“Today was an exhausting day as Americans seem to have little choice but to pay attention to a man who is bizarrely threatening what appear to be war crimes against Iranians while spinning wild tales. The members of both chambers of Congress are away for another week and Republican leaders are showing no sign of calling them back, leaving the American people to face whatever Trump has in mind for tomorrow [April 7th] on our own.”

#USPolitics #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-6-2026-monday

Congress and the cabinet are absolutely complicit in the Orange Madman’s actions: “Journalist Steven Beschloss wrote: ‘This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.’”

#Politics #USPolitics #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpWarCrimes #ImpeachConvictRemove #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2026

and of course Heather Cox Richardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

#fdt #nokings #nofuckingkings #heathercoxrichardson #lettersfromanamerican #americanhistory

“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

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-27-2026

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.’”

#Politics #USPolitics #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-24-2026

“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.”

#USPolitics #Iran #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-20-2026

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

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-2026

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

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-6-2026

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

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-3-2026