February 14, 2025 On this day, I always like to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s terrible 1884 Valentine’s Day and how it led to the Progressive Era, but things are happening too fast these days to leave a gap in...

Heather Cox Richardson's play-by-play review of the DOJ's crisis brought on by the attempt to dismiss Mayor Adam's felony charges in exchange for mass deportation cooperation is spot on.
As always, accurate and concise. @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Legendary.

Wait…what? Some Rethuglican actually cares about people in his district? Imagine that.

February 15, 2025 After World War II, the vast majority of Americans—Democrats and Republicans alike—agreed that the federal government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructur...

February 15, 2025

Several sources have already done it.

This is above my pay grade. I really need a tax lawyer who knows this.

There is still beauty in this world

Has anyone thought about how they are going to pay their federal taxes this year? What if we set up an escrow account that specified the funds will be released when Musk and DOGE are no longer in charge?

Full text of Dimon remarks in which he said "Get over it"

Jamie Dimon (net worth $2.8b) on rising costs due to tariffs: "Get over it." www.mediamatters.org/cnbc/cnbcs-s...

That’s not gonna go over well.

Seriously, keep up.

February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

February 3, 2025

But, cool.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The Logic of Destruction
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Canada and Mexico should have shut trump down by closing their borders, no commerce or travel in or out, until trump backed down.

You know why churches depicted religious observance in stained glass, right? It’s because kings had made sure the populace couldn’t read!