Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?
Newsom: "Do you know how much his supporters lost on that memecoin? It's down 98%. They lost $3.8 billion. His supporters. And he took home over $600 million. That says everything you need to know about the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about who this man is."
9/4 UPDATE: Last month I shared that Elon Musk planned to spend at least $100mil to re-elect #Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans. Disclosures show Musk's America PAC spent $170k on printing and @andrewperezdc is reporting lit paid for by America PAC is appearing on doors. #MEpolitics
Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps agreed to pay $2 million in sanctions after a federal judge in Georgia determined they helped a client hide records and make false representations in a False Claims Act lawsuit reut.rs/4ibEOWE
CNN: Romanian prosecutors have officially indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering and his brother Tristan for complicity, years after they began investigating them.
New Jersey is leading the way when it comes to solar panel recycling. Here's how.
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Cleared the Way for More Data Centers. Dems Are Hoping You Know That. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Cleared the Way for More Data Centers. Dems Are Hoping You Know That.
Democrats are taking a convoluted, complex provision that was included in Republicans’...
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Rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure could take up to $100 billion, and increasing production will take years. If Trump is so sure this won’t cost America a dime, let’s pass my legislation to stop U.S. tax dollars from rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure.
Never forget that on March 12, Trump was CELEBRATING oil prices going up because he said his cronies and donors in the oil companies would make more money. He WANTED prices to go up. And Republicans running in the midterms supported it, even though they want to hide from it now.
Florida has spent $1.4 billion earmarked for disaster preparedness on detaining and deporting immigrants. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
FL immigration contracts quietly surged to $1.4B in disaster dollars
Few of the contract amendments, worth hundreds of millions of dollars more after Alligator Alcatraz’s shutdown, were posted to the state’s transparency website.
miamiherald.com
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored
The conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it
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Nicholas Thompson@nxthompson.bsky.social · yesterdayMAGA has been obsessed with proving an alleged plot by Biden officials, social-media companies, and researchers to suppress conservative speech. Jobs were lost, a center was closed, and reputations were tarnished. Now we know it was all a fiction. @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. buff.ly/BaSs2Cr
MAGA has been obsessed with proving an alleged plot by Biden officials, social-media companies, and researchers to suppress conservative speech. Jobs were lost, a center was closed, and reputations were tarnished. Now we know it was all a fiction. @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. buff.ly/BaSs2Cr
For America’s sake, Maine must send Troy Jackson to the U.S. Senate | Opinion
For America’s sake, Maine must send Troy Jackson to the U.S. Senate | Opinion
We must end Republican control of the chamber and help put the brakes on Donald Trump’s corrupt and turbulent presidency.
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I’ll have more to post on this later but a) please feel free to subscribe to read the whole thing (there’s quite a bit), & b) my thesis is simple: Right now, the most urgent moral test for this nation today is happening in Springfield, Ohio We as a country are currently failing this test miserably
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 17h agoI’m livid. zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
“.. traders may see a rare opportunity to bet on gasoline prices rising into the winter, with stockpiles at the lowest entering September since 2012.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Diesel, all-time high. ⛽️ “.. Fuel accounts for roughly 15% to 30% of the total cost of food, according to the Independent Grocers Alliance ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/gas-...
RAMPELL: “.. I initially assumed this must have had some boring technical explanation—until I talked to the experts and learned just how truly insane the story is.” @crampell.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/europe-gol...
As GOP postures against data centers, here’s what their moneyman Elon Musk just demanded at G20 on data centers: “It is pretty straightforward, you have to have an environment that is relatively free of regulation. New things must be default legal instead of default illegal.”
Pam Spaulding@pamspaulding.bsky.social · 21h ago⚠️ Moneybags fElon is trying to buy seats through his America PAC, spending more than $800K across key House & Senate races. May it be flushed away by the Blue 🌊. 👉🧵 on this... bsky.app/profile/tesl... (We also have to worry about his tech involvement to steal midterms.) 🧾 CNBC: t2m.co/eXs2Y3eo
Signs you live in an authoritarian state — one prone to hurricane and flooding which needs constant relief — but that isn’t a priority: Florida immigration contracts quietly surged to $1.4B in disaster dollars www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
FL immigration contracts quietly surged to $1.4B in disaster dollars
Few of the contract amendments, worth hundreds of millions of dollars more after Alligator Alcatraz’s shutdown, were posted to the state’s transparency website.
miamiherald.com
This Day in Labor History: September 4, 1970. Salvador Allende won election as president of Chile, a moment of victory for the idea of a democratic socialist revolution, one that right-wing nations such as the United States would never let succeed. Let's talk the workers movement for Allende!
Their job is to deliver the mail, not to make decisions about WHAT mail to deliver.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11h agoSeptember 3, 2026
BREAKING: Missouri’s Supreme Court unanimously blocked Trump-backed congressional districts from being used in November unless voters approve them first. A map drawn to help politicians choose their voters will now have to survive the voters themselves.
Mike Johnson may adjourn Congress before the midterms while Trump’s Iran war continues & Epstein accountability stalls. Republicans call that a schedule. Please. It’s a getaway car. Congress can’t protect you while corrupt Republicans lock the doors and leave town. #CostOfCorruption