Grant Hermes
@granthermes.bsky.social
AP award-winning anchor/politics reporter. Host of Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes.
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The video shows the man was unarmed
January 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM
The video shows the man was unarmed
Reposted by Grant Hermes
We have to tell the history of white supremacist violence that produced the Fourteenth Amendment. Then and now, our Constitution is meant to protect us from state violence. Watch more from CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social with @granthermes.bsky.social: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
What's Happening To Civil Rights Under ICE? w/ David Gans
Grant talks to David Gans about what we’re seeing happen to civil rights and Constitutional rights as ICE continues to occupy Minneapolis.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:31 PM
We have to tell the history of white supremacist violence that produced the Fourteenth Amendment. Then and now, our Constitution is meant to protect us from state violence. Watch more from CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social with @granthermes.bsky.social: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
Reposted by Grant Hermes
The Roberts Court has made it far too difficult to hold federal officers like ICE agents accountable for violating constitutional rights. Watch more from CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social with @granthermes.bsky.social: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
What's Happening To Civil Rights Under ICE? w/ David Gans
Grant talks to David Gans about what we’re seeing happen to civil rights and Constitutional rights as ICE continues to occupy Minneapolis.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The Roberts Court has made it far too difficult to hold federal officers like ICE agents accountable for violating constitutional rights. Watch more from CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social with @granthermes.bsky.social: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
Reposted by Grant Hermes
CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social joined @granthermes.bsky.social to discuss ICE's "rampant disregard for constitutional safeguards." Watch now: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
What's Happening To Civil Rights Under ICE? w/ David Gans
Grant talks to David Gans about what we’re seeing happen to civil rights and Constitutional rights as ICE continues to occupy Minneapolis.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:36 PM
CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social joined @granthermes.bsky.social to discuss ICE's "rampant disregard for constitutional safeguards." Watch now: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
In the end, elections are things run by the people for the people, even if the people who founded the country, or are running it, don’t like that.
This week’s Things You Forgot From History Class is all about how elections work and why Trump can’t cancel them
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This week’s Things You Forgot From History Class is all about how elections work and why Trump can’t cancel them
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How Elections Really Work
The President has talked about cancelling elections. Let's talk about how that wouldn't work.
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January 19, 2026 at 12:38 PM
In the end, elections are things run by the people for the people, even if the people who founded the country, or are running it, don’t like that.
This week’s Things You Forgot From History Class is all about how elections work and why Trump can’t cancel them
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This week’s Things You Forgot From History Class is all about how elections work and why Trump can’t cancel them
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It's been a big year at Make It Make Sense! Here are some of the top stores you won't find anywhere else I reported on this year. 1/
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Making It Make Sense in 2025
A full year of in-depth reporting making it all make sense you won't find anywhere else.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It's been a big year at Make It Make Sense! Here are some of the top stores you won't find anywhere else I reported on this year. 1/
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These questions are worth asking no matter what comes next in Venezuela. New episode of Make It Make Sense is out now!
December 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
These questions are worth asking no matter what comes next in Venezuela. New episode of Make It Make Sense is out now!
The freedom from government sponsored religion is just as baked into the Constitution as the freedom to express it.
The latest from the Things You Forgot From
Civics Class is out now! Subscribe at the links in the bio
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The latest from the Things You Forgot From
Civics Class is out now! Subscribe at the links in the bio
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Churches, States and Freedom From Religion
After a flurry of Christian messages, what does Civics say about the separation of Church and State?
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December 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The freedom from government sponsored religion is just as baked into the Constitution as the freedom to express it.
The latest from the Things You Forgot From
Civics Class is out now! Subscribe at the links in the bio
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The latest from the Things You Forgot From
Civics Class is out now! Subscribe at the links in the bio
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Officials at the department ignored multiple attempts to get answers. Without those answers, it’s impossible to know whether a decrease in the number of mandated reporters nationwide is an unintended outcome of the new policy, or its aim.
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"Children Will Die": Anti-Abuse Leaders Warn About Dept. of Ed Degree Changes
The Department says it wants to change who gets student loans, but refuses to answer questions about why it's risking child safety to do it.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Officials at the department ignored multiple attempts to get answers. Without those answers, it’s impossible to know whether a decrease in the number of mandated reporters nationwide is an unintended outcome of the new policy, or its aim.
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New from me
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War. War never changes.
Unless it does.
Or it isn’t actually war but also might be.
Maybe.
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Unless it does.
Or it isn’t actually war but also might be.
Maybe.
Get the latest lesson from Things You Forgot From Civics Class by subscribing today!
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1..2..3...4, Who Declares That We're At War?
Welcome back to Thing You Forgot From Civics Class!
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
War. War never changes.
Unless it does.
Or it isn’t actually war but also might be.
Maybe.
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Unless it does.
Or it isn’t actually war but also might be.
Maybe.
Get the latest lesson from Things You Forgot From Civics Class by subscribing today!
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Hegseth’s unlikely rise from maligned nonprofit head to Fox News host to Secretary of Defense has been marked by a single thing: he’s spent his career advocating in favor of making it easier to commit war crimes and leniency for the people who commit them.
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Pete Hegseth's Long History With War Crimes
Hegseth's rise from obscure nonprofit leader to Fox News host to head of the military has had one thing in common: his zeal for war crimes
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December 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hegseth’s unlikely rise from maligned nonprofit head to Fox News host to Secretary of Defense has been marked by a single thing: he’s spent his career advocating in favor of making it easier to commit war crimes and leniency for the people who commit them.
