ROBERT REICH 5/7/26 "Facing the two monumental failures of Iran and control over Congress, Trump is fanatically seeking other ways to assert dominance." open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

ADAM KINZINGER 5/7/26 "Trump recently shocked Europe by announcing the withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany. American military personnel have been stationed in Germany since the Cold War as a deterrence to Russian aggression." open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 5/6/26 Journalist David Rothkopf: “Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and results of a war than we have seen from the White House on Iran.”" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 5/5/26 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK RON FILIPKOWSKI 5/5/26 "Senate Republicans released the text of the bill to fund DHS which contained (surprise!) $1 billion dollars in taxpayer money to pay for Trump’s ballroom." open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

A win! Dr.Jenna Norton, the NIH program director who helped organize the Bethesda Declaration (a letter signed by nearly 500 NIH employees criticizing the dismantling of medical research) has been reinstated after months on paid leave.

This is truly just sad (and dangerous). op: @aaronparnas

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK RON FILIPKOWSKI 5/4/26 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

ADAM KINZINGER 5/4/26 open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

MIGRANT INSIDER PABLO MANRÍQUEZ 5/4/26 THE PERJURY TRAP "Every person .. applying for a U.S. tourist visa, student visa, or work visa now faces two new questions ..: Have you been harmed in your home country? Do you fear going back?" open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

DAILY DOCKET 5/4/26 newsletters.democracydocket.com/trump-demand...

DEMOCRACY DOCKET 5/4/26 "Trump said Sunday that the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais required states to redraw their electoral maps, claiming that races held under current maps would be unconstitutional." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ARIZONA WATER RESTRICTIONS Less water for people, more water for AI nextdoor.com/p/RLZfhy-gSc...

Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.

A new report this morning revealed historic levels abuse by ICE against detainees. And the government was documenting it all. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/top-news-c...

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 5/4/26 "This morning, Iran fired drones and missiles at two U.S. destroyers and two merchant vessels moving through the strait. According to Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, none of the ships were hit." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

PAUL KRUGMAN 5/5/26 "This acceleration isn’t just a consequence of soaring fossil fuel prices. It is also the result of the worldwide realization that, with the end of Pax Americana, depending on imported hydrocarbons is a risk not worth taking." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

ROBERT REICH 5/5/26 "Meta is laying off 8,000 employees as it shifts toward AI. Meta’s shares have risen briskly since the start of the year. Amazon has cut 30,000 jobs, many of them replaced by AI, while racking up record profits." open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

NPR 5/4/26 "Karlan was the chief economist of USAID until its dismantling in early 2025. He says the agency had planned $150 million of funding for this type of intervention in Somalia, but the funding was shut down by the Trump administration." www.npr.org/2026/05/04/n...

THE 50501 MOVEMENT 5/5/26 "What to ask: Oppose any reconciliation bill that expands ICE and Border Patrol funding without enforceable accountability, due process protections, transparency, and limits on enforcement abuse." open.substack.com/pub/50501/p/...

My thought on the moment is that he’s just a useful idiot being kept around, his information carefully curated, his health and cognitive decline managed by teams of professionals, in order to make obscene amounts of money for the world’s worst people, the human consequences be damned.

MIGRANT INSIDER PABLO MANRÍQUEZ 5/5/26 "Senate Judiciary Committee language would fund migrant mass removal machine through 2029" [has link to the document] open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 5/3/26 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

AP NEWS 5/3/26 "The dollar has fallen about 10% against other major currencies since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, a pullback potentially playing a role in Americans’ concerns about affordability." apnews.com/article/trum...

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK DINA DOLL 5/3/26 "How many systems is Trump going to destroy while Republicans just sit and watch?" open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Dance party on the streets of DC. And the signs are amazing

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK RON FILIPKOWSKI 5/1/26 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 4/28/26 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I’m focused on what matters to Rural AZ most, lowering costs, protecting health care, and showing up for our communities. Eli Crane can keep the rhetoric. I’ll keep doing the work.

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

So ... WHO SHOT WHO? www.cbsnews.com/news/white-h...

MIGRANT INSIDER PABLO MANRÍQUEZ 4/27/26 open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK RON FILIPKOWSKI 4/27/26 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

THE HILL 4/25/26 "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation" thehill.com/policy/energ...

TUCSON, ARIZONA 4/25/26 This is sickening. But money talks ...

The tasteless, classless, orange clown is destroying our capital.

Just leaving this right here. #25thAmendment

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 4/25/26 "Roosevelt explained: “The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one Nation. .. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK RON FILIPKOWSKI 4/23/26 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

MIGRANT INSIDER PABLO MANRÍQUEZ 4/24/26 open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

💜🤍💙

The Justice Department just identified 384 naturalized Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke and they won’t say why they picked those 384 people specifically.

The Pentagon fired the watchdog for Stars and Stripes. Ombudsman Jacqueline Smith whose entire job was protecting the editorial independence of the military’s own newspaper was let go with no explanation and told the decision was “not grievable.”

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 4/23/26 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 4/20/26 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 4/18/26 "Trump’s triumphant boasting that the Strait of Hormuz had been permanently reopened has unraveled in less than 24 hours. Citing the continuing U.S. blockade, Iranian officials announced they were closing the strait again. " open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...