Charlene Liljedahl
@cliljedahl.bsky.social
Native Texan. Reader of far-ranging topics, happy on my own (Gen X). The gods wonder how I survive.
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September 21, 2026
September 21, 2026
On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.
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September 22, 2026 at 4:03 AM
September 21, 2026
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September 20, 2026
September 20, 2026
Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.
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September 21, 2026 at 6:03 AM
September 20, 2026
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September 14, 2026
September 14, 2026
This morning, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica broke the news that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, spent hundreds of thousands of...
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September 15, 2026 at 4:51 AM
September 14, 2026
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September 13, 2026
September 13, 2026
On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...
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September 14, 2026 at 5:26 AM
September 13, 2026
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Vote Gina Hinojosa for Governor to save Texans from the data centers Abbott is allowing to destroy the state.
September 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Vote Gina Hinojosa for Governor to save Texans from the data centers Abbott is allowing to destroy the state.
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September 7, 2026
September 7, 2026
Since yesterday, President Donald J.
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September 8, 2026 at 4:53 AM
September 7, 2026
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September 3, 2026
September 3, 2026
Election analyst Charlie Cook told Republicans today to “brace themselves” for the midterms.
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September 4, 2026 at 4:09 AM
September 3, 2026
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September 2, 2026
September 2, 2026
A number of pundits, especially Republican pundits, interpreted Trump’s win in 2024 as a permanent political realignment proving that post–World War II liberalism was dead.
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September 3, 2026 at 4:37 AM
September 2, 2026
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August 9, 2026
August 9, 2026
On August 9, 1974, Richard M.
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August 10, 2026 at 5:07 AM
August 9, 2026
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August 2, 2026
August 2, 2026
Friday’s dismissal of the Department of Justice case against David Hearn for vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came days after Hearn’s lawyers asked for transcripts of the grand jury p...
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August 3, 2026 at 3:38 AM
August 2, 2026
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August 1, 2026
August 1, 2026
In a classic Friday night news dump, the Department of Justice last night moved to dismiss the criminal charges against David Hearn, the U.S.
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August 2, 2026 at 5:12 AM
August 1, 2026
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July 23, 2026
July 23, 2026
I have been thinking lately about taxes and war and citizens and what the government should do for its people.
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July 24, 2026 at 5:24 AM
July 23, 2026
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July 20, 2026
July 20, 2026
On Friday an Iranian attack on a U.S.
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July 21, 2026 at 5:49 AM
July 20, 2026
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July 18, 2026
July 18, 2026
On July 18, 1863, at dusk, the Black soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry of the U.S.
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July 19, 2026 at 3:14 AM
July 18, 2026
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July 17, 2026
July 17, 2026
Yesterday President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 18, 2026 at 6:14 AM
July 17, 2026
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July 16, 2026
July 16, 2026
An exchange yesterday between Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Jay Clayton, Trump’s nominee to oversee the U.S.
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July 17, 2026 at 5:27 AM
July 16, 2026
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July 15, 2026
July 15, 2026
Exactly five years ago, on July 15, 2021, I wrote:
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 16, 2026 at 6:03 AM
July 15, 2026
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July 14, 2026
July 14, 2026
In August 1870 a U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 15, 2026 at 5:11 AM
July 14, 2026
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Nor will anyone who has actually read the Declaration of Independence.
July 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Nor will anyone who has actually read the Declaration of Independence.
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July 3, 2026
July 3, 2026
And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...
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July 4, 2026 at 4:24 AM
July 3, 2026
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July 1, 2026
July 1, 2026
Today President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 2, 2026 at 5:56 AM
July 1, 2026
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June 20, 2026
June 30, 2026
On January 20, 2025, the day he took the oath of office a second time, President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 1, 2026 at 6:02 AM
June 20, 2026