I so appreciate everything you, Jen, Norm and the others for everything you do to fight our battle for freedom! It is the best $70 I have ever spent. Please keep up the fight!
You are all HEROES in the truest sense of the word. Happy to hear from you Every. Single. Day! It is an honor to support you. Keep inspiring all of us and keep up the fight!
Jen, as soon as I saw your announcement in January that you would be leaving WaPo and starting other projects, I instantly decided to join you wherever you were going to. You and Norm are such a hopeful breath of fresh air. You help me feel so much less alone.
Thank you for all you do. Sitting here trying to find the words to express how much this enterprise means to me, and coming up short. <3
As many other Contrarians I felt so lost, angry, sad… last year after the results of the election. Then when reality really set in on Inauguration Day I hit an all time low. Thanks to HCR I learned about The Contrarians and even though every day has been frightening I feel so much better knowing that I have this connection with like minded people. We are in this together makes such a difference and I thank you so very much Jen & Norm for your exuberance, wisdom, courage, positivity, hard work and all the wonderful and informative individuals you have introduced to us. Power in numbers resisting this administration together gives me hope! Happy 100th day, honored to be part of it!
Congratulations, and it's good to hear that those seeking truth, good writing and research have gone over the half-million mark.
You have accomplished a lot in your first 100 days, and for this you can be proud and jubilant. Please keep it up. An informed public makes better citizens -- and voters.
Thanks for being the voice for many of us. It can be most disheartening to see what is happening to us all freedom lovers. Strong voices that stand up to that all means much. Each and everyone of us appreciated your efforts. Keep up the fight for freedom of the press, freedom of expression....
If 550,000 Contrarians pressure Congressional Republicans to come to their senses, we might regain democracy. You still havent disussed the fact that Don Bacon, R. NE, chair, House military committee is taking on Trump. https://bacon.house.gov/about/about-don.htm
I recommend the 3/25/25 Talking Points Memo, that has JOSH KOVENSKY's detailed report on the "Trump Administration" & ICE's "multi-week effort to prepare for the removals [deportations] while concealing its plan [overt acts] for as long as possible".
"The [Trump] administration carefully orchestrated the removals so as to make it nearly impossible to give notice & sue, and for the [federal] courts to slow down or halt the deportations" under the fig leaf fraud of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
Some Contrarians may know but, for others JOSH is a sharp, investigative war correspondent, previously working out of Kyiv, Ukraine.
I wonder why FDR and Churchill didn't come up with proposing to Hitler that he keep the territory he already conquered, including France.
And that goes for Stalin too. What an idiot! He could have brought peace to the world by acknowledging that Hitler keep the western half of Russia that he already conquered.
Trump really scored big-time by gifting Ukraine to Russia the way Neville Chamberlain gifted the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, exclaiming "Peace in our time !".
But we're really giving too much credit to Trump. Trump isn't handing over Ukraine to Russia because it will bring peace in our time. That's too noble a reason, as idiotic as it is.
Trump's reason has nothing to do with geo-politics, the balance of power, or other political theories or strategies. Trump is handing over Ukraine as an act of pure revenge in retaliation for Zelensky's refusal to falsely declare that Hunter Biden was under investigation. It's pay-back time!
EVERYTHING about the "Orange It" is personal. You are so right. He wants everyone on their knees. Sociopathic man child. He's going to Pope Francis funeral as if it's about him. That is how that goo between his ears functions.
Today I read a whole massive assault is starting to privatize our natural resources, through the person who was put in place in what used to be the Dept. of the Interior. We need to protect the public lands! Everything has become so ctitical and terrible, in this admininstration. Thank you for all you do!
I am so so grateful for The Contrarian! It has saved my sanity and given me hope and courage to stand up for our democracy! Thank you to everyone who has any part in bringing it to a world. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Can you comment on why the Congress has been so silent these long 100 days? Isn't it their job to keep the country's financed (and more) going? I'd vote for impeaching our president, but the people in line for Donald's job are as unprepared as he is. Is there no concerted effort to correct our listing ship? Are there no protocols before yelling "Abandon Ship!!"
Yes. What happens to Ukraine 🇺🇦 affects the future of not only Europe but The America's. This not just about the price of food. America, we can not be Isolationists! Putin is a clear and present danger.
I so appreciate everything you, Jen, Norm and the others for everything you do to fight our battle for freedom! It is the best $70 I have ever spent. Please keep up the fight!
Thanks
Janice from WI
You are all HEROES in the truest sense of the word. Happy to hear from you Every. Single. Day! It is an honor to support you. Keep inspiring all of us and keep up the fight!
