Michael R Harvey
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Michael R Harvey
@epublicus.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Copy of letter I sent to President Bident on 11/12/2024.
This quote from Senator Church, head of 1 of 2 congressional committees investigating domestic surveillance abuses, stands as a prescient warning of Bush-II and Trump.
January 20, 2026 at 4:45 PM
This quote from Senator Church, head of 1 of 2 congressional committees investigating domestic surveillance abuses, stands as a prescient warning of Bush-II and Trump.
Historian HCR on the precipitous decline of NATO, UN, post WW-2 rules-based world order, and Trump's cognition.
Oh, and EU troops deployed to Greenland, just in case Presidente Gordo Pendejo is serious about invading the largest island nation on the planet.
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Oh, and EU troops deployed to Greenland, just in case Presidente Gordo Pendejo is serious about invading the largest island nation on the planet.
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January 19, 2026
Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Historian HCR on the precipitous decline of NATO, UN, post WW-2 rules-based world order, and Trump's cognition.
Oh, and EU troops deployed to Greenland, just in case Presidente Gordo Pendejo is serious about invading the largest island nation on the planet.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Oh, and EU troops deployed to Greenland, just in case Presidente Gordo Pendejo is serious about invading the largest island nation on the planet.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Historian HCR on the legacy of MLK Jr and the American ideal of every day heroism.
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January 18, 2026
You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
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January 19, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Historian HCR on the legacy of MLK Jr and the American ideal of every day heroism.
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Historian HCR on Trump's deranged play to 'own' Greenland, his illegal and incompetent use of tarrifs as economic coercion against the EU, and his plummeting poll numbers.
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January 17, 2026
After the extraordinary pushback on President Donald J.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Historian HCR on Trump's deranged play to 'own' Greenland, his illegal and incompetent use of tarrifs as economic coercion against the EU, and his plummeting poll numbers.
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Historian HCR on the unfolding political debacle and Epstein deflection by Trump, re: the US 'owning' Greenland.
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January 16, 2026
Well, President Donald J.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Historian HCR on the unfolding political debacle and Epstein deflection by Trump, re: the US 'owning' Greenland.
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Historian HCR summarizes the history of 'Ratification Day' - anniversary of the 'Treaty of Paris', officially ending our Revolutionary War, invoking global recognition of America as independent and free. Note: there were more combatants involved than most realize!
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January 14, 2026
Today is officially Ratification Day, the anniversary of the day in 1784 when members of the Confederation Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War and formally recognize...
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January 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Historian HCR summarizes the history of 'Ratification Day' - anniversary of the 'Treaty of Paris', officially ending our Revolutionary War, invoking global recognition of America as independent and free. Note: there were more combatants involved than most realize!
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Well, perhaps 'AI' is 'smarter' than I previously thought.
All of the major 'AI Chat Bots' (including Musk's 'Grok') correctly fact-checked all of Trump's lies and mistatements.
insights.som.yale.edu/insights/wha...
All of the major 'AI Chat Bots' (including Musk's 'Grok') correctly fact-checked all of Trump's lies and mistatements.
insights.som.yale.edu/insights/wha...
What Happened When Five AI Models Fact-Checked Trump
President Donald Trump is an AI booster, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-authors Stephen Henriques and Steven Tian. So they thought it was fair to ask the leading chatbots to evaluate some ...
insights.som.yale.edu
January 14, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Well, perhaps 'AI' is 'smarter' than I previously thought.
All of the major 'AI Chat Bots' (including Musk's 'Grok') correctly fact-checked all of Trump's lies and mistatements.
insights.som.yale.edu/insights/wha...
All of the major 'AI Chat Bots' (including Musk's 'Grok') correctly fact-checked all of Trump's lies and mistatements.
insights.som.yale.edu/insights/wha...
Historian HCR on the unfolding unconstitutional attacks by President Trump and DefSec Hegseth against Senator Mark Kelly and other democrats, re: a video in which the democrats told active military members that it's their duty to refuse unlawful orders.
