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Writer. 2025 E Ethelbert Miller Prize. Poet Laureate of Bristol, CT. Pro-Democracy. Open Mic Night host.

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Getting started in the arts: Getting a jump on change - The Bristol Edition by Tom Lagasse | Poet laureate of Bristol | Nov. 24, 2025 | On Thanksgiving, the Manchester Road Race will have an estimated 12,000 runners participating in the annual five-mile...

Getting started in the arts: Getting a jump on change www.bristoledition.org/blog/2025/11...

24.11.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

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ICE in Portland: β€œDear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light β€˜em up!”

23.10.2025 10:38 πŸ‘ 10199 πŸ” 2631 πŸ’¬ 452 πŸ“Œ 218

The campaign against β€œantifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as β€œterrorists.”

10.10.2025 19:51 πŸ‘ 19446 πŸ” 5986 πŸ’¬ 855 πŸ“Œ 291

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

02.10.2025 14:23 πŸ‘ 12360 πŸ” 4788 πŸ’¬ 742 πŸ“Œ 331

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

02.10.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 24985 πŸ” 8875 πŸ’¬ 1383 πŸ“Œ 424
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US Army unveils new grooming policy Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, initiated a militarywide review of standards earlier this year.

Secretary Pete Hegseth's new facial hair grooming standards are discriminatory against troops who can't shave for religious reasons and Black and Brown people, who are more likely to have skin conditions that make shaving difficult and painful.

02.10.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 424 πŸ” 141 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 15

And he's the enemy...

30.09.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The GOP SHUTDOWN of the federal government will:
🚨Skyrocket costs
🚨Screw up essential services
🚨Abandon disaster victims
🚨Make everyday life even WORSE for Americans

This is America after nine months of Donald Trump.

30.09.2025 21:48 πŸ‘ 1851 πŸ” 682 πŸ’¬ 166 πŸ“Œ 39
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www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

30.09.2025 13:17 πŸ‘ 8827 πŸ” 3308 πŸ’¬ 304 πŸ“Œ 137
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Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young:

β€œICE goes masked for a single reason β€” to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.

Google's YouTube will pay Trump $24.5m for suspending his account re J6. $22m of it will go to constructing the $200m WH ballroom.

Meta will pay $25m over FB & IG Trump J6 suspensions. X paid $10m, which Trump called 'a big discount.'

30.09.2025 21:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations.

GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

30.09.2025 12:52 πŸ‘ 19970 πŸ” 4798 πŸ’¬ 412 πŸ“Œ 116

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 49591 πŸ” 15464 πŸ’¬ 663 πŸ“Œ 714
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β€œTo us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

30.09.2025 21:41 πŸ‘ 26440 πŸ” 7943 πŸ’¬ 355 πŸ“Œ 247
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30.09.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 16091 πŸ” 6207 πŸ’¬ 301 πŸ“Œ 198

I’m still processing what happened this morning.

Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

30.09.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 16591 πŸ” 3789 πŸ’¬ 1065 πŸ“Œ 211
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Perfect

30.09.2025 05:17 πŸ‘ 6636 πŸ” 1501 πŸ’¬ 136 πŸ“Œ 75

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

30.09.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 24819 πŸ” 6163 πŸ’¬ 351 πŸ“Œ 236
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It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a β€œdangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

30.09.2025 00:27 πŸ‘ 22918 πŸ” 6098 πŸ’¬ 476 πŸ“Œ 224
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One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

29.09.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 18330 πŸ” 6004 πŸ’¬ 1762 πŸ“Œ 472

Since every Republican in Congress is repeating their false talking point over & over that β€œDemocrats want to shut down the govt to give free healthcare to illegal aliens,” it would be helpful if some Democrats in Congress could address that argument with facts at some point.

29.09.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 4872 πŸ” 1222 πŸ’¬ 353 πŸ“Œ 103
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Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, β€œWhat could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.

28.09.2025 18:45 πŸ‘ 12681 πŸ” 3087 πŸ’¬ 221 πŸ“Œ 67
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Congrats to team Europe for winning the Ryder Cup. Historic and well deserved.

Our fans were disgraceful. An embarrassment to the US team and the game of golf.

No class, dignity or grace…just like their cult leader in the White House.

29.09.2025 02:26 πŸ‘ 15390 πŸ” 4416 πŸ’¬ 1013 πŸ“Œ 408

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

28.09.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 15300 πŸ” 5170 πŸ’¬ 374 πŸ“Œ 165
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79. American citizen.

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Worker taking a break from pruning with an ice bottle under her hat to cool down

Worker taking a break from pruning with an ice bottle under her hat to cool down

"Mona" was pruning citrus trees in CAs Central Valley. It was over 100Β° on this day. She sat down, putting an ice water bottle on her head to cool off a little. She is glad she's able to rest & cool off when she needs it, thanks to the CA heat laws the UFW fought for. #WeFeedYou

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