Just got off the phone with Mrs Sicknick and just more slaps in the face with this settlement. She asked "why did my son die" (in response to all the whitewashing that is being done about January 6th) if it was a day of love, why is my son dead"
Total miscarriage of justice
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I am not often quoted in @nytimes.com DealBook, but I hope the business community is listening.
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Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.
JUST IN: ProPublicaβs βLife of the Motherβ series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year weβve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
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May 4, 2025
In an interview aired today on NBC Newsβs Meet the Press, reporter Kristen Welker asked President Donald J.
"Yeah, I don't know about the Constitution." At this point, I shouldn't be surprised at what falls out of his mouth, andyet . . .
May 4, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Truck Fump
Okay, here are the Trump-related headlines from the last week.
Be sure to see the award winning Ann Telnaes cartoon below the obscenity here . . .
Truck Fump open.substack.com/pub/genewein...
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April 27, 2025
Last night a new club opened in the wealthy Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
How is this even legal? Where are the advocates raising hell about this?
April 27, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Have I shared this yet? If so, once is not enough!!!
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Yes!
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Sadly true
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The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After
Read. Every. Word. Of. This. Tim Synder. Chilling.
The Next Terrorist Attack open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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April 18, 2025
Tonight I had the extraordinary privilege of speaking at the anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Bostonβs Old North Church, which happened 250 years ago tonight.
We're all called to be Paul Revere. "Paul Revere didnβt wake up on the morning of April 18, 1775, and decide to change the world. . . . Like his neighbors, Revere simply offered what he could to the cause"
April 18, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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YouTube video by TED
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
For those of you are extremely worried about where this country is headed:
youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
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YouTube video by thebengsons
The Keep Going Song (title track)
In these unbelievably destructive days, this wonderful song from the Bengsons during pandemic days offers us some solace even today:
youtu.be/Cs-ju_L9pEQ?...
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From today's New Yorker daily:
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:-(
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But that's just another "fact," and we know that they don't count.
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Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."
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What, you want this to make sense?
07.04.2025 20:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This walking dead zombie was elected to lead our nationβs healthcare. Heβs a vaccine denier who lied and said he wouldnβt allow his personal beliefs interfere with our vaccine programs.
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YouTube video by MSNBC
The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
Stunning and yet not surprising.
Start at 530
youtu.be/MJbZCbBLqkk?...
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April 2, 2025 (Wednesday)
Just five months ago, on October 19, 2024, The Economist ran a special report on Americaβs economy.
Why did he do this? Because he can and he needs everyone to know it. Oh, and where is Russia on the tariffs list? Hmmm.
April 2, 2025 (Wednesday) open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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