MIGRANT INSIDER PABLO MANRÍQUEZ 3/3/26 “..your performance review .." "“You decided to kill that dog .. because you had not invested the appropriate time in training, and then you have the audacity to .. say it’s a leadership lesson about tough choices"" open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK BEN MEISELAS 3/3/26 "The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem issued a notice saying it is not in a position to evacuate or directly assist Americans departing Israel, and that people should make their “own security plans.”" open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 3/2/26 "the U.K. government is actually arranging transport for the British citizens to be able to extract them, whereas here, for us as Americans, we feel abandoned" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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MEIDASTOUCH BEN MEISELAS 3/2/26 "American troops killed in this conflict has risen to four" "Trump was signaling that escalation, not restraint, is the plan ... he made clear he is not ruling out sending U.S. ground forces into Iran" open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

DEMOCRACY DOCKET MARK ELIAS 3/2/26 As we head toward the 2026 midterms, Donald Trump is seeking to have his government collect massive amounts of information — including personal and partisan voter data — at an unprecedented scale." newsletters.democracydocket.com/trumps-war-o...

CIVIL DISCOURSE JOYCE VANCE 2/27/26 "I want to flag a serious development that won’t get the coverage it should this week. Trump may have bombed Iran, but the Federal Judiciary is Declaring War on ICE." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 3/1/26 "Trump was hosting a fund raiser at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, as the U.S. offensive began ... Trump partying with his rich cronies while American soldiers died" “#SendBarron” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

THE 50501 MOVEMENT 3/2/26 "These are the first confirmed American combat deaths of this situation that began without a single vote in Congress." open.substack.com/pub/50501/p/...

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK RON FILIPKOWSKI 3/1/26 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

ADAM MOCKLER 2/28/26 "Within hours, Iran fired back. U.S. bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait were hit. Missiles in the air. Flights grounded. Explosions across the Gulf. This is not a symbolic exchange. This is the opening phase of a regional war." open.substack.com/pub/americam...

I'm having one of those days where I am frustrated because for most of the major political questions the issue is not that we don't have answers, the issue is that people with money and power simply ignore the answers because they don't like them

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

DEMOCRACY DOCKET MATT COHEN 2/27/26 "The draft order ... would allow Trump to unilaterally ban mail-in ballots and voting machines on the basis that they are susceptible to foreign interference" www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK RON FILIPKOWSKI 2/27/26 "RFK Jr. offered his solution to Americans for record high beef prices: “Most of the cheap cuts of meat are inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very, very affordable.”" open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

This aged well. Note the author.

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 2/27/26 "CHAIN REACTION" "different from the sex trafficking case under way when he died .. indicates the above individuals are involved in illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit drug and/or prostitution activities" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 2/25/26 "With his approval ratings under 40%, administration officials mired in corruption scandals, and every one of his policies underwater, Trump delivered a campaign rally." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

USDA 2/25/26 "Today’s event marks the start of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Reorganization Plan." "announced the imminent disposal of the South Building and Braddock Place" "effectuating the vision of President Donald J. Trump" content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USD...

CIVIL DISCOURSE JOYCE VANCE 2/25/26 "HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy looked pretty good for someone who recently acknowledged snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

PAUL KRUGMAN 2/25/26 "One other lie .. Trump: “America is respected again, perhaps like never before"" [but] ".. foreign leaders have completely lost faith in America: We’ve become a country whose word can’t be trusted, a country that betrays its allies" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

50501 MOVEMENT 2/25/26 open.substack.com/pub/50501/p/...

The man is a disgrace

MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK RON FILIPKOWSKI 2/23/26 "Kash Patel’s taxpayer-funded trip to the Olympics .. the inebriated FBI Director crashed the locker room .. put Trump on speaker phone .. as Patel slammed beers and yelled profanities" open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

UNBIASED SCIENCE JESS STEIER, DRPH 2/21/26 "DISENFRANCHISED GRIEF" .. grief that isn’t openly acknowledged, socially supported, or publicly mourned. The loss is real, but the world around you signals that it doesn’t count." open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...

