“35% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of immigration, while 61% disapprove. An even lower number—33%—hold favorable views of ICE officers, while 67% like their local police officers.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-27-2026?r=1j5iw&utm_medium=ios
by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
“The framers of the Constitution tried to set up a system that would make it impossible for a president to go to war for private interests or the benefit of other countries, establishing that Congress alone can declare war.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-26-2026?r=1j5iw&utm_medium=ios by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
“There certainly are signs that Trump considers the government his to do with as he wishes to keep himself in wealth and power.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-24-2026?r=1j5iw&utm_medium=ios by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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.
‘Today, at the Palm Beach airport, a reporter asked Trump: “If the war is ending, do you still need $200 billion?” Trump answered: “We, ah, it’s always nice to have. It’s always nice to have. It’s a very inflamed world.”’
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-23-2026?r=1j5iw&utm_medium=ios
by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Dire Straits - Lady Writer

Congress could be headed for a tipping point, irreversible decline
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/21/paul-kane-congress-tipping-point/
‘Senator Ron Wyden said: “It appears Epstein was involved in criminal activity that went way beyond pedophilia and sex trafficking, which makes it even more outrageous that Pam Bondi is sitting on several million unreleased files.”’
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-18-2026?r=1j5iw&utm_medium=ios by @hcrichardson.bsky.social