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Letters from an American – September 13, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, September 13, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 13, 2025 President Donald J. Trump has been trying to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook from the board of governors, alleging she lied on a mortgage application by claiming two homes as primary residences, which could garner a lower interest rate. Yesterday…
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Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance – Sunday Morning Wrap-Up
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance Sunday Morning Wrap-Up By Joyce Vance, Sep 14, 2025 This was a week punctuated by the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which seemed to sweep all the other news we’d been following off the table. Debates about political violence and the First Amendment emerged rapidly. In one of the key pieces…
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Letters from an American – September 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American September 12, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 12, 2025 Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusations that “the Left” was responsible for the shooting. Prominent…
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Letters from an American – September 11, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, September 11, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 11, 2025 Twenty-four years ago today, terrorists from the al-Qaeda network used four civilian airplanes as weapons against the United States, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City and a third into the Pentagon in…
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Civil Discourse – Protecting The Right To Vote – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance Protecting The Right To Vote By Joyce Vance, Sep 09, 2025 On August 18, I wrote to you about Trump’s “Truth”—his social media post—about voting. It was a screed that pulled in all of the debunked threads he’s used over time to support his completely unsubstantiated claim about massive fraud…
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Trump Renames DOD to Department of War — Live recording of Heather Cox Richardson & Joyce Vance
On the history of renaming the War Dept and the influence of Nazi philosophy By Joyce Vance and Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 09, 2025 Editor’s Note: Two of my favorite commentators and authors from Substack, on a very key topic. Listen, learn, and remember: we’re in this together 🙂 … Trump Renames DOD to Department…
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Civil Discourse – The American Dictator – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance The American Dictator By Joyce Vance, Sep 06, 2025 Tonight, we have the specter of an American president trying to take control of an American city for thinly veiled political reasons. Not for the first time, or even the second, but for the third. This time, Donald Trump lacks even…
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Letters from an American – September 6, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American September 6, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 06, 2025 Today the social media account of President Donald J. Trump posted an AI-generated image of Trump as if he were Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now in front of the Chicago skyline with military helicopters and flames…
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Seeing Things – Department of Hate, Etc. -Liza Donnelly
Trump’s ideas keep coming at us, it’s exhausting By Liza Donnelly, Sep 05, 2025 Renaming the Department of Defense to be the Departent of War is such a toxic masulinity move. It’s typical. Trump is all about getting rid of Education, Health— and into making “leadership” all about aggression, hate, and dominance. But today Trump…
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Seeing Things – Getting Angry With A Pencil – Liza Donnelly
Getting Angry With A Pencil We are in our darkest hour Liza Donnelly, Sep 02, 2025 Last night, I started watching the Darkest Hour, a great film about WInston Churchill during WW II, starring Gary Oldman. Nothing new here, but it is so clear to me that we are right now in our darkest hour.…
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Civil Discourse – Forgetting the Survivors – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance Forgetting the Survivors By Joyce Vance, Sep 01, 2025 Everyone but the survivors—the people who deserve it the most—seems to be the focus of the renewed interest in Jeffrey Epstein. Politics, prurience, and curiosity about which political and pop culture figures might be mentioned in the files have dominated media…
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Epstein Victims To Speak – by Liza Donnelly
Epstein Victims To Speak And thoughts on work… By Liza Donnelly, Sep 01, 2025 On September 3rd, ten of Epstein’s victims will hold a press conference on the steps of the Capitol. (The press conference will be streamed live on the MeidasTouch YouTube channel. I have not seen any notice of this in the Mainstream…
