October 1, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... $20 Billion American taxpayer Dollars stolen & into the greedy thieving pocket of Donald's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who's invested heavily in Argentine & in Argentine debt = Utter fascist GOP corruption & that's only a small part

The current situation in Portland. Overrun by migrants who are being harbored by librarians and unemployed Civil Service types.

On Sunday I planted some things in our little unheated greenhouse for my first attempt at a fall growing season, and three different things have already sprouted! I know it's just the plants doing what plants do, but I feel mighty. 😀

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

Members of the democratic party should not support a single GOP-affiliated bill, nominee, resolution, or motion until such time as the GOP has restored every dollar inappropriately impounded, every employee illegally fired has been rehired, and every unconstitutional action corrected

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

More "winning" by the criminally malfeasant Trump/GOP regime

GOP Last Week: "We control everything." Today: "The shutdown was out of our control."

Racism is not a "side-show" for MAGA republican politicians as MAGA House Liar Mike Johnson is Lying about & attempting to disguise/Hide It is the GOP's Divide & Conquer Platform & has been for 50+ years See: Lee Atwater Southern Strategy www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=76...

Keep reposting!

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. www.joyannreid.com/p/the-vice-p...

In Shutdown Spin, Republicans Are Pretending They Care About Mothers on WIC Now talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Halligan may have obtained the indictment the president wanted, but it...one thing to get a grand jury to indict. Getting a conviction is an entirely different matter. New from me for @brennancenter.org A discussion of the flawed Comey indictment. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

As Day 2 of the government shutdown continues, I am continuing to fight for YOU. Yesterday, I was joined by Ottis Johnson, Jr., AFGE and Rob Shriver, @democracyforward.org for a webinar on the impacts of the government shutdown. You can view it here: www.youtube.com/live/5U2nCb1....

🚨BREAKING: A Texas Democrat testified in federal court Thursday that Republican leadership used minority communities as pawns when they redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the request of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If ICE wanted to combat gang violence in the US, it would disband itself because its goons, who assault and steal with abandon, are the most dangerous and criminal gangs in the country.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

This is an Epstein shutdown.

I hope smart people are quietly brainstorming how to continue this country if/when the GOP is voted out of power because there's no going back. The destruction is already too overwhelming. It's going to take some very creative thinking and a lot of nerve to do it. Is there an FDR in the house?

The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Trump doesn’t get to “determine” we’re at war—that’s Congress’s job. Check the Constitution, Art. 1, Sec 8, Clause 11.  And while he’s talking tough out of one side of his mouth, he’s disbanding the DOJ task force fighting cartels with the other. This isn’t about public safety. It’s a power grab.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

Yes. Good stuff from Paul Krugman. Bulging Biceps Don’t Win Modern Wars open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

So the WH is belatedly realizing that the huge ACA price spikes might be a tiny bit problematic. But they're refusing to negotiate until the government is re-opened. Why on earth would the Dems agree to vote for that CR on the GOP's word that they'll "negotiate?" Lol.

Attack on Flotilla Shows How Far Netanyahu, Smotrich & Gvir Will Go: genocide, famine & demonstrating their utter contempt for the legally binding orders of International Court of Justice," says Amnesty International's secretary-general Agnès Callamard www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

'Surreal Moment for America': ICE Agents in Chicago Drag Children Out of Their Homes, Ransack Building na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... "We're under siege," said one witness. "We're being invaded by our own military."

Trump Pressures Top Universities to Sign 'Extortion Agreement' for Federal Funds na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... "urging campus leaders to pledge support for "president" Trump's [fascist] political agenda to ensure access to federal research funds."

After Bombing Boats, Trump Tells Congress US Is in 'Armed Conflict' With Drug Cartels "This is not stretching the envelope," said a retired judge "This is shredding it. This is tearing it apart." na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It is also 1st degree Murder by the Trump Regime

Digby: Another “emoluments clause” that should bar Donald Trump from office dailykos.com/stories/2016... December 21, 2016

Projection - 101 by Two leading fascist/criminals of Trump regime Russell Vought & Stephen Miller ‘They will pay a huge price for this’ politi.co/4gF2UpL via @politico “We’re going to extract maximum pain,” said the MAGA fascists, granted anonymity to discuss their fascism From politico.com

Explain, how the U.S. bailing out Argentina for $20B, while China buys soybeans from them instead of U.S. farmers, is putting "America-First?" Also, dissolving ACA Healthcare, raising health insurance for ALL Americans, but finding $200M for a ballroom and tax cuts for the rich.

"With almost every passing day, it feels like the Trump administration further erodes our democracy." -- Rachel Rossi www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

Shame on them all.

Typical republican politician. Lying, Racism (that migrants are stealing healthcare - the latest corrupt MAGAGOP's frantic propaganda effort) and Stupidity

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

decent message

I had a few words of advice for Democrats as they navigate this GOP shutdown. “How dare they…”

That little made-up thumbelina...with his very own make-up parlor in the Pentegon...the Onion is now hard reality.

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

So sorry to hear about Jane Goodall. What a legend I was honored to talk to her once … for @reuters.com, about the first job she ever had www.reuters.com/article/mark...

We won’t be bullied into giving up your health care.

This is such great news. @ashleyallison.bsky.social is the truth! www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/m...

"We don't control what he's going to do" says Leader Thune as he literally tries to give Vought a blank check to do whatever the hell he wants. Don't let them gaslight you — Senate Republicans are complicit in everything coming out of this White House.

‘We suck so much that we have to cheat’: Nicolle Wallace on Trump and GOP's redistricting effort youtu.be/QYSAcyMDXE8