That's a weak ass line up.

May 26, 2026 Yesterday, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) along with demonstrators outside Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed detention center in Newark, New Jersey…. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-26-2026

A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression.

May 25, 2026

NEW: If you thought President Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity might be moving GOP voters away from election denialism, this week suggested you should think again. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Highlighting the confederacy.

LBJ

May 21, 2026 Congress left for the holiday weekend a day early today after a number of Republican members of Congress appear to have mutinied against President Donald J. Trump and his loyalists…. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-21-2026

The all about the ego and grift.

Incredible performance by David Byrne on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Dance, Stephen, Dance!

Corruption thrown in the face of the American people from the highest level.

May 17, 2026

It's about voting rights. It's about democracy. We will not go back.

Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 380. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

May 15, 2026

Children’s books are full of wonder, safety, belonging. #ReadThemHome initiative brings us together to take action for children, for people. To let kids be kids, to insist they have wonder, safety, belonging 💛📚🏡

Not just one bad apple. The whole damned barrel is rotten to the very core. Corruption will be the only legacy of this administration.

It's all about the power.

Today's Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/e9qatSW...

May 12, 2026 The biggest story in the country, today and always, is that the president of the United States is mentally unwell. Over the course of three hours last night, he posted on social media fifty-five times. Those posts accused a number of those Trump considers his personal enemies…

Florida taxpayers are on the hook

'Can you hear me now?'

A tale of two countries.

A tale of two countries.

May 9, 2026 If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But “Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s….

Vote! And vote again if the need be! And the need is.

Today's American Conversations with Georgia Supreme Court candidates @jenjordanga.bsky.social and Miracle Rankin @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/0VwqcdP...

Today's Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/KBHJ_st...

It's Jim Crow all over again.

Drunks, cheats, and liars.

This administration: bully, bullish, and bullshit.

Today's Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/7x94Fif...

The absolute vacuum of self awareness is stunning.

May 3, 2026 Late on Friday night, President Donald J. Trump took to social media. At 11:03 he posted an AI-generated image of himself, alongside Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, all shirtless, along with an unidentifiable woman….

All horsin' around

May 1, 2026

Today's Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/DBSGndg...

April 30, 2026

April 29, 2026 I will have plenty to say about the Supreme Court’s decision today in Callais v. Louisiana, but tonight I want to make sure that yesterday’s speeches by President Donald J. Trump and King Charles III of the United Kingdom don’t get lost in the tidal wave of news….

So much fascism in such a short period of time being reported by Heather Cox Richardson.

Today's Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/dz1HCGW...

Time to share this again.

April 26, 2026 Today Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Department of Justice Civil Division wrote to the lawyer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation demanding that the organization drop its lawsuit against Trump’s planned ballroom….

April 25, 2026

April 24, 2026

I check my feed several times a day to see if IT has happened. I continue to be disappointed.

April 23, 2026

April 22, 2026 Virginia voters yesterday agreed to a constitutional amendment that would temporarily redistrict the state if any other state redistricted for partisan reasons: that is, in retaliation for the partisan redistricting President Donald J. Trump launched in Texas in 2025….