Heather is #317 on the list! (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1871495/) which is a link found in the NY Times article "Russia's latest sanctions on US officials turn to Trump enemies" saying: what is particularly striking is how much President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is adopting perceived enemies of former President Donald J. Trump as his own.
The Russia Trump smear is a lie that leftists, in spite of all the evidence the left won't let die. The need to look like fool is perpetual.
Especially in a week where the Durham report showed once and for all that the
Trump collusion claim was cooked up by the Clinton Campaign to take the heat off Hillary
for the email scandal. The Clinton plan was known to the intelligence community in July of 2016 and briefed by then CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama and VP Joe Biden. No one in the FBI believed the Steele dossier was factual but they kept offering money to anyone that could prove it. When no one was able to they leaked it the media.
Its disgraceful how over and over again the FBI tipped the scales for the Democrats.
First it was Russian collusion, then the Hunter Biden laptop scandal where Anthony BLinken from the Biden campaign called INTEL friends to sign a document claiming Russian interference for the sole purpose of giving Biden cover for the president debate.
Now the FBI whistleblowers have come forward about FBI admissions that there were informants and under cover officers in the Jan 6th crowd as well as the startling admission that FBI agents were being asked to violate the constitutional rights of political opponents. Everything from taken down the license plate numbers of church goers, to
asking illegally for bank records, to surveillance of PTA of agitators.
THis is disgraceful. This is the modern left in America. A dress rehearsal for the Police State.
SPW, My concern is that James is an iterative example of the millions of indoctrinated people, who feed only on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias. Regrettably, quoting award winning citizen-journalist Bill Moyers, “a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda” are less inclined to put up a fight, to ask questions and be skeptical. I imagine we’d agree that that kind of orthodoxy can kill a democracy—or worse.
You are right, of course and Bill Moyers citing is accurate. I suppose my reaction was just a shoot-from-the-hip one. I almost asked if he was drunk but thought intoxicated might sound better.
SPW, Perhaps not, if we extend “intoxicated” to mean not thinking, not needing to think. Orwell, I imagine, would analogize a climate of no thought with unconsciousness.
Is this a joke? Every word I wrote is public record. You didn't cite a single example of something untrue. Thats because truth is not a left wing value. Power is.
The left lied about Russian collusion, COVID, Biden laptop, ...and then has the chutzpah to call the truth disinformation.
James, My standard for establish truth is to ensure one’s assertions and conclusions can be nailed to the post with confirming evidence. As for collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, see the Mueller Report. Regarding COVID, see any of the thousands of legitimate medical studies. On the matter of “Biden laptop,” I’m not aware of any hard evidence related to the Biden Presidency.
The irony in Russia's claim that this list is about those "directly involved in the persecution of dissidents" is really rich. But then Russia doesn't just persecute its dissidents, it kills them or puts then in prison on trumped up charges (excuse the inadvertent pun).
thank you so much for your brilliant and cogent analysis.....you are such a wonderful voice in the cacophony. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate and enjoy your posts. Brava.
Hooray for you!!! So glad you are taking the night off! Thank you for sharing another beautiful image from Buddy! It will replace a prior image from Buddy that I've been using as my desktop background.
P.S. Congrats on being banned from Russia; you're in good company with Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert!👍🙂💜
Rest well, Professor and friends. “It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
We can all benefit from clear minds, no matter political party.
Ha! I was already asleep for hours - awakened by my elderly bladder. Before going back to bed every night, I always check to see "Has Heather posted?" and always note the time. Before 1:30 tonight? Early! I'm in awe of her stamina! Traveling, lecturing, writing a book, proofing the manuscript, teaching, and reading a dozen newspapers to distill the events of the day for her Substackers. We are genuinely blessed to be in her orbit! Buddy's artistic photographs are yet another gift!
Cheryl One blessing of an ‘elderly bladder’ is getting up in the middle of the night, reading Heather’s blog, and then posting a READY, FIRE, AIM commentary.
When I awake in the morning I catch some proofreading mistakes.
