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UNE Refuses Citizen Request for Information The University of New England (UNE) is, apparently, refusing to provide information to the public and the media about a federal grant the university received to construct a new “research pier” on t…

UNE Refuses Citizen Request for Information biddeford-gazette.com/2025/02/03/u...

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · Mobilize Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Nope! More large vehicles to fuck up the roads

Notice how the birdsong is louder than the crowd

A quiet, empty street

Quiet, empty street

Someone asks the secret service guy standing in front of us whether it's over. "Honestly I have no idea," he replies

Trump, Musk, and Republicans’ efforts to dismantle our Social Security means families have to wonder how they will pay for loved ones' housing.

People pay into Social Security their ENTIRE lives — and it needs to be there for us when we retire.

This is wonderful,

“We Must Protect This Fridge” How a student design project led by Holy Cross Professor Amy D. Finstein and local architect Larry Haley ’72 supported a mutual aid effort tackling food insecurity in Worcester.

In Prof. Amy Finstein’s Modern Home course, students designed a structure to protect food for #Worcester residents facing food insecurity. With guidance from Worcester architect Larry Haley ’72, their designs became a reality.

Full HCM digital story 📷→ bit.ly/42GeDhc

If you watch only one video today, let it be this one.

Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America.

His words could not be more on point and timely.

Please pass it on.

Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants

Make America Stink Again

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...

Tax cuts for the few, healthcare cuts for the many

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

For every amazing local journalism story trying to make American lives better, there’s a big, lazy, national media narrative that is hot gutter trash making Americans stupider and lowering their expectations of government to a bullsh*t reality show.

Truly embarrassing stuff here.

Opinion | Trump’s Big Budget Bomb

“I’ve been a policy journalist for more than 20 years. I’ve covered more bills than I can count. I cannot remember a more cruel or irresponsible piece of domestic legislation that has been seriously proposed.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

Trump’s Whisper from Moscow: Coincidence or Destiny? Why does a president who seems to have no firm convictions and whose opinions are so maddeningly unpredictable nonetheless maintain such a positive stance toward Russia?

“it is difficult to imagine how Trump’s behavior would differ if he were indeed compromised by Russia. Until Trump offers a convincing explanation of innocence, he should not be given the benefit of the doubt.”

tomorrowsaffairs.com/trumps-whisp...

The truth about Donald Trump rarely makes it into the news | Press Watch Mainstream journalists are depriving their audiences of crucial context

The truth about Donald Trump rarely makes it into the news: presswatchers.org/2025/05/the-...

Trump wants us explode in violent outrage — here's why The world is watching in disbelief as the president of the United States goes full Aryan. After coaxing Black and brown voters into his tent, Donald Trump loaded a gun, trained it at their heads, and ...

Trump wants us explode in violent outrage — here's why

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@matthewjdowd.bsky.social
Another great job today on MSNBC with Alex. I 100% agree with you. It is going to have to get very bad for the other side to realize what they did when they voted for him. Unfortunately we already know what’s coming. There will be no happy ending .

Never forget

Memorial for George Floyd at the Say Their Names cemetery

George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today.

The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.

Anyone collating a book of his gaffs? Will be a bestseller!

Like ‘The Hunger Games,’ But for Immigrants The Trump administration thinks Americans want their cruel, warped vision of immigration to come to TV.

Like ‘The Hunger Games,’ But for Immigrants
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No matter what you call it, the Big Ugly Bill, the Big Bad Bill, the Big Billionaire Bill, it all comes out to the same thing:

Republicans are stealing from the needy to give to the greedy.

Average Americans haven’t felt any effects from Trump’s dumbass tariffs yet, those are effects that take time to set in.

Same with the cuts they’re pushing through on Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP.

Services will disappear right about the same time prices start rising.

Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum: 9780385549936 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat...

I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The Extinction Order: Trump’s Executive Order 14270 Doesn’t Deregulate; It Dismantles | Common Dreams Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” But wildness cannot survive without protection, and protection is what this order destroys.

The Extinction Order: Trump’s Executive Order 14270 Doesn’t Deregulate; It Dismantles www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Does Kristi Noem even know what habeas corpus is? The Homeland Security secretary's word salad raised even more questions about the administration's assault on fundamental rights.

“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”

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Tell it sir!
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