“I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.” U.S. President Donald J. Trump August 26, 2025

Trump asleep in the Oval Office, jokes online: "His battery is dead." The seven precedents in 2026. “For the sake of kindness, don’t wake him up.”

The world-famous Rose Garden has been replaced. The East Wing is rubble. And construction is underway on a massive Ultimate Fighting Championship arena for cage matches to be held on Trump’s 80th birthday. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Karma’s package 📦 for you Steven will be equal to all the harm you have dished out. Just remember that so you won’t be surprised.

The government is paying $13.1 million for the pool work, seven times what Trump initially said it would cost. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This is what American needs today.

This is absolutely true.

Exactly how we feel about Trump: We could take anyone off the street and do better for a president.

Having served in the Persian Gulf during two wars (the Iran-Iraq war and the US-Iraq war), one thing I know is that EVERYONE agreed that invading Iran would be a disaster. From hardened generals to Ivy-league academics, everyone agreed. There is NO WAY that Trump's advisors didn't warn him.

“I want absolute loyalty. I want to trade stocks, make hundreds of millions of dollars… I want immunity for me and my family from an audit forevermore…. I want to get rich, and I don’t care that you are poorer.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Senate Republicans are signaling they might not want to play ball with a president whose approval ratings showed up today at an abysmal 34% and who is demanding loyalty to himself alone, rather than working for the party” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Trump bought and sold at least $220 million in stocks like those of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, and Microsoft while making policy and public announcements that affected the value of those stocks.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“It is clear that members of the Trump administration never intended to honor the Constitution or serve the American people, raising the question of what exactly they do intend.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Congress must reassert the power of the purse and stop this brazen looting of taxpayer funds before this ‘pilot program’ for massive partisan corruption becomes the permanent operating system of our government,” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

In the rushing crowd of the mob, Hodges was nearly crushed between metal doors by the enraged attackers. He later said that he thought, ‘this could be the end.’” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Shortly thereafter a rioter grabbed Hodges by the face and tried to gouge out his eyes.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The suit continues: “The fund…is illegal. No statute authorizes its creation, the settlement on which it is premised is a corrupt sham, and its design violates the Constitution and federal law.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“In the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Start with the last names beginning with T

Release them then.

Trump’s $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn newrepublic.com/article/2105...

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” — Plato

The United States has issues.

We've finally won the war against woke

Now we’re living large the National Enquirer. Imagine that.

Supreme Court of Virginia strikes down redistricting amendment, keeps current maps in place - Virginia Mercury apple.news/AI4cAa9X4Shi...

As the national average for a gallon of gas hit $4.56 today, the British energy giant Shell announced its profits were up 24% in the first three months of 2026. This amounted to almost $7 billion, more than twice what Shell made in the previous quarter. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This evening, the president told Rachel Scott of ABC News in a phone call that the ceasefire is still in effect and “the retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets are just a ‘love tap.’” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Cohen is right that the Republicans recognize the only way for them to win going forward is to skew the maps so that Democrats can’t win, because right now, at least, the administration is a dumpster fire. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Trump knows he HAS TO rig the game to keep his majority in November. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Louisiana’s Rep. governor, Jeff Landry, immediately suspended a congressional primary election that was already underway in order to give Republican legislators a chance to change the maps to give at least one of the state’s two Democratic seats to Republicans. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Although the Supreme Court’s clerk normally waits 32 days to finalize an opinion, the Supreme Court made the decision effective immediately to allow Louisiana, where the primary election was already underway, to redraw its maps. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature’s redrawing of the state’s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state’s districts into Republican seats. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

“If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they’re going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can’t think of anything more un-American.” -Sen. Mark Kelly

“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...

at least 20% of those covered by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, are dropping their coverage, with analysts expecting that number will continue to rise another 6%. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Republicans in the Senate released their funding request for the budget reconciliation bill. It includes $1 billion for White House security, including Trump’s proposed ballroom. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Trump-backed candidates romp to wins in Indiana Senate races” “Trump-backed candidates romp to wins in Indiana state Senate races” apple.news/A7aA2tVYJQqS... apple.news/TSmPJJ9EySMu...

Evangelical groups warn Trump’s deportations could leave 1.3M 'torn apart' from families religionnews.com/2026/05/04/e...

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