Mike Heffley

October 24, 2025 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has canceled House business again next week, meaning that over the last 17 weeks, the House of Representatives will have worked on Capitol Hill for just 20 days.

THIS JUST IN: THE "TRUTH" ABOUT THE "NO KINGS" CROWD!! STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S "MOUTH"!!

"We have a lot of information about who they are. You’re gonna be very surprised when you find out.”

CALL ME ON-THE-EDGE-OF-MY-"SEAT"!!!

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Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Fears No Kings

He's trying to divide us. "But if we can take any sign from the public’s escalating response to this madness, it is that Trump just may, in the end, remind Americans of the vital power of acting together in solidarity with one another."

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This Wreckage Courtesy of the Enshittification Administration: Notes On Late-State Trumpism In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Fac...

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Ignoring Case Law and the Constitution, Court Greenlights Trump’s Portland Troop Surge An appeals court panel combines sloppy reasoning and undue deference to the executive by allowing Trump's takeover of Portland to proceed.

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YouTube video by Adam Neely Music Theory and White Supremacy

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See my 25-year-old two bits to this conversation here: www.academia.edu/2317040/Time...

What Trump Doesn’t Get About Tomahawks The transfer of Tomahawks to Ukraine seems unlikely for now. Three years ago, F-16s did too — until one young pilot changed Washington’s mind.

“The West is armed to the teeth,” she said. “They could end this war in a day — but they hesitate.”

All hesitation to aid Ukraine is measured in blood.
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Civil Resistance Confronts the Autocracy While MAGA’s spin was both insane and revealing, the No Kings Day 2 Marches were a major step towards taking our country back.

Brilliant recap of the 10/18 day by the great Paul Krugman.
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YouTube video by Adam Neely Music Theory and White Supremacy

THIS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3q... See my 25-year-old two bits to this conversation here: academia.edu/2346508/Chapter_Eleven_The_Theater_of_Analysis

Joe: People were out on a Saturday because they love America Organizers say more than seven million people gathered at nearly 3,000 events over the weekend for 'No Kings' Day. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

Heartwarming morning after.
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October 19, 2025 All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

Such rallies “bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusiasm for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism,”... “The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.”

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Zelenskyy says Trump must apply ‘more pressure’ on Putin than Hamas: Full interview In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that after President Trump’s breakthrough deal in the Middle East, he should take a similar approach with Ru...

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I Don’t Want to Stop Believing in America’s Decency I want to feel, as Walt Whitman did, that America and democracy are inextricable.

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The Bliss of a Quieter Ego We live in a world of noisy narcissism, but you can escape the cacophony—and be happier.

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Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous

"We will know when revival comes because we will see believers humble themselves, repent of their sins, and then arise, full of genuine virtue, to love their neighbors — to help them, not hurt them — and in so doing to heal our nation."

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‘The no’s are piling up’: MAGA overreach rejected by airports, colleges, jurors “It seems like the harder that MAGA leans into the authoritarianism, the more people are finding the voice to push back,” says Chris Hayes. George Conway and Invisible's Ezra Levin join to discuss.

Love this.
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Lawrence: Trump admin. staffer reportedly in an 'I love Hitler' chat hasn't been fired by Trump yet POLITICO reports that Trump staffer, Michael Bartels, still has a job working for Donald Trump despite participating in a racist group chat with other Young Republicans. After POLITICO published their...

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked texts expose Young Republicans’ racist chat, Politico reports A new Politico report reveals young GOP leaders across several states trading racist, antisemitic, and hateful messages in leaked private chats. “People who are running the Republican Party at the gro...

The not-kids are not all right.

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Walz challenges Trump: Find a farmer who thinks this is okay Gov. Tim Walz to Trump as his “man-made” crisis crushes American farmers: "Find three soybean farmers who will stand with you and say, 'This is okay.' Just three, anywhere in America. I challenge you ...

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Nicolle Wallace welcomes Joe Rogan and MTG to the reality of Trump’s mass deportation scheme Jacob Soboroff, MSNBC Senior National and Political Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the backlash unfolding with his mass deportation scheme, with heavily armed a...

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DHS propaganda videos distorting reality in Chicago, while ICE terrorizes communities Jacob Soboroff, MSNBC National and Political Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace to breakdown the propaganda videos that have been put out by agencies like Homeland Security, how they distort reality ...

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October 14, 2025 The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

October 14, 2025
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Dangerous new MAGA lie: Republicans smear peaceful protesters as ‘terrorists’ “Trump and the MAGA cronies know there are likely to be millions of people in the streets on October 18th for the No Kings protests. And so their strategy is to preemptively paint patriotic, dissentin...

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Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

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Opinion | Leave Us Alone

This photo of one of the beautiful Mt. Tabor Park's 3 great reservoirs immediately caught my eye. Over the last two decades of my Portland residency, I've created many sweet memories of hiking up and down its tree-full hills and around those reservoirs.

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Monkroscopical Entrygues, by Mike Heffley 10 track album

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Lawrence: Letitia James should wear being on Trump's enemies list as a badge of honor MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, who Donald Trump told Pam Bondi publicly to prosecute in a message the Wall Street Journal reports he mea...

So good.
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‘Heart of tyranny’: Hayes says Trump's order to indict Tish James is impeachable “Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says Chris Hayes on the indictm...

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How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

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We are different from all other humans in history Countless experiences that have become routine for us are unprecedented in the history of our species. Here's why that matters.

We live in an extraordinary world, of profound, disorienting change, immense comfort, unprecedented prosperity...it’s worth zooming out and celebrating that many of our most banal daily experiences are unique, impossible for all humans who came before us."

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October 9, 2025 Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.

L JAMES: “...I am fearless, and as my faith teaches me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights. And I will continue to do my job.”

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