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Las Cruces had its NO KINGS rally today, downtown on Main Street. HUGE turnout! Lots of creative signs and repurposed Halloween costumes. A mountain of donations made to the local food bank. ZERO hostility or violence. Tons of happy honks and friendly waves from the heavy street traffic.

Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece when the deadly Texas floods broke out. His office says he took the first flight home. Texas’ junior senator was visiting Greece Friday when the Texas flood turned deadly. Cruz, who did not return until Sunday night, communicated with officials from Athens.

Parthenon Cruz... This jerk is never in Texas when he is needed. Why do Texans keep voting for him and his sorry ilk?

www.texastribune.org/2025/07/07/t... via @texastribune.org

In private school voucher push, Gov. Abbott breaks through by playing hardball Anti-voucher Republicans said they voted for the bill so they could fight to improve it, and also to fend off political retribution.

Abbott forced Texas Republicans to vote for school vouchers, threatening that otherwise he would veto their bills & make their primary elections a bloodbath.

In private school voucher push, Gov. Abbott breaks through by playing hardball www.texastribune.org/2025/04/17/g... via @texastribune.org

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

John Lithgow reads Timothy Snyder’s Twenty Lessons. 10 excellent minutes!

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

US Rep. Al Green stated the bottom line on school vouchers. See image.

The Austin American Statesman today ran it today, as its Quote of the Week.

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Video: Are We in a Constitutional Crisis? Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, says the right question is not whether there is a constitutional crisis, but rather how much damage it will cause and how the American...

SCOTUS expert Adam Liptak's 2-minute video explains what is really going on, as Trump releases a flood of executive orders, daring the courts to stop him.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Women in Texas Are Dying Republicans pressured to “clarify” state abortion ban

Great article by Dan Rather on the killer abortion law in TX. He says bills are pending in TX Lege to clarify the medical exception and save lives of miscarrying women. Hope they pass, but I have been disappointed by Texas too many times.

Women in Texas Are Dying open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

Blame Canada Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory

Blame Canada
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Video: JD Vance Is Booed at a Kennedy Center Concert in Washington Vice President JD Vance was booed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington Thursday night while attending a concert with his wife. It was his first visit to the institution after it...

Love this!
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

‘Stocks down, measles up.’” — JIMMY FALLON

Yep—that’s America under Trump.

The DOGE Helpline Comms from Armageddon

The DOGE Helpline open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

From Timothy Snyder. Brilliant.

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IKEA beds? Dressers? Inside the ‘exceedingly odd’ DOGE office setup Details of the arrangements at GSA offer a window into the lifestyle of DOGE workers.

So, DOGE wants to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer on the 6th floor of the federal office building where Musk and his band of youthful hackers have set up camp. THAT’s efficient….
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Trump takes seized boxes back to Florida on Air Force One | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.

Trump got his bathroom reading material back. His DOJ returned all the boxes of classified documents that he stole from the White House when he evacuated in early 2021. So, the mountain of classified material is back at Mar-a-Lago, to be handed out as party favors. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...

“When you hamstring the IRS,” Koskinen added. “it’s just a tax cut for tax cheats.”

www.propublica.org/article/how-...

February 28, 2025 A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

February 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Heather Cox Richardson, American historian, explains the Trump/Vance Feb. 28 ambush of President Zelenskyy, of Ukraine better than anyone else.

Listen to her 6-minute video, or read the transcript.

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How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.

The DOGE origin story…. Only possible amidst the duality of sheer incompetence and overarching greed that shaping Trump 2.0. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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Donald Trump shares bizarre AI-generated video of 'Trump Gaza' YouTube video by Guardian News

Trump posted this AI video of his Gaza Plan with approval. There are just no words ….
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslO...

President Musk *Record scratch*

Just 25 seconds, and it has a hopeful ending.

President Musk open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Is That Legal? A Guide to Trump’s Big Moves So Far. Examining the legality of 38 major actions the president has taken in his first month.

Interesting reading, as Trump dismantles America, laws and the Constitution be damned. It is exactly what we deserve, for putting a flagrant felon back in the Oval Office.

Is That Legal? A Guide to Trump’s Big Moves So Far. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

Trump 2.0: Rewriting Histories | 'The Daily' Political Round Table YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts

In this 26-min podcast, top NYT reporters covering Trump discuss his recent strategies (an avalanche of executive orders, rewriting history on Ukraine and much more, upending American culture) to succeed in his 2nd administration, and finally become King. Chilling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryob...

And, in America, we have re-elected Trump, supported by the worst of the underbelly, and he has now populated his administration with madmen and extremists.

Opinion | The alarmingly nebulous role of Elon Musk Musk is the face of the Department of Government Efficiency — but he's not its administrator, according to the Trump administration.

Trump tells the court that Musk doesn’t run DOGE. (Who does? Sorry, that’s a secret.) In fact, DOGE isn’t even a govt agency. All these lies insulate Musk and DOGE from oversight. Crazy stuff. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.

Musk is making a killing, by killing the government agencies that regulate his many companies—SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, X, and more.

Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Are Trump’s Executive Orders Creating a Constitutional Crisis? Unpacking the debate around President Trump’s executive orders.

SCOTUS expert Adam Liptak discusses Trump’s power grabs and Musk’s wild actions, on NYT’s The Daily pod today, just 26 minutes. A Constitutional Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/p...?

February 7, 2025 Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to deman...

Read HCR's 2/7 Substack, with Sen. Angus King on govt's intentional/wonderful cumbersomeness as protection from the swift/arbitrary ways of corp CEOs. He refutes Curtis Yarvin's doctrine Musk, Vance, etc. are trying to substitute for democracy.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7...

Opinion | What Elon Musk Wants The journalist Kara Swisher discusses Elon Musk's goals in government — and the factors that have led to his radicalization.

Great podcast, with Kara Swisher giving her well-educated take on Musk—his motivations and mindset, what he is really doing inside the government, and why. Excellent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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Opinion | Musk? Trump? Who Exactly Is Running the Federal Government? What should be an uncomplicated question yields a complicated answer.

State Capture. It is good to have the correct term for what is happening now to America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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What Have Trump and His Administration Said and Done So Far? Gaza, Tariffs, U.S.P.S. The New York Times is tracking the actions taken by, and significant statements made by, President Trump and his administration during the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term.

Handy resource.

The New York Times is tracking the actions taken by, and significant statements made by, Trump and his administration during the first 100 days of the second term. Updated daily.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Unelected, unvetted, unconfirmed people completely unknown and unaccountable to voters have the US by the purse strings. Social Security payments, tax refunds, debt payments, and more, in the control of Musk, an awkward, ego-maniacal manchild who likes to break things and then walk away.

Pres. Gustavo Petro of Colombia said this today to Trump: “You don’t like our freedom, fine. I do not shake hands with white enslavers.”

Trump definitely deserved that. So does the America who elected him.

So very ashamed of my country.