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Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

I don’t post enough original content. So here I am mixing things up.

I had time to wander a bit yesterday around Bright Water Bog in Shutesbury.

When facism gets you down, go outside.

A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

Overpass letters: Then They Came For A Judge

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We can't rest until government is restored as an instrument for the people, not our homegrown theocrats, kleptocrats and oligarchs.

Although this is no surprise it remains unconscionable and it affects every one of us.

True story ⤵️

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

“Freedom is worth fighting for, and the fight has arrived.” - Michelle Wu

Lantern ceremony at the Old North Church in Boston 250 years from the night Paul Revere rode to Lexington to warn the people of the approaching British troops.

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Does it come with a QR code link to free passports for all? Not complaining, love Bon Iver but feeling incredibly concerned about voting rights today.

Album: I Might be Wrong

Weird Fishes
National Anthem
Reckoner
Exit Music for a Film
How to Disappear Completely
Spinning Plates

The Carter Center “The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.”

Folks, we should be spending zero cycles on this.

If, by some bizarre reading of the Constitution, SCOTUS gives a green light to a 3rd term scenario, all the Dems need to do is nominate Obama. Game over.

“School is not important. Work is not important. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” —Fred Hampton

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"Someone needs to walk into the Oval Office and say, "Mr. President, we just fired the person who may have saved your life." Dr. David Kessler on whether Donald Trump understands what his indiscriminate cuts at HHS are doing.

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

He ordered the bleach, he drew up the bleach and now he’s administering the bleach… without indications, evidence of efficacy or even a degree conferring him knowledge in what bleach’s chemical make up is. He’s an impostor and in other professions posing as a professional would get him jail time.