THE BIGGEST CON AND TRAITOR IN AMERICAN HISTORY—As Trump wages a re-election campaign that he is..losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he personally guaranteed.”-@nytimes nytimes.com/interactive/20…
BIGGEST LOSER: “Hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.”-@nytimes
“Trump has an established track record of stiffing his lenders. But the tax returns reveal that he has failed to pay back far more money than previously known: a total of $287 million since 2010.”-@nytimes
Canada and EU universities are offering US scientists and academics safe harbour from an increasingly authoritarian US in an echo of a dark past. From my latest column in @BylineTimes
“Project 2025 is a revenge fantasy and the victim is democracy… It reads like a Soviet-era how-to manual on the total annihilation of the US government and any critics of the regime.”—Heidi Siegmund Cuda, December 16, 2023
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In 2023, I reported that Donald Trump and the religious extremists he had aligned with created a blueprint for the total annihilation of democracy. The report was titled ‘A MAGA Hat and a Gun’ — Trump’s Violent Vision for 2025:
American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-bei…
In 1969, when I was five years old, I traveled with my parents to Czechoslovakia. It was the same year my parents became proud US citizens. It was the same year humans landed on the moon.
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I recall making party favors for their citizenship celebration, using tie-dye bouncing balls that I painted to mirror the moon, attaching little astronaut figures holding American flags.
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In my latest Hot Type column, I document Russia’s attacks on 22 countries to show that America is just another campaign for Moscow and Elon Musk is just another oligarch.
It’s rare for an independent woman reporter like me to be invited on high-profile radio shows to discuss my work.
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Generally, independent investigative reporters, who freely speak to truth to power, are ignored by colleagues in legacy media, whose normalizing and euphemisms cloaking the rise of fascism allowed a decapitation strike on America by an organized crime ring run out of Moscow.
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My Latest ‘Hot Type’ Column in @BylineTimes exposes how an abject failure of prosecuting treason and a history of pardoning traitors has led the US to this desperate hour
In an interview with Dr Marci Shore for my podcast this week, we asked her about the parallels between Ukraine in 2014 and the US in this moment.
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The author of The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, said: “I’m completely terrified. I feel like in some ways the past eight years could be subtitled ‘Vindication of a Neurotic Catastrophist’. I did not want to be vindicated in this.”
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‘That Curious Feeling of Unreality’—Under Cover in Nazi America 1938-1943
A Report: Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld in America—The Amazing Revelation of How Axis Agents and Our Enemies Within Are Now Plotting to Destroy the United States bettedangerous.com/p/that-curious…
“I was about to witness star-spangled murder with American Democracy as the corpse.”—John Roy Carlson, Under Cover, 1943
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I recognized the book as special from the moment it was handed to me. The old school plastic cover created to fit the dust jacket. Corners from the soft yellowing pages disintegrate in my hands as I turn each page, like little confetti bits from history. I don’t know what to do with them, so I just pile them together like ashes and keep them near.