PHC
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PHC
@phcro.bsky.social
Writer, rambler, bookworm.
Brilliant!
"The Sound of Your Commute" NPR
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December 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"Miles Bruner, in resigning from his job as a Republican fundraiser, wrote in The Bulwark: 'I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice to the party in the throes of an authoritarian cult.'"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Another day of carnage in crime-ridden Washington, DC.
August 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Sickness
August 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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June 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Bernie learns about Iran bombing....
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Video: Watch the moment Sen. Bernie Sanders reacts to a rally attendee yelling ‘He just bombed
YouTube video by tulsaworld
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June 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The vote to defund public broadcasting passed by only two votes in the House. Four Democrats apparently weren't there to vote. I'm sure there could be good reasons, but are their constituents asking why?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Every House Member Voted on $9 Billion in Proposed Spending Cuts
House members approved the cuts by a vote of 214 to 212.
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Redirecting...
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June 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
5:23 to 8:00 is particularly gripping. Thank you, Congressman Lynch!
June 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My father watched TV standing up. My husband watches TV standing up.
June 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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It's funny because it's true.
June 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Republicans are trying to take health care away from almost 14 million Americans in the dead of night.

I reminded them to their faces just how many of their constituents they're screwing over so billionaires can get trillions in tax cuts.
May 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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RIP, Ed, you steely-eyed missile man

real heroes use duct tape
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
May 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
May 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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She says, “Without due process, without belief in the Constitution, we are not Americans. “

This is a common (and once widely held) notion. As Pres Biden used to say, “We are the only nation founded on an idea.”

If you’ve ever heard me talk about the Constitution, you’ve heard the same thing.
On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house.

It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.
May 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"...today, we are no longer living in a democratic regime...we have already crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism... In a democracy, there should not be a...cost or a risk to publicly opposing the government...today there is a cost...." Steven Levitsky
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
www.npr.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Rid them BEFORE they get into power.
History always has a lesson.
April 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Alert Circles are not just for elephants.
April 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I knew Michelle Wu had Superpowers, but this one bowled me over....
youtu.be/omxAby8anJ0
Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Pops Perform "Rhapsody in Blue" at Symphony Hall - Full Performance
YouTube video by City of Boston
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April 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Superb interview w/ Princeton president Chris Eisgruber - a model of resistance that is thoughtful, clear-eyed, but adamant of ultimate lines to draw -- applies for all univ and law and media too. Really worth a listen.
The University President Willing to Fight Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Shame on you, Johnson & Johnson. You're a rich company. Pay up. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
Johnson & Johnson Loses in Court Again in Bid to Settle Talc Cases
A judge dismissed an attempt to use a bankruptcy court to resolve tens of thousands of claims that the company’s talcum power products caused cancer.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thank you, Cora Masters Barry! "Be careful how you talk to us." www.washingtonian.com/2025/03/26/e...
“Be Careful How You Talk to Us”: Trump Appointee Gets an Earful in Anacostia - Washingtonian
Cora Masters Barry laid into interim US Attorney Ed Martin at a meeting Tuesday.
www.washingtonian.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Go Mayor Wu! Tell them how it's done. youtu.be/xtBLuuylv7c
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks to Congress about sanctuary cities, slams Tom Homan
YouTube video by The Boston Globe
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March 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM