Mary Jenkins

Today in History: February 24, President Andrew Johnson impeached by House 1803: Supreme Court issues Marbury v. Madison decision 1991: U.S. begins ground operations in Gulf War 2022: Russia begins full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Today in history: Marbury v. Madison SCOTUS decision
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Tell your NH reps to vote NO on SB434. Don't allow one parent to have outsized control over what other people's kids can read and view. Don't like a book or lesson? Don't read it. Processes for challenges are already in place. #libraries #schools #bookbans share.nwmd.social/s/GZB60wsH #NewHampshire

OPPOSE this bill sponsored by NH Rep.Jason Osbourne.
Establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools and relative to the method for converting to a charter school.
Public hearing tomorrow Tues Feb 24. gc.nh.gov/house/commit...
Education Policy Comm.

Our Mission and Vision: - New Hampshire Peace Action Vision: We envisage a future where international relations are based on cooperation instead of competition and conflict, and where mutual benefit and shared security lead to a more peaceful and just g...

From NH Peace Action: “Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornel West"This Valentine’s Day, let it be known: love is not passive. As militarism escalates abroad and repression expands at home, it is our compassion for humanity that compels us to act." More about actions:
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ACLU-NH unveils state documents confirming ICE’s detailed site plans for a Merrimack detention facility - ACLU of New Hampshire Right-to-know request reveals New Hampshire state agency consulted on ICE’s plans in Merrimack

Say no to a concentration camp in New Hampshire. Say it louder.
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Hearing scheduled for bill that would end mandatory school vaccinations in New Hampshire - Concord Monitor New Hampshire Republican Party's push to end mandatory vaccinations for schoolchildren will be discussed in a legislative committee hearing.

Say NO to HB1811, which would repeal statutory immunization requirements for children. There's a public hearing in HHS Committee tomorrow. Show up or send testimony now! 02/04/2026 09:00 am GP 158. To submit remote testimony ASAP: gc.nh.gov/house/commit...
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Sunday thought: Green Shoots? The past week

"The roots of America’s neighborism and outrage against tyranny are deepening and spreading, and their green shoots are sprouting. And the fossilized remnants of a bigoted and brutal America ... are heading for the dustbin of history."
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Advocate for data collection safeguards for #minors and for #consumer protections for all by submitting online testimony on NH HB1694. Hearing Jan 21 in the House Judiciary Committee. This is a good bill, supporting consumer #dataprivacy. NH residents, comment here: gc.nh.gov/house/commit...

Some NH schools stop streaming sports, concerts because of parental rights law - Manchester Ink Link Four months into the school year, the state Department of Education warned districts that those types of videos are now illegal under state law, unless the school has written permission from parents t...

Among the stupid and unnecessary impacts of the Republicans' legislative agenda in #NewHampshire – Some NH #schools stop streaming sports, concerts because of parental rights law manchester.inklink.news/some-nh-scho... #publiceducation #parentalrights

NH Food Bank amplifying fundraising Efforts amid SNAP uncertainty - Manchester Ink Link The New Hampshire Food Bank, a program of Catholic Charities New Hampshire, is intensifying its fundraising efforts to address the anticipated statewide rise in food insecurity as the federal governme...

"The New Hampshire Food Bank has already increased food distribution by 26% year-over-year to meet the growing demand." #foodinsecurity #newhampshire #snap #nutrition manchester.inklink.news/nh-food-bank...

Choosing to let kids go hungry The USDA asserts that Democrats are blocking funding to secure “health care for illegal immigrants” and funding for “gender mutilation procedures.” All of these claims are false.

And I'll say it again: the administration, federal and state, is saying it's okay to let people go hungry, that somehow access to food is not a human right.
open.substack.com/pub/populari... #hunger #nutrition #potus #humanrights

New Hampshire doesn’t join New England neighbors in SNAP injunction suit - Manchester Ink Link New Hampshire is the only New England state that has not joined a group of 26 in a suit filed Tuesday against the federal government over it’s refusal to use a contingency fund to pay Supplemental Nut...

New Hampshire doesn’t join New England neighbors in SNAP injunction suit manchester.inklink.news/new-hampshir... #snap #supplementalnutritionassistanceprogram #foldinsecurity

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

Are you okay with the erosion of freedom of the press? I'm not.
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The price of community… “If you want something, you need to give something.”

"The beauty of community will help you grow as well as the other person involved. Haven’t you heard? We rise by lifting others. The sense of community will take you to some levels you can’t attain on your own."
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September 17, 2025 (Wednesday) This evening, John Koblin, Michael M.

