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“”At a rally yesterday, he (Trump$ told the audience: “We’re making a freaking fortune.” But “we” is doing a lot of work in that statement. Oil companies and their investors—like Trump—are indeed making a fortune, but the rest of the country is suffering ...”” HCR

Attn: USPS changes mean your ballot may not be postmarked the same day you mail it. Don’t wait until Election Day! Deadlines vary by state. Some require ballots to ARRIVE by Election Day, not just be postmarked.

Buy it / read it open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

“Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff thanks Putin for diesel and calls HIM a humanitarian” Tell that to Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny’s family 🤨😖😮

Good design requires empathy- whether designing a bike route, a pedestrian crossing, a school playground, a place for seniors, a sports stadium, a library, a dog park, a garden…. I pray -yes pray that hearts will open to others- ALL please VOTE open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

VOTE NOW “Trump told reporters that “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine.” At almost the same moment, a Russian drone struck a park in the Kharkiv region and killed a 1-year-old girl named Angelina in her stroller. Her mother died in the hospital.” 14 others injured including 6 children.

“Historic mistake” the frightening fact is apparently Trump is ignorant of the past and only concerns himself with him/his money, fake prestige and not fake corrupt actions - those near him appear to be of similar make up

Meta took down the No Kings Instagram account during today’s No Kings events.

Free bus rides today! Get out and vote! 🙂🚍🚌 #yyj #yyjpoli

More people showed up to No Kings rallies than today's Trump rally in Kentucky

At a time “when misinformation competes with facts,” he added, “her reporting was a trusted source of clarity, honesty and insight.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/h...

The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025 was written by a collection of people,..including (Trump) cabinet secretaries and a chief of staff. It laid out explicit plans for his second administration. And yet, people were surprised when the REVENGE presidency went full bore, with Trump attacking…”CD/JV

Starshield Ukrainedefense limited (military Starlink controlled by???) “It’s unclear whether the order came from Musk, Trump, or the Pentagon, since StarShield is embedded in the U.S. military. The result is the same either way. And remember, European allies help pay for this service.”MTN

“Elon Musk is deliberately messing with Ukraine’s access to Starlink, and Trump is cutting Ukraine off in many respects. This is a very serious situation, and it will get a lot of Ukrainians killed.” via Aaron Parnas VOTE

Fair enough. It’s time to stop the bots!

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journalist Glenn Greenwald “Not only has the US never televised public executions in its history, but not even the Nazi defendants sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials had their executions televised (it was deemed violative of the human rights-WW2 institutions were trying to re-establish)”

Trump apparently helps Putin fund bombing Ukraine “Treasury Department promptly announced it was issuing a temporary license to permit Russian diesel to sell on the global market. The sales will likely do little for U.S. oil prices, but they will funnel money to Russia for its war on Ukraine”via HCR

he chose to say it and it got applause…. VOTE

Yes - we should punish Republicans tied to Trump/ Heritage Foundation/ Project 2025 because they all supported and voted for his policies OR WORSE stood silent. They have put US and our children’s’ children at risk! VOTE THEM OUT

Silence is complicit: “Being a partner or helper in a bad action, even if you did not do the main deed.” JD Vance; Marco Rubio and every elected Republican in the Senate and Congress SO review your state’s governor-they all made this horrible incompetent unsafe condition in OUR country + THEN VOTE

Put very plainly: armed ICE agents cannot make arrests and conduct routine law enforcement operations at polling places while an election is taking place. Full stop.

