned to heed our warnings and -- most of all -- to refrain from celebrating nonexistent victories.
Georgia, thanks for this report. We are definitely not seeing that side of the invasion in our media. We need people who live there to tell us the reality. This is an invasion force and they are practicing on Minneapolis getting ready for other cities. We are going to have to put even more pressure on our pathetic congress where even a lot of Democrats can't push the need to act to get rid of ICE completely, and seriously limit the Border Patrol and all other DHS operations. They are not keeping us secure in any way. Then Congress needs to look at the DOJ and get Bondi in to testify about what she is up to and impeach her if possible. The primary thing, get rid of Kristi Noem! She is a lying fool who is so wrapped up in her whiteness and privilege she can't possibly do the right thing for anyone.
OMFG.
This is absolutely devastating. How could ICE officers be trained to treat fellow Americans like enemy combatants?
You are assuming the people they hired havent spent thier whole life wanting to act like this. They didnt have to be trained, they've waited thier whole lives for an opportunity to attack thier neighbors. This is who they have always wanted to be.
Money.
And hate.
I’m not sure money alone can buy the enthusiasm with which they are carrying out their tasks.
🫂😢
Thank you for telling it like it is. Terrifying. Keep writing!! Get you observations published. The world should know. Every American MUST know.
These details break my heart and harden my resolve.
Thanks for the wisdom. I think we are all going to have to go through cycles of letting the grief out, and then stepping back into the fight with a deeper understanding of what we have to build back
What finally got to me this weekend was realizing I couldn’t keep going with just self-care “band-aids” without facing the grief head-on.
Who could ever imagine in this country we would have a government sponsored Gestapo. The German Gestapo did not wear masks. This is the most likely shameful period in our history.
Has been a gut-punch to decent people everywhere.
We should recognize the sexual victimization of terrorized children by the Trumpstein Cult is the immediate predecessor, perhaps even a test run, of the terror the MAGAstapo is now unleashing on anyone who refuses to kowtow to the ChristoNazi theocracy. Thus the vital, know-our-enemy relevance of the full text of the Jane Doe lawsuit against Trump and Epstein -- later withdrawn in response to credible death threats against the plaintiff: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf Please let us ensure this text is linked early (and therefore prominently) on as many Resistance sites as possible every day until the traitorous regime of ecogenocidal ChristoNazi pedophiles is no more. (I'll do my best to be responsible for this posting, but I am 85 years old and terminally ill, which means others need be ready to pick up the torch on days I am absent and after I am no more.)
Heir Stephen Miller is a BIG mudsill tool for Trump/MAGA's goals; Creating a White Nationalist America. He and his allies cannot imagine the glories enshrined in America's founding documents; Freedom, Equality and Diversity. Trump/MAGA/Miller will perish from this earth. Our glorious aspirations will not.
If Miller’s grandparents hadn’t been allowed into the US, he wouldn’t be here. Hypocrite.
Ned, Trump said that taking the money ($10 billion lawsuit) of the American people into his own hands would enable him to use it for public good. What public good?? He's never done anything good for the public.
He said, "We could make it a substantial amount, NOBODY WOULD CARE...." Therein lies his perception of the American public. He can do anything he wants to, and we will accept and support it. Those who voted for him accepted his egotistical and self-serving words and actions. Republican Congress members have encouraged and allowed his confidence that he alone can run the government to enrich himself, his family, and his wealthy cronies-in-crime.
NOBODY WOULD CARE. We must show him that we DO Care.
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/if-they-call-me-a-domestic-terrorist
The poem in Joyce Vance's post above, by Michael DuBois is what moved me powerfully.
It just broke down all of my defenses, and let the emotions loose.
I am grieving for myself, my daughter, my ICE-raided town, my state, Minnesota occupied, my country, everything that I hold dear.
I can hold it together and see it and fight it when it is about institutions, and ideas, and values--abstract things.
But I can't hold back my tears anymore when it is about people, individual, real, people,
Back (way back) in the day many people said being on Nixon’s hit list was a badge of honor. It now seems that same badge should attach to those accused by this administration of domestic terrorism. Wonderful poem.
Thank you for the link to that poem. Brought tears to my eyes.
This --which is as powerful a a people's anthem as anything by the Red Army Chorus in World War II -- damn sure put tears in my eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uozLlmUhzZY&list=RDuozLlmUhzZY&start_radio=1
"We are the North Star blazing in the cold..."
Thank you
We are all in this together! You are not alone! Doesn't make reading the news any easier some days.
Here for the forces of Liberation is a legal, non-violent weapon said to have proven extremely effective in the battles of Portland: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n0kd!,w_568,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb28deee-afca-41b1-ba93-aa5111f4cf3b_1170x841.jpeg (With thanks and a salute to Adrienne.)
love it.
Thank you. As I have said before, with that documentary film about the enormous USian support for Hitler, there's a bit to study, but it gives us the intellectual ammunition to shoot down one of the most dangerous ChristoNazi/mainstream-media deceptions: that Trump is merely an anomalous extreme, well within our political norms, when in fact his coup is as much of an invasion as the 1939 Nazi conquest of Poland -- only this time the Nazis are invading from within.
