DAGR Weekly Reader W2-DEC
“Stop waiting for Trump to die. The fight is the same either way.” ~ Christopher Armitage, The Existentialist Republic, Dec 2025
How Sick Is He?
The physical and mental health of the president is a state secret. But one ‘senior’ journalist and his team detail the hints that have leaked over the past year, and it doesn’t it doesn’t look good.
Dan Rather and Team Steady, Substack, Dec 09, 2025
Pardon the Corruption
Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is actively encouraging through his pardons. This essay lists a few of the cronies and supplicants pardoned to date, but not al!
University of Michigan professor Don Moynihan is the author of the Can We Still Govern? Substack.
Reprinted in Lincoln Square Media, Dec 7, 2025
Trump’s Abandonment of Our Society’s Vulnerable Children
In a profound and important Thanksgiving reflection, the President of First Focus on Children, Bruce Lesley considers our society’s abandonment, in this Trump era, of the institutions that protect the well-being of families and children. Posted on Dec 4 by retired educator cum commenter, Jan Resseger. Inbox this week.
Jan Resseger, Dec 8, 2025
The Indiana House Seat Steal
David Pepper called on Hoosiers to contact their STATE SENATORS! They'd vote soon. The bogus map, opposed by former Indianapolis mayor, VP Pence and IN guv, passed the state House last week!!. It may be too late to contact Indiana legislature, but the article is a great breakdown of how GOP is out to steal House seats for Trump.
David Pepper, Pepperspectives, Substack, Dec 8, 2025
States push to end secrecy over data center water use
States facing drought and dwindling groundwater supplies are seeking to pull back the curtain on water use at data centers, in a push for transparency that has scrambled traditional partisan alliances. The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects.
Miranda Willson, Politico, Dec 8, 2025
Bush v. Gore and the State of U.S. Elections
For a generation, presidential races were blowouts. Every winner between 1980 and 1996 triumphed by at least 37 electoral college votes. It was a calmer time for U.S. elections. Then came 2000. This Brennan Center web event shares two main litigants from that landmark decision in 2000 and a FL state supreme court justice retired. History. Depth. Insight into today’s morass. 1 hr video, drop in at about 15 min.
Brennan Center for Justice, Dec 9, 2025