Pen Million
@penmillion.bsky.social
A pro-democracy Penney. I'm mostly a lurker. Mostly. Reader of the Reframe, Letters from an American, Belle of the Ranch.
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
www.the-reframe.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
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NEW POST: Trickle up? Middle out? Floors and ceilings? Fair shots? Why do we create messaging that fails to connect with voters? Our messaging fails when we throw words together that do not correspond to the mental models people use to make sense of our world.
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Why Dem Messaging Sounds Like it was Written by A.I.
How we build and use mental models.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
NEW POST: Trickle up? Middle out? Floors and ceilings? Fair shots? Why do we create messaging that fails to connect with voters? Our messaging fails when we throw words together that do not correspond to the mental models people use to make sense of our world.
open.substack.com/pub/reframin...
open.substack.com/pub/reframin...
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#MorningVibe
Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke
Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke
September 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#MorningVibe
Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke
Listen to the great Shirley Chisholm. Wake up. Do the work. Have confidence in yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. #StayWoke
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Health care is a right — and public health is a responsibility.
While Donald Trump and RFK Jr. restrict access to lifesaving vaccines, Massachusetts is stepping up to get people the science-backed care they want and need.
While Donald Trump and RFK Jr. restrict access to lifesaving vaccines, Massachusetts is stepping up to get people the science-backed care they want and need.
Mass. becomes first state to require insurers to cover costs of COVID shots, state-recommended vaccines - The Boston Globe
“In Massachusetts, we will not let Donald Trump or Robert Kennedy get in the way of patients and the care and the treatments and the medication that they want and need,” Governor Maura Healey said.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Health care is a right — and public health is a responsibility.
While Donald Trump and RFK Jr. restrict access to lifesaving vaccines, Massachusetts is stepping up to get people the science-backed care they want and need.
While Donald Trump and RFK Jr. restrict access to lifesaving vaccines, Massachusetts is stepping up to get people the science-backed care they want and need.
"Inexperienced people who don't really want to be there and aren't already physically trained, will not do good work, even if they want to. They don't know how and physically cannot."
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American ex-Farm Worker Weighs In
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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July 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Inexperienced people who don't really want to be there and aren't already physically trained, will not do good work, even if they want to. They don't know how and physically cannot."
youtu.be/jyVIqq4VBy4?...
youtu.be/jyVIqq4VBy4?...
"The vast unpopularity of Trumpism presents endless opportunities for breaking off parts of his coalition."
"[most] people under noncompetes are working low-waged, menial jobs with little to no training." Who doesn't have noncompetes? Silicon Valley, lawyers...
pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/s...
"[most] people under noncompetes are working low-waged, menial jobs with little to no training." Who doesn't have noncompetes? Silicon Valley, lawyers...
pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/s...
Pluralistic: Trump’s not gonna protect workers from forced labor (03 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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July 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"The vast unpopularity of Trumpism presents endless opportunities for breaking off parts of his coalition."
"[most] people under noncompetes are working low-waged, menial jobs with little to no training." Who doesn't have noncompetes? Silicon Valley, lawyers...
pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/s...
"[most] people under noncompetes are working low-waged, menial jobs with little to no training." Who doesn't have noncompetes? Silicon Valley, lawyers...
pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/s...
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I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Axios’ Sara Fischer in conversation with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
YouTube video by Axios
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July 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
June 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Dropkick Murphys playing free show in this Mass. city next month
Dropkick Murphys playing free show in this Mass. city next month
This Mass. city recently made the surprise announcement about a free concert.
www.masslive.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Dropkick Murphys playing free show in this Mass. city next month
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The United States should not wage war against Iran.
Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.
This is a horrific war of choice.
Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.
This is a horrific war of choice.
June 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The United States should not wage war against Iran.
Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.
This is a horrific war of choice.
Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.
This is a horrific war of choice.
Boston Pride/No Kings, Saturday, June 14
June 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Boston Pride/No Kings, Saturday, June 14
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I have both *thoughts* and *feelings* about Trump attacking Harvard. And I want to share them with you.
May 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I have both *thoughts* and *feelings* about Trump attacking Harvard. And I want to share them with you.
Why oligarchy needs racism & sexism
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Pluralistic: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (20 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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May 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Why oligarchy needs racism & sexism
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GOP-sponsored kidnapping
May 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
GOP-sponsored kidnapping
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May 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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My thoughts on @billshaner.bsky.social's horrific account of the abduction of a Worcester, Mass., woman by federal agents yesterday, and the participation of local police.
hardghistory.ghost.io/kidnapping-again/
hardghistory.ghost.io/kidnapping-again/
Kidnapping again!!
I thought of this poster last night as I read journalist Bill Shaner's account of the kidnapping of a woman from her neighborhood in Worcester, Mass. In video taken by Shaner and others, Worcester pol...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My thoughts on @billshaner.bsky.social's horrific account of the abduction of a Worcester, Mass., woman by federal agents yesterday, and the participation of local police.
hardghistory.ghost.io/kidnapping-again/
hardghistory.ghost.io/kidnapping-again/
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Approval of Trump’s handling of immigration fell 10 points over the last week. Obviously the backlash to the KAG case worked, and it would have been a mistake not to talk about this — from both a rights perspective and the POV of moving opinion against POTUS.
April 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Approval of Trump’s handling of immigration fell 10 points over the last week. Obviously the backlash to the KAG case worked, and it would have been a mistake not to talk about this — from both a rights perspective and the POV of moving opinion against POTUS.
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"If we lose the future, ceding democracy to authoritarians or bad corporate actors, it will be due mostly to a stunning failure to communicate with people in simple language that connects with them on the level of their moral values."
www.theframelab.org/how-to-stop-...
www.theframelab.org/how-to-stop-...
How to Stop Trump's Climate Pollution
Donald Trump is waging war on Earth and its people — but the people mostly don’t know it.
www.theframelab.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"If we lose the future, ceding democracy to authoritarians or bad corporate actors, it will be due mostly to a stunning failure to communicate with people in simple language that connects with them on the level of their moral values."
www.theframelab.org/how-to-stop-...
www.theframelab.org/how-to-stop-...
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Excellent as always from @stevevladeck.bsky.social., if you need a primer on this case. I give you permission to skip to sections IV and V “Taking Stock” and “Now What” because the analysis is so good. And also it’s Saturday morning & we all need to touch grass. www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
www.stevevladeck.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Excellent as always from @stevevladeck.bsky.social., if you need a primer on this case. I give you permission to skip to sections IV and V “Taking Stock” and “Now What” because the analysis is so good. And also it’s Saturday morning & we all need to touch grass. www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
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If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
