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Lois Herr

@loisherr.bsky.social

Writer, activist, Democrat, feminist

21 Followers  |  9 Following  |  28 Posts  |  Joined: 27.11.2024  |  1.8766

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07.10.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Learned from a newspaper ad woman in upstate NY and a bookshop owner in Montreal what this trade war could do to words. Much or most newsprint comes from Canada, soon subject to U.S. tariffs. & Canada is putting 25% on U.S. books. Which includes, get this, Handmaid’s Tale.

29.03.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2372    πŸ” 533    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 35
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Lessons to learn from the seismic Pennsylvania Senate 36th District special election [editorial] THE ISSUE

and for those of you paying attention to the Democratic Victory of Andrew Malone in PA’s Senate District 36…here’s the Lancaster Sunday paper’s editorial

lancasteronline.com/opinion/edit...

31.03.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump says β€˜there are methods’ for seeking a third term, adding that he’s β€˜not joking’ | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Sunday did not dismiss the idea of pursuing a third term in the White House, despite the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution prohibiting it, claiming that β€œthere are methods” ...

And collectively we must just say NO.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/p...

31.03.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Lancaster LNP This full replica of our printed product provides you the newspaper as you know and love it from the convenience of the web.

More about Democratic victory in State Senate District 36:

lancasteronline-pa.newsmemory.com?selDate=2025...

27.03.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Democrat Wins Special Election in Pennsylvania District Where Trump Won by 15 Points James Andrew Malone, a small-town mayor, won a special election on Tuesday, narrowly defeating a county commissioner in a district the G.O.P. held for decades.

Democrats won in red turf….indicates change is coming

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

27.03.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Democrat James Malone won the State Senate special election in Lancaster County PA! HISTORIC!

27.03.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The State of Himself Trump hasn’t altered his behavior to be president. He altered the presidency to match his personality.

The State of Himself www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

05.03.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bring Back Joy Reid! MSNBC has canceled β€œThe ReidOut” starring Joy Reidβ€”a move that other network hosts like Rachel Maddow are calling a β€œbad mistake.” Reid has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump, and her departure from ...

We need MSNBC to know that viewers demand Joy Reid’s commentary and expertise. Add your name to the petition NOW! sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...

01.03.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where are the voices of Obama, the Clintons, Bush?????

01.03.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Passing SAVE Act Would Be β€˜Taking a Chainsaw to Democracy’ Read more here.

Michigan officials have become the latest Democratic figures to publicly slam the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, the GOP’s nationwide proof of citizenship bill that could disenfranchise millions of voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

28.02.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6488    πŸ” 1810    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 50
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"History will remember this dayβ€” when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

28.02.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 128398    πŸ” 34454    πŸ’¬ 3066    πŸ“Œ 1411
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Good morning world!

01.03.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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February 23, 2025 Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.

February 23, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

25.02.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
25.02.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The blinding contempt of the DOGE bros Terrorizing USAID isn’t reform. Here’s an inside story of Elon Musk’s takeover.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

25.02.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Smucker absent for mock town hall in downtown Lancaster [video] Chants of β€œSmucker’s a chicken” and β€œWhere’s Lloyd?” echoed from downtown Lancaster’s Penn Square on Saturday morning as more than 150 people staged a mock town hall for U.S. Rep.

lancaster pennsylvania -- pretty good "brrrr-ccccaakk!" chicken impression in the embedded video...

lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

24.02.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3537    πŸ” 580    πŸ’¬ 269    πŸ“Œ 26

Breaking news! The court just issued us a TRO in our lawsuit against Elon Musk's DOGE, so that they stop taking the private data of American citizens from the Department of Ed and OPM. More to come.

24.02.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4868    πŸ” 837    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 38
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Opinion | Fail, Caesar! We can’t let Trump be a cruel emperor.

Fail, Caesar! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

23.02.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fired Park Rangers Try to β€˜Open Some Hearts’ on Social Media Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about their firings and share their love of the National Park Service.

Fired Park Rangers Try to β€˜Open Some Hearts’ on Social Media www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/s...

21.02.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DEI Exposes the Myth of White Male Superiority β€” And That’s Why They Hate It The right’s jihad against DEI isn’t about fairness; it’s about losing privilege and control…

DEI Exposes the Myth of White Male Superiority β€” And That’s Why They Hate It
hartmannreport.com/p/dei-expose...

20.02.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mass resignation marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.

"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

17.02.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8270    πŸ” 1583    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 47
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Stop Trump’s cuts to cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s research! As the world’s largest funder of cancer research, NIH research grants have made it possible to extend countless lives and notably reduce cancer development and death. We can also thank NIH-funded rese...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

14.02.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pining for the Patriarchy A scorched-earth campaign to keep it intact

Trump isn’t just saying the quiet part out loud, he is screaming it from the roof tops.

13.02.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 594    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 6
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USAID staffers describe colleagues abandoned in violence in Congo as DOGE ends assistance programs Newly filed affidavits of U.S. Agency for International Development workers describe a lieutenant of Trump ally Elon Musk and other outsiders directing the immediate termination of hundreds of U.S. ai...

"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..."

apnews.com/article/trum...

13.02.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6237    πŸ” 2292    πŸ’¬ 387    πŸ“Œ 157
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The β€˜Manosphere’? It’s Planet Earth. (Gift Article) A β€œboys will be-boys” sensibility has jumped off the internet and into the halls of power. Are you surprised?

REQUIRED READING IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE COUNTRY WE LIVE IN: Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/s...

09.02.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Musk’s Lost Boys and Trump’s Mean Girls Lost boys find ways to ransack the capital.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

MAUREEN DOWD STRIKES AGAIN

09.02.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Snuggling up after a walk in the ice!

09.02.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show

m.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...

08.02.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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