“Americans take their First Amendment rights seriously. In April 2025, a Pew Research Center poll showed that 92% of Americans thought it was important “that the media can report the news without state/government censorship.””
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Today Republicans Traumatized our Kids at Their Schools Once Again The Madness Must Stop

"A whole lot of people concentrated on a very different act of gun violence [Wed]. So much so that many missed a uniquely despicable American tragedy that occurred yet again... a whole new locale where our nation’s kids were treated to a lifetime trauma by the GOP."
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A Plague of Fools: Florida’s War on Sanity Why Ron DeSantis Wants Florida's Kids to Get Sick & Die

"With the wild-eyed conviction of a snake oil salesman, Ladapo likened childhood vaccines to “slavery”—an analogy so grotesque, so profoundly ahistorical, that it would make even a Confederate re-enactor spit out his chewing tobacco in disbelief."
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How Do We Campaign vs/Crush MAGA? Rant: DeSantis Ends Vaccine Mandates; Guest: Maine’s Angus King III, Running For Governor & Answering Our Questions

"Across the country, Trump’s GOP continues to champion policies that literally kill people. ...

And now, they’re gunning to roll back vaccines. This isn’t governing—it’s more state-sponsored terrorism."

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Trump and the Art of Extortion How to understand his desire to control the Fed (and everything else)

"Think of all [Trump's] moves...controlling the Fed, or occupying ... cities, or unleashing ICE..., or imposing ... tariffs..., or attacking... universities and museums, or shaking down CEOs...as motivated by an unquenchable thirst to accumulate bargaining power..."
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Opinion: Root out invasive extremists - Concord Monitor New Hampshire gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts are familiar with highly invasive vines like knotweed and bittersweet. They climb all over power poles and fences, smothering and killing trees and shru...

"[NH] gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts are familiar with highly invasive vines like knotweed and bittersweet... These invaders are very much like the plague of outside money and anti-democratic ideology that came to NH 20 years ago as the Free State Project."
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Law Dork talks with California A.G. Rob Bonta The president, Bonta said, "is probably the most powerful person in the world with their actual given official power ... but he regularly attempts to grasp and seize power that he does not have."

California A.G. Rob Bonta:
"Defend the Constitution, defend the rule of law, defend the future of this most incredible nation in the history of the world... We all have the agency and the ability and the power to fight back..."
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New Hampshire is paying a long-term price for the high cost of a college education • New Hampshire Bulletin August is an anxious month for parents preparing to drop off their young adults at the University of New Hampshire.

New Hampshire is paying a long-term price for the high cost of a college education newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/08/14/n...

Trump's trial run at a police state Normalizing military intervention for domestic policing is the beginning of the end of democracy

"He is testing the limits of his power — and, by extension, of our democracy. He’s feeling out what the Supreme Court, Congress, and the public will let him get away with. And so far, he’s been able to do what he pleases."
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A legal black hole "We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland," President Trump said earlier this month, referring to the new detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz.

"According to a class action lawsuit, that turned out to be literally true. Hundreds of people are being held at the [Alligator Alcatraz] facility without charges, without access to attorneys, and without the ability to contest their detention in court."
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The Revolution Will Be Card Cataloged: Dispatches From The Law Librarian Frontlines - Above the Law At AALL's annual meeting, the research profession searches for its war footing.

"Librarians form the last line of defense against an information apocalypse."
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Be bold. Advocate. Be subversive. Defend our principles. A good nudge from #AALL25 keynote speaker Roosevelt Weeks

District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order Judge Susan Illston provided a great example on Friday of how to deal with the current Supreme Court in an order that the Trump admin turn over its mass-firing plans.

"How do you deal with a reactionary, far-right U.S. Supreme Court majority in this moment of the Trump administration’s repeated lawlessness if you are a federal district judge who believes in the rule of law?" open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Law #librarian / legal info pro friends and anyone else supportive of #reading and childhood #literacy: please give to the AALL Social Responsibilities SIS book drive. Thanks! #smartreading
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Ayotte Vetoes Book Ban Bill, Fetus Videos and Locker Room Bill Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a bill that would have school districts establish a process to ban books and other “inappropriate materials” from public schools.

Good news for #NewHampshire children, families, schools, and transgender people – and the whole state. Hate and excessive intrusion into reading, healthcare decisions, and neutral sex ed has no place in NH. Vote out the sponsors of those awful bills. indepthnh.org/2025/07/15/a...

July 15, 2025 Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court’s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while th...

"This is a major expansion of presidential power, permitting the president to disregard laws Congress has passed, despite the Constitution’s clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...