Rod Kessler @rodkessler - Bluesky Profile

#skunk #Salem #Halloween

Newcomer to our Salem,Mass. , neck of the (suburban) woods. Critter seems decked out for our Halloween season. Not your usual skunk?

19.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Our Saturday standout in Salem, Mass. , could have used some reinforcements today.

09.08.2025 18:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy to spread the word. I’m enjoying your Substack pieces too.

07.08.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Time to replace the flavor bars on the old Weber grill.

#grilling

05.08.2025 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Curious to know what topics outside your wheelhouse.

30.07.2025 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe by moving to Canada? (Funny bridge column headline)
#bridge
#humor
#journalism

28.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Think I’m in the ballpark??

17.07.2025 21:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#politics
#Salem
Our local elections season has kicked off in Salem, Mass., with preliminary run-offs in early September.

13.07.2025 20:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Work by Charles Sheeler in the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH, depicting local scene. (Good visit today)

06.07.2025 16:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

My long-ago college classmate Katherine Day Bremer has released HEADHUNTER CONFIDENTIAL: The unwritten Rules for Landing a Job You Love. Know anyone still looking for that kind of work?

02.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NO KINGS Salem, MA · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Salem, MA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

04.06.2025 15:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We still have baseball at Fenway.

25.05.2025 18:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Glimpse of ordinary life in Boston: commuter rail board in North Station at rush hour.

02.05.2025 20:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t think that she’s just a big tipper?

27.04.2025 02:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How would you say it in French?

25.04.2025 10:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oui

25.04.2025 10:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Zero Day?

25.04.2025 01:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A Penny for Your Thoughts In a recent article that appeared in the Salem News, poet and educator Rod Kessler suggested that instead of discarding pennies (our leader…

Happy to see that the Lincoln penny dissent pin is getting some notice.
karengrossedu.medium.com/a-penny-for-...

21.04.2025 18:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Just read and enjoyed your thoughtful piece.

20.04.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Supplies

10.04.2025 20:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It takes sandpaper, glue, butterfly clutches, and cleaned pennies. Got a nearby hobby shop? Or go online.

10.04.2025 20:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m still promoting the Lincoln penny lapel pin as a show of dissent. I’m glueing these together as quickly as I can and handing them out.

10.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

#HandsOff2025
Salem, Mass.

05.04.2025 18:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In Salem, Mass.

05.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Consider adopting the Lincoln penny pin as a progressive, pro-Democracy symbol. (I’m making my own. You can too!)

05.04.2025 15:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just an hour collecting trash along the nearby road, woods,and cove has lifted my mood today.

22.03.2025 20:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well done! —Salem neighbor.

21.03.2025 10:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lincoln penny lapel pin: stand with Lincoln and the spirit of democracy. Easy to make. Join me?

16.03.2025 18:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve an idea for a public anti-(you-know-who /you-know-what) symbol: lapel pins made from pennies. (I've ordered butterfly clutches and shafts & have superglue.) If the far right can monopolize the flag, let us have Lincoln. Imagine if we wore them in public in the millions! Pass the word.

14.03.2025 19:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And not primarily to spread disinformation?

10.03.2025 12:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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