What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days, plus recommended newsletters from across Substack
Schumer’s Legacy: Rolling Over for Trump While Democracy Burns
Chuck Schumer had one job: to stand between Donald Trump and the complete dismantling of American democracy. Instead, he caved — again — handing Trump the power he craved without a fight, without a demand, without even a moment of real resistance. With every cowardly compromise, Schumer isn’t just failing Democrats — he’s enabling an autocrat in real-ti…
Welcome to Trump’s America: Where Immigrants Vanish, Courts Are Ignored, and No One Is Safe
“Whenever law ends, tyranny begins.” —John Locke
Trump’s America: Where Even U.S. Citizens Can Now Be Dragged Away Without a Trial
Imagine stepping off a plane in the United States, fully expecting to enter the country without issue, only to be surrounded by armed agents, handcuffed, and thrown into a freezing detention center. No trial. No lawyer. No contact with the outside world.
Silencing the Defenders: Trump’s War on the Last Line of Resistance
Donald Trump and his henchmen have set out to break the legs of American democracy by making it difficult for people he hates to hire an attorney to defend themselves or sue the Trump administration. He and Musk are also, with their public statements, apparently trying to
Dark Enlightenment Rising: The Billionaire Experiment to Kill Democracy
The future of American democracy isn’t being dismantled by accident; it’s being systematically replaced to prepare the way for something entirely new.
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Saturday Report 3/22/25 - Trump to Seniors: No Data for DOGE? No Social Security!
— Trump Admin: Hand Over the Data or Say Goodbye to Social Security. The Trump administration is bending over backwards to accommodate Elon Musk’s Dark Enlightenment plan to tear our government down and replace as many of its functions as possible with for-profit corporate programs. Given that Social Security cuts checks totaling $1.6 trillion a year, t…
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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:
