Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard yesterday
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 89 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 26.
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A lot.
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In fact, people are amazed.
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Scott Waldman of Politico reported Monday that while an average of almost one hundred and forty ships a day traversed the strait before the war, last Sunday only three did.
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The Harp story has also taken oxygen from increasing pushback against the Trump administration.
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Yesterday, ABC and its parent corporation, the Walt Disney Company, launched a federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, saying the Trump administration violated their free speech rights.
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The lawsuit claims that administration officials tried to do Trump's bidding by launching investigations and challenging broadcast licenses because Trump didn't like their talk show opinions, news coverage, and late night comedians.
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As David Fokkenflick of NPR noted, the lawsuit began with the words government censorship is deeply un-American.
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This is a one hundred eighty for ABC.
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In twenty twenty four, it agreed to donate sixteen million dollars to Trump's presidential library to settle a lawsuit Trump brought over the assertion by George Stephanopoulos that Trump had been found liable for raping writer Egene Carroll.
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In fact, Trump had been found liable for sexual abuse, and the judge said that while what he did fell under the common definition of rape, New York state law had a very precise definition that his actions didn't fit.
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The settlement made ABC one of the first to settle with Trump.
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That money seems to have disappeared and there is currently a congressional investigation into where it, along with almost fifty million dollars more from similar settlements, has gone.
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr seemed to back away from previous threats, saying that ABC and Disney were acting too hastily and that the FCC has not yet decided whether to renew the licenses.
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Ultimately, he said, they're going to get a fair shake before the agency.
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Jeremy Barr of The Guardian shed light on the issue today when he reported on new documents obtained thanks to a Freedom of Information Act or FOIA request and a lawsuit from Democracy Forward, showing that Carr has been working closely with the White House and right wing media.
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In addition to talking and meeting with White House officials, Carr has been working with the Fox News Channel and the chair of the right wing Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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There is also the uncomfortable fact that the national debt passed a record forty trillion dollars yesterday, much sooner than expected.
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The US is currently spending more than a trillion dollars a year to pay interest on the national debt, more than it spends on defense, or
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As Steven Ratner noted in the New York Times yesterday, Trump said in his twenty twenty four campaign, we're gonna grow like nobody's ever grown before.
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But in fact, the economy is slowing.
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