We Could End Every Blue State’s Budget Deficit With One Policy. Even a Five-Year-Old Could Explain It. If we can convince a five-year-old, we can convince our state and city representatives. Christopher Armitage May 10

 https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/we-could-end-every-blue-states-budget

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Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson May 10, 2026

 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-9-2026?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20533&post_id=197069801&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=16jbk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Are You Sick & Fucking Tired Of Racist Mediocre White Men Ruining EVERYTHING?

 https://opinionatedogre.substack.com/p/are-you-sick-and-fucking-tired-of

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Trump & Republicans Are Enacting Structural Eugenics

 https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-and-republicans-are-enacting

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The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election

 https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trump-administrations-campaign-undermine-next-election

and

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/republicans-dont-need-to-win-elections-anymore-they-just-need-their-judges/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-05-08-2026

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Monster’s Ball

 https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=6198417&post_id=196892793&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=rovhk&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NjUxMDE4NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTk2ODkyNzkzLCJpYXQiOjE3NzgyNDUxOTksImV4cCI6MTc4MDgzNzE5OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxOTg0MTciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.FlFfRvASkZB3ewDnrKH8MZsdop4jynDtISkYox8-iEs

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U.S. Hegemony and the West Asian War: A Political-Economic Intervention

 https://mronline.org/2026/05/04/us-hegemony-and-the-west-asian-war-a-political-economic-intervention/

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moments-of-bifurcation-from-gibraltar-to-hormuz/

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Epstein-linked billionaire accused of rape privately reached out to federal judge to defend his ‘good name’

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/06/jeffrey-epstein-leon-black

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Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.

 https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Criminalizing poverty won’t solve homelessness

 https://robertmann.substack.com/p/criminalizing-poverty-wont-solve

~~ recommended by newestbeginning ~~

Netanyahu has pledged to ‘finish the job’ against Hezbollah. It’s a promise he can’t deliver on

 https://theconversation.com/netanyahu-has-pledged-to-finish-the-job-against-hezbollah-its-a-promise-he-cant-deliver-on-280468

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This is way bigger than RICO. Is There a Legal Strategy That Could Put the Entire Trump-GOP Criminal Enterprise in Jail Without Waiting for an Election? Tier 3 Primer. Christopher Armitage

 https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/is-there-a-legal-strategy-that-could

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225. How Congress Used to Leverage the Court

 https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/225-how-congress-used-to-leverage?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=16jbk&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 months The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.

 https://popular.info/p/ice-has-not-paid-for-detainee-medical

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The dark side of Gaza’s new fancy cafes and restaurants The new establishments popping up in the devastated Strip reveal a new genocidal reality.

 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/2/the-dark-side-of-gazas-new-fancy-cafes-and-restaurants

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Right-wing Attacks on Women's Reproductive Freedoms and Against the Progressive Majority in General get more Vicious than ever.

1). “The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe: A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening”, May 2, 2026, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-biggest-attack-on-abortion-since >.

2). “Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Fifth Circuit Decision Gutting Telehealth Access to Mifepristone Nationwide”, May 1, 2026, Anon, Press Release from Reproductive Freedom for All (Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America), at < https://reproductivefreedomforall.org/news/reproductive-freedom-for-all-condemns-fifth-circuit-decision-gutting-telehealth-access-to-mifepristone-nationwide/ >.  Pardon, but I could not see what part of this site to post, nb

3). “Court Ruling Blocks Access to Medication Abortion Through Mail and Telehealth”, May 2, 2026, Anon, Press Release from Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, at < https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-northern-new-england/newsroom/court-ruling-blocks-access-to-medication-abortion-through-mail-and-telehealth >

4). “Latest SCOTUS Ruling Has People Asking 'Are We Headed Toward Balkanizing and Becoming the States of the Former USA?' ”, May 2, 2026, Christopher Armitage, The Existentialist Republic, at < https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/latest-scotus-ruling-has-people-asking >.

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Don’t Do This To Amazon Today On May Day! It would upset them very much and I am definitely not telling you to do that. Christopher Armitage May 1

 https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/dont-do-this-to-amazon-today-on-may

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Samuel Saint - Music Friday for Class Strugglers

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWTuulgmt-o&t=191s

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"They Are Who We Thought They Were"

 https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-223-they-are-who-we-thought?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1174827&post_id=195910043&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=16jbk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Jaw-Dropping Details of Trump’s New ‘Deportation’ Judges Revealed

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-details-of-donald-trumps-new-deportation-judges-revealed/

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Why Every Trump Project Depends on Security Failure, From Atlantic City Forward The Bridge by Which Trump Converts Private Projects into Public Expenditures Is the Security Failure Each One Reliably Produces W. A. Lawrence Apr 28

 https://wendy664.substack.com/p/why-every-trump-project-depends-on

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Trump Administration Secures New Indictment Against Comey

 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/james-comey-indictment.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260428&instance_id=174779&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=69301774&segment_id=218983&user_id=a62c6e8572ac0acb81148b21e0bf2fe8

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

ICE Goes Quiet Under Mullin and MAGA Isn’t Happy About It Michael Sellers Apr 28

 https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/ice-goes-quiet-under-mullin-and-maga

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Why “Mowing the Grass” Won’t Work in Iran

 https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-mowing-grass-wont-work-iran

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

72% of Developmentally Disabled Exonerees Were Convicted on False Confessions Fixing it is a bipartisan slam dunk.

 This is at https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/72-of-developmentally-disabled-exonerees

Given that I am writing a book about the wrongful conviction of a friend, I'm bringing this to your attention.

Most confessions of developmentally disabled adults are due to their being lied to about the evidence against them. Moreover, many simply don't understand why they've been charged or how the police could have the evidence they tell them they do.

Worth broader circulation, I think.

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