April 16, 2025 In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p...

April 16, 2025

This!

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

April 4, 2025 The stock market rout continued today.

April 4, 2025

Take heart.
There is no shortage of courage.

Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?

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A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine

Hey, @strongtowns.org and @joinordiefilm.bsky.social: One of the things #GreenfieldMA has going for it is its 9 natural red clay tennis courts. Why? Because amateurs pitched in and saved something good about the place where they lived. #varticles andrewvarnon.blogspot.com/2016/05/clay...

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

Weather tool taken down has been recreated by The Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the things I do on #Bluesky is to curate my own feeds. One I interact with the most and keeps me grounded is #WesternMass. #BeYourOwnAlgorithm bsky.app/profile/did:...

YouTube video by avarnon Strongest Towns interview

Mira interviewed me about nominating #GreenfieldMA for the www.strongesttown.com competition. youtube.com/shorts/Q3uvP...

🚨 NEW: VoteVets is launching a six-figure ad blitz across TV, streaming, digital, and billboards—exposing GOP Veterans dodging constituents while Musk’s DOGE fires thousands of Veterans.

They promised to fight for Veterans—now they’re silent. Stop Elon’s war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!

Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:

The multidisciplinary radio opera, Get On Board, by Yvette Janine Jackson was published in McSweeney’s 64 in 2022.
(I had a small hand in it, by way of a pen name.)
It is no longer set in the future. The public-private partnership you feared is here.

audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/...

Around 1849–50, Eugène Delacroix became captivated by the challenge of capturing the light effects of cloud formations and chose pastel to convey his impressions. While he used the medium throughout his career, the sky studies constitute his largest cohesive group in pastel.

Around 1849–50, Eugène Delacroix became captivated by the challenge of capturing the light effects of cloud formations and chose pastel to convey his impressions. While he used the medium throughout his career, the sky studies constitute his largest cohesive group in pastel.

Based his work on Thomas Ravenel soooo…

Special Vermont Resistance edition Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.

Move over Ethan Allen, here comes Lucy Welch

billmckibben.substack.com/p/special-ve...

February 28, 2025 Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.

February 28, 2025

Now is the time to pour some money into independent journalism, and good scholarship. @theguardian.com @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and, in western Mass., The Shoestring theshoestring.org and The Montague Reporter montaguereporter.org

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Girl on a space hopper, 1971, Byker series, Newwcastle, UK , by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling

Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore. This Black History Month is the fraughtest. Maybe even apex fraught. As many hard-won minority group commemorations are being actively scrubbed from government websites, we the recognized are asked…

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social on David Ruggles, who opened the first (known) Black-owned bookstore and stocked it “with abolitionist and feminist publications.”

Pretty nice and quiet afternoon in the snow cave.

US Coup Gains Speed Europe shakes as a new world order emerges. Here's what's not on the front page of the New York Times right now

“There is an inability to process, accept and confront the dangerous new reality we are in and to focus on the big picture and the pivot of history that’s occurred in the last two weeks.”
Read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
She knows what’s up.

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Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭

What is it about watching a 4-year-old tell a 78-year-old with the maturity of a 2-year-old to "shut up and go away" that is SO deeply satisfying?

Campaign begins to purchase Big Moose Mountain GREENVILLE — Several weeks after launching a campaign to purchase the Big Moose Mountain ski property, a local nonprofit is nearly a sixth of the way to its $5.95 million goal.

observer-me.com/2025/02/07/f...

Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order: 1. The White House Counsel to provide the White House Security Office and Acting Chief Security Officer with a list of personnel that are hereby immediately_granted interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearances for a period not to exceed six months; and 2. That these individuals shall be immediately. granted access to the facilities and technolog.y necessary to perform the duties of the office to which they have been hired; and 3. The White House Counsel, as my designee, may supplement this list as necessary; and 4. The White House Counsel, as my designee, shall have the authority to revoke the interim clearance of any individual as necessary.

Under this executive order, an undisclosed list of Trump officials will be granted 6mo Top Secret/SCI clearances immediately without undergoing background checks. In charge of the bypass: new White House Counsel David Warrington, who worked on the 2024 campaign. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Sec. 2. Policy and Definitions. It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. Under my direction, the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this reality, and the following definitions shall govern all Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy: (a) “Sex” shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female. “Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity.” (b) “Women” or “woman” and “girls” or “girl” shall mean adult and juvenile human females, respectively. (c) “Men” or “man” and “boys” or “boy” shall mean adult and juvenile human males, respectively. (d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

BREAKING: Here is the anti-trans sex/gender executive order. It's extensive, it's bad, and it's often lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.

For all intensive purposes, what idioms or colloquialisms do people seem to constantly get wrong?