Heidi Siegmund Cuda

2 months ago | open.substack.com | Byline Supplement |Heidi Siegmund Cuda |Alexander Kovaleski

At the end of April, I’m off to Ukraine with my son, friends, and a convoy of trucks. How many trucks, what they contain, how it will be used, all this matters hugely. But after Trump’s outrageous treatment of Ukraine and its President, the fact that we’re going is arguably more important:“Right now, what’s keeping us going is the support of ordinary people,” Maksym wrote to us the other day.

Feb 21, 2025 | open.substack.com | Byline Supplement |Heidi Siegmund Cuda |Nafeez Ahmed |Simon Schama

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Jan 9, 2025 | open.substack.com | Byline Supplement |Heidi Siegmund Cuda

***Please take out a membership to support the light of truth.***Each time I check my phone, another friend has lost everything. I don’t have a television but the images of devastation still make their way into my consciousness. Friends who understand my post-traumatic news syndrome gently ask: “Is it okay if I show you something crushing?”Being a veteran newsie I, of course, say yes, and then learn that a historic church where writers once gathered, gone.

Nov 4, 2024 | open.substack.com | Byline Supplement |Heidi Siegmund Cuda |Nafeez Ahmed

In the United States, the interim period between election day and inauguration day is anachronistically long. Born out of 18th century necessity, the transfer of power was originally scheduled to take four months, to fit the pace of an Enlightenment-era agrarian society that spread out across almost 2.5 million km2 – roughly the area of modern-day Finland, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Sweden combined.

Nov 2, 2024 | bettedangerous.com | Heidi Siegmund Cuda

I am revisiting my archives. They exist like time capsules of pain, defiance, hope. I am leaving them raw as I wrote them, a mother struggling to sway the wind with her words, trying to fight fascism with her pen. You can read my original Bette Dangerous post here at my Maewestside Tumblr. đŸ€Here it as written on January 23, 2017:I’ll never forget the day Anna Nicole Smith gave up the ghost. It was February sweeps of 2007, and for #BIGNEW$ it was manna from heaven.