Thank you for the Thich Nhat Hahn. Impressive that MLK, Jr nominated him for the Novel peace prize. A timely thought from him:
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
In other words, get off your phones, notebooks, laptops and desktops and go out and smell whatever flowers you have available. CARPE DIEM! It may be your last so make it count.
Teachers have their own schedule. The first three weeks are great because the students are glad to be back. After that it is each long vacation and three day weekends to look forward to for a respite. One of our principals told us at the last day not to beat the kids out the door. Our district, stupid in my mind, instituted a finals week, so we had finals to grade. Those that were for that, usually had their students aides grade their finals which didn't include anything where the student actually had to do more than memorize. Mine were an essay, so I had actually grade it myself. Before that, I had a final day activity that was easy to grade and fun for them....based on They Didn't Start the Fire. If they had perfect attendance, they got out of the final. So we had them write the essay before the finals week and wrote another final, much easier for us to grade (team teaching with an English teacher) for those who did not have perfect attendance. Yes, we did have a student vomit in class trying to reach that goal.
Teachers do indeed. My Mom taught English; she was assigned to teach “last chance English” (of course, they had a fancy name for it: “Package 9”, but it was for kids who had to pass that class to graduate. Some kids were lazy, some had behavioral/learning issues, some were just jerks. Mom taught them to read Middle English and read Chaucer in the original. She taught them how to swear in that dialect. She was able to teach grammar fundamentals of modern English using similar “off-track” methods. Those classes (it was a two year program) had an 80% graduation rate. She went to half time the following year and that class was assigned to the “other half”. Different curriculum, horrendous results.
My Mothrr-in-Law taught junior high English; a non-traditional teacher who had amazing success with students and a war with the administration.
Both of them had visits from former students until their deaths (my M-i-L went on Hospice, and the woman who was the program administrator took her case because Verna had been her favorite teacher.
Yes, many do. One of our ex-students threw a party for the staff who were around when he was in high school...he was made part of the family of one of our teachers and is a teacher as well. I really appreciated this. He did tell me that I was the only teacher that sent him to the office. Well, he was getting into a fight and I stepped in to stop it.
Kudos also to your mom and mother-in-law. Many good teachers have a war with the administration. A principal can make or break a school. Our super position was either a stepping stone or a place to retire after our long time super went elsewhere for a few years.
My two daughters (both HS English teachers) taught me that teachers neither have the entire summer off, nor work 6 hour days. Heck, they often are working through family holidays. (That satchel of papers to grade goes everywhere.) Now, both of them will have required seminars and classes to keep up their certificates. They will spend a lot of time planning their curriculum to take a bit of the burden off the school year. People so do not value our teachers!
(PS--I added a burden onto the daughter without children. I wrote my first novel last winter and I asked her to edit it. She has about a month to do it as I am bringing it to an intimate writers workshop being run by my favorite author in early July! Little does she realize I am almost done with novel #2 and am starting to think about a plot for #3!!)
I can definitely attest to the fact that teachers don’t have e entire summer off. My wife taught reading and Texas History in Catholic Schools. She was required to do ”In-Service “ and attend at least one week long seminar, without pay although spreading her salary out for 12 months did count as her being paid to attend. She read her entire reading list for the next school year as well as working on classroom materials so as to keep her students interested and enjoy learning. Her students test scores were always high and it wasn’t as one denier tried to say, that her students were all white and well to do…she didn’t Facebook until retirement and still corresponds, via Facebook, from some of of her students and their parents.
Heather has sleeplessly been raising a clarion call about President Biden’s commitment to maintain the ‘full faith and credit of the United States, while McCarthy has squiggled between a rock and a hard place driven by a compulsion to retain his speakership.
I was astonished that the online Sunday New York Times did not have a news item on the impending national debt crisis and the specious ‘negotiations’ between the McCarthy misfits and the Biden administration.
Heather, with her incredible insights and minimal sleep, has richly deserved a rare night off. The Sunday New York Times, with its massive professional staff, has not earned ‘a day off’ on a story that poses such financial risks domestically and globally.
Woke to hear our President from Hiroshima. He will invoke the 14th amendment if necessary. Why, given the clear language of the Constitution, it should take whatever courts get involved more than a day to render a decision, I do not understand. Unless it’s Trump damaged judges.