I expect anyone who brings a leaf blower to a demonstration would be arrested or shot by Trump's goons.
Sadly I agree The goons have an extremely broad view of what they believe is "impeding their mission," and "putting their lives in danger." And many believe they have complete immunity.
Above all, no more Nicole Goods and Alex Prettis and the many others who are dying without the videos to document their dying.
I have news from my daughter in MA that there is a movement to make the film about Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming” Number One on Netflix this week-end. Melania’s is not selling well, so it’s a great way to make Professor Richardson’s point in tonight’s newsletter.
Review of the book: in Poland it sold like hotcakes; the French translation was excellent (it was forced upon me by a French friend, who when I didn’t finish it in three days, made me take it with me so I would finish it).
We can spread our message which HCR has so clearly put out this morning. I have friends living the good life “above the drama” as they call it, who have never heard of Substack.
We can be as engaged as our circumstances allow and find that purpose in living that has energized enough of all mankind to somehow bring us this far.
The fact that we’re here, TOGETHER, fighting the good fight for GOOD versus EVIL gives us purpose.
For those who "don't do politics"
Because the news upsets me.
Because I'm trying to "keep things positive!"
Because it's bad for my mental health.
Because I don't have time.
Because I don't have energy.
Because I don't want to offend you.
Because it doesn't affect me.
Because I have enough on my plate.
Because I can see them coming, outside my window, I can see them coming, but they're not coming for me.
Kristin, maybe our team will meet up eventually in the next life! All this good energy we are sharing is dissipating somewhere…does energy die? I’ll have to think about that…. I wish we could sit around a camp fire with warm beverage and discuss that! heart emoji!
Heather writes-
In 1858, Senator James Henry Hammond (D-SC), a wealthy enslaver, rose to explain to his northern colleagues why their objection to human enslavement was so badly misguided. “In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life,” he said. Such workers needed few brains and little skill; they just had to be strong, docile, and loyal to their betters, who would organize their labor and then collect the profits from it, concentrating that wealth into their own hands to move society forward efficiently.
And the MF Republicans in Congress and in 20 US states absolutely refuse to raise the Federal and State minimum wage at all, much less to a living wage.
Someone working $7.25 an hour 40-60 hours a week cannot afford child care or food or housing or health care. The minimum wage in Norway is over 30 Euros an hour with a 33% tax rate, so AFTER taxes around $23/hour. This is there minimum wage. Plus state benefits include free healthcare and a pension among others.
I scoff at anyone who calls the USA a 1st world country.
I get mad.
For everyone: NO KINGS March 28.
Check your local Bridge Brigade, Indivisible, 50501 and NO KINGS for other protests.
There are more of us than them. And we will win.
One is scheduled, but waiting for approval, in my small, heavily republican town. The coordinator is expecting to hear by tomorrow. My husband and I will be attending. This will be our third. Sadly we see few young people, but maybe they attend the Boston or Worcester ones instead. At least one can hope that is the case. I don't know how we get them to realize all that will be lost if they don't rise up against this tyranny, that they will be old and gray before democracy can be restored.
There aren’t any young people in my small, heavily Republican town in MA. They have all gone somewhere else for the time being. Hopefully they are marching. All the ones I know are marching, kids in tow. They don’t realize as much as we gray-hairs do how long it would take to get democracy back.
Heather: "History is doing that rhyming thing again".
Oregon's Alex Bauhard: "Federal officer indiscriminately threw loads of gas ...'.
Judge Fred Biery: "The imposition of cruelty knows no bounds and are bereft of human decency".
Heather: "Judge Briery, under his signature posted the now infamous image of Liam's Blue Bunny hat".
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In 2025, 3800 humans have been detained inside the Diley Texas Detention Center. Liam & his Father have been released from detention. But, those detentions continue at about 170 persons per day.
Cruel & Unusual Punishment.
Now is the time to go back to TX Judge Biery to halt the on-going detentions & release ALL persons detained therein.
Yes, as it has me.I am fearful for the Haitian community in Springfield ,Ohio that ICE will unleash more fresh hell on these good people who helped to make Springfield the prosperous community that it is today. God be with these folks.
Georgia I am with you - this week's news has been endlessly horrifying.
Georgia, my sister is getting close to the end of her 32 month battle with brain cancer. Reading this letter brought me closer to tears than anytime since my uncontrollable sobbing on first learning diagnosis.
Grief is such a hard emotion, I think because it is so connected to loss of present and future possibilities.
What is so hard now is that our personal grief is being crowded by a grief that we never fully expected. It is the loss of our assumptions about what our communal lives will be like, what we can take for granted,, what our children will experience.
What was true 15 months ago., now has to be fought for.
The phrase, lyric, Christian based “Family of Man” came to mind as I read Heather’s letter. That’s what I mourn. Because I still have my sense of humor (twisted tho it may be) I also think all living descendants of this Hammond guy should self deport.)
Me too, Georgia.
Me too, it has become so awful from so many different sides, it is exhausting. Surprised but hopeful re Texas?
Thank you for this, Heather. It's your most important piece this year(so far).
