Mark JVB
@markjvb.bsky.social
@bluntrochester.senate.gov One of your constituents here. I couldn’t say it any better than Mallory McMorrow: a promise is not a deal. What you get now is all you will get.
Americans can’t afford this deal.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
@bluntrochester.senate.gov One of your constituents here. I couldn’t say it any better than Mallory McMorrow: a promise is not a deal. What you get now is all you will get.
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Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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October 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Neat photos and info about flying squirrels! wapo.st/3S9npzy
Opinion | These invisible ‘wild neighbors’ need our help
Flying squirrels rely on dead and dying trees to survive — we are clearing away their homes.
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May 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Neat photos and info about flying squirrels! wapo.st/3S9npzy
I really enjoy discovering and sharing the books they keep letting me review for Washington College Magazine. The new issue is out, and I’m excited to share this about a poetry collection I read. Tough to express its impact, but worth the effort: mag.washcoll.edu/spring-2025/... #BookSky
Creators: Alyse Bensel
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April 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I really enjoy discovering and sharing the books they keep letting me review for Washington College Magazine. The new issue is out, and I’m excited to share this about a poetry collection I read. Tough to express its impact, but worth the effort: mag.washcoll.edu/spring-2025/... #BookSky
“Figuring out how to scale up trust and truth is a central challenge of our time. It will take individuals and groups working together to insist on seeing the world as it actually is. Think of it as a dissident movement, an American Solidarity movement.” apple.news/A1QxRLoKITHK...
Trump Is Gaslighting Us — The Atlantic
Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost.
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April 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“Figuring out how to scale up trust and truth is a central challenge of our time. It will take individuals and groups working together to insist on seeing the world as it actually is. Think of it as a dissident movement, an American Solidarity movement.” apple.news/A1QxRLoKITHK...
Proud of my town today, and the people across the country and around the world who marched and protested.
April 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Proud of my town today, and the people across the country and around the world who marched and protested.
Anne Lamott always seems to speak my mind, and this is the second piece I saw this morning dwelling in the intersection of faith and practical action. wapo.st/42fqfsy
Opinion | Call me an optimist, but I sense an American spring
But something is rising in the earth and in our hearts.
wapo.st
March 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Anne Lamott always seems to speak my mind, and this is the second piece I saw this morning dwelling in the intersection of faith and practical action. wapo.st/42fqfsy
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
This is a really smart analysis. Support your local queens! They represent love and freedom for everyone. wapo.st/4icoFNI
Column | Drag is not a sideshow — and neither is Trump’s attack on it
How Donald Trump swept up the Kennedy Center in a gender war.
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March 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is a really smart analysis. Support your local queens! They represent love and freedom for everyone. wapo.st/4icoFNI
This is an incredible thread, and this bit of advice comes from near the end. If you have to see only one part of it, this is it, but click through and read the whole thing. #breadandroses
Pick a thing. Pick a thing that will let you see the measurable impact. Do something that will help a specific person. Learn skills you can use to visibly and measurably chip away at one tiny bit of the problem.
January 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is an incredible thread, and this bit of advice comes from near the end. If you have to see only one part of it, this is it, but click through and read the whole thing. #breadandroses
I just heard a flock of starlings pass overhead before I saw it. Like wind through leaves, but the air is still. It was their wings….
December 27, 2024 at 9:44 PM
I just heard a flock of starlings pass overhead before I saw it. Like wind through leaves, but the air is still. It was their wings….
I love the broadsides! Such a great combination of art and poetry.
The Literary House Press is running a Holiday Sale through December 19.
Shop here for broadside & book bundles!
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December 15, 2024 at 12:33 AM
I love the broadsides! Such a great combination of art and poetry.