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Susan Collins - reliably doing as she always has
This we need at all levels in response to the monarchical tyranny now being perpetrated. As a famous past resident of New Hampshire might put it: This is a small state, and yet there are those who love it.
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Merrimack Town Hall To Close Before ICE Protest; Speaking at Meeting Limited to Residents
Expecting a crowd larger than it can handle to address the report of Merrimack possibly hosting a warehouse for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees for up to 1,500 people, the Merrimack Town...
indepthnh.org
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
This we need at all levels in response to the monarchical tyranny now being perpetrated. As a famous past resident of New Hampshire might put it: This is a small state, and yet there are those who love it.
indepthnh.org/2026/01/07/m...
indepthnh.org/2026/01/07/m...
Trump Ushers in a New Era of Imperial Rivalry talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump Ushers in a New Era of Imperial Rivalry
Let me take an initial crack at assessing what the United States...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Trump Ushers in a New Era of Imperial Rivalry talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Price of electricity where I live in New England is rising, will go up even more.
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
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The Trump administration pauses wind projects off New England, New York and Virginia
An Interior Department statement did not detail the national security risks. It's the administration's latest pus to hobble offshore wind and limit renewable energy sources.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Price of electricity where I live in New England is rising, will go up even more.
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
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Considering this level of sloppiness and all the obseqious flattery of Vladimir Putin,how secure can our this country really be?
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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
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August 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Considering this level of sloppiness and all the obseqious flattery of Vladimir Putin,how secure can our this country really be?
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Warren Demands Dems Refuse to Participate in Budgeting So Long As Trump is Freezing Funds talkingpointsmemo.com/news/warren-...
Warren Demands Dems Refuse to Participate in Budgeting So Long As Trump is Freezing Funds
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took to the Senate floor on Wednesday morning...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Warren Demands Dems Refuse to Participate in Budgeting So Long As Trump is Freezing Funds talkingpointsmemo.com/news/warren-...
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Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest
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July 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
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July 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
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Hegseth is now threatening to send the Marines to LA to suppress protesters against ICE’s brutal assault on immigrant garment workers.
Just process that: Sending in the *military* to crack down on protesters.
We’re now at severe risk of martial law. That’s what they’ve wanted all along.
Just process that: Sending in the *military* to crack down on protesters.
We’re now at severe risk of martial law. That’s what they’ve wanted all along.
June 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Hegseth is now threatening to send the Marines to LA to suppress protesters against ICE’s brutal assault on immigrant garment workers.
Just process that: Sending in the *military* to crack down on protesters.
We’re now at severe risk of martial law. That’s what they’ve wanted all along.
Just process that: Sending in the *military* to crack down on protesters.
We’re now at severe risk of martial law. That’s what they’ve wanted all along.
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This recent piece by M. Gessen is on my mind a lot. What we’re living through isn’t a pendulum swing, it’s a systemic realignment. Every day they push the line further and every day we’re told it’s too dramatic to call it what it is.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This recent piece by M. Gessen is on my mind a lot. What we’re living through isn’t a pendulum swing, it’s a systemic realignment. Every day they push the line further and every day we’re told it’s too dramatic to call it what it is.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk’s Government Contracts as Feud Escalates www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk’s Government Contracts as Feud Escalates
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk’s Government Contracts as Feud Escalates www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Deadlocked Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma
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May 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Looks like David Koresh has returned.
EXCLUSIVE: A Hitler-quoting ‘Aryan’ has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7?
My latest with @kylebazgo.bsky.social for @dailydot.com identifies the likely operator of the anonymous racist account as Geoffrey Martin, a Canadian.
www.dailydot.com/debug/captiv...
My latest with @kylebazgo.bsky.social for @dailydot.com identifies the likely operator of the anonymous racist account as Geoffrey Martin, a Canadian.
www.dailydot.com/debug/captiv...
A Hitler-quoting 'Aryan' has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7?
The account, followed by JD Vance, previously boasted of being a white supremacist.
www.dailydot.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Looks like David Koresh has returned.
Sen. Collins to support nomination of Tulsi Gabbard for intelligence chief mainemorningstar.com/briefs/sen-c...
Sen. Collins to support nomination of Tulsi Gabbard for intelligence chief • Maine Morning Star
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced Monday that she will support the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to serve as Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration.
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February 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sen. Collins to support nomination of Tulsi Gabbard for intelligence chief mainemorningstar.com/briefs/sen-c...
Hegseth's nomination is not dead yet. How likely is this, really, to persuade any Republican senator not to vote to confirm RFK Jr.?
Read the Letter From Nobel Laureates Urging That Mr. Kennedy Not be Confirmed www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read the Letter From Nobel Laureates Urging That Mr. Kennedy Not be Confirmed
More than 75 laureates have written an open letter describing Mr. Kennedy’s selection for H.H.S. secretary as detrimental to public health.
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December 10, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Hegseth's nomination is not dead yet. How likely is this, really, to persuade any Republican senator not to vote to confirm RFK Jr.?
Read the Letter From Nobel Laureates Urging That Mr. Kennedy Not be Confirmed www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Threatened With Jail, Liz Cheney Condemns Trump’s ‘Assault on the Rule of Law’ (Gift Article)
Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative, said President-elect Donald J. Trump “lied about” the bipartisan House committee that investigated his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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