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Melissa Johnson
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
November 7, 2025
November 7, 2025
The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
November 6, 2025
November 6, 2025
“None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d
November 5, 2025
November 5, 2025
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6d
November 4, 2025
November 4, 2025 (Tuesday)
So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 7d
November 2, 2025
November 2, 2025
Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes for more than two hours, mainstreaming the podcaster whose praise for Hitler, vows to kill Jew...
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 8d
Only about a third of the Trump interview aired on "60 Minutes." CBS has published the transcript of the complete interview here —> www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...
Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.
Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.
www.cbsnews.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 9d
November 1, 2025
November 1, 2025
Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.
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Melissa Johnson @moolissap.bsky.social · 9d
New project 🕷️ 😱

#Woobles #Halloween #ImNotAfraidOfSpiders

[ID: glow in the dark crochet spider project in package]

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10d
October 31, 2025
October 31, 2025
Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11d
October 30, 2025
October 30, 2025
House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11d
Donald Trump is trying to normalize authoritarianism. We cannot let that happen. We cannot take the bait that normalizes things that are fundamentally wrong.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d
Vladeck: Even if you accept the predicate that these drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, that still doesn’t get you anywhere close to legal authority to use military force. They’re trying to blur and sort of collapse the distinction between two regimes we have…

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11d
I'm interviewing former Federal Trade Commission head Lina Khan on Substack live at 4:00. Very excited about this. Have wanted to talk to her about antitrust issues for years.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11d
BREAKING: Furloughed employees at CDC just received an email about the shutdown, but has REMOVED language about backpay that appeared in a similar email sent out a month ago. On the left is the Oct 1st email with the backpay language, on the right is the email they received today.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11d
At least 61 people have now been killed by Trump/Hegseth's military blowing up vessels in the Caribbean Sea & the Pacific.

@stevevladeck.bsky.social answers the question “Is this s—t legal?!”

Added BONUS: We also discuss the latest unusual development from SCOTUS.

youtu.be/s5UwTnXVX7c?...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
FOX: Pritzker has asked you specifically to pause immigration enforcement operations in Chicago so kids can safety celebrate Halloween. Do you have any plans to alter activity tomorrow?

NOEM: No. We're gonna be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12d
October 29, 2025
October 29, 2025
Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...
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John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 12d
tomorrow at 2 pm: i'll be on Substack Live with @hcrichardson.bsky.social

please join us!

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LIVE SOON: talking with Heather Cox Richardson about how MAGA rolls back the clock
Starting Oct 30 at 2:00 PM EDT
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13d
October 28, 2025, with Liza Donnelly of Seeing Things:
October 28, 2025
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight?

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.

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Melissa Johnson @moolissap.bsky.social · 13d
A bright spot for today

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DLsDJE/

@amandasmildtakes
(10/28) JIMMY HOFFA
TikTok video by Amanda Nelson
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 13d
The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday.
Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia
The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday.
www.nytimes.com

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NPR @npr.org · 13d
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14d
October 27, 2025
October 27, 2025
There is a lot going on tonight, but the world is going to have to turn without me: it’s been a long run without a break and I need to sleep.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14d
NEW: A federal judge slammed DHS Secretary Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi for publicly attacking Kilmar Abrego Garcia in “exaggerated” and “inaccurate” ways — violating rules meant to protect the integrity of criminal proceedings.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
A judge slammed Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem over ‘troubling’ remarks about Kilmar Abrego Garcia
U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw ordered the administration to warn every DOJ and DHS employee against improper statements regarding Abrego, who’s facing smuggling charges.
www.politico.com

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 14d
Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined.

They own the media.
They own the algorithms.
They own politicians in both parties.

The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.

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Melissa Johnson @moolissap.bsky.social · 14d
Shadow Throne King by Kai Butler

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As the Imperium crumbles beneath our feet, will I be able to keep hold of Tallu?

#NowReading #UrbanFantasy #LGBTQRomance #LoveIsLove #MMRomance #ReadWithPride #BookLove #bookstagram #bookish #EmperorsAssassin #KaiButler
“Your brain—your magic—is more to me than a patch of weeds in the garden… You are the garden, you are all the flowers I would ever want to see, and all the fruit I would ever want to consume.”

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15d
October 26, 2025
October 26, 2025
Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Rand Paul on Trump's strikes on boats: "I would call them extrajudicial killings. This is akin to what China does, what Iran does with drug dealers -- they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So it's wrong."