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Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker gave a barn-burning speech to Democrats in New Hampshire. He's right: fighting back is our only choice.

April 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
April 28, 2025
There has been a change afoot in the Democratic Party for a while now as its leaders shift from trying to find common ground with Republicans to standing firmly against MAGAs and articulating their ow...
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April 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Mark Kelly is, as far as I can tell, the only democratic senator who hasn't committed to voting NO on the Save act, so I wrote to him yesterday encouraging him to do so. I got a very disappointing response: no commitment to vote NO. I generally love and support Kelly, but he is wrong on this one.
April 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
No, it's not as simple as some folks want to make it.

Beyond XX & XY—Human Sex And Gender Were Never A Simple Binary open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
Beyond XX & XY—Human Sex And Gender Were Never A Simple Binary
Humans are more complicated than most online experts think.
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April 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Here is the text of Heather Cox Richardson's speech in Boston's Old North Church last night, on the 250th anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns that led to the fight at Lexington and Concord. It is amazing inspiration for our current times.

April 18, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
April 18, 2025
Tonight I had the extraordinary privilege of speaking at the anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church, which happened 250 years ago tonight.
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April 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Call a spade a spade: 47 is a thug!

Thugocracy open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Thugocracy
With Trump starting so many fights with so many different parties, how do we make sense of it all, and how do we proceed?
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April 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Lots of really good things happened last week!!!

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Extra! Extra! April 6 👏🏼👏🏼
What a week!!
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April 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Not likely.

A Third Trump Term?
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A Third Trump Term?
I wouldn’t bet on the courts allowing Trump a backdoor path to a third term.
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April 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
How much has DOGE pared back so far? Federal spending is actually higher this year than it was at this point in 2024, according to the Hamilton Project. What a disgrace!
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Tracking federal expenditures in real time - The Hamilton Project
Track federal expenditures and filter by department, program, and more. Data are updated daily.
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March 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I've been shouting this for years!

It's Too Bad the Pro-Life Right is So Violently Anti-Life open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
It's Too Bad the Pro-Life Right is So Violently Anti-Life
Conservatives love embryos.
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March 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Attention Sedona folks! Want to join me for this Indivisible Sedona event? mobilize.us/s/A1dSsn
HANDS OFF! · Indivisible Cottonwood/Cornville/Clarkdale
A collaboration of local organizations is sponsoring a “Hands Off” community march in Sedona on Saturday, April 5th. The local march is one of an estimated 500 marches happening around the country pro...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sitting on the sidelines is no longer an option!

Here's Why You Need To Be An Activist—Right. F*cking. Now.
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Here's Why You Need To Be An Activist—Right. F*cking. Now.
Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk.
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March 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The MAGA Mental Health Crisis
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The MAGA Mental Health Crisis
"I feel like I'm losing my mind."
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March 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), 1950.

“It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”

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March 22, 2025
Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump...
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March 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Really, really, really important read.

"Once we understand that most everything coming from Trump, Musk and the administration is either a bogeyman scare or a Trojan horse deception, we know how to identify threats and tactics far more readily."

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Bogeymen and Trojan Horses
How to identify and call out Trump and Musk’s fascist tactics
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March 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Seriously, don’t come here—for your own safety.

How our global friends can help us
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How our global friends can help us
Don’t come here
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March 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The administration blatantly defies court orders. Surprised it took so long.

Crossing the Line open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Crossing the Line
The White House brazenly defied judges’ orders over deportations this weekend, setting up high stake showdowns in federal court later today
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March 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It won’t stop with Khalil unless we stop it. open.substack.com/pub/starhawk...
Mahmoud Khalil and Political Space
Defending All of Our Rights
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March 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It is evident that we have truly entered a time of tyranny, where words don't mean what they mean:

'Republicans passed a measure saying that for the rest of this congressional session, “each day…shall not constitute a calendar day” .'

Seriously? A day isn't a day? open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 12, 2025
Trump’s 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel imported into the U.S.
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March 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Senate Democrats MUST OPPOSE the CR! Yes, it sucks to potentially shut down the government but that's on Republicans for not being willing to negotiate a bipartisan CR or budget. Hold firm, senators! open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Senate Dems: Don’t Be Complicit
Senate Democrats believe they are in a political bind, but that’s true only if they lack resolve and lose the narrative.
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March 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In-fucking-credible. But not surprising given the shit show happening here. time.com/7266334/us-h...
U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist
The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.
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March 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM