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Michael R Harvey
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IT Professional, Musician, foodie, gym rat, writer, unapologetic progressive, and freethinker!
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Copy of letter I sent to President Bident on 11/12/2024.
FBI director, Kash Patel, is “in over his head” & leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear & plummeting morale, according to a scathing 115-page report compiled by an alliance of retired / active-duty FBI special agents & analysts.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
FBI under Kash Patel has become ‘internally paralyzed by fear’, new report reveals
Leaked assessment based on confidential accounts from 24 FBI sources describes organization as a ‘rudderless ship’
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Historian HCR documents the murderous incompetence of the increasingly unravelling Trump administration.
Trump's cabinet and inner circle is a clown car full of narcissistic, psychotic sycohants.

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December 2, 2025
The news of last Friday, November 28, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill ev...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Historian HCR on the expanding predatory corruption and abuses of the global elite - protected and enabled by Trump 2.0 and his buddy - Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I've said it before but it bears repeating: Trump 2.0 makes the corrupt, abusive administrations of Andrew Johnson, Harding, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush-II, look like boy scouts.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump grants clemency to executive convicted in fraud scheme – report
David Gentile had just begun to serve a seven-year sentence for role in $1.6bn scheme that defrauded thousands
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Historian HCR documents the slow, sure unravelling of Trump 2.0 and the MAGA movement, along with its increased tendencies toward unethical or outright criminal behaviors.

It really was only a matter of time.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
To the surprise of NO ONE who's been paying attention over the past 50 years to the history of Tech/Finance and scoundrels who work within it.

Oh, @edzitron.com ? You probably already know, but thought you'd get a laugh from it!

finance.yahoo.com/news/palanti...
Palantir CEO is cashing in. Should you be nervous?
Palantir is one of the best-performing companies this year, more than tripling in value as Wall Street pours money into AI. However, recent insider activity is raising eyebrows and concerns. CEO Alex ...
finance.yahoo.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Linus Torvalds (Linux creator) Speaks on AI and how it affects Linux kernel development and open source. We also discuss how new Linux kernel hardware like GPUs and APUs from Nvidia and other companies has changed Linux's role.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGH...
Linus Torvalds — Talks about AI Hype, GPU Power, and Linux’s Future
YouTube video by SavvyNik
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November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you're wondering why Trump 2.0 is threatening to invade Venezuela, it's not about drugs or national security. It's about oil. Venezuela has THE LARGEST oil reserves on the planet and it's nationalized.

Source: worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Historian HCR on the historical origins and development of Thanksgiving, which culminated during the middle of the Civil War (November 1863), linked to Lincoln's iconic "Gettysburg Address', promoting and promising universal freedom and prosperity.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Microsoft appears to have pulled a Russian chess master move with its strategic partnership with OpenAI (ChatGPT).

youtu.be/n2to2wIKgDA?...
AI Mega Deals: Who REALLY Controls OpenAI and Anthropic
YouTube video by TechButMakeItReal
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Historian HCR on the role of women in consumer-driven political activism, beginning in the Gilded Age - 30 years before women got the right to vote! This piece is historically-informative and inspirational from the standpoint of citizen-consumer power!

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Historian HCR on the role of women in consumer-driven political activism, beginning in the Gilded Age - 30 years before women got the right to vote! This piece is historically-informative and inspirational from the standpoint of citizen-consumer power!

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
DOGE is done, with 8 months remaining and accomplished nothing.
In other words:
"... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury...
signifying NOTHING..."

www.newsweek.com/doge-quietly...
DOGE quietly shuts down with 8 months left on mandate: report
Critics say DOGE’s cost-cutting was hasty and wasteful.
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Historian HCR on Trump latest BIG legal losses; and the administrations baseless, inflammatory attacks on ex-military and intelligent/security members of congress who advised military personnel they have a right to disobey unlawful orders (Article 92 UCMJ).

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November 24, 2025
U.S.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Historian HCR on: the abotive 'peace plan' for the Russia-Ukraine War; Mamdani-Trump newfound love; fracturing GOP & MAGA; Trump's decreasing popularity; MTG resignation; RFK Jr's & porn poems; Vaccines-Autism nonsense redux.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 23, 2025
“Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked ...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Historian HCR on the rotten deal being forced onto Ukraine as per a corrupt agreement between Trump and Putin, excluding Ukraine from negotiations; Russia vying to get back into the G7; and origin / history / importance of NATO.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Historian HCR on the President Trump's insane calls for violence against members of Congress who're ex-military and intelligence officials, calling them treasonous. They advised the military to refuse unlawful orders, which is the law and part of military code.
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November 20, 2025
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Historian HCR on the Epstein Files Congressional vote, Trump's dwindling poll numbers, redistricting maps, and Trump's slapdash attempts to weaponize the DoJ / FBI via vindictive prosecution.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 19, 2025
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Anyone who's anxious about the non-existent "AGI" needs to watch this video. Daria's brilliant, she unpacks the 'AGI' business model - the 'business of pretending/empty promises'.
AI isn't 'general', much less 'super', it can't even fully replace ONE backoffice worker.

youtu.be/UJpcbQIUWUo?...
The Business of ‘Almost’ AGI - How Pretending Becomes Profitable
YouTube video by TechButMakeItReal
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November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
AGI does NOT exist, nor will it in 10+ years.
Replacing entire job functions at scale is a delusion.
digital cancer artificial intelligence written on a dark blue background
ALT: digital cancer artificial intelligence written on a dark blue background
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November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Daria, who's also brilliant, unpacks the biggest part of the 'AI' business model - the 'business of pretending/empty promises'.

Hey @edzitron.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJpc...
The Business of ‘Almost’ AGI - How Pretending Becomes Profitable
YouTube video by TechButMakeItReal
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH STUPID PEOPLE
YouTube video by RiseUp
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November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM