"Yesterday the Trump administration announced it would pay furloughed troops by using funds Congress appropriated for research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDTE) for fiscal year 2026." October 16, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Major changes could be in store for the abusive cult of Opus Dei....

Raskin: "There's a regime of fear that has come down on the Republican Party. They've looked at what happened to Liz Cheney, to Adam Kinzinger, to Mitt Romney, to others who have taken on the president. They insist on absolute 100% loyalty above everything else."

"Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, which together challenge a federal court decision outlawing a racial gerrymander in the state of Louisiana." October 15, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social this morning.

🇮🇱 Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was back in a Tel Aviv court on Wednesday for the latest hearing in his long-running corruption trial, which opened in May 2020. ➡️ u.afp.com/SsZm

"The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week." October 14, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

What a surprise: 'The New York Times Can’t Admit That Rising Black Unemployment Is a Racial Purge Disguised As 'Economics'' open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

Illegal killings ordered by a criminal regime.

'On October 9, President Donald J. Trump’s office issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13, “Columbus Day.”' October 12, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"The Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa said Cipriani “represented the worst of the Church”, criticising him for failing to condemn the forced sterilization of indigenous women." Why is Pope Leo meeting with an alleged sex offender? open.substack.com/pub/garethgo...

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

"All of President Donald J. Trump’s lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize came to naught today as the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year’s prize to María Corina Machado of Venezuela." October 10, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J. Trump placed her at the position of U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to do..." October 9, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, Illinois, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Chicago." October 8, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

"The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved." October 7, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"As Beth Reinhard explained in the Washington Post in June 2024, Vought is a hard-right Christian nationalist who drafted the plans for a second Trump term." October 6, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

A SCOTUS justice using wishful thinking rather than facts in the record to make decisions. Is this a rookie mistake? Not likely. More likely coming from an ideologue mentality. Brett Kavanaugh's ICE claim brutally fact-checked by reporter www.rawstory.com/ice-raids-26...

"On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth..." October 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The conservative, fascist-friendly Wall Street Journal on Sunday published an article called, "Trump’s Team Hones Message on Economy: Just Wait Until 2026." As the Trump economy implodes, the serial lying conman's incompetent team of imbecilic economic advisers... 1/2

Chump Knows That IF The Epstein Files Ever Get Released,He's Toast RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

ERs will become even more overstretched: “There were 155 million visits to emergency rooms in 2022, up from 130 million in 2018, & that number is expected to increase as President Trump’s Medicaid cuts take effect. A third of Americans have no primary care physician, up from a quarter 10 years ago.”

@hcrichardson.bsky.social today.

"Although President Donald J. Trump has not appeared in public since Tuesday, his social media account has been posting up a storm." October 3, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.

Quote of the Day

"O’Keefe tried to engage Democratic protesters in the kind of conversations that could produce a viral argument, only to find out that they were more or less on his side when it came to Epstein." www.thebulwark.com/p/james-okee...

"Eyewitness Darrell Ballard told the reporters: “We’re under siege. We’re being invaded by our own military.” October 2, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I Am on Kirk’s “Professor Watchlist.” I Know How It Destroys Civil Debate. truthout.org/articles/i-a...

"The president does not appear to be taking the government shutdown very seriously." October 1, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

A government run by billionaires is not “for the people”. It’s for billionaires. It’s why they’re getting billions in subsidies, tax breaks and government contracts. Meanwhile, working class Americans are losing their jobs and healthcare.

That's sad to hear. Jane Goodall did a lot to further our understanding of our evolutionary cousins, and she deserves recognition for that. RIP.

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

"Trump and Hegseth did serve national interests Tuesday. But the nation whose interests they served wasn’t ours. The Kremlin must have laughed when they heard Hegseth proclaim 'unity is our strength.' Trump & Hegseth wouldn’t know unity if it bit them in the ass." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-silenc...

"While Hegseth paused for applause that did not materialize, he seemed to be playing to the cameras rather than his live audience." September 30, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"It’s not the spending of government money on the insurance industry that irks the modern GOP. It’s the spending of government money on health care."

"Schumer told reporters that in their discussions, Trump did not appear to be aware that Americans are facing huge increases in their healthcare insurance payments because of the budget reconciliation bill." September 29, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The invented martyrdom of Charlie Kirk is one of the greatest collective acts of blasphemy in the history of Christianity in America. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-shamef...

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

No wonder Netanyahu is so happy about Larry Ellison’s pending acquisition of TikTok. It seems the two men are close. Article below from 2021. 1/ www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-on...

We are no longer at a “tipping point” or “an inflection point.” We are no longer “sliding” toward autocracy. Donald Trump no longer “aspires” to be an autocrat. Last week, Trump went full-bore authoritarian. The United States currently is not a functional democracy. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...