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Undaunted Jane Goodall reminds us that we all matter

A great tribute to Jane Goodall by @jenrubin.bsky.social. What an amazing person she was.
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Local businesses keep Salem Armory Regional Visitor Center open during govt shutdown. With 1 million visitors expected in October, it's important to keep National Park Service info & bathrooms available! @destsalem.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social #SalemMA
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If it's a shutdown, why can't they STFU?

Can you imagine if you were that fan? How awesome.

Events — Partnership of Historic Bostons

Looking for talks on 17th century, in Boston & New England? @historicbostons.bsky.social has covered many topics, including Salem witch trials, Puritanism, war, slavery, indigenous people, Anne Bradstreet, money, & more, all by top speakers.
historicbostons.org/events

Most British town names in Massachusetts, like Worcester.

So what's the lowdown in the neighborhood, Ziggy? I know you know.

This is just one reason why I hate this regime.

I feel this one.

[Images of court buildings on Federal Street & Jerry's Dept. Store (that was the beloved Witch City Thrift for 18(?) years.] "Ongoing Preservation Advocacy: Members of HSI’s hard working Preservation Committee have been diligently monitoring City board and commission meetings in connection with reviews of development in Salem that impacts historic properties. This advocacy is important work and is what HSI was founded to do in 1944."

Historic Salem Inc. (HSI) in Massachusetts monitors development & historic properties in the city; provides research & historic plaques for old buildings; & hosts December holiday house tours. #SalemMA #HistoryMatters Read more:
mailchi.mp/historicsale...

Presidency Boosts Trump’s Net Worth By $3 Billion In A Year https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/presidency-boosts-trumps-net-worth-by-3-billion-in-a-year/ at end of article, there's a graphic for related articles. More [stories] from Forbes: ‘We’d Call That Corruption’: How Trump Used The Presidency To Expand His Global Empire By Dan Alexander Trump Has Spent About One-Third Of His Presidency Visiting His Own Properties By Dan Alexander How Barron Trump May Have Earned $40 Million From His Dad’s Crypto Venture By Kyle Khan-Mullins Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump By Jeremy Bogaisky See: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-staggering-amount-donald-trump-is-profiting-from-the-presidency-revealed/ for Mar-a-Lago initiation fees.

Companies give Trump bribe money to influence government policies & for protection. Trump makes mega $$$ deals w/Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar, Vietnam, etc., & profits from his cryptocurrency business, enriching Trump & his family despite emoluments clause barring such action.

Trump steals from working & middle class to give money to billionaires. Why? He still needs to pay up to mingle with the rich & famous.

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-c37 "Let’s start with the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson who fabricates a story about his party’s attitude toward healthcare which strains credulity: "So, they created a red herring. A red herring is a distraction. They decided that they would pick a fight on healthcare. Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock every day to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us. We’ve done it. A big part of the one Big Beautiful Bill [TM], the working family’s tax cut, was to fix healthcare. Healthcare is broken in America. It’s too expensive. The quality of care needs to rise. We need more access for more people, and we have lots of ideas to do that. "None of that is true. I’m getting tired of saying that phrase, but it continues to be relevant anytime somebody like Johnson or Donald or Karoline Leavitt or Stephen Miller or JD Vance opens their mouths. The Republicans have fought the Affordable Care Act for years. During Donald’s first term, they tried to repeal it dozens of times with no ideas for a replacement plan, not even concepts of a plan. Donald is in his 10th year as the leader of the Republican Party; he’s in his fifth year as the person in the Oval Office, and he has nothing to show for it. There is no healthcare plan from the Republicans. The Affordable Care Act could be better, certainly, but it is far better than anything we ever had. And it is infinitely better than the nothing the Republicans want to offer the American people." Mary Trump Live podcast, Oct. 6, 2025

2016: Trump had an IDEA on healthcare & showed a binder full of blank pages as proof. 2025: Smarmy Speaker Johnson claims GOP has "lots of IDEAS" on healthcare though Big Ugly Bill makes ACA unaffordable. Lower drug prices by 200%? As in pharma paying people to take their drugs? Idiot.

Writing about OMB director Vought on X is verboten (forbidden; prohibited)? "Content Invalid." [same comment/ Project 2025 box that I posted on Bluesky with a "The content of your post is invalid" in pink at top. In middle: "Save post?" that wouldn't let me save text on X.] On X/Twitter, blue message box at bottom said "This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again later."

On X/Twitter, AI called this same post "invalid." I was called a bot, posting spam or malicious content. I couldn't save a draft either.

X, Facebook, Instagram, etc., are being CENSORED. Conspiracy theories may be allowed. I don't know.

Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project • Cut taxes for billionaires & big corporations • Increase presidential powers • Replace federal civil service workers with Trump loyalists • Cut Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP food benefits • Remove legal protections for LGBTQ+ discrimination • End diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs • Dismantle Department of Education • End the Head Start program • Cut funding for free school meals • Divert funding for public schools with private school vouchers • Ban books (LGBTQ+, DEI, sexuality, science topics, etc.) • Defund PBS and NPR • Criminalize abortion and birth control methods • Abolish Consumer Financial Protection Bureau • Abolish USAID global health, disaster relief, development program • Downsize the Environmental Protection Agency, loosen restrictions • Reduce environmental regulations in favor of fossil fuels • Open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling • Increase military spending and nuclear weapon arsenal • Replace separation of church and state with Christian Nationalism, etc.

With government closed for business, OMB director Russell Vought is pushing his extreme far-right, white nationalist, male-centric, fundamentalist Christian agenda. Forget helping those in need. 49yo, cheating-husband, now-divorced Vought's net worth is $10 million. He doesn't care about U.S. or us.

U.S. has Family History Month in October. Others? I don't know. Try the link.

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Courage to Love gender and sexuality in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt

For nearly 30 years, OAH has partnered with the National Park Service to bring top historical scholarship to our national parks. For LGBTQ+ History Month, we’re spotlighting two resources that deepen our understanding and public presentation of LGBTQ+ histories. https://ow.ly/N4NZ50TzkEJ

If you want energy, clean air, food, healthcare or justice government isn't working for you anymore. But if you want to deport your neighbor who has more melanin than you do, they're doubling down.

This is OUR MONEY being used by Trump to bribe universities to follow his agenda. Damn the Supremes for telling Trump he can do anything he wants while in office. Everything Trump does is just crooked or self-serving. And he's profiting from his position in plain sight of the American people. Bigly

Trump thinks everything owned by the American people is his? WTF.

U.S. President's job is to support all Americans. Yet Trump regime is freezing $26B in Democratic-leaning states—despite Congressional votes & their power of the purse. Targeting blue states is just plain wrong. Spiteful, cruel. Again, he only cares about himself & he'll turn on anyone.

Roy Cohn: From 'Red Scare' Prosecutor to Donald Trump's Mentor | HISTORY Roy Cohn prosecuted the Rosenbergs, purged government workers and worked for Donald Trump.

BLUE SCARE. Lawyer Roy Cohn was behind McCarthyism, "interrogation & purging of federal employees based on McCarthy’s unsupported claim that govt was filled w/communists." Trump, whose major influencer & fixer was Cohn, now attacks Democratic US citizens & cities.
www.history.com/articles/roy...

October is Family History Month! Celebrate with American ANcestors and the Family Heritage Experience. Free Admission, New Membership Discount, and More. Come celebrate Family History Month at American Ancestors with a variety of events and activities! Located in Boston's historic Back Bay. 97 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.** *Free access to the library includes access to the general collection of published genealogies and local histories on 5th and 7th floors. ** October 1st Library and Family Heritage Experience will be open from 1p.m. to 6 p.m. October 3rd the Family Heritage Experience will be open from 10a.m. to 4 p.m. https://hubs.americanancestors.org/family-history-month

Leaves are turning and there's a chill in the air. For #FamilyHistory Month, visit the newly expanded American Ancestors (NEHGS) building in Boston for free. Check out their exhibit space, do some #genealogy research. @americanancestors.bsky.social
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YouTube video by Vijay Joyce History of the Broad Street Cemetery of Salem, Massachusetts

Watch: History of Broad Street Cemetery (1655), 2nd oldest burying ground in #SalemMA, by Vijay Joyce. People buried there include Pickering, Corwin, Lander, Plummer, Prince, Goodhue, Holyoke, Haraden, Felt, Sewall, Pickman, Oliver & more. #tomb #grave
youtu.be/DOk9Gjw3pCs

More Trails & Sails Ahead... There's still plenty for you to enjoy this week and over the weekend. picture of people walking on a dirt road between trees, green grass, and spectacular stone walls.

Looking for something to do the the Essex Heritage area of Massachusetts?
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Release the Epstein Files!

Trump & his billionaires have increased their wealth & power under his corrupt regime. They despise the poor, hungry, sick, & strangers. Yet, "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Release the Epstein files!

The First Magazines Written for Career Women Reveal a Portrait of Immense Creativity and Hope Publications including "Mademoiselle," "Glamour" and the long-forgortten "Charm" first emerged in the 1930s to satisfy an emergent force in the workplace

Trump regime & MAGA consider women homemakers despite statistics. In 1933, 25% of U.S. workforce were women. In 1948, 32.7%; & in 1999 it peaked at 60%. What a "radical notion that women were thinking, independent-minded beings, not mere domestic helpmeets."
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...