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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – Substack – May 22, 2025
Source Links: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-22-2025
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Letters from an American – May 9, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
By Heather Cox Richardson, May 09, 2025 Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin to become U.S. attorney in Washington D.C., the top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital. A Missouri political operative with no experience as a prosecutor, Martin defended the January 6 rioters and fired the…
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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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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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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – March 30, 2025
March 30, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Read on Substack On the Fox News Channel this morning, Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett said: “President Trump has a long run vision of a golden age of America and we’re working really, really hard to get it out there in time. But I can’t…
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – March 28, 2025 – Substack
March 28, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Read on Substack “Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today. The S&P 500 had one of its worst days in two years, dropping 2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 715 points, losing 1.7% of its value. The Nasdaq Composite fell…
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – March 27, 2025 – Substack
March 27, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Read on Substack Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on the Houthis in Yemen. A payment on one of them was identified only with an…
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – March 24, 2025
March 24, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Read on Substack
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – March 20, 2025
March 20, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson It seems as if the Trump administration is rushing to tear apart as much as it can as opponents of its wholesale destruction of the United States government organize to stop them. Today, members of the “Department of Government Efficiency” team showed up at the Institute of Museum…
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – March 17, 2025
Excerpt from the post: From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater. The Code Talkers were Indigenous Americans who used codes based in their native languages to transmit messages that the Axis Powers never cracked. The Army recognized the ability of tribal…
