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maddow.bsky.social
"First protest at age 93..."
April 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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The great @hcrichardson.bsky.social from her speech on the 250th anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church. Read this excerpt to the end and you will be rewarded. Read it aloud and it gets better. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2...
Heather Cox Richardson says in her speech: "Revere simply offered what he could to the cause: engraving skills, information, knowledge of a church steeple, longstanding friendships that helped to create a network. And on April 18, he and his friends set out to protect the men who were leading the fight to establish a representative government. The work of Newman and Pulling to light the lanterns exactly 250 years ago tonight sounds even less heroic. They agreed to cross through town to light two lanterns in a church steeple. It sounds like such a very little thing to do, and yet by doing it, they risked imprisonment or even death. It was such a little thing…but it was everything. And what they did, as with so many of the little steps that lead to profound change, was largely forgotten until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used their story to inspire a later generation to work to stop tyranny in his own time. What Newman and Pulling did was simply to honor their friendships and their principles and to do the next right thing, even if it risked their lives, even if no one ever knew. And that is all anyone can do as we work to preserve the concept of human self-determination. In that heroic struggle, most of us will be lost to history, but we will, nonetheless, move the story forward, even if just a little bit. And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze.
April 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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demsabroad.bsky.social
The in-person requirement has a far-reaching effect on overseas voters but also the poor, the elderly, and the disabled. The arguments made for this bill reek of privilege and ableism. It will go to the Senate in two weeks. Start pressuring your senators immediately. #SAVEAct #americansabroad
GOP 'Save Act' May Disenfranchise Married Women, Overseas Voters Including the Military
House Republicans passed one of the most aggressive assaults on voting rights in history
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April 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
anngolinsky.bsky.social
I'm another refugee from FB, just getting started on this platform. No idea really what to do here.
April 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM