Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
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 — 86 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 26.
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On Sunday, Noah Robertson and Dan Diamond of the Washington Post reported that Trump's insistence that he needs his new ballroom for security is bunk.
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The White House already has a secure, hardened facility that can withstand a nuclear blast and house dozens of people for weeks.
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It was built secretly during the Obama administration.
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Meanwhile, the angry opposition to the Trump administration and the wealthy tech bros it serves is taking shape with popular fury over the data centers.
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These facilities house computers, servers, and data storage infrastructure and have existed for a long time.
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But to support the extraordinary demands of artificial intelligence, they have grown exponentially lately.
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Tech giants have built huge facilities that are noisy, pollute, and require huge amounts of energy and water.
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Technology advocates have pushed their agenda by claiming they will dramatically expand the economy, and the Trump administration has backed their ambitions.
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Trump even brought billionaire Elon Musk into the administration after he poured almost two hundred million dollars into getting Trump elected.
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But opposition to the data centers is bipartisan and growing as they appear to symbolize the takeover of our system by a few wealthy men like Musk.
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Molly Hennessy Fisk of the Washington Post reported today that in Texas, some Republicans are mobilizing to prevent Republican Greg Abbott from winning a fourth term as governor because of his support for data centers.
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Over the weekend, the growing fury over Trump and his administration led to an uproar over a report in the New York Times by Maggie Haberman and Annie Carney about a meeting in the past weeks between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat of New York, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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The journalist said the meeting was about potential areas of common ground, a vague description that led a clearly nervous House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican of Louisiana, to warn Kushner, You better not bet against the House Republicans.
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But even the idea that Jeffreys was talking to Kushner was enough to infuriate opponents of the administration, a fact that seems likely to have been behind the leak of the meeting in the first place.
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For his part, Haberman and Carney note, Jeffreys has emphasized that he wants to get rid of toxic Trump cabinet secretaries, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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But it's clear that demands for even more widespread accountability are growing.
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In addition to posting a number of references to the first plane landing at the newly named President Donald J.
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Trump International Airport,
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Claims that the radical left Democrats are going crazy with fake polls and posting two photos of himself with Kim Jong un.
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Trump posted today that Iran is completely collapsing.
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