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sallyjh.bsky.social
Retired teacher, off grid, concerned about climate, LGBTQ, MMT, troubled about the direction of our country.
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On a cold spring morning, we hiked, we shared stories, and we showed up for each other. That’s what democracy looks like. Let’s keep showing up. Let’s meet the moment. I’ll see you on June 14 for #NoKingsDay.

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

The ICE facility in a Burlington office park was never supposed to be a detention center. But it's where many people have been kept for days or weeks in "abysmal" conditions after being arrested by ICE. Great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social

Raising the $7.25 an hour minimum wage to a living wage is not a radical idea. Since 2020, voters in Florida, Nebraska, Missouri & Alaska approved a major increase in their minimum wage. What’s radical is that the federal minimum wage has not gone up since 2009.

The bird dance for the ages

Good morning. If the Republican budget bill passes: - 40% of the country will lose money - 15 million people will lose their health care - the richest families will get a $270,000 tax cut - the debt will go up 2.4 TRILLION dollars Who is asking for that??

@willbunch.bsky.social is a national treasure www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Kong for dogs inventor’s story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPr3...

"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure." Published March 11, 2025: https://trib.al/Eo7jNUO

It was the 3rd of June -- the greatest day in the history of American pop music www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_...

Did you hear the news 'bout Billie Joe?! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...

Gut-wrenching and liberating honesty.

On this first official day of the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season, attribution science of the Climate Shift Index shows unseasonably hot sea surface temperatures are made as much as 50 to 100 times MORE likely due to human-caused climate change. The data▶️ csi.climatecentral.org/ocean

*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈

"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

I bonded with a nēnē* today. *world’s rarest goose, endemic to the Hawaiian Islands

Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide

From rural towns to big cities, every student deserves a shot. Title I and other federal programs aren’t extras—they’re lifelines. They fund the teachers, resources, and support kids need to thrive. Gutting that funding? That’s gutting their future. #HandsOffPublicSchools

Folks, Please don’t lose sight of the fact that the President is supposed to serve the American people. Not his pockets and his ego. We’re so deep in the mire that we’re losing even the memory of normal. Peanut farm, people. Peanut farm.

America First = America Alone Unprecedented: the U.S. is the only country out of 184 to see a drop in international tourism this year. Everyone else is rebounding. We’re projected to lose $12.5 billion in spending—jobs, small businesses, entire communities will feel this.

@vermontgmg.bsky.social: “This is textbook authoritarianism, a classic example of what one-time Peru president General Óscar Benavides captured in his adage: ‘For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.’”

📌 This thread is so important that @hcrichardson.bsky.social dedicated much of her ‘Letters To An American’ substack post to it today. Please read and share! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

Reminder that there is no process that would make it legal to disappear someone from the United States to a foreign gulag to face abuse and torture

The US desperately needs more doctors, engineers & highly educated workers. But we’re telling students that if they want a higher education, they have to go into debt. Other countries understand how important it is to invest in their young people. We should be doing the same.

WHEN is his mental acuity going to become a topic for mainstream media?

Bill Owens, the producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes, resigned in protest. Wendy McMahon, the head of CBS News, has now resigned.   I say to Shari Redstone: Enough is enough. Do not capitulate to Trump’s attack on a free press. Do not settle Trump’s bogus lawsuit against 60 Minutes.

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

In these difficult times building community, and support for each other, is extremely important. That’s why I’m holding community dances around Vermont. We just had a great event in Hardwick. People of all ages danced the night away.

This should be bigger news, no? www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

A) GOP budget reveals them as debt hypocrites B) It’s not bad BECAUSE it grows the deficit, but because of HOW it does (tax cuts for the rich and slashing programs for the rest of us VS. taxing the rich and investing in ourselves) @stephaniekelton.bsky.social : www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/o...

According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%. We must defeat it.

TIL that okapis exist.

Founder folk were so worried that the American people would see them as bigger than life (NO KINGS!) that they insisted that portraits & statues of them were actual size—no bigger.