No. Just no. Voting: A Right, Not A Privilege, For Now open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Voting: A Right, Not A Privilege, For Now
Republicans want to change that with the SAVE Act
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February 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
No. Just no. Voting: A Right, Not A Privilege, For Now open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
So many smoke screens. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Why Indict Don Lemon?
Don Lemon was taken into custody Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards.
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:04 PM
So many smoke screens. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Enough. Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct...
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January 24, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Enough. Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
One Very Long Year. Indeed. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
One Very Long Year
We are one year into the second Trump administration.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:20 PM
One Very Long Year. Indeed. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
How I start my day.
January 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
How I start my day.
Reposted by Nan Wigington
Call your Republican representatives. 5 Calls should have a script. This is the now or never moment. Light up the phones!
youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I?...
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Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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January 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Call your Republican representatives. 5 Calls should have a script. This is the now or never moment. Light up the phones!
youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I?...
youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I?...
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Trump just kidnapped Nicholas Maduro and his wife. Hard to imagine how this doesn't end badly. Reality TV President just face planted into reality. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
Venezuela latest: Trump says US has 'captured' President Maduro in strikes on country - latest
The US president says Maduro and his wife have been
www.bbc.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Trump just kidnapped Nicholas Maduro and his wife. Hard to imagine how this doesn't end badly. Reality TV President just face planted into reality. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
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I've never heard a Democratic country justify kidnapping the leader of another country but it's transparently thin.
They claim it's for narco-terrorism. But Putin & Netanyahu have been accused of international war crimes far worse -
Yet Trump brags of his relationship to both criminals. 🧵
They claim it's for narco-terrorism. But Putin & Netanyahu have been accused of international war crimes far worse -
Yet Trump brags of his relationship to both criminals. 🧵
January 3, 2026 at 11:55 AM
I've never heard a Democratic country justify kidnapping the leader of another country but it's transparently thin.
They claim it's for narco-terrorism. But Putin & Netanyahu have been accused of international war crimes far worse -
Yet Trump brags of his relationship to both criminals. 🧵
They claim it's for narco-terrorism. But Putin & Netanyahu have been accused of international war crimes far worse -
Yet Trump brags of his relationship to both criminals. 🧵
No, no, no, a thousand times no. #venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 12:24 PM
No, no, no, a thousand times no. #venezuela
Cut loose, Santa. Make way for the new year.
January 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Cut loose, Santa. Make way for the new year.
Another terrible anniversary... open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 28, 2025
On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Another terrible anniversary... open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
In Denver, a trace and a track. I'll take it.
December 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In Denver, a trace and a track. I'll take it.
Via A.Word.A.Day. "Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power."
-Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)
-Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Via A.Word.A.Day. "Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power."
-Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)
-Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)
"The love of money is the root of all evil." --Mary Todd Lincoln
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"The love of money is the root of all evil." --Mary Todd Lincoln
Happy birthday, John Jay. " "To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Happy birthday, John Jay. " "To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."
"Those who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness." --John Milton
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Those who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness." --John Milton
From one of my favorite local bloggers -- Reasons to Love America open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
Reasons to Love America
Two Quotes for Your Monday
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December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
From one of my favorite local bloggers -- Reasons to Love America open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
Just when you think Trump's on the ropes. December 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just when you think Trump's on the ropes. December 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The true of it...An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged
In an essay posted on the Hannah Arendt Center website at Bard College, Arendt scholar Roger Berkowitz writes, “Hannah Arendt argues that the distinction between truth and lie can be eroded, over time...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The true of it...An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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You have to give Trump and MAGA credit for this. You really do.
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You have to give Trump and MAGA credit for this. You really do.
Apologies to Joyce -- Yes, the news was right: snow was falling in Denver. It was falling on the treeless hills, falling softly on the streets and buildings. It was falling on every part of the Fairmount Cemetery. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones...
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Apologies to Joyce -- Yes, the news was right: snow was falling in Denver. It was falling on the treeless hills, falling softly on the streets and buildings. It was falling on every part of the Fairmount Cemetery. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones...
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/rmNpUvrG
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/rmNpUvrG
"Any absence maps the contours of a presence." splitlipthemag.com/flash/1025/l...
The 7-11 That Exists in Every Reality — Split Lip Magazine
Any absence maps the contours of a presence. Like the space between the shards of a chrysalis, shattered by the wild thing inside, or between the lines of a poem that contains the possibility of its o...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Any absence maps the contours of a presence." splitlipthemag.com/flash/1025/l...