Labor Department: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will step down from her post to take a job in the private sector, a White House spokesman announced on social media on Monday, as an internal investigation into her leadership of the department was in its final stages.
Heather Cox Richardson's letter from last night is a must read.
Does what's happening evoke images of Nero fiddling while Rome burned for anyone else?
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2...
Iran's speaker of parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, says Trump made 7 claims re peace talks, & all of them were false. E.g., Iran did not agreed to hand over its uranium stockpile, & the strait was open for commercial vessels—not military ships—but will close again if the U.S. blockade continues.
A proposed Montana ballot measure that’s gaining steam doesn’t overturn Citizens United. It goes around it. States grant corporate charters and decide the powers those charters include. It would simply remove “spending in elections” from those powers, killing dark money at the source.
Why raise impeachment if it is not attainable now? In ignoring signs of his mental, emotional, & moral infirmity, the GOP assumes full responsibility for all debacles that one can anticipate for the rest of his term- e.g. further wars and war crimes, increasingly extreme incitement against judges.
Why raise impeachment if it is not attainable now? Democrats need to be on record warning the country that Trump’s continued occupancy of the Oval Office endangers all Americans.
On Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV told Americans, and everyone else paying attention, to call their representatives directly: “political leaders, congressmen—to ask them, tell them to work for peace and to reject war.” Attacks on civilian infrastructure, he said, are “against international law.”
25th amendment time:
Former White House counsel Ty Cobb said he’s “clearly insane.” Sen. Bernie Sanders called it “the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual.” Marjorie Taylor Greene said Trump “has gone insane.” Sen. Chris Murphy said he is “completely, utterly unhinged.”
“It’s really difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” journalist Aaron Rupar of Public Notice told George Grylls of The Times about President Donald J. Trump.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-6-20...
“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.”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2026
One hundred legal experts and lawyers voiced their concerns in an open letter published by Just Security last week. They said that the conduct of the war and rhetoric of U.S. officials “raise serious concerns about violations of international humanitarian law, including potential war crimes.”
He has completely lost what little mind he may have had left.
“[God] does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” Pope Leo XIV
More analysis on FOTUS 'speech' from a couple of nights ago. Sobering insights from Heather Cox Richardson.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-2-2026
Last night Trump said it was "not possible" for the federal government to fund child care, Medicaid, and Medicare because “we’re fighting wars.”
I refuse to accept this statement. This cannot be who we have become.
“For No Kings Day to matter, it cannot be a landing pad; it must be a launching pad...” John Pavlovitz
“All patients, regardless of immigration status, have the right to emergency care.”
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There is growing evidence "...that the DOJ is engaged in covering up the relationship between members of the Trump administration, including President Donald J. Trump himself, and Epstein.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-19-2...
"...DEA and DOJ during the first Trump Administration moved to terminate this investigation [of Epstein and several others] in order to protect pedophiles."
Read all about it below: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2...
Never, in my wildest dreams, did I imagine ever seeing something like the announcement below.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...
WA passes the Millionaire's Tax!
This.
Hope springs eternal.
100% accurate!
"There is a clear winner in this war. The clear winner is Vladimir Putin and Russia. Estimates released a few hours ago are that Russia has reaped $6 billion of benefit from this war since it began just two weeks ago"--Sen. Angus King, ME
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-13-2...
Today's Dworkin Report includes so many delicious items, they must be passed along. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/impeachmen...
Twenty-eight legislative seats have now flipped toward Democrats since Trump returned to the White House.
Hardly.
"We’re always told that we don’t have enough money for schools, or for health care, or for our veterans. But there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world." James Talarico
Read more @ Pete Hegseth's DoD spending abuses: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-10-2...
Yes!!!