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Sunset after the storm rolled through #Gloucesterma#sunset

My niece Emily Everett has a touching essay in Modern Love in NY Times today. Also check out her debut novel All That Life Can Afford...She does her own promotion mostly so I wanted to help her out.

If you haven’t already shared this post from Boston University, Professor of History, Heather Cox Richardson, on the 250th anniversary, I encourage you to do so.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Powerful!

American Conversations: Senator Angus King (I-ME), on Paul Revere's Ride YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

This is great, and y'all should watch it!

Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for letting this awesome Senator speak his heart.

(This was supposed to be about Paul Revere but the Senator had some things to say.♥️♥️♥️)

#resist #hope

The Science of Belonging Building genuine connections with others can be messy, beautiful, and unpredictable, but the results are worth it. Are you ready?

The Science of Belonging | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hear...

Fourteen hours later, he's still going.

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov, for using your voice to alert people to Trump and Musk's wrecking ball to Social Security and other vital services Americans rely on.

Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.

Here's a gift link. Share far and wide.

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Props to Peter Morley for reminding me with his post. I expected it to be posted everywhere but with the show in the oval office, this was swept under the rug along with many other stories. I was distracted by moving over to here from Imgur suddenly on top of that.

How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA The billionaire overseeing a wide-ranging government efficiency effort is offering his own SpaceX technology as the future of flight-safety inside the Federal Aviation Administration

NEW: How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA

FAA employees are on edge. They were told that anyone who impeded progress of the new FAA-SpaceX partnership would be reported to Musk and risked losing their jobs.

A ton of scoopy news in this new report.

🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Democrats Are Acting Too Normal In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.

America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We Are All Less Safe Today, as NOAA Gets Hit With Mass Firings Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing

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It occurs to me that not everyone knows how to get to Sugarbush, the ski resort JD Vance is visiting.

It’s a great mountain, but even if you don’t ski, it’s a beautiful drive to get there, especially on a clear day like tomorrow.

You can get directions here. You’re welcome!

Feds - read & heed. I know you may be very angry and disgruntled right now, especially if you were caught in the crosshairs of this administration’s shit show, but our country needs all of us to hold the line. Our oath doesn’t end just because our employment might. #resist #altgov #strongertogether

Thank you for your hard work. Much appreciated. I was a Contracting Officer for 35 years. Noone outside of Government understood how hard we worked but we knew it.

Gloucester MA

For those who missed it!! #Altgov had a story written about them!!

Random acts of kindness are priceless.
This is a really beautiful idea. ♥️

#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside Government employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky

A rare moment of good in this week's news.
When gov works with the people instead of against them, great things can be done. Thank you all for your support. Together is how we get through this. 🫶

Trump administration shifts to next phase of large-scale cuts to federal workforce The Trump administration Wednesday ordered heads of federal departments and agencies to prepare to initiate "large-scale reductions in force" by March 13

If you rely on fed services such as social security, Medicare/Medicaid, airline safety, clean air & water, disaster response, search & rescue, or enjoy things like national parks, you *really* need to contact all of your congressional reps.
These services are people dependent & in very real danger.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Beautiful day in the mountains

What It Costs Us Creativity and empathy, from the depths of despair

We need to remember what we’re capable of. Every day let your mind be blown by something you do, read, listen to, or create. That is one way we get through this—to remain open to everything that is wondrous in the world.

www.marytrump.org/p/what-it-co...

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

🚨NEW HAMPSHIRE RESIDENTS🚨

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

Blanket of snow in Gloucester

Winter is on its way...