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April 16, 2025
April 16, 2025
In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
April 16, 2025
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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April 4, 2025
April 4, 2025
The stock market rout continued today.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
April 4, 2025
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Take heart.
There is no shortage of courage.
There is no shortage of courage.
April 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Take heart.
There is no shortage of courage.
There is no shortage of courage.
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Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
The government ignored his protective legal status & deported Abrego Garcia. “Now they claim that the court is powerless to order any relief. If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless because the government can deport ANYONE & no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”
March 31, 2025
On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William Henry Seward wrote an astonishing letter to President Abraham Lincoln.
open.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
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A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
via Smithsonian Magazine
March 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
via Smithsonian Magazine
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Hey, @strongtowns.org and @joinordiefilm.bsky.social: One of the things #GreenfieldMA has going for it is its 9 natural red clay tennis courts. Why? Because amateurs pitched in and saved something good about the place where they lived. #varticles andrewvarnon.blogspot.com/2016/05/clay...
Clay Court Connoisseur
(Originally published in The Recorder on , May 23, 2014 ) It’s spring. The tulips are in bloom, asparagus is back at the farmers’ ...
andrewvarnon.blogspot.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Hey, @strongtowns.org and @joinordiefilm.bsky.social: One of the things #GreenfieldMA has going for it is its 9 natural red clay tennis courts. Why? Because amateurs pitched in and saved something good about the place where they lived. #varticles andrewvarnon.blogspot.com/2016/05/clay...
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One of the things I do on #Bluesky is to curate my own feeds. One I interact with the most and keeps me grounded is #WesternMass. #BeYourOwnAlgorithm bsky.app/profile/did:...
March 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
One of the things I do on #Bluesky is to curate my own feeds. One I interact with the most and keeps me grounded is #WesternMass. #BeYourOwnAlgorithm bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Mira interviewed me about nominating #GreenfieldMA for the www.strongesttown.com competition. youtube.com/shorts/Q3uvP...
Strongest Towns interview
YouTube video by avarnon
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March 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Mira interviewed me about nominating #GreenfieldMA for the www.strongesttown.com competition. youtube.com/shorts/Q3uvP...
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🚨 NEW: VoteVets is launching a six-figure ad blitz across TV, streaming, digital, and billboards—exposing GOP Veterans dodging constituents while Musk’s DOGE fires thousands of Veterans.
They promised to fight for Veterans—now they’re silent. Stop Elon’s war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!
They promised to fight for Veterans—now they’re silent. Stop Elon’s war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!
March 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚨 NEW: VoteVets is launching a six-figure ad blitz across TV, streaming, digital, and billboards—exposing GOP Veterans dodging constituents while Musk’s DOGE fires thousands of Veterans.
They promised to fight for Veterans—now they’re silent. Stop Elon’s war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!
They promised to fight for Veterans—now they’re silent. Stop Elon’s war on Veterans. Demand Congress act!
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Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:
March 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:
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The multidisciplinary radio opera, Get On Board, by Yvette Janine Jackson was published in McSweeney’s 64 in 2022.
(I had a small hand in it, by way of a pen name.)
It is no longer set in the future. The public-private partnership you feared is here.
audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/...
(I had a small hand in it, by way of a pen name.)
It is no longer set in the future. The public-private partnership you feared is here.
audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/...
McSWEENEY’S 64 - The Audio Issue
audio.mcsweeneys.net
March 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The multidisciplinary radio opera, Get On Board, by Yvette Janine Jackson was published in McSweeney’s 64 in 2022.
(I had a small hand in it, by way of a pen name.)
It is no longer set in the future. The public-private partnership you feared is here.
audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/...
(I had a small hand in it, by way of a pen name.)
It is no longer set in the future. The public-private partnership you feared is here.
audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/...
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Around 1849–50, Eugène Delacroix became captivated by the challenge of capturing the light effects of cloud formations and chose pastel to convey his impressions. While he used the medium throughout his career, the sky studies constitute his largest cohesive group in pastel.
March 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Around 1849–50, Eugène Delacroix became captivated by the challenge of capturing the light effects of cloud formations and chose pastel to convey his impressions. While he used the medium throughout his career, the sky studies constitute his largest cohesive group in pastel.
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Special Vermont Resistance edition
Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.
billmckibben.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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February 28, 2025
February 28, 2025
Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
February 28, 2025
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Now is the time to pour some money into independent journalism, and good scholarship. @theguardian.com @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and, in western Mass., The Shoestring theshoestring.org and The Montague Reporter montaguereporter.org
February 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Now is the time to pour some money into independent journalism, and good scholarship. @theguardian.com @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and, in western Mass., The Shoestring theshoestring.org and The Montague Reporter montaguereporter.org
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Girl on a space hopper, 1971, Byker series, Newwcastle, UK , by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling
February 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Girl on a space hopper, 1971, Byker series, Newwcastle, UK , by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling
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@britt-kathryn.bsky.social on David Ruggles, who opened the first (known) Black-owned bookstore and stocked it “with abolitionist and feminist publications.”
Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore.
This Black History Month is the fraughtest. Maybe even apex fraught. As many hard-won minority group commemorations are being actively scrubbed from government websites, we the recognized are asked…
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February 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
@britt-kathryn.bsky.social on David Ruggles, who opened the first (known) Black-owned bookstore and stocked it “with abolitionist and feminist publications.”
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Pretty nice and quiet afternoon in the snow cave.
February 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Pretty nice and quiet afternoon in the snow cave.
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“There is an inability to process, accept and confront the dangerous new reality we are in and to focus on the big picture and the pivot of history that’s occurred in the last two weeks.”
Read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
She knows what’s up.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
She knows what’s up.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
US Coup Gains Speed
Europe shakes as a new world order emerges. Here's what's not on the front page of the New York Times right now
open.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“There is an inability to process, accept and confront the dangerous new reality we are in and to focus on the big picture and the pivot of history that’s occurred in the last two weeks.”
Read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
She knows what’s up.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
She knows what’s up.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭
February 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭
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What is it about watching a 4-year-old tell a 78-year-old with the maturity of a 2-year-old to "shut up and go away" that is SO deeply satisfying?
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What is it about watching a 4-year-old tell a 78-year-old with the maturity of a 2-year-old to "shut up and go away" that is SO deeply satisfying?
