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Retired librarian whose goal is to continue keeping books in the hands of our community.
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Great commentary on the value of protesting 👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 798 comments

I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too. “Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris Man, I miss her.

submitted 28 days ago • 1057 comments

Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

submitted 31 days ago • 1084 comments

Thank you to everyone has reached out to offer kind words of support. I will fearlessly and unapologetically continue to stand up for democracy, no matter what the president says or does. Democracy Docket will do the same. It won't back down. It will never obey. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 31 days ago • 809 comments

"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 31 days ago • 789 comments

They're going after Big Bird again. We ride at dawn.

submitted 33 days ago • 838 comments

Leaked audio of JD Vance in a jealous rant… Let’s just say JD Vance is no fan of Elon Musk and thinks he makes him look bad. But the truth is—Trump and Vance don’t need Elon to make them look bad.

submitted 39 days ago • 528 comments

I can handle what happens to me… I will not accept what happens to them. 🤬 #FuckTrump

submitted 43 days ago • 38 comments

“I don’t care whether you have an R or a D next to your name. I have no use for politicians that play dress up in cowboy boots and say they care about farmers and then do nothing in our hour of need.” @farmherhallie.bsky.social at @jonesforar.bsky.social town hall last night. #arpx #USDA #farmers

submitted 43 days ago • 40 comments

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

submitted 45 days ago • 1286 comments

Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

submitted 46 days ago • 1689 comments

A picture is worth a thousand words!

submitted 48 days ago • 25 comments

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

submitted 48 days ago • 149 comments

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

submitted 48 days ago • 725 comments

Today Donald Trump attacked me by name in a speech at the Department of Justice. Of course I am worried, but courage comes from acting in spite of being worried. I have made my choice: I will continue to speak out, I will continue to litigate, I will continue to stand tall. I will never bow down.

submitted 48 days ago • 1764 comments

Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.

submitted 49 days ago • 425 comments

Tim Walz & Bernie Sanders are going out and getting after it, they’ve got the right idea!

submitted 50 days ago • 765 comments

Sen. Van Hollen is taking on the billionaires who want to shut down affordable housing. A real estate tycoon colluding with the richest man alive to push out working families? Disgusting. Van Hollen is fighting Musk’s illegal DOGE with everything he’s got—because people, not profits, come first.

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

submitted 50 days ago • 867 comments

Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!

submitted 50 days ago • 1580 comments

A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.

submitted 50 days ago • 1082 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 51 days ago • 1102 comments

Watching my 401K drop like a stone, as I’m sure many are, now is a perfect example why Social Security must be protected, and not privatized. It is also a great rebuttal against those who say people should just save on their own and invest in the market. How’d that work out in 1929?

submitted 51 days ago • 59 comments

Celebrate Women's International Day

submitted 54 days ago • 15 comments

Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC: "What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 55 days ago • 237 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey. Defiantly, ME

submitted 56 days ago • 469 comments

Since we’re debating Rep. Al Green’s method of dissent this week, here’s a quick reminder: tone policing is a form of suppressing opposition. When someone objects to the tone of criticism, they are trying to set the terms of debate in a way that is favorable to them. Fuck. That. Noise.

submitted 56 days ago • 19 comments

Well said!

submitted 57 days ago • 1272 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 62 days ago • 3132 comments

Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades. With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.

submitted 59 days ago • 631 comments

I saw folks protesting at my local Tesla service center. Right on ✊🏾 I’m convinced unelected co-president Elon Musk is going to devolve the United States government into a version of what Tesla has become. Hear me out. 🧵

submitted 60 days ago • 126 comments

Yesterday was a clusterfuck of epic proportions! For anyone sane, it is clear to see we have lost our standing as the leader of the free world. Disgraceful! Our (possibly former) allies clearly stand on the right side of history. ⬇️ Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 h/t @twaaustin.bsky.social for the graphic

submitted 61 days ago • 55 comments

British PM Starmer: Zelensky has the full backing across the United Kingdom. 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

submitted 61 days ago • 18 comments

Simon Harris Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland 👏

submitted 62 days ago • 64 comments

Posted by Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, tonight 👏

submitted 62 days ago • 17 comments

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submitted 62 days ago • 17 comments

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen 👏

submitted 62 days ago • 126 comments

Petteri Orpo Prime minister of Finland 👏

submitted 62 days ago • 15 comments

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

submitted 63 days ago • 300 comments

I don’t know if I have ever in my lifetime felt more embarrassed to be an American than I feel at this very moment…

submitted 62 days ago • 1349 comments

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today? Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

submitted 62 days ago • 460 comments

Put all the “DEI” folks who got let go onto a new network and I’d watch the shit out of it.

submitted 64 days ago • 1789 comments

This is what courage looks like. While so many stay silent, these people took a stand. We need more of that—right now. 📌 21 civil service employees resigned from DOGE

submitted 65 days ago • 430 comments

A personal note about the @katiephangshow.bsky.social:

submitted 66 days ago • 4652 comments

Army Choir surrounded the MAGA hierarchy dining in White House East Room to sing "Do You Hear The People Sing" It was lost on Trump but Vance was super fidgety "Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again" #DisruptTheCoup

submitted 66 days ago • 136 comments