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John W. Farrell
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Journalist. Author of The Day Without Yesterday (Basic Books) and The Clock and the Camshaft (Rowman & Littlefield). Forthcoming, my novel: An Uncommon Descent (Serving House Books).

Website: www.farrellmedia.com
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who usually posts video of military strikes on social media, posted nothing about the strike Trump mentioned..." December 29, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 29, 2025
In an appearance on New York’s WABC radio on Friday, President Donald J.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"One of the curses of history is that we cannot go back and change the course leading to disasters, no matter how much we might wish to. The past has its own terrible inevitability." December 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 28, 2025
On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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He came with the receipts.
'Vanity Fair' Reporter Has Mic Drop Response After White House Claims Awkward Interview Was 'Out Of Context'
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December 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"On Tuesday, December 23, the U.S. Supreme Court made a preliminary finding that President Donald J. Trump’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops in the Chicago area beginning in October was unlawful."December 26, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 26, 2025
On Tuesday, December 23, the U.S.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"The modern version of Santa Claus arrived in the United States in 1863, when he stopped at an army camp of Union soldiers in the January 3 issue of Harper’s Weekly." December 25, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 25, 2025
The modern version of Santa Claus arrived in the United States in 1863, when he stopped at an army camp of Union soldiers in the January 3 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa w...
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December 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Another Leonard Leo - Greg Mueller front group.

Argus Insight, founded by CRC Advisors. Run by ex-Heritage & Free Beacon “reporter.”

Doing oppo research on environmentalists suing big oil.

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December 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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"Ms. Loomer did nothing in the nighttime."

"That was the curious incident."
“On Tuesday, however, Ms. Loomer said nothing about the newly released materials, which showed, among other things, that federal prosecutors had determined that Mr. Trump had flown on Mr. Epstein’s private plane more times than they originally knew.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Pro-Trump Influencers Stay Conspicuously Quiet About Epstein Files
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December 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"The war on Christmas started a long, long time ago. And it was Christians who started it." open.substack.com/pub/rebeccab...
Who started the war on Christmas?
Conservatives have been freaking out about a “war on Christmas” for years now.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, will celebrate seventy years of tracking Santa’s sleigh." December 23, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 23, 2025
On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, will celebrate seventy years of tracking Santa’s sleigh.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"This afternoon, President Donald J. Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will build two new “Trump-class” battleships." December 22, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 22, 2025
This afternoon, President Donald J.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Today I wrote about 60 Minutes' decision to obey in advance and why it represents the sad end to the storied franchise.

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December 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
'Vance’s statement flies in the face of our Constitution, whose First Amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….”' December 21, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 21, 2025
Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason

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His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Two hundred attend summit on Opus Dei abuse

Summit was "encouraged" by Pope Leo — but he is yet to take action against group

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Two hundred attend summit on Opus Dei abuse
Summit was "encouraged" by Pope Leo — but he is yet to take action against group
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December 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Also, a lot of descendants of slaves are, through those very ancestors, also descended from lots of high-status white American colonists of the 1600s and 1700s. Because slaveholders raped their slaves.

Angela Davis is a descendant of Mayflower passenger William Brewster. For instance. (1/4)
Every descendant of slaves has more American heritage than Trump. But I don’t imagine that figures large in the minds of most people using the phrase.
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Solstice sunrise....
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"So much of the material was redacted that, in front of television cameras, Jake Tapper of CNN scrolled through an entirely-blacked-out 100-page document on his phone and said: “That’s the transparency we’re getting here.”' December 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 20, 2025
On November 19, 2025, Congress passed H.R.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
December 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era." December 19, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 19, 2025
This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Two hundred attend summit on Opus Dei abuse
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Two hundred attend summit on Opus Dei abuse
Summit was "encouraged" by Pope Leo — but he is yet to take action against group
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December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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“What they’re really saying is ‘give in and do what I tell you.’”
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“These are the times that try men’s souls."December 18, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 18, 2025
“These are the times that try men’s souls.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM