Michele Dupey

@stephruhle.bsky.social BTW... Absolutely ♥️♥️♥️ you and the 11th Hour, especially on Fridays.

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Hey, Jersey Girl! MVP 4 U! I live in Bayonne. Water main break happened in South Kearny, affecting our water quality for 2 days (needing to boil water). Those HEROES worked in this godawful frigid weather 2 FIX THE BREAK. Just got call from Bay911 that our water is safe. ♥️

Hoboken Free America Walkout One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and ter...

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NJ & VA Gov. - Mikie Sherrill & Abigail Spanberger
NYC Mayor - Zohran Mamdani

PETITION: Restore the Right to Read at DoDEA Schools Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop the DoDEA book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad.

Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop Trump's book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad.

action.everylibrary.org/rtrdodea via
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Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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EMAIL YOUR REPS: Don't Ban Books in the United States Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.

STOP BOOK BANS!!

We made it easy to send an email to your representative to fight against book bans in your state!

action.everylibrary.org/nationalaccess via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Great idea by NJ's junior U.S. Senator Andy Kim. Think about becoming a leader? Apply!
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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Sat, Sept 6, 2025: , I participated as a vendor for the first Bayonne Heritage of Pride Festival, as chair of the Hudson County LGBTQ+ Advisory Task Force. Glorious day - rain or shine! - w/photos reflecting the sunshine before the torrential rains stopped the festival, mid-afternoon. ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🖤🩶🤍🤎

Bayonne Hosts Historic First Pride Festival Showcasing LGBTQ+ Solidarity The Pride Festival marked a milestone for the city and New Jersey’s expanding Pride movement.

Thanks to reporter Jordan Coll, of the New Jersey Urban News, there was coverage of the Bayonne Heritage of Pride Festival - the first of many to come. ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🖤🩶🤍🤎
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Florida is ending vaccine mandates. Murphy had a blunt response about whether it’d happen in N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy said he's troubled by the Florida move.

Thank YOU, Governor Phil Murphy!!! Got my Tdap last year. Got my MMR & Hep B this year. Get ALL your lifetime vaccines NOW. Unfortunately, you just can't trust the direction on access to vaccines of the Trump administration and RFK Jr. SMH 🤬 GIFTED (no paywall)
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Opinion | Trump Is Scrubbing Slavery From Our Historical Sites

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'Everything they're claiming' is 'a lie': How the Trump admin manufactures a crisis During his long writing career, journalist/author Radley Balko has focused heavily on civil liberties and criminal justice. Balko has been a scathing critic of the War on Drugs, detailing many example...

<< "Donald Trump's 'takeover' of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery," Balko argues. "It's a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism. It has nothing to do with recent crimes, or actual crime, or actual crime rates." >>
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To celebrate Women's Equality Day, we're choosing joy It is tough to be simultaneously reflective and realistic about women’s rights at this moment in our nation’s history.

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The Global Rise of Authoritarians: Here's Their Playbook From Trump to Netanyahu, from Putin to Modi, Team Zeteo joins forces with acclaimed philosopher and author Jason Stanley to connect the international fascist dots in this very unique video explainer.

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YouTube video by Robert Reich Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism

From the wisdom of Robert Reich...
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Free fall: Trump admin succeeds in dumbing down 'America's best idea' Often been referred to as America’s Best Idea, our National Park System has played a key role over the years in inspiring a global conservation movement.But consider the plight of the National Park Se...

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Trump’s “State Capitalism” It would be communism under any other dictator

Trump’s “State Capitalism”
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Historians Alarmed by White House Plan to Oversee Smithsonian Exhibits

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Social Security Is Turning 90. Here Are 6 Myths About It That Won’t Go Away.

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Robert Reich's Critique of Fellow Boomers | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Robert Reich, recently retired as Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, Secretary of Labor under Pres. Clinton, a columnist for Newsweek a...

💯💯💯 Robert Reich
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US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement ben...

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Ultra-processed foods make up over half of Americans’ calories, CDC says Roughly 55 percent of the average daily caloric intake comes from ultra-processed foods, which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to crack down on.

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*THIS* 👇👇👇 I wonder if this is the reason so many younger people (under 50) are dying of cancer...???
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'We're as active as California': What everyone needs to know about this week's earthquakes in NJ Experts say you shouldn't worry about the big one.

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Inside Trump's most Orwellian move yet I spent much of the 1990s as Secretary of Labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics.I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labo...

From the brilliant mind of Robert Reich, speaking from experience.
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YouTube video by College of Communication and Media at Montclair Montclair CCOM Welcome Video, 2025

Wow! Look what's happened in 50 years! From brand new degree in Broadcasting to a School and now, a *College*!!! /// Proud member of the Class of 1975 - the *first* graduating class in Broadcasting (Speech & Theater, Broadcasting, 1975).
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YouTube video by Save America Movement ICE Brigade

If you're a Baby Boomer, you might recognize the new words to the old song, "Battle of the Green Berets."
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The silencing Colbert, The Washington Post, Columbia University … and on it goes

The silencing *THIS* 👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/robertre...