therese heitman
@thereseheitman.bsky.social
Missouri Master Naturalist
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No consideration of what young men who want to start a family should do. For men, having children just isn't considered something that significantly affects their job/life choices, because the expectation is that the women should work it out without impacting their men's lives.
December 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
No consideration of what young men who want to start a family should do. For men, having children just isn't considered something that significantly affects their job/life choices, because the expectation is that the women should work it out without impacting their men's lives.
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"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
www.theatlantic.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
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4. The most common: People who feel that others do not afford them the respect to which they are entitled or that society is rewarding the wrong people for the wrong things
There are 3 types of Trump supporter.
A. The incurably stupid
B. Those with a financial interest.
C. Those who wish to impose their cultural views on everyone.
A. The incurably stupid
B. Those with a financial interest.
C. Those who wish to impose their cultural views on everyone.
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
4. The most common: People who feel that others do not afford them the respect to which they are entitled or that society is rewarding the wrong people for the wrong things
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Two of my Trumper friends - from childhood - routinely complained to me about how America has screwed them over: One calling from his boat, the other from his in-ground pool.
You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume
You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume
Many Trump supporters are people who don’t believe they are rich simply because they have to go to work every day
This might seem funny until you realize how many professionals - including engineers, doctors, etc - supported Trump.
December 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Two of my Trumper friends - from childhood - routinely complained to me about how America has screwed them over: One calling from his boat, the other from his in-ground pool.
You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume
You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume
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Theres a foolish impulse by legacy media that if & when they cover most stories, it’s simply time to move on. Trump’s ceaseless corruption, criminality, cognitive decline & compulsive, narcissistic hatred gets glossed over in the process. I for one won’t move on until he’s gone & held accountable.
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
Having a normal Christmas morning
December 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Theres a foolish impulse by legacy media that if & when they cover most stories, it’s simply time to move on. Trump’s ceaseless corruption, criminality, cognitive decline & compulsive, narcissistic hatred gets glossed over in the process. I for one won’t move on until he’s gone & held accountable.
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The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting
December 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting
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Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA
Antisemitism in the GOP? The devil you say!
www.publicnotice.co
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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U.S. measles cases hit a 30-year high, according to CDC data.
December 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
U.S. measles cases hit a 30-year high, according to CDC data.
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Grenell: How dare you politicize The Kennedy Center after we politicized and bastardized the Kennedy Center by putting Trump’s name on it.
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building
Board president Richard Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages “for this political stunt,” in a letter to jazz artist Chuck Redd.
dlvr.it
December 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Grenell: How dare you politicize The Kennedy Center after we politicized and bastardized the Kennedy Center by putting Trump’s name on it.
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If they can drive people out of rural spaces, or make them so desperate that they’ll accept any job at any pay rate, they can bring in large corporate farms and there is no one to protest the environmental impacts or force them to pay their fair share in taxes.
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If they can drive people out of rural spaces, or make them so desperate that they’ll accept any job at any pay rate, they can bring in large corporate farms and there is no one to protest the environmental impacts or force them to pay their fair share in taxes.
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Perhaps the guy who doubled his net worth by raking in billions via crypto dinners could put up some of his own cash instead of scamming your grandparents out of $2,500 during the holidays.
December 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Perhaps the guy who doubled his net worth by raking in billions via crypto dinners could put up some of his own cash instead of scamming your grandparents out of $2,500 during the holidays.
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President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
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You can watch the 60 Minutes piece (with a link in my story) about the abuse & torture migrants received in the El Salvador gulag after being deported by the Trump regime without due process & lies about their criminality. This horror is what Trump apologist Bari Weiss didn’t want Americans to see.
Bullseye from 60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi in response to Bari Weiss: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
Snapshot: Rejecting the Regime's 'Kill Switch'
CBS News' Bari Weiss blocked a rigorous '60 Minutes' story about the brutal CECOT prison. This is not tolerable.
www.americaamerica.news
December 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
You can watch the 60 Minutes piece (with a link in my story) about the abuse & torture migrants received in the El Salvador gulag after being deported by the Trump regime without due process & lies about their criminality. This horror is what Trump apologist Bari Weiss didn’t want Americans to see.
