@kmcdancer.bsky.social
She/Her, Liberal DAR member since 1997, Former Director owner Ballet Arts, Dancer, Presently Substitute Teacher, (OMG), Foodie, and Resister.
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I've posted this before, but when I keep reading about ICE's gestapo tactics in LA and elsewhere, and how they are obviously intended to say "fuck you, we own this place" to local citizens and authorities, I think of Sam Houston's warning to TX secessionists about their swaggering overconfidence:
June 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I've posted this before, but when I keep reading about ICE's gestapo tactics in LA and elsewhere, and how they are obviously intended to say "fuck you, we own this place" to local citizens and authorities, I think of Sam Houston's warning to TX secessionists about their swaggering overconfidence:
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“Armed “security forces have often been the public face of the violence and moral collapse that can pervade societies when strongmen come to power, . . . speeding up autocratic consolidation by . . . a leader who wants to use [the military] against his own citizens.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
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June 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“Armed “security forces have often been the public face of the violence and moral collapse that can pervade societies when strongmen come to power, . . . speeding up autocratic consolidation by . . . a leader who wants to use [the military] against his own citizens.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
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These charges are so stupid. There was an ICE agent **in the elevator** with the defendant after he left the courtroom. But oh yeah, the state judge somehow obstructed ICE because she let the defendant leave the courtroom through a side entrance.
The Trump DOJ is run by morons and thugs.
The Trump DOJ is run by morons and thugs.
Seeing claims about the judge "hiding" the defendant. Read the complaint, folks (written by DOJ). The guy was literally in the public area where the agents were. I guess he got on an elevator before they could get to him. The complaint says after letting the defendant exit she came back to the bench
April 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
These charges are so stupid. There was an ICE agent **in the elevator** with the defendant after he left the courtroom. But oh yeah, the state judge somehow obstructed ICE because she let the defendant leave the courtroom through a side entrance.
The Trump DOJ is run by morons and thugs.
The Trump DOJ is run by morons and thugs.
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Hardworking VTers spent their lives paying into a system that’s now jeopardized by a reckless trampling through the Social Security Administration. That’s why I joined 20 other AGs in asking the courts to block the erratic and unlawful layoffs and mismanagement of the SSA by DOGE and Leland Dudek.
April 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hardworking VTers spent their lives paying into a system that’s now jeopardized by a reckless trampling through the Social Security Administration. That’s why I joined 20 other AGs in asking the courts to block the erratic and unlawful layoffs and mismanagement of the SSA by DOGE and Leland Dudek.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
April 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Now we’re talking!
Boasberg: Give Alien Enemies Act Detainees A Chance In Court Or Else Face Criminal Contempt talkingpointsmemo.com/news/boasber...
Boasberg: Give Alien Enemies Act Detainees A Chance In Court Or Else Face Criminal Contempt
D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg has found probable cause to hold the...
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April 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Now we’re talking!
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Read more about Rümeysa’s case in our latest blog post, and stay tuned for updates this week.
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Writing an op-ed is not grounds for deportation
The U.S. government’s escalating attacks on noncitizens’ right to free speech should scare us all.
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April 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Read more about Rümeysa’s case in our latest blog post, and stay tuned for updates this week.
www.acluvt.org/en/news/writ...
www.acluvt.org/en/news/writ...
Lots of LOVE for CANADA at Montpelier, VT Hands Off Protest, including singing the Canadian National Anthem! ❤
April 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Lots of LOVE for CANADA at Montpelier, VT Hands Off Protest, including singing the Canadian National Anthem! ❤
Hands Off, Montpelier, VT!
April 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hands Off, Montpelier, VT!
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Good morning. They say Elon Musk can do the impossible and yesterday he did.
His meddling here and his indiscriminate and illegal DOGE cutting moved my entire (very purple) state of Wisconsin 11 points towards a Democrat 5 months after Trump won by 1 here.
His meddling here and his indiscriminate and illegal DOGE cutting moved my entire (very purple) state of Wisconsin 11 points towards a Democrat 5 months after Trump won by 1 here.
April 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Never again is now.
An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan.
His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush.
#MomSky
His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush.
#MomSky
March 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Never again is now.
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You cannot negotiate about the truth with people who have no allegiance to it.
March 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
You cannot negotiate about the truth with people who have no allegiance to it.
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Buying votes.
Elon Musk admitted why he’s spending $18 million & paying voters $100 a pop to flip Wisconsin Supreme Court. It’s all about keeping GOP gerrymandering advantage in US House. If Dems retake House they can investigate Musk, DOGE & his $38 billion in govt contracts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk revealed why he's spending millions to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court
It's all about preserving gerrymandered districts that lock in Republican power.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Buying votes.
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This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Listen…
If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?
Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc
If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?
Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Listen…
If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?
Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc
If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?
Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc
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A lot of people are going to die from this
First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A lot of people are going to die from this
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Yup. In the end they’re a bunch of cowards cosplaying at being tough.
Zelenskyy stayed in Kyiv while Russia was bombing the city and sending in hit squads to kill him. J.D. Vance fled to an undisclosed location because some peaceful protesters yelled at him while he was on vacation. This is why I believe victory over these people is still possible.
March 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Yup. In the end they’re a bunch of cowards cosplaying at being tough.
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More than a thousand people protested JD Vance at Sugarbush resort today. I 💚 VT!
March 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
More than a thousand people protested JD Vance at Sugarbush resort today. I 💚 VT!
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And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.
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From the moment Silicon Valley exploded in the 1990s, its leading denizens have subscribed to a kind of techno-chauvinism: a belief that only engineers know how to solve the problems of humankind, and if you work for the government, then you can’t be very smart
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | The blinding contempt of the DOGE bros
Terrorizing USAID isn’t reform. Here’s an inside story of Elon Musk’s takeover.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
From the moment Silicon Valley exploded in the 1990s, its leading denizens have subscribed to a kind of techno-chauvinism: a belief that only engineers know how to solve the problems of humankind, and if you work for the government, then you can’t be very smart
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Non-zero chance Trump, Musk and Putin are now in an open alliance to destroy the democracies of the West.
We need to be talking about it more.
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We need to be talking about it more.
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So, they are
- illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress
- burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah
- reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system
- putting backdoors into Treasury
This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.
- illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress
- burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah
- reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system
- putting backdoors into Treasury
This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.
February 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Non-zero chance Trump, Musk and Putin are now in an open alliance to destroy the democracies of the West.
We need to be talking about it more.
bsky.app/profile/simo...
We need to be talking about it more.
bsky.app/profile/simo...
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Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
February 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.