In the early 70's, I wrote a paper on Margaret Sanger for Soc. 201. I've carried it forward here:
An old idea returns in modern language. Stephen Miller’s politics revive a caste system America once claimed to reject, where democracy is managed, and labor is stripped of voice. This essay traces that lineage from eugenics to authoritarian power, and explains why this revival, loud and cruel, is already failing...
https://essayx.substack.com/p/the-return-of-the-mudsill
The Trump regime is soulless and despicable.
I am a mere pauper of intellect in the presence of Heather Cox. Recognizing this, I beg to disagree on a few points of history. My feeling is that this coming together of a nation, first divergent colonies than as articles of confederation and ultimately, a nation after overcoming a central authority being England, much of the wealth achieved by early settlers were of the slave-owning class. And many of the founders who signed on the Declaration of Independence were wealthy slave owners who would not have been so enriched had they not accepted this institution. In 18th century parlance, all men were created equal didn’t conflict with the thinking of the time when they chose to believe that those of African heritage were not men.
Thomas Jefferson made a wonderful life for himself by a well ordered separation of chores of his enslaved. His nail making company was in itself a very profitable venture and he calculated the cost of metals to forge into nails, the amount to time it took of his slaves to fabricate so many nails per day and the cost of feeding and housing these enslaved. Thomas Jefferson was quite a smart man. Oh yes and he believed that all men were created equal. As did Washington.
It’s a terrible mind game we can play to excuse the weaknesses of Man one day then the next, make them heros of our founding. So we trudge along and try to do a little good in our time. We all need to be forgiving of our past yet not forget it. I’m reminded of the original engraving of the Emancipation Proclamation I once had in my booth for sale (glad it didn’t sell I now will never sell it) and it was shown in a Black community. A man walked past, looked at it and said to me, “I don’t know why you brought that thing here to sell.” He was right. The image is of Lincoln and his white cabinet hanging around.
We are a complicated species. Personally I prefer hanging with the feline species. They are easier to communicate with.
Totally agree. And just to add 'all men are created equal' meant men. White men. No women of any color or class or heritage. We supposedly got democracy from day 1, or a republic day 1, but women weren't given right to vote for decades.
I keep hoping that white men will get together to organize and start rallies everywhere with all white men who would stand up to the depravity of so many of their gender and color. I am quite sure there are millions more excellent white men than not but they are diffused in their participation. Speaking as a woman and survivor of DV, I think the power of such a display from men if it were about human rights, women’s rights, immigrants rights, climate and so much more would greatly advance our cause and inspire and give permission to our young men, as well.
SO IMPORTANT, Amy! Let’s motivate the good MEN we know!
I fear that many speak out of both sides of their mouth and that is why we see so little action to fight back.
If the barbarous founders felt they were perfect they would have felt everything they do must also be perfect. They did not believe they were perfect. They knew the Constitution was not perfect and that to come closer to being perfect they included the power to amend in Section I, Article V of the Constitution. In Federalist No. 43, Madison explained the reason for this power, “That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen. It was requisite, therefore, that a mode for introducing them should be provided.” Also, being well aware that no government is perfect, Jefferson wrote to “Henry Tompkinson” (Samuel Kercheval), in 1816 saying, “I am certainly not an advocate for frequent & untried changes in laws and constitutions ... but I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind ... we might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” Trump and the Roberts Six are good reason to be thankful for Section I, Article V and amend our Constitution. I hang with my Chocolate Lab. He is the only one who understands me.
So how does that help us here, now, in 2026 when this very government is trying to destroy us?
Personally, I believe that in the bigger picture, Americans have become way to focused on the pursuit of happiness and have even twisted that to mean superficial and self-pleasing pleasure and not true contentment within our communities. We are so addicted to our material pursuits that we have forgotten what deep self-examination and deep generosity even look like. Many don’t know the value of eating real food, let alone the value of voting.
I see this predicament as our collective, maybe one last chance to become more selfless and to get in and roll up our sleeves and be part of the overall amazing set of guidelines we’ve been given by the Constitution. As someone who has been trying to wake up and doing everything I could for the last ten years with very little participation from others, I have hope that we are actually beginning to wake ourselves up and work together, en masse, to make a better life for all and to rid our lands of Miller-Thought and Trump-Speak. I have faith and I’m feeling relief that so many are stepping up now. If only they can put it together with voting, we’ll be alright. We’ll be, in fact, overwhelming…
Amy, I’m happy to be on this team with HCR and all of us here…we have work to do persuasively and peacefully.
Amy, I appreciate your note of materialism as integral to the ptoblem. I agree & see it as the hook by which oligarchs gain manipulation over just enough people to turn USA back towards control by rapacious enslavers: https://open.substack.com/pub/johnrich/p/the-age-of-anthropocene-and-anxiety?r=41pd0&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
Amy, thank you for this note. I’m sounding old here, when I say, when I was in school, in civics class we all studied the way the US was supposed to run. Ours was taught by Mr. Nettleton, a flaming right-winger. I remember him so clearly, standing at the front of the class and teaching what we needed to know about the rights and obligations of citizenship. He didn’t shade it towards his beliefs. We all, right and left, had to understand how to be good Americans. He was a great teacher. Thanks, Mr. Nettleton.