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January 12, 2026
Today, Democratic senator Mark Kelly of Arizona sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Defense Department, Navy Secretary John Phelan, and the Navy Department for violating his First Amendment right...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Historian HCR on the unfolding unconstitutional attacks by President Trump and DefSec Hegseth against Senator Mark Kelly and other democrats, re: a video in which the democrats told active military members that it's their duty to refuse unlawful orders.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Historian HCR provides a summarized timeline on the myriad abuses and illegalities of Trump 2.0, e.g., Venezuela / Oil; Epstein files; J6 propaganda and deflections; ICE abuses; undermining NATO via threats to Greenland; The Fed.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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January 11, 2026
The news has seemed to move more and more quickly in the last week.
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January 12, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Historian HCR provides a summarized timeline on the myriad abuses and illegalities of Trump 2.0, e.g., Venezuela / Oil; Epstein files; J6 propaganda and deflections; ICE abuses; undermining NATO via threats to Greenland; The Fed.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Historian HCR documents the unfolding brutality, constitutional abuses, and cruelty of DHS/ICE, but ONLY in 'Blue States'; in addition to debunking claims by Trump 2.0.
Trump also claimed to a reporter that he won Minnesota 3x, he lost all 3 times.
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Trump also claimed to a reporter that he won Minnesota 3x, he lost all 3 times.
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January 10, 2026
Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Vice President J.D.
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January 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Historian HCR documents the unfolding brutality, constitutional abuses, and cruelty of DHS/ICE, but ONLY in 'Blue States'; in addition to debunking claims by Trump 2.0.
Trump also claimed to a reporter that he won Minnesota 3x, he lost all 3 times.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Trump also claimed to a reporter that he won Minnesota 3x, he lost all 3 times.
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Historian HCR on: Escalating constitutional abuses & MURDERS by DHC/ICE; financial malfeasance; revisionism and LIES regarding the 2020 election; continued Tariff delusions; etc.
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January 7, 2026
This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapoli...
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January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Historian HCR on: Escalating constitutional abuses & MURDERS by DHC/ICE; financial malfeasance; revisionism and LIES regarding the 2020 election; continued Tariff delusions; etc.
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Gentleman journalist Lawrence O'Donnell opines on the duplicity, cynicism, hypocrisy, and cowardice of Trump, Rubio, J6 supporters, and the criminal fiasco executed in Venezuela -- the warmup act for the real target: Cuba.
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Lawrence on Jan.6: GOP manages humiliation previously unimaginable supporting Trump
YouTube video by MS NOW
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January 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Gentleman journalist Lawrence O'Donnell opines on the duplicity, cynicism, hypocrisy, and cowardice of Trump, Rubio, J6 supporters, and the criminal fiasco executed in Venezuela -- the warmup act for the real target: Cuba.
youtu.be/HrcxROXqES8?...
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Hey, has anyone seen these two guys?
They owe me money.
They owe me money.
January 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Hey, has anyone seen these two guys?
They owe me money.
They owe me money.
Historian HCR documents the unravelling of Trump's cognition, in addition to the dismantling of the post-war rules-based order, in favor of his corrupt, abusive petro state.
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January 6, 2026
“They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J.
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January 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Historian HCR documents the unravelling of Trump's cognition, in addition to the dismantling of the post-war rules-based order, in favor of his corrupt, abusive petro state.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Historian HCR documents the J6 failed insurrection and how Trump created a false reality that allowed it to happen; how SCOTUS protected Trump; and draws historical corollaries to the runup to the Civil War.
And Trump is still lying about all of it...
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And Trump is still lying about all of it...
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January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
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January 6, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Historian HCR documents the J6 failed insurrection and how Trump created a false reality that allowed it to happen; how SCOTUS protected Trump; and draws historical corollaries to the runup to the Civil War.
And Trump is still lying about all of it...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
And Trump is still lying about all of it...
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Historian HCR on the unqualified disaster of Trump 2.0 invading Venezuela -- kidnapping its president (Maduro) and first lady; then proclaiming Trump & Co are going to 'run that country' until... what, exactly? Trump seems hard-pressed to properly the USA.
