"Listen, any theology that begins with control over bodies and ends with moral silence in the face of harm deserves scrutiny, not reverence." open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

Did Trump just release the contents of his bowels into his diaper on national TV? That's the question everyone's asking. I don't know the answer, but PROOF *did* publish the most exhaustive, fully sourced journalistic analysis ever on Trump and his diapers. It is long.

The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas. In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station." Read the declarations here: www.aclu.org/documents/fo...

"If Jones wins the Democratic primary for governor, he will likely face off for the governorship against current Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville..." December 12, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Ohhh this is so cool! www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

"Just 36% of American adults approve of his job performance, with 61% disapproving." December 11, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"I was reading the news one day...and I read this headline that Austria was going to begin to grant restoration citizenship for people whose families had fled during or at the beginning of WWII." Listen to AUSTRIAN AGAIN author @annehand.bsky.social on Chatting with Betsy: bit.ly/3Ynrhjs

In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.

Every single one of these people is about to fall off this beam.

Roberts, of course, is backed by the Opus Dei cult. Project 2025 December 10th Update globalextremism.org/post/project...

A bit inconvenient for potential alien life forms if they’re constantly being incinerated by their own suns

"Part of the mission of the U.N. was “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small.”" December 10, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Post of the Day

"When G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers asked ChatGPT to fact-check an article for him yesterday, the chatbot couldn’t get its head around modern America." December 9, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Quote of the Day

"Trump and his loyalists appear to be trying to cement his power over the United States of America..." December 8, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

As article notes, they're saying explicitly that the President is on their side so the merger the companies want is doomed. The guy in the picture, Ellison's failson typifies the corrupt crony capitalism of the age.

"“I think it’s really important that this video be made public,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said today on Face the Nation." December 7, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Just look around MAGA world and you can still see people who embrace that "paralyzing prejudice."

Big Oil is "wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social. The fossil fuel industry is again urging the Supreme Court to help them escape accountability.

Remembering Pearl Harbor: December 6, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social this morning:

"The Trump administration’s NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War II." December 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"“You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel,... killed by the United States.”" December 4, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly." December 3, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Upcoming Supreme Court Case -- unlimited, unregulated money hurts democracy. Really good and educational discussion between @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @marcelias.bsky.social on current events and history as lived experience. #CorruptionInPolitics #Resist www.youtube.com/live/LojhZEN...

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Raskin wrote in his letter, “President Trump increasingly appears to be exercising direct control over CBS’s editorial decisions, destroying CBS’s ‘journalistic integrity’ while violating its right to be free from governmental coercion and manipulation.” deadline.com/2025/12/trum...

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

"Lawmakers of both parties have pushed back on what Senator Angus King (I-ME) yesterday called “a stone cold war crime.”" December 2, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

When you’ve been up much of the night posting over 150 times on social media, these pesky cabinet meetings can interfere with your naps.

"President Donald J. Trump’s behavior over the holiday weekend has increased concern about his mental acuity." December 1, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Former pastor John Pavlovitz writes that "all brutal empires fall," and the MAGA movement is no different, as signs of its inevitable demise are "everywhere.""Every time the pendulum has swung wild...

Listen to Kelly Cervantes discussing THE LUCKIEST: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Motherhood, and the Pursuit of Self on Totally Booked with Zibby: bit.ly/48IXGXE @benbellabooks.bsky.social

This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul. Read all about it! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo... 🔭 🧪

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

"On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at home, as well as overseas." November 30, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social this morning.

"The Former JAGs Working Group organized in February 2025 after Hegseth purged JAGs from the Army and Air Force and systematically dismantled the military’s legal guardrails." November 29, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This turns a bad peace proposal into a filthy deal www.wsj.com/world/russia...

"As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to grab all they can, while they can." November 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Book Notes

New Evidence Suggests Neanderthals Cannibalized Outsider Women and Children gizmodo.com/new-evidence...

"Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember." November 26, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Every day, I am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s. In that era too, consumers organized, using their buying power to affect politics." November 25, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Northumbrian coal miner eating his evening meal, 1937, photo by Bill Brandt (1904-83).