A lot of this self-centeredness is due to our current reliance on various technologies for friendship, support and alliances. When I was growing up, there was only one TV in the neighborhood, so kids would gather together to watch cartoons. Going to movies was also a group activity. Written communication was done by hand, and you usually knew the person you were writing to. Human connectivity was critical in our upbringing. And that has always been our power. We need to tear that connectivity away from our screens and back to real, living beings (of course it's ironic that I'm writing via a screen to people I have never knowingly met). Rallies are perfect for this. Encourage more attendance. Let's work together!
This is all true BUT the fact that women and people of color, through generations of civic struggle, eventually achieved citizenship indicates 1)there can be an arch toward greater freedom and inclusion and 2)this progress IS hard work. Defending democracy doesn’t ever stop and we can thank the brave people of Minneapolis for stepping up to do the hard work with energy, courage and verve in the winter of 2026. Thank you, Minneapolis and St. Paul.🙏👍❤️
Amen.
Bill, this is so important. But I do think it amazing that wealthy, white slave-owners could write words that would electrify the minds and uplift the condition of all kinds of people, including almost by accident the people they thought they were leaving out. It’s ok to love them and be appalled by them at the same time.
Agree re: cats.
Weren’t Blacks considered to be only 5/8-ths human? 🙄
I thought it was 3/5ths. Twisted narcissistic logic.
Enslaved people were counted as 3/5ths of a person when it came to measuring the population for direct taxation, allocating Congressional seats, and Electoral College votes. Of course, this did not grant enslaved people a right to be represented or to have their grievances addressed. The Republicans and Democrats have traded places and now it is the Republicans who are trying to disenfranchise as many people as they can.
Think of Anti-Social Personality Disorder, from which empathy and conscience may be missing. Other people may be seen as toys for the malignant narcissist. Senator James Henry Hammond and his modern ilk sometimes make that explicit: “to breed,” as “toy[s] for recreation,” or to bring men “wealth and position,”
As Musk had stated, empathy is toxic.
That's the mindset.
Is this not JD Vance's mindset as well?
Sounds like Charlie Kirk and the new “manosphere”.
This is exactly correct. Under the Trump regime, the United States Government has become the Trump Organization writ large -- wealthy, powerful, unaccountable, incredible, and unrespectable.
“…unaccountable, and incredibly evil….”
You'll get no argument from me. Our country is certainly pursuing and rewarding evil right now. It's up to us to stop this.
So if there is a God who created Heaven and earth how do you explain this obvious vicious uncontrollable hatred and destruction of 'the least of these' and everyone else without significant power and money. And how explain history's fascists and brutal dictators.
As I recounted in a stand up in an open mic Methodist church one evening, I explained that God had made a terrible mistake allowing the wrong primate up the evolutionary trail. That he had given the passes to the Bonobos but Man saw what was happening and grabbed the tickets right out of their hands and ran like hell. I was later asked not to return to the open mic. But I felt good all over.
Exactly. Some things seem like acts of a supernatural power. And religious institutions are wonderful. And most nations are wonderful. But the uncontrollable devastation is hard to explain in religious terms.
LOL Bill. Thanks.
Remember our "supreme" court, JBR.
They rule immunity for a sex-trafficking, underage girl rapist, for his pardoning of the biggest, worst drug traffickers, of over a thousand insurrectionist criminals like himself, and of any filthy rich who just pay him the bribes justices on that "supreme" court assume their due, too.
This is partly the reason that I do not and cannot believe in God.
It is more psychological than religious. People who feel deeply inferior often go to great lengths to demonstrate their desired superiority over others. This happens by force, or making "deals" which are later changed/unpaid. Some people are able to change, often via therapy, but others keep running their game and ignoring the suffering they cause others because acknowledging others' pain would constitute the idea of equality. And here we are.
Hi there JB, you asked … well, here goes … hope I don’t bore you.
The scriptures say that God created man in his image - not physically, of course, but mentally, emotionally, intellectually. He intended all his creation to be for the good.
But ‘in his image’ also meant *free will … and how we use that free will has results.
Adam & Eve lost the privilege of God’s blessing & protections - for themselves & naturally their children - not fair - so Jesus came along and like a good ‘Christian soldier’ he laid down his life for us - doing so proved his loyalty his his father and his commitment to the cause of mankind’s welfare. It also proved resurrection to be possible. He also imparted valuable spiritual lessons for our benefit before departing, he gave us an updated version of the old testament rules & regs.
Satan, the devil, wanted more power than he already had in heaven - he was greedy egotistical & ungrateful - so he got kicked out of heaven & to earth. So “Woe to the earth, because he has come down to you in great anger, knowing *he has a short time left.” Rev. 12:12.
— a ‘short time’ because at the right time God is going to ‘set all matters straight’ via the return of Jesus, the apocalypse, judgement day, resurrection etc. THEN everything will forever after run ‘according to (the original) plan’.
In this spiritual warfare we can chose which side we wish to be aligned with.
True justice will - eventually - prevail.
