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Wayne Shaw's avatar

This should receive a Pulitzer prize, if that even means anything anymore. Perhaps with enough of us, we can award you the Alt-Pulitzer Prize, akin to the Alt-National Park Service and other "Alts", a small spiritual, satirical grenade robbed at Steve Bannon and his ilk.

I know you didn't do this for the prize, or any prize at all, but to build the resistance until the regime itself is dismantled. Then comes the harder task of rebuilding what's been destroyed. Still, you should have some recognition, from us your readers, for all your hard, necessary work.

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Annie Petersen's avatar

right? My Dad was a newspaper editor and I just sent it to him. I would love to see this printed and published somewhere for others.

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Wayne Shaw's avatar

That word was "lobbed", not robbed!

The sooner 'auto-correct' itself receives correction, or enough vigilance to make a difference, the better!

That particular feature (not 'bug') predated the dump by several years, but it obviously isn't getting any better, no thanks to the illegitimate regime.

Mini-rant and follow up over.

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Annie Petersen's avatar

This is extraordinary. As a former journalist and daughter of a retired newspaper editor — well-done. It’s scary to see it laid out this way.

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Jill Topf's avatar

Thank you for this! It’s definitely something we need to preserve, share and use as motivation! Looking forward to more from you!

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CoffeeConnections's avatar

An amazing project- great recap and will share

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Tara N's avatar

Collective sigh and simultaneous outrage YET with reading this detailed blog you have helped so many of us remember the onslaught to our resolve . PAY ATTENTION is what hear .To that, I say thank you , thank you , thank YOU.

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Thank you for your efforts cataloguing the many steps Trump Et al have taken in the first 3 months of their co-ordinated efforts to dismantle everything citizens have shed blood, sweat and tears to establish. It must have been a depressing yet worthy pursuit. I will bookmark for reference. This far-right bogus Christian doctrine to eliminate all things liberal, has been in the works for decades, dating back to the Reagan years. Leonard Leo via the Federalist Society, spent years infiltrating and stacking SCOTUS, universities, law firms, corporations and even Hollywood with right wing zealots. You can be sure the Heritage Foundation and countless other false Christian organizations, are celebrating the death of Pope Francis and his liberal religious influence. We can surely expect the Catholic Church to return to harsher interpretations of Christianity.

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Anne Miller's avatar

This is truly comprehensive! Did you assemble this list? You are exactly right, trump would just have us forget all the damage done. What about Ukraine and Putin/Russia, Canada/Greenland and the Panama Canal? What about all the EU and global damage Trump has done? Please forgive me if I missed these items...

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Lisa Gonzalez's avatar

Thank you so much—yes, I assembled this myself because I couldn’t find anywhere that showed it all compiled together: the sabotage, the strategy, the slow-motion collapse.

You’re absolutely right—Ukraine, Russia, Greenland, the Panama Canal, global alliances, and the EU are critical pieces of this story. They aren’t in this post but they’re absolutely part of the broader picture I’ve built in a very large file.

This blog was the emotional thread.

Next comes the full archive:

The Memory Register: A Mother’s Archive of Sabotage, Erasure, and Resistance in 2025.

That’s where every piece—domestic and international—will be documented, sourced, and made impossible to ignore.

So grateful you’re reading. And remembering.

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Anne Miller's avatar

I have often thought, "I wished I had kept track and written down everything that Trump has done, all the way back to the date he was elected." This is when he started running the country. As you know, this date is when the subterfuge began. Again, thank you for organizing this timeline!

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Lisa Gonzalez's avatar

Thank you so much, Anne—that means more than I can say. That exact feeling you described? It’s what pushed me to build this.

I couldn’t hold it all in my head anymore. And I didn’t want anyone to be able to rewrite or bury what really happened.

This is just the beginning—the full, sourced timeline is coming next in The Memory Register. But it starts here—with memory, rage, and duct tape.

Thank you for seeing it.

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Anne Miller's avatar

Are you a journalist? Or do you write for a living? This is simply eloquent.

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Cheryl Starnes's avatar

You have developed a 2025 accounting of this administrations attack on our society that is reminiscent of the Oyneg Shabes Warsaw Ghetto archive of the holocaust which has proved to be a historical treasure. Thank you.

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Ellenburg's avatar

Wow. So valuable. Thanks for the time and attention you have put into this!!

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Kim Gonzalez's avatar

Again, well done, Lisa. I love that you added a link to each event you’ve listed so we can go to the actual news reports and

I love that you added a link to each event you’ve listed so that we can go to the actual news report and read it for ourselves. It’s hard to believe all of that and more has happened in four months.

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Trish's avatar

I am so grateful for the time and emotional toll you must have experienced writing this. We are coming, "from the left." This is the call to all to see and act.

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Olga Garcia's avatar

Great job again of keeping us abreast of the damage that this administration has done and continues to do on a daily basis. You have done it in an orderly fashion so that we don’t forget. You have told the Truth and the facts. We must continue to stop this crazy ass shit. Your writings continue to give me the strength in stay in this fight to protect our Democracy and Freedoms. People Power!!

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Frank A Edmands II's avatar

I am archiving your post to not forget what has happened- keeping the catalyst warm for my response and actions.

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Kim Gonzalez's avatar

Oops. I hit send too early and there is no edit button. LOL

Keep up the good fight!

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aurora☀️'s avatar

Thank you for doing this! I’ve been thinking I need to start journaling every day what is happening-I don’t want to forget, get tired or normalize any of this. There is another Substack I follow, “Tyranny Tracker” that is like a daily run down, for anyone who is interested in that type of ongoing info. Great work here Lisa, tying it all together. I have already restatcked it:)

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