“For years, the far right has insisted that it and only it knows how to govern because its ideology is the only legitimate way to look at the world. The fight over funding for TSA illustrates on a micro level how lawmakers who ignore the real world to cleave to an ideology strengthen authoritarianism.”
#Politics #USPolitics #CongressionalDisfunction #RightWingIdeology #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #NoKings #FundTSA #LettersFromAnAmerican
Talk about saying the quiet part out loud: “While CNN’s Brian Stelter speculated that Trump got the idea for putting ICE agents in the airports from ‘Linda from Arizona,’ who called in to ‘The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show’ last Friday, Trump ally Steve Bannon suggested on his podcast War Room yesterday that ‘[w]e can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms.’”
This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another word for that, he said, is “treason.” The evidence for such a claim is the sudden and isolated jump in trading volume in S&P 500 and oil futures about 15 minutes before Trump suddenly announced that the U.S.
“The war itself is also costing Americans money, and lots of it. Economist Justin Wolfers notes that the estimated cost of $1 billion a day does not include the larger cost to the economy. The Pentagon’s number counts only bombs and planes and personnel, Wolfers points out. It does not include higher oil prices, geopolitical strife, business uncertainty, and slower growth. Those costs will mount into the hundreds of billions.”
So f*cking clueless: “If Trump’s Iran adventure began with the strutting and posturing of a military performance, it is running hard into reality. It appears that Trump saw the strikes themselves as the culmination of his performance and did not have a plan for what would happen after them. He has said he was surprised that the conflict has included neighboring states.”
#Politics #USPolitics #IranWar #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #LettersFromAnAmerican
Speaking at Jesse Jackson’s funeral, “Obama said, Jackson’s life ‘inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope…. because it gives our life purpose, because it aligns with what our faith tells us God demands, and because if we don’t step up, no one else will.’”
#Politics #USPolitics #JesseJackson #Purpose #Hope #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #LettersFromAnAmerican
But there’s never money for healthcare or education? Bullshit. 🤬
“Politico reported that lawmakers anticipate the administration will ask for supplemental funding for this operation, over and above the more than $150 billion the Republicans provided the Pentagon in their One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the nearly $839 billion in regular funding Congress appropriated in February.”
#Politics #USPolitics #IranWar2026 #USConstitution #LettersFromAnAmerican
About a week before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, attacking Iran alongside Israel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine warned that the lack of support from allies and depleted reserves of interceptors and Patriot missiles would make an attack on Iran risky.
“Trump’s attack on Iran scorns the will of the people and their constitutional right to decide whether they want to pay for a war with their money and their lives. That disdain for democratic government reveals that Trump’s military adventure against Iran is also fundamentally an attack on the United States of America.”
#Politics #USPolitics #IranWar #USConstitution #UNCharter #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #OperationEpsteinDistraction #EpsteinFiles #LettersFromAnAmerican
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-28-2026
“Trump’s White House website welcomes visitors with a pop-up that reads: ‘WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE!’ But on this heavy news day a year into Trump’s second term, it is increasingly clear that as his regime focuses on committing the United States to white Christian nationalism, the country is becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, and its own economy is weakening.”
#Politics #USPolitics #USEconomy #USForiegnPolicy #LettersFromAnAmerican
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-17-2026
Trump’s White House website welcomes visitors with a pop-up that reads: “WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE!” But on this heavy news day a year into Trump’s second term, it is increasingly clear that as his regime focuses on committing the United States to white Christian nationalism, the country is becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, and its own economy is weakening.
“At midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding... And yet, because the Republicans lavished money on ICE and Border Patrol in their July 2025 budget reconciliation bill—the one they call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—those agencies will continue to operate.” 🤬
#Politics #USPolitics #BorderPatrol #ICE #DHSFunding #Election2026 #TrumpElectionManipulation #LettersFromAnAmerican
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-13-2026
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)
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