CONTINUITY KERFUFFLE: “Minutes after the president’s* doctors painted a rosy picture of his condition on TV..the White House chief of staff gave reporters outside Walter Reed..Medical Center a far more sober assessment off camera, calling Trump’s vital signs worrisome.”-@nytimes
HOT TYPE: The Real Leaders of the Free World Are Women
My latest column in @BylineTimes focuses on the remarkable women leaders of Eastern Europe, who are a crucial counterweight to the media's obsession with the ‘strongmen’ Trump and Putin
I was an investigative reporter in broadcast journalism when Donald Trump landed on my radar in 2006 while I was interviewing the victims of a pyramid scheme. Lured in by get-rich-quick videos featuring Trump, some told me they’d spent their entire life savings on a video phone company that turned out to be bad business.
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So when I realized Trump had become a serious contender for US President in 2016, I had already investigated him and unearthed a long history of bad business dealings.
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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