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Donald Auguston's avatar

I keep saying this, but I lived through all of this, and I can't remember it all. Thank you for putting these newsletters together so I can be reminded of the criminality and stupidity of the past week. These newsletters are a gem!!!!

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Ajhview's avatar

Excellent week summary- Sadly, each week is a horrific dismantling of our country and democracy.

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Nancy Oyler's avatar

Always, you clarify and educate. Glad to be a paid subscriber now, after just subscribing for several months.

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Jeff Lazar's avatar

There is but one problem with the weekly newsletter -- as soon as I start reading it, someone invariably starts chopping onions.

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Deepak Puri's avatar

Why did CBS cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert? Follow the money!

https://thedemlabs.org/2025/07/19/stephen-colbert-canceled-trump-lawmakers-oracle-tiktok-ellison/

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gayle gibson's avatar

Can't say i 'like any of this, but i do thank you for compiling it all. What a disastrous regime! Your friends in Canada mourn the loss of our friend, the imperfect but wonderful USA.

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Virma's avatar

What I learned from this account of the week’s governmental actions: Despite rampant incompetence on the part of the actors, the destruction of the United States proceeds at unbelievable speed by issued proclamations instead of established constitutional protocol.

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HulitC's avatar

Thanks for the NYTimes link for the article on the prisoner swap. See: “residents returned“ :

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/world/americas/venezuela-us-prisoner-swap-migrants-el-salvador.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Particularly stunning to read this line:

< Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the U.S. citizens and permanent residents had been arrested and jailed in Venezuela “without proper due process” and called for the “restoration of democracy in Venezuela.” >

Hypocrisy is in every corner of this administration.

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Mehdididit's avatar

Why are we still posting and reporting on Xitter? It’s hardly a reliable source, and certainly not primary. Yesterday I got a newsletter I really like that featured a poster encouraging folks to drop Xitter, then went on to ask everyone to share the newsletter on Xitter! Democracy Docket is the only subscription I have that doesn’t promote X, it uses BlueSky instead. More of that please!

I will soon start dropping subscriptions that are using Xitter.

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Sam Thiru's avatar

Democracy had been Buried deep down down the hole dug for the Nuclear Bomb Test up in the American Mountains in Nevada ?

Now, we suffer the Fallout in the form of trump and his Amateur Team in Washington DC, the most famous Occupied Territory !

RIP American Democracy !

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Cheryl Anne's avatar

I'm not willing to give up yet. If need be, another Revolutionary War comes to mind.

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