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Introducing a new newsletter from Make It Make Sense!
Every week, Things You Forgot From Civics Class will breakdown the civics basics we all forgot or didn’t care about when we learned them.
But democracy isn’t boring. Your civics class was.
Links in the bio!
Every week, Things You Forgot From Civics Class will breakdown the civics basics we all forgot or didn’t care about when we learned them.
But democracy isn’t boring. Your civics class was.
Links in the bio!
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Introducing a new newsletter from Make It Make Sense!
Every week, Things You Forgot From Civics Class will breakdown the civics basics we all forgot or didn’t care about when we learned them.
But democracy isn’t boring. Your civics class was.
Links in the bio!
Every week, Things You Forgot From Civics Class will breakdown the civics basics we all forgot or didn’t care about when we learned them.
But democracy isn’t boring. Your civics class was.
Links in the bio!
“The terminology ‘hate incident’ is no longer present in policy.”
It’s not just hate symbols but the entire notion of a hate incident that’s been scrubbed from USGC by DHS.
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It’s not just hate symbols but the entire notion of a hate incident that’s been scrubbed from USGC by DHS.
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DHS Drops Hate-Incident Guidance As It Leans Into Extremist Imagery; Coast Guard Backpedals on Hate Symbols
The recent change in policy is the most official step for the agency that's alluded to white supremacist and outright Nazi imagery for the past several months.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The terminology ‘hate incident’ is no longer present in policy.”
It’s not just hate symbols but the entire notion of a hate incident that’s been scrubbed from USGC by DHS.
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It’s not just hate symbols but the entire notion of a hate incident that’s been scrubbed from USGC by DHS.
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I went through the 20K documents so you don’t have to.
There are real questions about whether Trump and the Presidency were, or still are, compromised because of his relationship with Epstein
It’s all in my latest piece. Read it here
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There are real questions about whether Trump and the Presidency were, or still are, compromised because of his relationship with Epstein
It’s all in my latest piece. Read it here
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I Went Through Thousands Of The Epstein Estate Documents. Here's What I Found
Could the President have been compromised? Could he still be?
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November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I went through the 20K documents so you don’t have to.
There are real questions about whether Trump and the Presidency were, or still are, compromised because of his relationship with Epstein
It’s all in my latest piece. Read it here
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There are real questions about whether Trump and the Presidency were, or still are, compromised because of his relationship with Epstein
It’s all in my latest piece. Read it here
open.substack.com/pub/mimsnews...
A bit of my convo with Paul Starr about his new book about our 75 year devolution into revenge politics and what happens next.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A bit of my convo with Paul Starr about his new book about our 75 year devolution into revenge politics and what happens next.
Trump is trying to live out his legacy. It’s why his health and this push for an illegal third term are connected. The latest from the Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes podcast is out now!
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How Trump's Health And 3-Term Push Are Connected
Podcast Episode · Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes · 10/28/2025 · 21m
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October 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Trump is trying to live out his legacy. It’s why his health and this push for an illegal third term are connected. The latest from the Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes podcast is out now!
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After spending the weekend posting AI images of him as a monarch, Trump reposted this video from a few years ago.
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
After spending the weekend posting AI images of him as a monarch, Trump reposted this video from a few years ago.
Health. Are tax credits expire Nov. 1. It’s going to hit millions of people and rural hospitals hard, whether you have private insurance or not.
October 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Health. Are tax credits expire Nov. 1. It’s going to hit millions of people and rural hospitals hard, whether you have private insurance or not.
“It was more than a clinical look at the arguments he built or the evidence he uncovered. It was a sermon to process as protection. Not just for the people bringing the cases, but for all of us.”
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October 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“It was more than a clinical look at the arguments he built or the evidence he uncovered. It was a sermon to process as protection. Not just for the people bringing the cases, but for all of us.”
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From my other socials today but this video may be one of the most important as we inch closer to a possible armed conflict in Chicago.
October 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
From my other socials today but this video may be one of the most important as we inch closer to a possible armed conflict in Chicago.
Saying the quiet part out loud while staying totally silent
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Saying the quiet part out loud while staying totally silent
A “the beatings will stop when morale improves” sort of approach. New episode out now!
October 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A “the beatings will stop when morale improves” sort of approach. New episode out now!
Also new from the substack.
A new survey of 700 political scientists and 2700 Americans says the US isn't a full democracy anymore.
Read my new piece here.
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A new survey of 700 political scientists and 2700 Americans says the US isn't a full democracy anymore.
Read my new piece here.
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A New Report Says The US Isn't A Full Democracy Any More
Hundreds of democracy experts and political scientists say the US is slipping closer and closer to being an authoritarian state
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October 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Also new from the substack.
A new survey of 700 political scientists and 2700 Americans says the US isn't a full democracy anymore.
Read my new piece here.
mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/a-new-repo...
A new survey of 700 political scientists and 2700 Americans says the US isn't a full democracy anymore.
Read my new piece here.
mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/a-new-repo...
The line that the GOP is putting out there right now is probably false.
October 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The line that the GOP is putting out there right now is probably false.
“With Kennedy in the driver’s seat and Trump’s past obsessions with eugenics and autism panic, it’s clear the pseudo-science behind both is now the official science of the United States. A science that experts say will put Americans in danger.”
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September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“With Kennedy in the driver’s seat and Trump’s past obsessions with eugenics and autism panic, it’s clear the pseudo-science behind both is now the official science of the United States. A science that experts say will put Americans in danger.”
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