And we already know from congressional hearings that Republican “sponsors” can and will pay bribes.
Rough surfaces from top to bottom; natural designs of nature in the light; a strange beauty before my eyes opens this Sunday morning. Thank you Buddy Poland, the photographer who captured this scene and Heather Cox Richardson, the historian, teacher, author, and his wife, who chose to share this striking image with us.
Congratulations on completing your book, finishing a semester, surrounding yourself with such natural beauty, and getting banned from Russia ! What an honor :)
Congrats on being banned by Russia!
Heather is #317 on the list! (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1871495/) which is a link found in the NY Times article "Russia's latest sanctions on US officials turn to Trump enemies" saying: what is particularly striking is how much President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is adopting perceived enemies of former President Donald J. Trump as his own.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/world/europe/russia-sanctions-trump.html
Heather, oddly enough, is addicted to the truth. It is not that she hates Trump but that she is giving us the facts about him.
And that’s why we love her so much. Truth over all.
Then there is the question, Who in the hell would want to go to Russia? “DILLIGAS”
I thought the same thing - this could be trump's list.
Dear #317,
Breathe free, step outside, and paddle away. Don't even think about "back at it."
"Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom."
--James Wright, "A Blessing"
Congratulations, Dr. Cox-Richardson. So proud of you.
Thanks for this.
Can it get more stupid?
The Russia Trump smear is a lie that leftists, in spite of all the evidence the left won't let die. The need to look like fool is perpetual.
Especially in a week where the Durham report showed once and for all that the
Trump collusion claim was cooked up by the Clinton Campaign to take the heat off Hillary
for the email scandal. The Clinton plan was known to the intelligence community in July of 2016 and briefed by then CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama and VP Joe Biden. No one in the FBI believed the Steele dossier was factual but they kept offering money to anyone that could prove it. When no one was able to they leaked it the media.
Its disgraceful how over and over again the FBI tipped the scales for the Democrats.
First it was Russian collusion, then the Hunter Biden laptop scandal where Anthony BLinken from the Biden campaign called INTEL friends to sign a document claiming Russian interference for the sole purpose of giving Biden cover for the president debate.
Now the FBI whistleblowers have come forward about FBI admissions that there were informants and under cover officers in the Jan 6th crowd as well as the startling admission that FBI agents were being asked to violate the constitutional rights of political opponents. Everything from taken down the license plate numbers of church goers, to
asking illegally for bank records, to surveillance of PTA of agitators.
THis is disgraceful. This is the modern left in America. A dress rehearsal for the Police State.
Are you intoxicated?
SPW, My concern is that James is an iterative example of the millions of indoctrinated people, who feed only on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias. Regrettably, quoting award winning citizen-journalist Bill Moyers, “a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda” are less inclined to put up a fight, to ask questions and be skeptical. I imagine we’d agree that that kind of orthodoxy can kill a democracy—or worse.
You are right, of course and Bill Moyers citing is accurate. I suppose my reaction was just a shoot-from-the-hip one. I almost asked if he was drunk but thought intoxicated might sound better.
Might be drugs other than alcohol.
SPW, Perhaps not, if we extend “intoxicated” to mean not thinking, not needing to think. Orwell, I imagine, would analogize a climate of no thought with unconsciousness.
Is this a joke? Every word I wrote is public record. You didn't cite a single example of something untrue. Thats because truth is not a left wing value. Power is.
The left lied about Russian collusion, COVID, Biden laptop, ...and then has the chutzpah to call the truth disinformation.
James, My standard for establish truth is to ensure one’s assertions and conclusions can be nailed to the post with confirming evidence. As for collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, see the Mueller Report. Regarding COVID, see any of the thousands of legitimate medical studies. On the matter of “Biden laptop,” I’m not aware of any hard evidence related to the Biden Presidency.
Over a million Americans died of COVID. Can I have some of the drugs you are on?
I think he's drinking too much kool-aid! Should lay off that stuff !!
It will rot brain cells after a fashion.
Pro-tip: don't feed the trolls
That's all you can come up?
I just laid the path of the FBI over the last seven years. It's all public record and true. Nothing that you can lie about or spin.
Your response reaches new heights in stupidity.
Probably time to come out of your Mommy's basement.
How do you really feel?
The irony in Russia's claim that this list is about those "directly involved in the persecution of dissidents" is really rich. But then Russia doesn't just persecute its dissidents, it kills them or puts then in prison on trumped up charges (excuse the inadvertent pun).
That's kind of scary.
thank you so much for your brilliant and cogent analysis.....you are such a wonderful voice in the cacophony. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate and enjoy your posts. Brava.
Thank you Penelope for expressing my exact sentiments!
Me too! I agree with Penelope!
What Penelope said.
A+++ 💜💜💜
Hooray for you!!! So glad you are taking the night off! Thank you for sharing another beautiful image from Buddy! It will replace a prior image from Buddy that I've been using as my desktop background.
P.S. Congrats on being banned from Russia; you're in good company with Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert!👍🙂💜
I don't know when you actually sleep, given the very busy schedule you keep. May you be blessed with a wonderful, full night's slumber.
Rest well, Professor and friends. “It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
We can all benefit from clear minds, no matter political party.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/thich_nhat_hanh_531578?src=t_resting
Thank you, Irenie, for this wise coda to the week.
Yes, Fern, Heather and friends, we’re all up late enough. Rest well and sweet dreams.
Ha! I was already asleep for hours - awakened by my elderly bladder. Before going back to bed every night, I always check to see "Has Heather posted?" and always note the time. Before 1:30 tonight? Early! I'm in awe of her stamina! Traveling, lecturing, writing a book, proofing the manuscript, teaching, and reading a dozen newspapers to distill the events of the day for her Substackers. We are genuinely blessed to be in her orbit! Buddy's artistic photographs are yet another gift!
Cheryl One blessing of an ‘elderly bladder’ is getting up in the middle of the night, reading Heather’s blog, and then posting a READY, FIRE, AIM commentary.
When I awake in the morning I catch some proofreading mistakes.
Thank you for the Thich Nhat Hahn. Impressive that MLK, Jr nominated him for the Novel peace prize. A timely thought from him:
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Yes, Hope!” “Hope is the thing with feathers...”
Folks during the Depression had hope; all those following the defeated former president have despair.
In other words, get off your phones, notebooks, laptops and desktops and go out and smell whatever flowers you have available. CARPE DIEM! It may be your last so make it count.
You’ve earned a night off. Enjoy!
As a retired prof., I “ body-sensed”
that feeling of “papers graded, grades submitted, a semester wraps up.” And now...SUMMER ! 🌊 🪷 🛶
My Mom was a HS English teacher... I've seen that.
Teachers have their own schedule. The first three weeks are great because the students are glad to be back. After that it is each long vacation and three day weekends to look forward to for a respite. One of our principals told us at the last day not to beat the kids out the door. Our district, stupid in my mind, instituted a finals week, so we had finals to grade. Those that were for that, usually had their students aides grade their finals which didn't include anything where the student actually had to do more than memorize. Mine were an essay, so I had actually grade it myself. Before that, I had a final day activity that was easy to grade and fun for them....based on They Didn't Start the Fire. If they had perfect attendance, they got out of the final. So we had them write the essay before the finals week and wrote another final, much easier for us to grade (team teaching with an English teacher) for those who did not have perfect attendance. Yes, we did have a student vomit in class trying to reach that goal.
Teachers do indeed. My Mom taught English; she was assigned to teach “last chance English” (of course, they had a fancy name for it: “Package 9”, but it was for kids who had to pass that class to graduate. Some kids were lazy, some had behavioral/learning issues, some were just jerks. Mom taught them to read Middle English and read Chaucer in the original. She taught them how to swear in that dialect. She was able to teach grammar fundamentals of modern English using similar “off-track” methods. Those classes (it was a two year program) had an 80% graduation rate. She went to half time the following year and that class was assigned to the “other half”. Different curriculum, horrendous results.
My Mothrr-in-Law taught junior high English; a non-traditional teacher who had amazing success with students and a war with the administration.
Both of them had visits from former students until their deaths (my M-i-L went on Hospice, and the woman who was the program administrator took her case because Verna had been her favorite teacher.
Teachers make such a difference.
Yes, many do. One of our ex-students threw a party for the staff who were around when he was in high school...he was made part of the family of one of our teachers and is a teacher as well. I really appreciated this. He did tell me that I was the only teacher that sent him to the office. Well, he was getting into a fight and I stepped in to stop it.
Kudos also to your mom and mother-in-law. Many good teachers have a war with the administration. A principal can make or break a school. Our super position was either a stepping stone or a place to retire after our long time super went elsewhere for a few years.
My two daughters (both HS English teachers) taught me that teachers neither have the entire summer off, nor work 6 hour days. Heck, they often are working through family holidays. (That satchel of papers to grade goes everywhere.) Now, both of them will have required seminars and classes to keep up their certificates. They will spend a lot of time planning their curriculum to take a bit of the burden off the school year. People so do not value our teachers!
(PS--I added a burden onto the daughter without children. I wrote my first novel last winter and I asked her to edit it. She has about a month to do it as I am bringing it to an intimate writers workshop being run by my favorite author in early July! Little does she realize I am almost done with novel #2 and am starting to think about a plot for #3!!)
I can definitely attest to the fact that teachers don’t have e entire summer off. My wife taught reading and Texas History in Catholic Schools. She was required to do ”In-Service “ and attend at least one week long seminar, without pay although spreading her salary out for 12 months did count as her being paid to attend. She read her entire reading list for the next school year as well as working on classroom materials so as to keep her students interested and enjoy learning. Her students test scores were always high and it wasn’t as one denier tried to say, that her students were all white and well to do…she didn’t Facebook until retirement and still corresponds, via Facebook, from some of of her students and their parents.
I’m guessing she didn’t have time to learn how to Facebook until she retired. Been there.
Not at all, she didn’t want to be involved with it while teaching, even after she was the principal’s ass’t, didn’t feel it was appropriate.
As a retired elementary school teacher I, too, felt that sense of relief and euphoria of turning on those report cards by the deadline.
...turning in...
Heather has sleeplessly been raising a clarion call about President Biden’s commitment to maintain the ‘full faith and credit of the United States, while McCarthy has squiggled between a rock and a hard place driven by a compulsion to retain his speakership.
I was astonished that the online Sunday New York Times did not have a news item on the impending national debt crisis and the specious ‘negotiations’ between the McCarthy misfits and the Biden administration.
Heather, with her incredible insights and minimal sleep, has richly deserved a rare night off. The Sunday New York Times, with its massive professional staff, has not earned ‘a day off’ on a story that poses such financial risks domestically and globally.
Woke to hear our President from Hiroshima. He will invoke the 14th amendment if necessary. Why, given the clear language of the Constitution, it should take whatever courts get involved more than a day to render a decision, I do not understand. Unless it’s Trump damaged judges.
And we already know from congressional hearings that Republican “sponsors” can and will pay bribes.
A great picture to add to a night off!
Another beautiful photo. Thank you
Teach truthfully, do not blink, offer counseling to those suicidal. “Don’t Look Up” for extra credit.
This photo pops! Very inspirational. Have a great night!
Yay! Enjoy!
Rough surfaces from top to bottom; natural designs of nature in the light; a strange beauty before my eyes opens this Sunday morning. Thank you Buddy Poland, the photographer who captured this scene and Heather Cox Richardson, the historian, teacher, author, and his wife, who chose to share this striking image with us.
Your newsletter got a shout out on the May 9th episode of Lewis Black’s Rant Cast. Enjoy your night off!
I just finished listening to Lewis’ effusive comments about Dr R and rightfully so. Next to Keith Olberman, Lewis Black is spot on.
Wow, thanks, I just signed up for his podcast Rantcast.
You are amazing.
Congratulations on completing your book, finishing a semester, surrounding yourself with such natural beauty, and getting banned from Russia ! What an honor :)