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Letters from an American – August 30, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 30, 2025 Just days before Labor Day, a holiday designed to celebrate the importance and power of American workers in the United States, the Transportation Department cancelled $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects, and the Department of Energy announced it is withdrawing a $716…
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Letters from an American – August 27, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, August 27, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 27, 2025 The image of National Guard troops, some of them from as far away as Louisiana and Mississippi, in Washington, D.C., spreading mulch around the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin and picking up trash, illustrates that President Donald J. Trump’s insistence…
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Civil Discourse – Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment – Joyce Vance
Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment By Joyce Vance, Aug 27, 2025 “The objective of this contract is to obtain all infrastructure, including temporary housing structures, physical plant, staffing, resources, services, and supplies necessary to house aliens in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a safe and secure environment to effectuate…
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Seeing Things – Voting Is Voice – Liza Donnelly
Voting Is Voice Today is the anniverary of the Nineteenth Amendment By Liza Donnelly, Aug 26, 2025 Today is the anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, when the US passed a law prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote. However,…
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Letters from an American – The Nineteenth Amendment – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American The Nineteenth Amendment By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 26, 2025 Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment’s certification in 1920. But I decided the political news yesterday couldn’t wait, so I dropped…
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Trump Is Trying to Fire Lisa Cook and Purge the US Government. Can The Majority Stop Him? with Joyce Vance
Trump Is Trying to Fire Lisa Cook and Purge the US Government. Can The Majority Stop Him? with Joyce Vance A recording from Joyce Vance and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali’s live video By Joyce Vance and and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali Aug 26, 2025 Earlier this evening, I joined my friend Wajahat Ali,…
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Civil Discourse – No Bill! – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance No Bill! The Good News You Need By Joyce Vance, Aug 26, 2025 When a grand jury returns an indictment, it’s called a true bill. On those exceedingly rare occasions where they decline to sign off on an indictment prosecutors present to them, it’s called a no bill. In 25…
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Letters from an American – August 25, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, August 25, 2025, By Heather Cox Richardson This morning, President Donald J. Trump talked to reporters as he signed several executive orders in the Oval Office. Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk as he has been doing lately, seeming to put its bulk between him and the reporters. Also as he…
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The Urgency Of Trump’s Destruction – by Liza Donnelly
The Urgency Of Trump’s Destruction We need to feel it By Liza Donnelly, Aug 25, 2025 When you slightly remove yourself from the news for a few days, as I just did, it feels odd. I stayed in touch with the headlines, but didn’t go deep during my time away. It was restorative, for sure,…
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Letters from an American – August 23, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American August 23, 2025, By Heather Cox Richardson “It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wrote yesterday afternoon on social…
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Letters from an American – August 22, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American August 22, 2025, by Heather Cox Richardson In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming, the Trump White House appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize it against Trump’s opponents, and keep him in power indefinitely.…
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How SpaceX avoids paying taxes – Musk Watch
How SpaceX avoids paying taxes By Caleb Ecarma, Aug 22, 2025 Despite receiving billions of dollars in federal contracts and subsidies, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company, has reportedly taken advantage of a benefit from President Trump’s first term to avoid paying income taxes. But SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal…
