Barbara Kates

Wonderful film coming to Bangor Maine

I called Golden's Bangor office and found out he plans to vote for the SAVE Act. When I said that it required a passport or birth certificate matching one's id, which many millions - mostly women - don't have, the person at the office said there's a way around that. But there isn't. #mepolitics

If you haven't heard anything about the unfathomably couragous anti-Hamas protests in Gaza right now, you should probably update your information diet to include outlets and influencers who do a better job telling you what's going on.

Palestinian director of 'No Other Land' attacked by settler mob, arrested by soldiers ***

Dozens of settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land," wounding him and others, activists at the scene and Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham said. Witnesses also said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance

“The same people who are trying to get away with using Nazi salutes are claiming to care about Jewish people and our needs.”

-Jamie Beran of @bendthearc.bsky.social

#FreeMahmoud

"The American antisemitism now merges with the Russian antisemitism and reinforces it. The idea that Zelens'kyi is not a real president, and that his government is therefore not a real government, has been a very specific Russian antisemitic trope from the beginning."

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm Transgender and queer people led the Stonewall Uprising and now the National Park Service writes them out of the history of that moment. The National Park website has changed LGBTQ to LGB. Be present for the transgender and queer people in your community!

Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours.

More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

This tracks with everything I've covered for years. It's not in people's heads: America is getting more antisemitic, and that starts with the young. When people focus on antisemitic politicians, they need to grasp that in a democracy, those politicians are downstream from voters.