What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days, plus recommended newsletters from across Substack
Are We Still a Nation That Takes Care of Its Own—Or Just a Playground for Billionaires?
Here we are again, my friend, watching the age-old story play out before our eyes. The Republicans are preparing to hand out trillions in tax cuts to their billionaire benefactors, and how do they plan to pay for this latest giveaway to the oligarchy? By ripping healthcare away from 13.7 million Americans, including millions of our most vulnerable senio…
Red State Hell: The GOP Plan to Keep You Desperate, Sick, and Too Damn Tired to Fight Back
We must not confuse statistical probability with some transcendental and utterly compelling force. — Unspiek, Baron Bodissey (Jack Vance)
Gutting the Weather Watchers: When Tyrants Rewrite the Forecast
This disaster has me so angry I can barely type straight. Elon Musk and his phony “Department of Government Efficiency” — which isn’t even a real government department, by the way — are systematically destroying the agencies that keep Americans alive when Mother Nature comes calling. And for what? Some twisted ideological experiment that’s going to cost…
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Saturday Report 5/17/25 — Trump ordered 15K workers to snitch and not a one did...
— “Huge scandal”: Internal documents catch Trump administration in massive Social Security lie. When Elon Musk proclaimed that “40 percent of the calls into Social Security are fraudulent” anybody with any knowledge of the system knew he was lying; the question was, “Why is he lying like this?” Now we’re seeing the …
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