A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Aug 13, 2025

Something to be mindful of: “Trump’s assumption of control over the Washington, D.C., police force and his calling out of the D.C. National Guard are definitely ways for him to divert attention from the Epstein files and the stalling economy. But they are also an attempt to create a dictatorship as Project 2025 prescribed. Both can be true at the same time.”

#Politics #USPolitics #GOPAuthoritarianism #Project2025 #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #LettetsFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-12-2025

August 12, 2025

Liberal commentator Jessica Tarlov nailed it this morning when she wrote: “He’s doing everything EXCEPT releasing the Epstein files.” Her comment was in reference to President Donald Trump’s social media post of 7:30 this morning, when he chummed the water by suggesting that the John F.

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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Feb 6, 2025

“Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial. Trump immediately vowed retaliation against those who tried to hold him accountable before the law for his actions. … Now Trump is back in office and purging the government of those he perceives to be his enemies.”

#Politics #USPolitics #Vengence #Revenge #TrumpVengeanceMachine #Impeachment #DemocracyVsOligarchy #LettetsFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5-2025

February 5, 2025

Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial.

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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Nov 22, 2023

Even as corporations price gouge consumers to feed their record profits, labor is relearning its power and is starting to make a difference for the working class. One example: “In the wake of the agreements between the UAW and the Big Three automakers, nonunion automakers who are eager to prevent unionization, including Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, and Subaru, also announced wage increases.”

#History #Politics #Labor #Strikes #Unionization #LettetsFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-21-2023

November 21, 2023

Yesterday the United Auto Workers ratified their new contracts with General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. The new contracts include wage increases of at least 25% over the next 4.5 years, cost of living increases, union coverage for electric battery plants, and the reopening of a closed plant. “These were just extraordinary wins, especially for those of us who’ve been studying strikes for decades,” Washington University labor expert Jake Rosenfeld told Jeanne Whalen of the

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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Oct 4, 2023

What a mess: “The continuing resolution to fund the government runs out shortly before Thanksgiving, and funding for Ukraine has an even shorter time frame than that. The House cannot do business without a speaker, and each day this chaos continues is a victory for the extremists who are eager to stop a government that does anything other than what they want from functioning, even as it highlights the Republicans’ inability to govern.”

#History #LettetsFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-2023

October 3, 2023

Wow. Today, House Republicans made history by being the first to throw out their own Speaker of the House, while the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination made history by being the first candidate to be gagged by a judge after threatening one of the judge’s law clerks by posting a lie about her on social media.

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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Aug 17, 2023

“While Republican presidential candidates took shots at the [Inflation Reduction Act] today—former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley called it ‘a communist manifesto’—Democrats have pointed out that Republicans have been eager to take credit for IRA investments in their districts without mentioning either that they voted against the IRA or that they are still trying to repeal it.”

#History #Politics #InflationReductionAct #RepublicanHypocrisy #LettetsFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-16-2023

August 16, 2023

[There is a discussion of rape in paragraph 12.] Three big stories today. First of all, the Democrats are taking a victory lap on the anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a law that has transformed the U.S. economy and for which not a single Republican voted.

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