PAUL KRUGMAN 2/20/26 "Many discussions of inequality in America fail to grapple with the way we have become an oligarchy, with a large share of income, an even larger share of wealth, and a huge amount of political power accruing to a very small number of people." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

TPM MORNING MEMO DAVID KURTZ 2/20/26 "Judge Crenshaw ... has given the Justice Department a chance at next week’s evidentiary hearing to prove it didn’t engage in a vindictive prosecution. If it fails to prove it, Abrego Garcia wins." open.substack.com/pub/tpmmorni...

CIVIL DISCOURSE JOYCE VANCE 2/20/26 "the common thread throughout Trump’s efforts to seize power ... Find a statute that gives the president “unusual” powers during a national “emergency” and then proceed to drive a truck through our laws and norms with it" open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The public needs to realize that at 250 feet high, the proposed Arc de Trump would be *more than twice as tall* as the Lincoln Memorial. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

MIGRANT INSIDER PABLO MANRÍQUEZ 2/20/26 Wexner "gave Epstein power of attorney and hundreds of millions of dollars,” Ansari said, “and then sat there and told us Epstein was just a financial advisor he met by chance.” open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

AP NEWS 2/19/26 "U.K. police arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office, following the release of millions of pages of Epstein documents" apnews.com/article/brit...

MEIDASTOUCH JAKE AUCHINCLOSS 2/18/26 The FDA became the world’s gold standard biomedical regulator .. "Until 2025. Then, the bullshit started" "Last week, a political hack, Vinay Prasad, overruled the FDA’s top vaccine scientist to reject Moderna’s mRNA vaccine." open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

ADAM KINZINGER 2/18/26 "looksmaxxing" "your value as a human being is determined primarily by your physical appearance, and every decision in your life should be oriented toward maximizing it .. personality, kindness, or character are secondary traits at best" open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 2/17/26 "it is increasingly clear that as [Trump's] regime focuses on committing the United States to white Christian nationalism, the country is becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, and its own economy is weakening" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

ROBERT REICH 2/18/26 "America is on the brink of a full-scale war with Iran — but no one is willing to say exactly why, including the occupant of the Oval Office" open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

MIGRANT INSIDER PABLO MANRÍQUEZ 2/17/26 This is cruel and unnecessary. And this baby's fate is on you, Mr. President, and everyone who supports you and your policies. open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

MIGRANT INSIDER PABLO MANRÍQUEZ "His condition is unknown. We do know that the baby’s mother is with him at the hospital, where he is under 24-hour supervision by medical staff and federal agents with guns. "As a nation, we should be ashamed of ourselves" open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

PAUL KRUGMAN 2/17/26 "Pharmaceutical companies, understandably, are retreating from vaccine development" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

PAUL KRUGMAN 2/16/26 "the Trump administration has gone to war against any and all efforts to limit climate change. The administration is also imposing a “blockade” against wind and solar projects, delaying or even revoking permits" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Listen to President Obama’s response to tRump’s racist post. Always, intelligence, class. Integrity and dignity.

I'm not acknowledging President's Day again until we have a president worth respecting.

The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 2/15/26 "officials in the Trump administration and their media allies have embraced the Great Replacement theory that says Brown and Black migration to Europe and the U.S. is destroying “western civilization.” " open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

CIVIL DISCOURSE JOYCE VANCE 2/15/26 "in some of the Know Your Rights training ... a school bus driver asked for detailed instructions for checking search warrants for lawfulness and understanding his ability to protect students. It was heart-wrenching" open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

THE 50501 MOVEMENT 2/16/26 "DHS funding lapsed at midnight Friday (12:01 a.m. ET Saturday), triggering a partial shutdown after Congress failed to reach agreement on immigration enforcement reforms." open.substack.com/pub/50501/p/...

ROBERT REICH 2/16/26 "Not just the people who cavorted with Jeffrey Epstein or the subset who abused young girls. It’s an interconnected world of hugely rich, prominent, entitled, smug, powerful, self-important (mostly) men. Trump is honorary chairman" open.substack.com/pub/robertre...