What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days, plus recommended newsletters from across Substack
Trump Can’t Hide the Real Killers of the American Dream—Or the Homeless People Left Behind
Trump ordered Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser to evict homeless people from various parts of Washington DC. He then cut millions of dollars in federal support to house poor people.
Vanishing Protesters: How Trump’s ICE Is Silencing the Next Generation
Trump and his police-state goons are trying to frighten people who dare even come close to people protesting his or Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies. This is how dictators intimidate citizens, how freedom dies, and is a clear violation of our Constitution.
Stock Market Meltdown? The Morbidly Rich Call It "Happy Hour"!
When the stock market crashes and working families lose everything, the morbidly rich don’t panic — they pour a drink. For them, a financial meltdown isn’t a crisis, it’s Happy Hour; a golden opportunity to buy up the world at fire-sale prices while the rest of us struggle to survive.
The Five-Year Cover-Up: How Trump’s Racist Covid Strategy Got Buried
Today, March 13th, through April 7th next month, commemorate the anniversary of what could only be called the start of an intentional, racially-based plan for the mass death of American citizens, put together by Donald Trump and Jared Kushner for purely political purposes, and virtually ignored by the American mainstream media.
Trump’s Imperial Fantasy: He Wants to Be Polk, McKinley, and Putin—All at Once
Donald Trump has never been known for originality, but his latest act is his most dangerous yet — a desperate imitation of history’s most aggressive land-grabbers and strongmen. From James Polk’s expansionist conquest to William McKinley’s imperialist scheming to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian crackdowns, Trump isn’t just following in their footsteps — …
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Saturday Report 3/15/25 - Musk’s Hitler Post Sparks Union Fury: South African Apartheid Billionaire Blames Public Workers for Genocide!
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Recommended Reading
Thom Hartmann also writes three additional separate Substack newsletters. Each has both a free and paid subscription option. Below are links to one free newsletter from each Substack from the past week, plus another Substack newsletter of note that I read and recommend:
A great summary of the past week .. any discussion around when the felon comes after everyone’s guns?
"The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful,
and to despite, or, at least, to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition is the
great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments."
Adam Smith, quote from The Theory of Moral Sentiments