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January 4, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the administration’s message about its strikes on Venezuela to the Sunday talk shows this morning.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Historian HCR on the unqualified disaster of Trump 2.0 invading Venezuela -- kidnapping its president (Maduro) and first lady; then proclaiming Trump & Co are going to 'run that country' until... what, exactly? Trump seems hard-pressed to properly the USA.
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I just finished reading, and highly recommend, this excellent collection of journalistic essays and excerpts from past works spanning 2012-2025. Dr. Cobb is a great writer, journalist, and 1st-rate historian; currently serving as Dean of Journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism.
January 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I just finished reading, and highly recommend, this excellent collection of journalistic essays and excerpts from past works spanning 2012-2025. Dr. Cobb is a great writer, journalist, and 1st-rate historian; currently serving as Dean of Journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism.
My modest proposal for a new American flag.
The "Stars-n-Stripes" of 'Old Glory' no longer applies.
The "Stars-n-Stripes" of 'Old Glory' no longer applies.
January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
My modest proposal for a new American flag.
The "Stars-n-Stripes" of 'Old Glory' no longer applies.
The "Stars-n-Stripes" of 'Old Glory' no longer applies.
Historian HCR on the historic victory & swearing in of a Democratic Socialist Muslim Mayor of NYC - Zohran Mamdani, who harkened back to the FDR, La Guardia, and the New Deal; implying that government should foster a 'Good Society' for all!
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January 2, 2026
Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station in Manhattan, New York Attorney General Letitia James swore Zohran Mamdani into office as may...
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January 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Historian HCR on the historic victory & swearing in of a Democratic Socialist Muslim Mayor of NYC - Zohran Mamdani, who harkened back to the FDR, La Guardia, and the New Deal; implying that government should foster a 'Good Society' for all!
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This is NOT a good turn-of-events. Trump is blatantly attacking other nation-states to get their natural resources?
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Trump says Venezuela's Maduro captured after strikes
Trump will hold a press conference on the strike at 11 a.m. ET (1600 GMT).
www.reuters.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:22 PM
This is NOT a good turn-of-events. Trump is blatantly attacking other nation-states to get their natural resources?
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Historian HCR renders a beautifully written historical summary of USA's Immigration policies and evolution.
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January 1, 2026
On January 1, 1892, seventeen-year-old Annie Moore walked down the gangway from the steamship Nevada with her two brothers Anthony, eleven, and Philip, nine, and into history as the first person proce...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Historian HCR renders a beautifully written historical summary of USA's Immigration policies and evolution.
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Well, this Epstein case seems to be a bottomless pit of intestigatory fodder.
DoJ is seeking to hire an addition 400 attorneys to help review the 5.2 MILLION pages of Epstein-related files and materials.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
DoJ is seeking to hire an addition 400 attorneys to help review the 5.2 MILLION pages of Epstein-related files and materials.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Justice Department is reviewing 5.2 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein files
The department is seeking to enlist roughly 400 employees in the effort, which is expected to run from Jan. 5 to Jan. 20, two sources familiar with the plan told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Well, this Epstein case seems to be a bottomless pit of intestigatory fodder.
DoJ is seeking to hire an addition 400 attorneys to help review the 5.2 MILLION pages of Epstein-related files and materials.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
DoJ is seeking to hire an addition 400 attorneys to help review the 5.2 MILLION pages of Epstein-related files and materials.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Historian HCR on the 1st year of Term #2 of Trump 2.0 -- a corrupt, incompetent, cruel, nihilistic administration ostensibly bent on rolling back 150 years of progress; and strong reasons for hope that this political nightmare is awakening the body politic.
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December 30, 2025
The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J.
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December 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Historian HCR on the 1st year of Term #2 of Trump 2.0 -- a corrupt, incompetent, cruel, nihilistic administration ostensibly bent on rolling back 150 years of progress; and strong reasons for hope that this political nightmare is awakening the body politic.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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