@gmerydith.bsky.social
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Videos of US citizens being mistreated by immigration agents have filled social media, but there is little clarity on the overall picture. The government doesn't track how often immigration agents hold Americans.
So @propublica.org created its own count.
So @propublica.org created its own count.
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
www.motherjones.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Videos of US citizens being mistreated by immigration agents have filled social media, but there is little clarity on the overall picture. The government doesn't track how often immigration agents hold Americans.
So @propublica.org created its own count.
So @propublica.org created its own count.
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Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
newrepublic.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
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Honestly.
Portland is being savaged by rioting.
Or it’s not.
CLEARLY, it’s NOT.
You can’t “both sides” a simple fact.
This drives me bonkers.
Portland is being savaged by rioting.
Or it’s not.
CLEARLY, it’s NOT.
You can’t “both sides” a simple fact.
This drives me bonkers.
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
October 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Honestly.
Portland is being savaged by rioting.
Or it’s not.
CLEARLY, it’s NOT.
You can’t “both sides” a simple fact.
This drives me bonkers.
Portland is being savaged by rioting.
Or it’s not.
CLEARLY, it’s NOT.
You can’t “both sides” a simple fact.
This drives me bonkers.
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DO NOT normalize:
👉ICE arresting US citizens
👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate
👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown
“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor
👉ICE arresting US citizens
👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate
👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown
“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor
October 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
DO NOT normalize:
👉ICE arresting US citizens
👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate
👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown
“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor
👉ICE arresting US citizens
👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate
👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown
“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor
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I know this sounds extreme. It is.
I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.
Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.
But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.
I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.
Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.
But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I know this sounds extreme. It is.
I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.
Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.
But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.
I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.
Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.
But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.
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Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
October 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
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A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy
October 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy
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THERE MUST BE SOME CRIME SOMEWHERE!
RIGHT?
Pathetic.
Trying to create trouble and parade “tough guys.”
RIGHT?
Pathetic.
Trying to create trouble and parade “tough guys.”
ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.?
#Chicago
#Chicago
September 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
THERE MUST BE SOME CRIME SOMEWHERE!
RIGHT?
Pathetic.
Trying to create trouble and parade “tough guys.”
RIGHT?
Pathetic.
Trying to create trouble and parade “tough guys.”
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If is indeed.
Particularly now. 👇🏼
Particularly now. 👇🏼
Really important @TimothySnyder column open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If is indeed.
Particularly now. 👇🏼
Particularly now. 👇🏼
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"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later"
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
The myths that made Putin’s war
The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
www.ft.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later"
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
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Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
August 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
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PRETTY MUCH.
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:
1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
August 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
PRETTY MUCH.
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These days, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is a faithful servant of Trump.
But not so long ago, Gabbard slammed Trump for being a warmonger supporting a “genocidal war.”
But not so long ago, Gabbard slammed Trump for being a warmonger supporting a “genocidal war.”
Tulsi Gabbard once blasted Trump for being a warmonger and protecting Al Qaeda
That was when she was a founding fellow of the Bernie Sanders Institute.
www.motherjones.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
These days, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is a faithful servant of Trump.
But not so long ago, Gabbard slammed Trump for being a warmonger supporting a “genocidal war.”
But not so long ago, Gabbard slammed Trump for being a warmonger supporting a “genocidal war.”
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August 13, 2025
August 13, 2025
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
August 13, 2025
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Hey folks:
@hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having another of our live chats—around 7:00 ET—or a little after. We’re setting things up.
You’ll be able to catch it on Heather’s Facebook and YouTube pages, and on my YouTube channel—joannebfreeman
@hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having another of our live chats—around 7:00 ET—or a little after. We’re setting things up.
You’ll be able to catch it on Heather’s Facebook and YouTube pages, and on my YouTube channel—joannebfreeman
August 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Hey folks:
@hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having another of our live chats—around 7:00 ET—or a little after. We’re setting things up.
You’ll be able to catch it on Heather’s Facebook and YouTube pages, and on my YouTube channel—joannebfreeman
@hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having another of our live chats—around 7:00 ET—or a little after. We’re setting things up.
You’ll be able to catch it on Heather’s Facebook and YouTube pages, and on my YouTube channel—joannebfreeman
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Crossing out parts of the Constitution doesn’t eliminate them.
That’s what amendments are for.
Sharpie-pen constitutionalism.
That’s what amendments are for.
Sharpie-pen constitutionalism.
August 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Crossing out parts of the Constitution doesn’t eliminate them.
That’s what amendments are for.
Sharpie-pen constitutionalism.
That’s what amendments are for.
Sharpie-pen constitutionalism.
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Hearing Trump speak is often like hearing the voices of enslavers echoing down the centuries.
Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."
August 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hearing Trump speak is often like hearing the voices of enslavers echoing down the centuries.
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August 3, 2025
August 3, 2025
Today, Democratic lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives left the state to deny Republican lawmakers the quorum—the number of legislators required to pass legislation—they need in order to ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
August 3, 2025
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If we are not educating our children, what are we even doing here?
If you want to see the consequences of low education funding, look no further than Alaska.
How Alaska’s Budget Crisis Has Kept the State From Fixing Crumbling Rural Schools @emilyschwing.bsky.social
How Alaska’s Budget Crisis Has Kept the State From Fixing Crumbling Rural Schools @emilyschwing.bsky.social
Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.
Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-th...
www.propublica.org
August 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
If we are not educating our children, what are we even doing here?
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
August 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexually exploiting and abusing teenage girls, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to minimum-security prison camp in Texas, her lawyer said on Friday.
Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein Associate, Moved to Minimum-Security Women’s Prison in Texas
The longtime Epstein associate, now serving a 20-year sentence, was relocated from a federal prison in Florida about a week after being interviewed by a Justice Department official.
nyti.ms
August 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexually exploiting and abusing teenage girls, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to minimum-security prison camp in Texas, her lawyer said on Friday.
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Every step is a choice.
Every mile breaks them down.
Only one walks away.
#TheLongWalk — Trailer 2 out now.
Only in theaters September 12.
Every mile breaks them down.
Only one walks away.
#TheLongWalk — Trailer 2 out now.
Only in theaters September 12.
July 26, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Every step is a choice.
Every mile breaks them down.
Only one walks away.
#TheLongWalk — Trailer 2 out now.
Only in theaters September 12.
Every mile breaks them down.
Only one walks away.
#TheLongWalk — Trailer 2 out now.
Only in theaters September 12.
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July 24, 2025
July 24, 2025
The Epstein list made it into last night’s premiere of the twenty-seventh season of the television series South Park when Satan, in bed with Trump, commented, “It’s weird that whenever it comes up, yo...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
July 24, 2025