Jen, as soon as I saw your announcement in January that you would be leaving WaPo and starting other projects, I instantly decided to join you wherever you were going to. You and Norm are such a hopeful breath of fresh air. You help me feel so much less alone.
Thank you for all you do. Sitting here trying to find the words to express how much this enterprise means to me, and coming up short. <3
Take good care,
Megan
As many other Contrarians I felt so lost, angry, sad… last year after the results of the election. Then when reality really set in on Inauguration Day I hit an all time low. Thanks to HCR I learned about The Contrarians and even though every day has been frightening I feel so much better knowing that I have this connection with like minded people. We are in this together makes such a difference and I thank you so very much Jen & Norm for your exuberance, wisdom, courage, positivity, hard work and all the wonderful and informative individuals you have introduced to us. Power in numbers resisting this administration together gives me hope! Happy 100th day, honored to be part of it!
Congratulations, and it's good to hear that those seeking truth, good writing and research have gone over the half-million mark.
You have accomplished a lot in your first 100 days, and for this you can be proud and jubilant. Please keep it up. An informed public makes better citizens -- and voters.
You are the balm to my wounded soul!
Thanks for being the voice for many of us. It can be most disheartening to see what is happening to us all freedom lovers. Strong voices that stand up to that all means much. Each and everyone of us appreciated your efforts. Keep up the fight for freedom of the press, freedom of expression....
The Fifth Amendment protects all persons in the U.S. The Administration does not. This Administration will have cost the U.S. Treasury $1.5 billion in damages awards, in my opinion, after these deportees bring suit. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/abuse-misuse-of-alien-enemies-act?r=3m1bs
If 550,000 Contrarians pressure Congressional Republicans to come to their senses, we might regain democracy. You still havent disussed the fact that Don Bacon, R. NE, chair, House military committee is taking on Trump. https://bacon.house.gov/about/about-don.htm
This may be the start of the Feathers of Hope scenaio. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
Hope is the thing like feathers, that perches on the soul
And sings the song without the words
And never stops at all.
On fighting for the "disappeared".
I recommend the 3/25/25 Talking Points Memo, that has JOSH KOVENSKY's detailed report on the "Trump Administration" & ICE's "multi-week effort to prepare for the removals [deportations] while concealing its plan [overt acts] for as long as possible".
"The [Trump] administration carefully orchestrated the removals so as to make it nearly impossible to give notice & sue, and for the [federal] courts to slow down or halt the deportations" under the fig leaf fraud of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
Some Contrarians may know but, for others JOSH is a sharp, investigative war correspondent, previously working out of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Josh has been there & fought back.
Trump is brilliant!
I wonder why FDR and Churchill didn't come up with proposing to Hitler that he keep the territory he already conquered, including France.
And that goes for Stalin too. What an idiot! He could have brought peace to the world by acknowledging that Hitler keep the western half of Russia that he already conquered.
Trump really scored big-time by gifting Ukraine to Russia the way Neville Chamberlain gifted the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, exclaiming "Peace in our time !".
But we're really giving too much credit to Trump. Trump isn't handing over Ukraine to Russia because it will bring peace in our time. That's too noble a reason, as idiotic as it is.
Trump's reason has nothing to do with geo-politics, the balance of power, or other political theories or strategies. Trump is handing over Ukraine as an act of pure revenge in retaliation for Zelensky's refusal to falsely declare that Hunter Biden was under investigation. It's pay-back time!
This isn't political. This is personal.
EVERYTHING about the "Orange It" is personal. You are so right. He wants everyone on their knees. Sociopathic man child. He's going to Pope Francis funeral as if it's about him. That is how that goo between his ears functions.
Today I read a whole massive assault is starting to privatize our natural resources, through the person who was put in place in what used to be the Dept. of the Interior. We need to protect the public lands! Everything has become so ctitical and terrible, in this admininstration. Thank you for all you do!
I am so so grateful for The Contrarian! It has saved my sanity and given me hope and courage to stand up for our democracy! Thank you to everyone who has any part in bringing it to a world. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for a productive 100 days! You all are amazing!!
Can you comment on why the Congress has been so silent these long 100 days? Isn't it their job to keep the country's financed (and more) going? I'd vote for impeaching our president, but the people in line for Donald's job are as unprepared as he is. Is there no concerted effort to correct our listing ship? Are there no protocols before yelling "Abandon Ship!!"
Please might we remember Ukraine? The Russians are taking all and Trump is rubbing his little hands with glee. How do we move the needle?
Yes. What happens to Ukraine 🇺🇦 affects the future of not only Europe but The America's. This not just about the price of food. America, we can not be Isolationists! Putin is a clear and present danger.