In the meantime, we are learning that mankind’s forms of justice are not equal or superior to God’s, and in the future we will be more apt to listen to him & obey his commands … loving (respecting) one another the major command, as “love conquers a multitude of sins.”
* Sin in the orig Greek language translates ‘missing the mark’ - ie ‘missing the mark of perfection.’
— Therefore, ‘Respectfully’ yours … JJ 🦋
Jay Jay Eh, I like that version and the choice is ours…
The screw tape letters
No matter your condition, you always have options and choices. And no matter how depraved a person is, there is always the chance that in a moment, he or she will have a flash of insight and completely change. The Christians believe this is called a “conversion experience.” But it exists in secular religion too. Thanks for the disquisition, JJEh.
The answer; Goodreads
Paradise Lost is an epic poem by John Milton that retells the biblical story of the Fall of Man, focusing on Satan's rebellion against God, his temptation of Adam and Eve, and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Written in blank verse, it is considered one of the greatest works in English literature, exploring themes of free will, obedience, temptation, and the nature of good and evil through its complex characters, particularly the charismatic Satan, who is often seen as a tragic hero.
Thank you
Read Milton’s Paradise Lost.
My comment was dense. I agree. See Goodreads
Paradise Lost is an epic poem by John Milton that retells the biblical story of the Fall of Man, focusing on Satan's rebellion against God, his temptation of Adam and Eve, and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Written in blank verse, it is considered one of the greatest works in English literature, exploring themes of free will, obedience, temptation, and the nature of good and evil through its complex characters, particularly the charismatic Satan, who is often seen as a tragic hero.
I've read it twice and it remains on the shelf as a keep forever book.
My takeaway? God punishes those who seek knowledge and exercise their free will.
JBR, There’s the big question in a nutshell. When you get to the answer be sure to let the rest of us know. But really, those tendencies in humans are what religions at their best were made to help correct. If you can take a thug and get him to believe his best chance lies with becoming non-violent, we are going in the right direction.
This Texas election result is a political earthquake! Questions are churning in my mind:
– Are we, with this political earthquake in Texas, entering a new political era?
– Is Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement” becoming a “Kiss of Death”?
– Could Texas’ redistricting turn out to be a historical dummymander!
My sincere hope for the November midterm elections is precisely this – and that Trump endorsements become the "Kiss of Death" for hundreds of Republican candidates, up and down the ballot!
AI- and crypto-aligned super PACs, alongside Trump-affiliated fundraising operations, have stocked tens of millions of dollars for the 2026 midterms, positioning themselves to play heavily in both parties’ primaries and key Senate and House races.
A new “Leading the Future” super PAC, funded by prominent tech figures including Sam Altman’s circle and major venture capitalists, has raised over $50 million and is planning multi-race interventions from Ohio and California Senate contests to targeted House primaries in New York, Texas, New Jersey, and elsewhere.
Traditional big-money players like AIPAC and GOP megadonor Paul Singer are also routing tens of millions into nominally pro-Democracy or pro-Israel vehicles that increasingly shape Democratic primaries, sharpening intra-party fights over outside money and ideological direction.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/ai-crypto-trump-super-pacs-stash-millions-spend-midterms-rcna256622
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The oligarchs are looking to put money into Democratic primaries to swing the elections by getting weaker nominees on the ballot. This is an enormous new danger. It is about eroding trust, and having to build in extra time and energy to be sure you know where each candidate stands.
One of the things that has been really worrying me is seeing 7 candidates in the Democratic primary for my congressional district. My first thought was, who is funding them, and why do all these people have the hubris to think they should get my vote? Now I am thinking it is to flood the zone, and foster party fracture.
Yes, this is all very real. Moreover, Trump himself has accrued an astounding war chest of at least $500 million. Imagine his dilemma! Will he use it for grift or to help political allies so he can preserve power? What is a greedy narcissist to do??
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/10/trump-maga-inc-power-fundraising
He will keep it for himself, in his twisted mind he will think he “worked” for it,
Of self-congratulate his cunning in fleecing the flock.
HERE'S HOW THE CHRISTONAZIS ARE ALREADY STEALING OUR ELECTIONS
(A Thom Hartmann Exclusive)
To enlarge upon Dr. Richardson's oft-repeated warnings about stolen elections, here is vital information from Thom Hartmann about how the thievery is accomplished, including credible statistical evidence showing how the ChristoNazis' purging of Blacks, Hispanics and white progressives from the 2024 voter rolls put Trump in the White House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-q1lWsnlhg&t=5s (Election discussion starts at 9:09)
Hartmann has yet to address:
“In December 2024, I was personally involved in an NSA‑authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won—by a wide margin. Trump lost dramatically. There are multiple layers of complexity to this cover‑up, including transnational organized crime syndicates that extend far beyond the United States and our elections. To that point, I work in the human trafficking sector, which intersects with the stolen election(s) and has ties to Trump and Epstein—not to President Biden, Vice President Harris, or Governor Walz, but to the Democrats and other allied interests responsible for burying the audit.”
— Adam Zarnowski, ex-CIA agent and author of Jörmungandr
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited
LOL. Thanks, ArcticStones.
