Been saying AOC should run in 2028 since I saw her speak at the DNC in 2024. Every argument against it has echos of the arguments against Obama running in 2008.

the administration is invoking “national security” to let major chemical manufacturers postpone protections that keep cancer-causing pollution out of surrounding communities. A new proclamation gives 20 petrochemical facilities a two-year exemption from the EPA’... open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

An ICE officer is trained for 71 days. It takes 150 days to become a certified pet stylist at Petco. One grooms dogs… the other carry’s guns. This is what’s wrong with our country.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

He believes the U.S. should become a Christian theocracy, married women shouldn’t have the right to vote and gay sex should be illegal. ‘Hand Jobs, Oral Sex and Anal’: Pete Hegseth's Pastor Wants Gay Men Prosecuted for These Acts [WATCH] open.substack.com/pub/uncloset...

Faced with an energy shortage, the administration has identified the culprit: refrigerators that do not waste enough electricity.

AOC: Ask Peter Thiel. Ask Elon Musk. Ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.

Senator Tammy Duckworth, the Illinois Democrat and Army veteran who lost both legs when her Black Hawk was shot down over Iraq: “Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.” Pete Hegseth Wants to Give Soldiers the Same Hormone His Administration Calls “Mutilation” open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...

The lettuce outbreak is just the beginning. This is the story of how, thanks to GOP politicians, corporate cash rewrites America's laws and why ordinary people keep paying the price…. hartmannreport.com/p/they-didnt...

1. Texas AG Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott violated numerous laws to ban trans people from updating their gender markers. An investigation from Transitics has found that Texas has illegally enforced its ban on gender marker changes for the past two years. Paxton and Abbott likely knew all along.

They are killing nature with their data center. They can't be allowed to continue.

He should face imprisonment, alongside the other individuals involved in the murders. 😡🤬

In Maine, Ashley Brouillette identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who shot Guerrero four times. She found out he was involved in the shooting when he called her to ask her not to tell reporters about his abuse during their marriage. Both she and another ex-wife had restrai...

And Homan, unable to answer any of them, did what people like him always do when the truth gets too close. He lashed out, blamed everyone else, and then he left. There's no question who's in charge open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

“I’m ready to keep playing rugby until they drag me off the field,” Ferals forward Christa Robinson told Kyle Goon of The Banner. “You can pry this ball out of my cold, dead hands.”

As Higginson, an Obama appointee, made clear, this is a wild escalation of how quickly courts are seeking to move the law rapidly to the right. As I put it on Bluesky, they're apparently not even waiting for a new case to take up Thomas's reactionary requests any longer.

Bagman? According to Politico, FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly planning an unusual visit to Russia on October 14–15, with stops in Moscow and St. Petersburg and the FSB likely serving as his host. (The Federal Security Service (FSB) fka KGB)

An appeals court ruled for Trump’s officials on July 2, and exhibit removals at national parks continue. Interior’s flagged list includes the permanent exhibit at Brown v. Board of Educa... Trump’s Officials Are Removing the Evidence Women Won Freedom and the Vote. open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...

19-year-old Pvt. Isabella Gonzales died defending this country. Think about that while politicians demonize immigrants and terrorize Latino communities. Americans with names like Gonzales have always fought, bled, and died for this nation. RIP to her and Lt. Tyler Feehan. 🇺🇸

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Part 2 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

And, of course, with Trump it’s not just Iran. His betrayals of trust and tradition include Greenland, Cuba, Ukraine, NATO, Venezuela, Canada, and our own citizens. He even betrayed every one of his three wives, and now he is betraying our Constitution.

LEFT: Canadians helping by dropping water on United States fires. RIGHT: Ungrateful United States bitch complaining about Canadian fires.

F.B.I. managers around the country received a written notice informing them of the change on Thursday, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal communications. The same day, some ICE agents aroun... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

That is why, to those who understand the stakes, comments like Acton's likely read as a cancer on the party. And a candidate willing to throw transgender people under the bus to win has seemingly told every other minority exactly what their protection is worth when the polling gets tight.

Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.

Donald Trump is not who we are open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

So elections are rigged when he’s in charge, but fixed when dems are in charge?

Our News Media needs to get it together….

July 18, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The toxic influencer who has made "hyper-masculinity" his brand was arresting wearing Doris Day clam-digger slacks and a kicky purple blouse.

In the Middle of the Bible Belt, a Summer Camp Lets Trans Kids Exhale open.substack.com/pub/uncloset...

Trump accused Canada of failing to maintain it's forests... Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno introduced legislation that would sanction responsible Canadian officials, revoke their visas, potentially declare Canada’s ambassador unwelcome, and study a tariff-funded compensation program.

Understand what’s happening: they’re laying the predicate now, in July, for contesting or seizing an election in November that they can see they’re going to lose. This is how they do things in Putin’s Russia, but no American administration has ever done this. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Trump has unmasked that facade. He has put the far right in power, where they are destroying the modern American state. Right-wing officials have undermined the world trade system that underpins American prosperity, empowered economic monopolists by slashing regulations and public lands, decimate...

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

When we have fires in the US, Canada sent help. When Canada has fires, Trump threatens them with tariffs. What an asshole.

Six years ago, A single tweet unleashed the violent mob that beat police and hunted lawmakers inside the Capitol. Last night, in a national address, Trump fed millions the same lie ahead of a def... What Trump Did Last Night Signals Killing He Intends to Legitimize open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...

it calls for the government to let some schools dismantle competitive women’s athletics, which is already comparatively underresourced, and let women funnel into more “feminine” physical activities, like yoga, hiking clubs, and team cheerleading...