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For some conservative Catholics, who have been pushing the Latin mass ever since the church made it optional, Pope Leo’s authorisation of one was a vindication. Yet while they got their mass, they did not get their man
Pope Leo XIV is infuriating MAGA Catholics
Concern for the poor and the planet rubs some the wrong way
econ.st
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
For some conservative Catholics, who have been pushing the Latin mass ever since the church made it optional, Pope Leo’s authorisation of one was a vindication. Yet while they got their mass, they did not get their man
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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America is not now, and never has been, a Christian nation.
In fact, it was *explicitly* designed *not* to be.
Most of us learned this in junior high—at the latest.
But Vance is a white nationalist who’ll say or do anything to get even a *shred* more power, so this perversion of our history fits.
In fact, it was *explicitly* designed *not* to be.
Most of us learned this in junior high—at the latest.
But Vance is a white nationalist who’ll say or do anything to get even a *shred* more power, so this perversion of our history fits.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
America is not now, and never has been, a Christian nation.
In fact, it was *explicitly* designed *not* to be.
Most of us learned this in junior high—at the latest.
But Vance is a white nationalist who’ll say or do anything to get even a *shred* more power, so this perversion of our history fits.
In fact, it was *explicitly* designed *not* to be.
Most of us learned this in junior high—at the latest.
But Vance is a white nationalist who’ll say or do anything to get even a *shred* more power, so this perversion of our history fits.
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Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
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“Mind-bending, also, is that, despite Trump’s fire hose of lies, 71 percent of Republicans describe him as “honest and trustworthy.” @sykescharlie.bsky.social
“we find ourselves in a land of confusion. Trump pays off a porn star and yet is hailed as a champion of Christian values. He mocks prisoners of war and calls dead soldiers “suckers,” and his MAGA base is thrilled by his patriotism…” @sykescharlie.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“Mind-bending, also, is that, despite Trump’s fire hose of lies, 71 percent of Republicans describe him as “honest and trustworthy.” @sykescharlie.bsky.social
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“we find ourselves in a land of confusion. Trump pays off a porn star and yet is hailed as a champion of Christian values. He mocks prisoners of war and calls dead soldiers “suckers,” and his MAGA base is thrilled by his patriotism…” @sykescharlie.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“we find ourselves in a land of confusion. Trump pays off a porn star and yet is hailed as a champion of Christian values. He mocks prisoners of war and calls dead soldiers “suckers,” and his MAGA base is thrilled by his patriotism…” @sykescharlie.bsky.social
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Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
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maybe I’m being too optimistic given, well, everything
but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does
he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does
he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
maybe I’m being too optimistic given, well, everything
but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does
he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does
he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
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Congress approved a housing assistance payment to troops months ago.
Trump stole it from housing, turned it into checks in a symbolic amount, and pretended it was all his idea.
Typical Trump. Gold plated, not solid gold.
Trump stole it from housing, turned it into checks in a symbolic amount, and pretended it was all his idea.
Typical Trump. Gold plated, not solid gold.
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Congress approved a housing assistance payment to troops months ago.
Trump stole it from housing, turned it into checks in a symbolic amount, and pretended it was all his idea.
Typical Trump. Gold plated, not solid gold.
Trump stole it from housing, turned it into checks in a symbolic amount, and pretended it was all his idea.
Typical Trump. Gold plated, not solid gold.
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"What I want more than anything is for these cowards simply to acknowledge that this regime is so cartoonishly evil that, if we had described it to them a year ago, they would have insisted the thing they now defend was nothing but a malicious fantasy."
Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"What I want more than anything is for these cowards simply to acknowledge that this regime is so cartoonishly evil that, if we had described it to them a year ago, they would have insisted the thing they now defend was nothing but a malicious fantasy."
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Almost a year into this presidency, Trump voters have gotten nothing except the Big Beautiful Bill, which was usual Republican politics of giving tax cuts to the rich and slashing social spending for the poor. Housing remains unaffordable, cost of living is rising, and manufacturing jobs fell.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Almost a year into this presidency, Trump voters have gotten nothing except the Big Beautiful Bill, which was usual Republican politics of giving tax cuts to the rich and slashing social spending for the poor. Housing remains unaffordable, cost of living is rising, and manufacturing jobs fell.