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Trump/Heritage Foundation & T’s DOJ planned attacks on our Constitutional rights and our branches are ADDING UP: Universities/Colleges Immigration rights Law Firms Media/Free Press Talk Show Hosts Judiciary/Judges(MN case) Military personnel/leaders State elections Libraries Voting rights Maps

If the Republicans in Congress are no longer on vacation starting in 2027 then maybe the ones left will wake up and start working for the people and do their job - control the purse, stop the war - enforce our rule of law AND provide a viable pathway to citizenship I AM TIRED OF “R”WHINERS VOTE

Really Republicans how can 60% of you still approve of Trump’s war? do you not see the failing economy? or how do WE fund the rebuilding of our defense? open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

“Do you expect to see more unhinged outbursts…?… … Or is the more responsible approach to recognize that the country is faced with a psychiatric emergency…?” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Call Congress 202-224-3121 stop this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“”Tariffs for thee, exemptions for me,” the (WSJ)board wrote in a piece detailing the efforts of Senator Katie Britt of Alabama to stop tariffs in private while praising them in public.”” WSJ via HCR

Measles: Trump and Republicans in the Senate via his appointment/ their approval of RF Kennedy Jr is indirectly responsible for measles outbreak and deaths! ( 4 in Pennsylvania so far this year) Note measles was under control - their “policies” or their incompetence caused the rise in many states

“according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, farm debt will reach a record high of $620 billion in 2026” that was before the recent rise in oil prices… fertilizer…tariffs etc caused by Trump and his Heritage foundation supporters. Do they want to own our agriculture? Control our food?

“Trump spent billions to push out experienced and badly needed experts across government — this was the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse,” Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said in a statement on Tuesday. VOTE

Repeat “the federal deficit has increased since Mr. Trump returned to office, in part because of the war in Iran and the sweeping tax cuts that Republicans enacted in 2025.” NYT are you paying attention or do you say I am not political- I hope you care about governance! VOTE bc the next step is care

US Rep. Himes:”You spent $10 billion to try to lower the yield on the 10 year bond. When you started, it was 4.8%. Today it's at a 20 yr high of 5.04%…Was your intervention successful? (Treas Sec)Bessent: Yes it was. Himes: Wait - it went up by 20 points!” Listen to NPR for info on how Bissent blew

FBI Director Kash Patel “We don’t have an FBI Director-He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. He won’t answer questions. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad is not just that we have a rogue FBI agents, what’s bad is we have Republican senators who are the people enabling him." Senator Booker

SO “Fox News co-host Tomi Lahren questioned whether it’s “fair to the American people” that “unelected staffers are running the show” for McConnell.” WELL- unelected staffers (Vought, Bissent, Stephen Miller, Rubio, Witkoff AND the son in law Jared Kushner are running the whole Country ( aka USA)

“The Antwerp..Diamond Centre still insists the diamond ring it gave Trump in June was just a friendly gift for America’s 250th…and nothing to do with the tariff exemption on European diamonds Trump restored a month later. But AWDC’s…filings admit the tariff exemption wasn’t guaranteed until..” MTN

“The extortion …here is worse than the headline. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible..The families receiving…benefits are mostly citizens..they’re.. threatening to take food away from children…in any state whose gov refuses to become an informant.” VOTE open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

$400M Trump’s estimated destruction of Whitehouse matches costly errors: “That NSA Bahrain is now virtually uninhabitable, with families left in limbo, as described in recent reporting, is difficult to grasp. The damage is estimated to be close to $400 million. “ MTN Trump+weak congress R’s =we pay

“This midterm election may be the most important one of the modern era …because the regime in Washington must be reined in. Frankly, I don’t see that as a political plea. It is a plea for Americans’ safety, health, and prosperity…we all bear responsibility for what happens.” John Morales via CD

Trump fails to negotiate with Canada - WE will suffer- vote R’s out “”Carney: It’s a question for the US admin. But I will say this, the Canadian team, unified, everyone knows what our objectives are. You cannot say that about the US admin.””

VOTE THEM OUT - all R’s are complicit joycevance.substack.com/p/bad-food?r...

A week- open your eyes to corruption/ and… heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-17-...

“”Strategic studies scholar Phillips P. O’Brien wrote: “They are going to steal everything they can while they have power.”” Via HCR

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"Carrington’s foul was immediately framed by commentators as something larger than basketball...The racial subtext matters because the villains in this narrative are disproportionately Black women, while the white players are portrayed as in need of protection." www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...