An example of what you refer to is Jasmine Crocket running for Senate. While I keenly appreciate her great takedowns of Trump, it’s delusional to think she can win a general election in Texas. I wonder who whispered in her air?
Democrats have a terrific Senate candidate in James Talarico. Crocket should have stayed out of the race.
(And don’t even get me started on the number of Democrats who think they can become the next Governor of California! That field of candidates needs serious consolidation.)
When you have enough money that a few hundred million is in the noise, you can do a lot to screw up elections. Seed the whole field early to keep down name recognition of the strongest candidates, and draw money towards the candidates with fringe issues. Then focus on the leaders with attack ads down the road ahead of the primary. You have a good shot at getting a less-qualified candidate with lower name recognition into the general election.
I agree. James Talarico is a great candidate -- the real stuff. I understand she's been attacking him lately, which does not exactly endear her to my heart at least. I'm betting hers is the main voice whispering in her own ear. With so many out there, it doesn't take much, sadly.
I'm really amazed at your ability to pull darkness out of good news. Seriously, couldn't you have at least said something like 'wow, yes, that's great news about Texas!'?
Please consider stopping for a moment to savor a critical victory -- others here (as well as you) need precisely that kind of good news to go on. Myself, I used to live deep in the heart of....This is BIG stuff. It deserves to be celebrated, not buried! And I seem to remember LOTS of Democrats competing in lots of primaries all across the country -- for decades. This is hardly anything new.
Oh yea, chump’s KISS OF DEATH. Can’t wait. The adoration of the Nazi has gone on way too long
From the Strength in Numbers post a look at Texas:
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=6273&post_id=186474164&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dv3vh&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzI4NjM2NSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTg2NDc0MTY0LCJpYXQiOjE3Njk5MjY2MzYsImV4cCI6MTc3MjUxODYzNiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYyNzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.TVoe5abqKlchCNWgU5UV71WjvOUDIe1X5Bbin3QPXOE
Thanks for this! I look forward to reading G. Elliott Morris’ complete analysis. The DownBallot mentioned it in their article. (By the way, for the best info on elections, I highly recommend a subscription to The DownBallot.)
The "Trump-Endorsed" candidate slathered that bit of info on every one of her campaign signs. She was absolutely certain that would do the trick.
Apparently, "Trump Endorsed" went POOF and turned into the "Kiss of Death." What's the phrase from that 90s series, Sex and the City? Oh yes....."just like that."
This, most wholeheartedly This! ÜŸ
People are wasting time trying to figure out how individuals this gangster régime think. 🛑 Decent people simply can not get there. ⚖️So, assume a worsening evil and fight it 💡. . . NOW!🗽
Hear hear. More screeds against Trump and his clique of freaks isn't much of a substitute for strategy. Decent people have their work cut out for them.
The news from Texas bears special mention. A 32-point (or whatever it was) swing -- in Texas -- from ruby-red to a clear way out of the morass shows several things:
1. MAGA is cracking. It's happening faster than most of us even thought possible. Things that used to be somehow considered in their favor have been suddenly flipped on their heads. Minnesota may well constitute what Churchill once called 'the end of the beginning.'
2. The GOP in Congress is beginning to splinter. Trump picked up the phone to call Schumer to say 'shutdowns are bad. Let's not have another shutdown' to which Schumer's first response was rightly 'well, you have to reign in ICE.' and told him to tell Thune to allow DHS to be separated from the main budget. Factions in the House GOP (still out of session because Speaker Bobblehead doesn't want the cracks exposed) are grumbling that Trump gave away too much. Once the House re-convenes, expect those cracks to widen even more.
3. People are waking up all over the country. Abducting 5-year-olds, killing demonstrators, arresting reporters is succeeding only in generating huge waves of disgust and anger. Even deep in the heart of Texas. Think about what that means in swing/purple states.
Others will no doubt discern other positive developments. So much out there to do. Organizations like Miles Taylor's Defiance.org are seeking funds to defray the legal costs of journalists facing persecution (not just Don Lemon, who already has excellent counsel). if you live in a red or purple states, consider becoming a poll watcher. Make sure the name you sign for your ballot with is the same one in your voting records.
Lift your heads. Keep at it. It's working.
The headlines should be the resistance. Friday was a national day of action.
Friday was also black friday for a number of investors. Silver down 25%. I am in financial discussion groups. Even the Republicans thnk Trump is an idiot. Only a small sector does well.
To see what the effect is, use AI to see how tariffs have affected a given company.
I live in Baghdad By the Sea, where our number 1 industry, tourism, is dead. No Venezuelans, Brasilian toursits at all. Few Canadians.
We should be following the antics of the 4 Minnesota House Republicans, put microphones in front of them continually. Speak to their donors. Family.
