I'm getting a lot done, but I'm tired.

Somebody's a little peckish.

In a surprise move, Rep Massie introduced 8 articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth in the House Tuesday evening, accusing him of violating the War Powers Resolution, suppressing free speech, & other alleged misconduct. The House must vote on the resolution by September 17, 2026.

WATCH: Rep. Massie introduces articles of impeachment against Hegseth on House floor

Massie said Hegseth abused his powers by deploying the U.S. military in the war against Iran without seeking congressional approval under the War Powers Act. He said these are “unlawful orders” and “h...

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In that first letter I wrote: “So what do those of us who love American democracy do? Make noise. Take up oxygen…. Defend what is great about this nation: its people, and their willingness to innovate, work, and protect each other. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

September 15, 2026

Seven years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:

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Marketing, baby!

The bluejays did not get any peanuts this morning.

The whistleblower says inspectors...have been posing as those individual voters by using birth dates or partial Social Security numbers they gleaned from both internal and external sources to find wrongdoing. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

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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What the heck, let's do it: Here's the new "pre-orders are up" blog post, complete with a few blurbs and whatnot. Enjoy! And share if you are so inclined. And purchase your copy, of course! thewildernesswithinbyjohnclaudesmith.blogspot.com/2026/09/our-...

The honey apple upside-down cake turned out all right.

Look what book mail brought me! Can't wait to dive in to @khvaughan.bsky.social's weird work!

Trump and his sons have invested heavily in companies tied to the AI boom. Trump has called AI data centers “the oil of the next 50 years” and says they are delivering wealth and investment to communities in the U.S. But the American people disagree. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

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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Yup. The only options are liberty, justice and equality for all or liberty, justice and equality for none

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4w ago

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

Trump’s attempt to use the USPS to screen mail-in voting recently had a test run. Democracy Docket picked up a story from the Tallahassee Democrat that the USPS rejected mailed ballots from Leon County FL because the words “return service requested” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

September 12, 2026

On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.

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It's pouring, we're under a flood watch, and a finch just showed up at the feeder looking for breakfast. Guess I'm going out.

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

Sarah Connor

ALT: Sarah Connor

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Meredith Morgenstern she/her | Read banned books@mlmorgenstern.bsky.social · 4d ago

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

When Trump struck Iran in February 2026, Iranian forces took control of the Strait of Hormuz, largely stopping traffic of oil through the outlet. And so Saudi Arabia, which is the world’s largest oil exporter and a close ally of the US... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

September 11, 2026

Last night was the second night of the Republican midterm convention Trump staged to fire up his base.

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I have bogged myself down with housework, today.

The price of oil jumped to $109 a barrel and US gasoline rose to an average of about $4.28 a gallon. GasBuddy said the national average price of diesel had hit $6.00 for the first time in history. Just a year ago the national average was about $3.70. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

September 10, 2026

We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another c...

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The sky is always so clear and blue on this day.

THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 6d ago

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

Not a pigeon.

Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made goods went into effect yesterday, matching Trump’s tariffs on Canada dollar for dollar and rate for rate, covering about $20 billion in U.S. goods. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

September 9, 2026

Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.

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The local wildlife.

Musk is funding an advertising campaign encouraging people in swing states to check their voting registration status at a different website than the one run by the Election Assistance Commission, which is an independent agency of the US government. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

September 8, 2026

On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of ...

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Yes, you need to check your voter registration. Yes, vote.gov will do that for you through the EAC. 🚨 NO. Do NOT use VoteSafe[.]org 🚨 It belongs to Elon Musk & Itty will absolutely hoover up your personal data from ip address to links you click & more. Musk's American PAC is funding that site.

Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Alex Winter@alexwinter.com · last wk.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Got a big chunk of the WIP done, and started picking at another story. And the beat goes on.

While at some level Trump might think he is being clever by keeping the focus on himself, what he is really doing is demonstrating that he is no longer even trying to govern... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

September 7, 2026

Since yesterday, President Donald J.

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What’s an example of perfect casting?

Polly Schattel@pollyschattel.bsky.social · last wk.

What’s an example of perfect casting?

Happy 60tjh Anniversary