Dear Donnie Dipshit, open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

"It’s 2026 now, and we still see beatings in the streets. There are still too many caskets under the tree of liberty. But the tree is still alive, and it continues to grow. May we all sit securely in its shade one day." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Hakim Jeffries: "This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder...It’s time for John Thune, Mike Johnson, and Republicans to denounce this serial fraudster, who’s sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue pretending to be the president of the United States." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"We live in an age of greed and grifting, where public officials will routinely defy the Constitution to cling to power and impose their control. It’s necessary to adjust their incentives." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

"In an irony MAGA will not understand, through the work of ordinary Minnesotans, we are making America great again." lithub.com/letter-from-...

‘Trump Has Lost the Country’ www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

"Trump told...Bongino...that he loses elections only because Democrats import undocumented immigrants to vote. This is bonkers. Voting by undocumented immigrants, or any noncitizens, is both illegal and incredibly rare..." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Portland news: "Tim Dickinson of The Contrarian wrote: 'Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they’re doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps.'” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"'I’ve covered many protests…and I have to tell you, I’ve not seen a crowd like this before. I mean, it is eight degrees out here. Eight degrees, it feels like five, it is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people….'” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“After Minneapolis, I fear ...Trump is taking the country on a path to tyranny. The first obligation for each of us is to see it and name it. The next is to figure out what to do about it.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Gratifying lately to see this show finally morph from Morning Blowhard to Morning Mika. May their team continue to synthesize so. www.ms.now/morning-joe/...

This year's two deadly serious long games: keep up the heat on the Epstein files, and keep an eagle-eye on any and all moves against the execution and integrity of upcoming (2026, 2028) elections. www.ms.now/morning-joe/...

Minnesota is the Beginning of an American Color Revolution open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

ICE and C.B.P. still roam the streets...But surveying the wreckage of Operation Metro Surge — of this reactionary administration’s crushing defeat at the hands of another band of tenacious Northerners — it does look to me like MAGA’s Gettysburg. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

January 25, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

January 24, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

In the 1770s...&...1850s...Americans recognized the radicalism of those extremists who were trying to erase the nation’s principles and the rule of law, ignoring the longstanding rights of the people to liberty and equality and instead trying to impose a despotism. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"The public face of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a brutal, paramilitary force of masked men who hunt immigrants and terrorize American cities on behalf of the president of the United States. "The not-so-public face is somehow even worse." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

The Coming Trump Crackup www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o...

January 21, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...