District 1: Rep. Brad Finstad
Chief of Staff: David FitzSimmons
Deputy Chief of Staff: John Altendorf
Legislative Director: Meagan Daly
Communications Director: Jenny Luepke
Director of Operations: Aaron Farris
District 6: Rep. Tom Emmer
Chief of Staff (Personal Office): Taylor Reaves
Chief of Staff (Majority Whip Office): Robert Boland
Communications Director: Sally Fox
Legislative Director: Elizabeth Stinebaugh
Scheduler: Christine Callaghan
District 7: Rep. Michelle Fischbach
Chief of Staff: Sean Murphy
Legislative Director: Savannah Bolender
Communications Director: Lauren Weber Holley
Director of Operations/Scheduler: Jack Vaughn
District 8: Rep. Pete Stauber
Chief of Staff: Desiree Koetzle
Legislative Director: Andrew Morley
Communications Director: Kelsey Emmer
Scheduler: Courtney Heitkamp
Don't use AI to see effects of tariffs. Much less harmful to read Paul Krugman who has been explaining it right along.
One truth most vital about Donald and his fellow thugs: their human emptiness.
That’s why they always end up resorting to violence – murders, commissions of cruelties, trafficking-profiting rapes – all enveloped in lies, sloganeered excuses, and monochromatically-labeled stereotypes of others.
The opposite away from that, of course, owes to the imaginative debts many have instead to those who’ve shown, modeled ways of dealing with life including writing and other arts that well foray life’s complications.
I’ve lately found an example of this in a compendium of people writing on the Japanese manga artist and animé director Hayao Miyazaki – Jessica Niebel, Pete Docter, Daniel Kothenschulte, and Toshio Suzuki in a volume from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, titled simply “Hayao Miyazaki.”
Best is an early part citing Disney. Miyazaki acknowledges the great debts Japanese animé had to Walt’s pioneering studios of the 1930s and ‘40s. He pays tribute especially to Disney’s technical mastery. But characters in even Walt’s best features typically stayed in simple character limitations. Miyazaki and his peers in Studio Ghibli sought much fuller characters, in much more complicated nature and other settings.
Art can enlarge the human this way. Can embrace more, more deeply.
So let’s be sure, as we recover from today’s ruling despotisms, that we soon free our teachers to open ways into the books and other arts they most love.
You mean soaring creativity is not handed down from entitled powerful father to spoiled, entitled useless son. Hope people catch on…
I so agree re Art. I have an MA in Art History - which I taught in a Welsh art college for many years, and a JD. People often asked me how I made the move from art to law -- to me they have some similar traits -- really, really looking at things, figuring out how to solve problems, and working toward a goal. I am retired from the law now, but art is still central to my life.
Same for me with music and medicine.
Everyone should read Timothy Snyder’s post yesterday on his Substack about dragons and a talk that JRR Tolkein gave long ago.
The last paragraph shines out like a ray of hope, a crack where the light can start getting back in. (Thanks Leonard Cohen for the inspiration)...
Nicely stated, Kevin!
Let that light shine through that crack!!
Thank you, Heather, about the story of the slave owner politician, Hammond. What a vile man who existed then and now, with Miller taking his place, in more ways than one. Miller must just salivate thinking about pepper spraying citizens and their children, especially those with black and brown skin. I feel like I can taste that spray but I also can feel the resolve of the American public. The strength of us is in our resolve to stick up for one another and stick together like glue. Not a one of us is better than the other. We are ONE so get used to it! Demand from your reps and senators that not one penny goes into this ridiculous budget. If your reps voted yes, CALL THEM and tell them they’re toast! I don’t know about you but I was shocked to learn who the 23 senators were.
To mobilize Resistance effective enough to achieve Liberation, we need to understand that Trump, the ChristoNazi conquest and its MAGAstapo terrorism is the triumph of a multi-generation, bi-partisan scheme more than a century in the making. To discover the carefully hidden poisonous roots of Trump's "Unified Reich," go here: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-25-2026?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=205274486
Hammond was an exceptional scumbag. A real human POS. He’s right now complaining to Epstein as they both lay burning in hell that he was born way too early and really wishes he could have spent time on the island and in the mansion. Epstein was right up Hammond’s alley.
Thank you from occupied Minnesota. ♥️ I have appreciated these posts and your politics chat since 2020.
We love you, Minnesota!
And we love you back!! Thank you 🙏
'But Hammond warned that the North was making a terrible mistake. “Our slaves do not vote,” he said. “We give them no political power. Yours do vote, and, being the majority, they are the depositories of all your political power. If they knew the tremendous secret, that the ballot-box is stronger than ‘an army with banners,’ and could combine, where would you be? Your society would be reconstructed, your government overthrown, your property divided…by the quiet process of the ballot-box.” '
The above is exactly why Trump is going after the mid-term in any and every way he can. Note the juxtaposition of having Maduro in jail and the seizure of ballots in Fulton County, GA. If he can get Maduro to "admit" to election tampering (remember the outrageous Hugo Chavez interfered conspiracy?) he has his excuse, due to international interference, to commandeer voting machines and/or have ICE/DHS or military posted at polling places.
' "as Alex Baumhardt of the Oregon Capital Chronicle recorded, “federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland…indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs” at marchers, including children. Portland, Oregon, city councillor Mitch Green reported: “I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions.” '
Let's not be naive Pollyannas! The Regime is bent on total domination of the population. The lower and Federal courts are only a stopgap. The SCOTUS majority is all in for the Regime and their agenda: Unitary Executive with god-like power and full immunity.
10 or 20 million of us in the streets means nothing to them. We need 100 million. I think we'll have that, but will it be too late?
