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Letters from an American – April 21, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, Pope Francis performed his final public act when he waved to worshippers in St. Peter’s Square. He died today at 88. Born in Argentina, he was the first Pope to come from the Americas. He was also the first Jesuit to serve as Pope, bringing new perspectives to the Catholic Church…
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Tracking Trump: The 7 things to know about President Donald Trump for Thursday, April 17 – The Washington Post
The 7 follows President Donald Trump’s first 100 days. Today at 5:26 p.m. EDT By Matt Clough 1. President Donald Trump is increasingly disregarding orders from courts. How Trump is relying on a 1970s law to sidestep Congress President Donald Trump has declared more emergencies in his first 100 days than any president. It is…
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Seeing Things – A Cartoon, and News – Liza Donnelly – April 17, 2025
By Liza Donnelly, Apr 17, 2025 It’s hard to imagine being jaunty right now, even a hat won’t help. But we try! I have been wondering what will happen if Trump is found in contempt of court for not following a court order to return the Maryland man wrongly deported. This from Heather Cox Richardson:…
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Letters from an American – April 15, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
April 15, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Source Links: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-15-2025 April 15, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Read on Substack
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Letters from an American – April 11, 2025
By Heather Cox Richardson, April 11, 2026 On April 4, Trump fired head of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and director of the National Security Agency (NSA) General Timothy Haugh, apparently on the recommendation of right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who is pitching her new opposition research firm to “vet” candidates for jobs in Trump’s administration.…
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The Democracy Index – by the Contrarian – April 4, 2025
The Democracy Index by The Contrarian April 4, 2025 Read on Substack April 4, 2025, with Joyce Vance, Joshua Kolb, Julie Zebrak, and 3 others This week, the vision of our democracy that emerges is of one that is battered but still resilient. The wellsprings of resistance, of democracy itself, are continuing to bloom, in…
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Civil Discourse – Trump Versus the Free Press
By Joyce Vance, Apr 9 You can be forgiven if, in the crush of lawsuits involving illegal deportations and the firing of hard working, high performing federal employees, you’ve forgotten that The Associated Press (AP) sued Donald Trump after he excluded them from the Oval Office and White House pool events because of their refusal…
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In the Sky This Month | StarDate Online
The stars of winter are marching toward the end of their annual evening run. Orion is in the southwest at nightfall as April begins, for example, but is quite low in the west as the Sun begins to set by month’s end. Sirius, the Dog Star, is to the lower left of Orion. It’s the…
