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This title was my selection for nonfiction book club. Can’t wait to re-read this with the group; such an important subject, covered expertly and compellingly.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Every accusation is a confession with these scumbags.

Wishing you all the best! Hope everything goes well.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye Better nothing than a MAGA mouthpiece.

New in PN: Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye

"We’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue."

The Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY is facing foreclosure by December 31st. The Paleontological Research Institution needs to raise $1 million or their collection of 7-10 million fossils — one of the largest in North America — gets scattered across the country. This includes world-renowned Burgess Shale specimens, the most complete eurypterid ever found, and the Hyde Park Mastodon. Many fossils came from sites that are now paved over and can never be collected again. The NYT just covered their fight for survival. If you've ever visited or care about preserving paleontological research, they're accepting donations of any size.

I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences By Eleftheria Kousta for Waging Nonviolence As Russian attacks were keeping Kyiv’s residents awake most nights this summer, a group of Ukrainians gathered outside the National Museum of t…

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Gorgeous!

Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.

DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.”

“SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.”

~Center for Budget and Policy

Its a picture of Boston Harbor

No Kings from the original location 💙💙💙
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History professor Heather Cox Richardson reviews the life of one of the most amazing women in America's history: Frances Perkins. Tomorrow, Social Security, which she championed as Secretary of Labor for 12 years, will be 90 years old. 11mins
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Gorgeous!

thanks for the link!

Way to go, Kokomo!

Town of Milford and neighboring towns showed UP for the Milford, MA high school junior detained by ICE on his way to volley ball practice yesterday (Saturday 5/31) morning.

Hands off our kids and families. Hundreds gathered. Hundreds more honked support. Not in our towns.

Seriously. He’s another craven scumbag eugenicist in this administration.
“Dr. Makary is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Nobility in Science Award from the National Pancreas Foundation.”
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He’s a pancreatic surgeon, no less.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. - Timothy Snyder

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Peter says hello!

#194 Letter to a Trump Voter Like just about everyone these days, our own Jack Schneider is troubled–make that frightened–by our political landscape. But however deep our divides may be, there’s one issue that can, if not bring u

In our latest episode, @jackschneider.bsky.social reaches out to voters who cast their ballots for Donald Trump.

His ask? Stand up for the public good...even in these times when we are encouraged to believe that no such thing exists.
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I’ve been looking at personal home weather stations at acurite.com. Can’t believe this is happening.

The Republican Rip Off

This tool is amazing and gives you the numbers to explain the human impact — at the district level.

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Truth. He had a good crowd in Mendon a few hours later, too.

Week one disability rights watch. What happened?

Removal of the accessibility page and all content in ASL from the White House website. The administration sets the tone for what it does and does not value on its official website.

Executive Order "ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and spending". this seeks to terminate all DEI related programs and work within the federal government in the text DEI is sometimes written to include accessibility as DEIA

Executive Order "Ending illegal discrimination and Restoring Merit based Order". Expands the reach of Anti-DEIA tasks including investigating private sector businesses that have any DEI or accessibility initiatives

Trying to collect info in one place for folks. Things are moving quickly. The multiply marginalized will be disparately impacted, especially BlPOC, immigrant, and/or queer disabled folks. Here's the round up from week 1.

Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty 1. You own music in so many formats that your collection could be housed in an audio museum. 2. Back in your day, people feared measles more than t...

"You’ve lived long enough to see the biggest stains on the Kennedy name go from philandering and manslaughter to vaccine denial and a weird fascination with roadkill."

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1965: President Johnson laid out his vision for a Great Society in his State of the Union address. Following Johnson’s lead, Congress enacted sweeping legislation in the areas of civil rights, healthcare, education and the environment.