Cowgirl Carol

After posting security footage of the shooter running through the lobby, he held a press conference, despite an active investigation. There, he pivoted rather bizarrely to claims that he needs his ballroom to be fully safe. This claim makes no sense because the Correspondents Dinner is a private affair and not a White House event. A ballroom isn’t going to change anything, because it’s not like the event will be held inside the White House in the future.
https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/were-not-crazy-were-just-gaslit?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Several more OMG moments...
https://open.substack.com/pub/rawstory/p/before-its-too-late-maga-true-believer-a49?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

I feel compassion for those who’ve been seduced into supporting Trump after being brutalized and mistreated for years by employers, big corporations, Wall Street, and America’s oligarchs. As I warned 32 years ago, widening inequalities of wealth, income, and opportunity would eventually persuade some on the losing side to support a demagogue.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/sunday-thought-the-problem-isnt-that?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

Legal experts I spoke with disagreed. “It seems like they have largely adopted the positions of the chemical industry,” said Richard L. Revesz, a former Biden official and dean emeritus at the New York University School of Law. 

Aware that the announcement is sure to anger the Make America Healthy Again contingent—which is already rebelling against the administration’s support for the herbicide glyphosate.
https://grist.org/health/trump-epa-forever-chemicals-pfas-kennedy-zeldin/

WTF? This is who is 'replacing' Colbert.
Never heard of Byron Allen? Well, besides being a self-described comic, Allen is also a billionaire media mogul who owns the Weather Channel, BuzzFeed, and the HuffPost.

Allen promises that his late-night humor on CBS won’t be “political” — that is, he won’t skewer Trump. He won’t even mention Trump. 🙄
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-comedy-comedown?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

NYT Publisher Calls Out Media for 'Capitulation' to Trump; Former Epstein staffer drops new names in Congressional hearing, John Fetterman exposed in leaked texts, Trump skips son's wedding to play golf.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rawstory/p/nyt-publisher-calls-out-media-for?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

Beautifully written... stay joyful & hopeful people. Never stop resisting.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/stephen-colbert-and-the-daily-shows?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

The Republicans’ increasingly corrupt political system — rife with crony capitalism, corporate welfare, and payoffs to the powerful — inevitably produces a corrupt economy. That’s because politics determines the rules by which an economy functions — and if those rules are products of corruption, the economy is corrupted.
Greed and payoffs replace trust. It’s happened before, after America’s first Gilded Age (see the Great Crash of 1929, leading to the Great Depression).
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/trumps-corruptonomics?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

“All of which is tied to the 2024 election?”
WB: “Yes. And the Epstein files. It’s not just ‘the Epstein list’—it’s a decades-long effort with multiple layers.”
WB: "Clean? How much of the world economy is managed by very few people? Cataclysm comes to mind.”
TWH: “So much of what they’re doing is unconstitutional. Crimes against humanity are on the rise across the globe. Who has proof of the NSA-authorized audit, and why are they sitting on it?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/the-anomaly-in-the-matrix-ashley?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

As many as 25 Republican senators spoke out against the slush fund and pitched ideas about how to draw some limits around it. Scott MacFarlane of Meidas News reported that senators want to know “what is Trump trying to mask by offering up this controversial fund? I mean, the optics of this are terrible. This looks bad, so is it a diversion technique? Is it some way of masking a different issue altogether?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-21-2026?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

In addition to ridding ourselves of Trump, we’ll also need to turn down the noise. Seek more peace, quiet, and stability in our lives.

Do we really need AI? Do we have to work this hard? Is all this stuff really necessary? Can’t this rich nation afford to give everyone at least a universal basic income? Can’t we just elect quiet, humble, capable leaders?
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-ptsd-nation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

It is clear that members of the Trump administration never intended to honor the Constitution or serve Americans, raising the question of what exactly they do intend.
For Trump, making money is clearly a major part of it. The anger over the slush fund has pushed out of the news a growing outcry over the news from earlier this week that Trump bought and sold at least $220 million in stocks while making policy & public announcements that affected the value of those stocks.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-20-2026?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

They have thereby converted the official Republican Party from a political party into an extension of Trump’s regime — further eroding American democracy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/why-trumps-revenge-tour-will-come?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

It’s about yesterday’s breaking news: Ashley St. Clair—Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend and the mother of one of his children—took to TikTok seemingly to relieve her conscience over what she says was Musk’s technological interference in the 2024 election.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/elon-musks-ex-ashley-st-clair-confirms?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

I smell a Rat.
In the swing states, Democratic voters supposedly voted blue down-ballot and then switched to Trump at the top of the ticket.

On June 5, 2025, Elon Musk announced to the world that he won the 2024 election for Trump.

Meanwhile, the DNC refuses to release the 2024 “autopsy,” but would have voters believe Democrats were so frustrated with Vice President Harris’s stance on Gaza that they voted for Donald Trump instead.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/why-thomas-massie-should-be-keeping?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

Thomas Jefferson, the key author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison of Virginia, the key thinker behind the Constitution, both wrote explicitly about the importance of keeping the government separate from religion. Jefferson wrote that “religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-17-2026?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

All of which raises a fundamental question: Has the official Republican Party — now nearly purged of anyone willing to reflect the concerns of Republican voters rather than Trump’s will — become complicit in Trump’s criminality? Is it aiding and abetting Trump’s lawlessness?

A case can be made that the official Republican Party is indeed complicit.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/is-trumps-republican-party-now-a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap

We are avid RVers, but it's state parks and places only a 4 hour drive away right now...
https://www.rvtravel.com/road-trips-seriously-1261/

Another Epstein Files victim has 'disappeared'. This pedophile oligarchy regime is truly evil.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/where-in-the-world-is-elisabetta?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qh2ap