Well then, let’s make it 100 million+ of us!
Anyone wants to be free can join us!
Excellent warning, Steven Robert Levine. Today is more serious than yesterday. All of US have to be involved. I’m thinking of the French who realized in 1942 that they had to “do something.” Our Vichy is even larger than theirs. In fact it is more the size of the German army and Gestapo.
“Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class." Does he really not know American history or does he think we are just that dumb? Literally, ALL US *citizens* have been imported (save the Native Americans) since 1607, before the founding of the country.
Fantastic news from my state of Texas. I’d just about given up on persuading Texas voters to ever vote for a Democrat. Absolutely wonderful to know that it CAN happen!
If you want crystal-clear clarity about today's Republican Party, take Dr. Richardson's essay tonight recounting the horrid "mud sill" theory justifying slavery in the 1800s and add to that Hillary Clinton's brilliant essay this week in The Atlantic "MAGA's War On Empathy." It's hard to fully grasp our upside-down world. The Republican Party that established itself by eliminating slavery is now totally corrupted and run by folks deviously working to reinstate it. Since every current Republican is now complicit or actively involved in this scheme, I guess it's our job to echo and amplify the truth in every way we can. As in, the Republican Party is the Party that sends 5 year olds to detention centers, and sends masked men to shoot citizens in their cars and in their backs. I don't think we can point this truth out enough, because it's so horrifying, we all want to forget it.
I seem to remember DoucheBag Miller got his start way back in high school in Los Angeles (?) demanding that students not be held responsible for littering, arguing that picking up litter was janitors' work, or something both pissy and ridiculous like that.
He was an adolescent douche bag back then peddling neo-Nazi chicken shit for free. Now he's a grown-up one getting paid lots and lots of money for it.
Wingnuts have trashed Hillary Clinton for so long they have convinced themselves she’s literally a witch (she is in fact a churchgoing Methodist,) and Lady Macbeth in a pantsuit.
Before she died, my mother used to tell me stories of how far-right types would trash Eleanor Roosevelt. Every time she visited a coal mine, reminded people about poverty and its ill effects, when she became the voice of her husband on admitting more refugees from Europe into the United States, her working with the Park Service to get Marian Anderson to sing in front of the Lincoln Memorial -- the right called her a witch, a demoness, a communist, a labor agitator. Who did she think she was? Shouldn't she confine herself to holding tea parties? Etc.
When Hillary came along, their hatred for strong, powerful women simply re-emerged. And we all remember the demonic language about Michele Obama. Misogyny has long had such a foothold here. Melanoma is exactly what they want --- how did Maureen Dowd summarize her boondoggle film in yesterday's New York Time entitled "Slovenian Sphinx Film Nixed...."a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda..."
Yes, that about sums it up.
I recall reading Joseph P. Lash and his two volume biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor was indeed vilified by the right wing. The late right wing columnist Westbrook Pegler vilified Eleanor, and Southern white Democrats didn’t like her advocacy for Black people. All of that came back when I saw the same thing happening to Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
Saw a great line yesterday re Melania's film. "its so bad that if they show it on a plane, people will still walk out!
Hillary was right! Remember the “great right-wing conspiracy” she told us about in 1995 or so? She was right! Remember the “basket of deplorables” she told us about half of Trmp’s supporters? She was right! When she has stood up and spoken out, she has been right! But at what a cost! Thank you, Hillary.
She was, but her detractors are the sort of people who can dish it out, but can’t take it. The wingnuts claim persecution, but they’re happy to persecute people they don’t like.
We cannot celebrate the 250th birthday of this nation unless we remove this administration from the White House. If we have to do it by dragging them bodily from the building with our bare hands, we must do it!
The Texas special election will harden the GOP’s resolve to rig the mid terms. We need a massive Democratic turnout to take the House and Senate. Impeachments and indictments to follow.
Sadly it will , but the tsunami is building…
Steven Miller has no idea what it means to have a country that relies on ‘others’. He sees himself as an elite. He probably doesn’t even flush his own toilet. A day will arrive when he doesn’t get a return phone call from his precious and then he will be finished in the political arena, because he needs a host. He’s a parasite.
Parasites is what they are, magaparasites, vultures in red hats
This reminds me of the videotape of him when he was in high school at Santa Monica High reminding students there were janitors to pick up trash. He was as obnoxious then as he is now, although he has a bigger audience. My mother taught us to pick up after ourselves when we were done eating or if things needed to be cleaned after doing something.
People like Stephen Miller and Eli Crane just don’t understand our culture. They get us wrong every time. We need to “educate” them, or purge them. Their choice. Whichever they choose, they need to get with the program that is clearly spelled out in the Declaration of Independence and implemented by the Constitution.
While Miller has accurately read history, he is wrong in that our founders deliberately set out to do something different. He doesn’t understand what that difference is.
Eli is just too stupid to get it. I recognized that when he first ran for Congress while I lived in AZ.
Miller wants to ignore truth, just like his wife Katie. The thing they have in common with Trump is neither Stephen or Katie Miller have consciences.
Purge them. Then, if possible, educate them.
Would this education most likely “happen” in public schools??