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cwgrody“Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who spent seven years as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve, posted: ‘From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f**kup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.’”<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-24-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-24-2025</a>

cwgrody“While Trump’s demand that Mills make a ‘full throated apology’ to him is in keeping with his habitual attempts to dominate women, Mills follows in a tradition of women from Maine who stood up for the principles of American democracy against bullies who would destroy it.”<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-22-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-22-2025</a>

oldguy52 - resist, live, loveDr. Richardson’s Letter is great this morning.<a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2025</a>My take away: Trump is a coward who will not accept responsibility (but we already knew that - deny, deflect …)If you want to see courage in politics look no further than the Governor of Maine.The final paragraphs are inspiring. Here quoting the last - Senator Margaret Chase Smith standing up to Senator Joe McCarthy“Senator Smith ended with a warning: “It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ProfilesInCourage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProfilesInCourage</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TrumpIsACoward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpIsACoward</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ImpeachTheBastard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImpeachTheBastard</a>

notes> Letters from an American: March 20, 2025Episode webpage: <a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-20-2025-b8d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-20-2025-b8d</a><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> are seemingly removing the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#political</a> solution (<a href="https://social.coop/tags/Impeachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Impeachment</a>) to a president who is violating the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USConstitution</a>. “A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it <a href="https://social.coop/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a> has failed to hear?...It has failed to hear that the promises of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedom</a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a> have not been met." - “The Other America,” 1968 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strike</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a>

cwgrody“‘For almost 90 years, Social Security has never missed a paycheck—but 60 days into this administration, Social Security is now on the brink…. Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek has proven again that he is in way over his head, compromising the privacy of millions of Americans, shutting down services that senior citizens rely on and planning debilitating layoffs, all in service to Elon Musk’s lies.’”<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-21-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-21-2025</a>

Catherine Schmidt<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bernie</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/aoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aoc</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alt</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#republicans</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> Heather Cox Richardson Bernie/AOC Push Back

Desert TrailJFC. “Finally today, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has proposed addressing the H5N1 bird flu that is decimating U.S. poultry and cattle farms by simply letting the disease run rampant.” <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-18-2025?r=10cse3&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-18-2025?r=10cse3&utm_medium=ios</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lettersfromanamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lettersfromanamerican</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birdflu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birdflu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/howdoessciencework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#howdoessciencework</a>

oldguy52 - resist, live, loveDr. Richardson’s Letter this morning is chilling on several points. Multiple crises deepen, and the Senate seems asleep, other than express concern. This is a must read.<a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-20-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-20-2025</a>_____________ My take: It may be time for NATO, UN, G7, G20 … to formally censure the US, perhaps put the govt on a probationary “time out”, and consider expulsion for human rights violations. Expressing concern to dump has zero impact, perhaps censure with potential expulsion would wake up the Senate.While I am dreaming, I ask WHO, WMO to IPCC to speak directly to US citizens and provide information so badly needed; information that is not coming from our government. ______________<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

cwgrody“The administration’s attempt to ignore the laws the Constitution charges it with executing amounts to an attack on the right of the American people to establish the rules under which we live.”<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-19-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-19-2025</a>

Orrock<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> endSarah Labowitz, who led the study, told Fitzpatrick: “Up to now, when there is a disaster, the government responds. They clean up the debris, they rebuild the schools, they run shelters, they clean the drinking water. All of that is supported by a federal disaster relief ecosystem that spreads the risk around the country, spreads the costs around the country. And if we stop spreading the costs around the country, then it's going to fall on states, and it's going to fall on states really unevenly.”THE LORD WILL PROVIDE

Orrock<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> 3Waldo Jaquith, who worked for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Barack Obama and who specializes in best practices for government procurement of custom software, posted on social media: “I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.”

Orrock<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> 2When Evan Feinman, who directed the $42.5 billion rural broadband program, left his position on Friday, he wrote an email to his former colleagues warning that there would be pressure to turn to SpaceX’s Starlink for internet connection in rural areas. “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” he wrote.

OrrockFrom <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> After World War II, Americans came together in a similar spirit to create a government that works for all of us. It is that government—and the worldview it advances—that the Trump administration is currently dismantling.

cwgrodyI sometimes worry that even <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> can’t keep up with all of Trump’s destruction. I hope she’s getting enough sleep.<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-17-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-17-2025</a>

oldguy52 - resist, live, loveDr. Richardsons Letter covers the range of heinous actions taken by this administration over the weekend.Hard to fathom that such evil can exist in the hearts of so many.<a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-17-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-17-2025</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ImpeachTheBastard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImpeachTheBastard</a>

cwgrody“‘We are inevitably headed,’ (Joyce) Vance wrote, ‘to a confrontation between a president who has rejected the rule of law and a judge sworn to enforce it. We are in an exceedingly dangerous moment for democracy.’”<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-16-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-16-2025</a>

Orrock<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> In 1859, Abraham Lincoln would articulate an ideology for the party, defining it as the party of ordinary Americans standing together against the oligarchs of slavery, and when he ran for president in 1860, he knew it was imperative that he get the momentum of Maine men on his side. In those days Maine voted for state and local offices in September, rather than November, so a party’s win in Maine could start a wave. “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” the saying went.

Catherine Schmidt<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alt</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ALT4you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALT4you</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/patriots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#patriots</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> We’ve been here before

Catherine Schmidt<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#budget</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democrats</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/schumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schumer</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/partysplit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#partysplit</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alt</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ALT4you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALT4you</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HeatherCoxRichardson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> Democratic Party Split

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