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Author: The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages; Mystic & Pilgrim: "The Book" #MargeryKempe. Fmr Assoc Dean http://harvarddivinity.bsky.social. Alum @BCHistoryDept @SmithCollege. Now: #1950s all over again http://oldestvocation.com ↩️
1898. It was my great-grandfather – attorney J. Hubley Ashton – who argued for birthright citizenship and won #WongKimArk #BirthrightCitizenship at SCOTUS that year. I wrote about him here: oldestvocation.com/2024/01/08/f...
The case of a Connecticut woman is the first example of an immigrant criticizing conditions in a Portland jail that has generated headlines around its role in the national enforcement surge.
Black Americans have always been at the heart of the country’s democracy movement and attacking and humiliating them is key work of those who hate democracy.
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"I really wish this wasn’t happening, but it's nice to see so many people are willing to come out here and freeze our butts off to show people we’ve got their backs" - Julia, who works at a business nearby and didn't share her last name because she doesn't want to be targeted by ICE.
Well, this Portlander is giving these guys he says are ICE agents, a piece of his mind as they wander off into the snow-filled night.
#Maine #ICEoutOfMaine
#NonViolenceIsPower
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Hope is an action!
Join the @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Media and Democracy Project’s 2025 Review & Celebration honoring journalists and media activists fighting for democracy & press freedom #PressFreedom
Zoom • Thu Jan 22 8p-10p ET • All welcome
RSVP here: www.mobilize.us/mediademocra...
Brilliant indeed! I spent a looooong time with Margery starting back in the 1970s #MargeryKempe oldestvocation.com/2015/02/24/t...
Really interesting discussion about #MargeryKempe & her times:
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One for the #MargeryKempe stans. And the #RayWinstone stans. Dream team! 😭💪
BBC Radio 4 - History's Heroes, History's Toughest Heroes, Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears share.google/bodbTnqBVfQC...
Weekend reading:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
My new piece:
This piece is a lovely reminder that in addtion to E.B. White's great children's novels Charlotte's Web; Stuart Little; and The Trumpet of the Swan, he also wrote a wealth of pointed, incisive, and/or poignant essays. www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
‼️ I said this about the current Supreme Court and some people looked at me crazy but I stand by it
as I believe I said at the time they're doing antebellum shit well post-bellum
Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy.
“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
#DefendHigherEd
I’m really enjoying the downfall of Larry Summers. He deserves every humiliation he is getting. And those if you know me know I don’t say that about people. Gift Link
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.
Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.
Legacy media failed the country.
Everyone in NYC should be camped out on @schumer.senate.gov’s doorstep in Park Slope. The @democrats.org CANNOT fold.
SUN AUG 31 ----------------- **NEW AUG 31, Sun-11-2:00PM – Skowhegan USW 9 Hall, 653 Waterville Road, Skowhegan. Central Maine Labor Council Day BBQ Free Labor Day BBQ sponsored by the Central Maine Labor Council on SUNDAY, August 31st at the USW 9 Hall, 653 Waterville Road, Skowhegan. 11:00am-2:00pm. Union members, friends, community allies, and family welcome. FMI: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/816747/ AUG 31, Sun 12-1:00PM (& every Sun) – Belfast Post Office Square, Belfast, Maine Weekly Stand Out for Peace – https://www.mvprights.org/events AUG 31, Sun 12-1:00PM (& every Sun) – Ellsworth Union River Bridge downtown, Ellsworth, Maine Weekly Stand Out for Peace – https://www.mvprights.org/events AUG 31, Sun 1-2:00PM (& every Sun) – Waterville 1 Kennedy Memorial Dr (on the bridge next to CVS), Waterville, Maine STAND UP to Preserve and Restore Our Country – Demand restoration and preservation of our democracy, support of Ukraine, and opposition to the trump administration: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/779042/ AUG 31, Sun 4-5PM (& every Sun) – Portsmouth NH Market Square, Portsmouth, NH Civil Rights Sundays – Take a Stand to Defend Our Democracy! Bring signs, though signs/flags available! Hosted by Occupy Seacoast. MON Sept 1 ----------------- SEPT 1, Mon 11:30AM – Waterville Main St & Temple St, Waterville, Maine Weekly Stand Out for Peace – https://www.mvprights.org/events SEPT 1, Mon 3:30-4:30 (biweekly) – Blue Hill Blue Hill Co-op, 70 South St, Blue Hill, Maine Indivisible Peninsula Biweekly Klatch – Join in conversation and collaboration. It's a get together of Blue Hill Peninsula folk who care about preserving democracy. We gather outside when the weather is good. cont'd in comments) PRO TIP: click ALT in lower right corner for links you can copy/paste.
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NO on Question 1 Protect Absentee Voting
Question 1 would eliminate voting access for rural voters, working families, seniors, and voters with disabilities. Maine’s absentee voting system is secure, and used by 40% of Mainers. Let’s keep it that way.
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Senator Susan Collins got an earful from protesters at a ribbon cutting ceremony in Searsport today.
J.B. Pritzker: "Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."
This is how you stand up to bullies and aspiring tyrants.
Via @mainenewsroom.bsky.social's Instagram we learn that a new UNH poll found 95% of Mainers want to ban stock trading by members of Congress.
Not only does Susan Collins oppose a ban; her portfolio went up a bonkers 77.5% in 2024 -- an eyebrow-raising return even for a Wall St pro. #MEpolitics
The #FoxTakedown movement is growing.
People are taking their protests directly to Fox News, the Trump regime’s propaganda arm that’s enabling this fascist and billionaire takeover.
Visit foxtakedown.com for more info on how to join by protesting at your local station and taking other actions.
The Republican Party is just one big child sex trafficking and sexual abuse ring at this point
I’m still waiting for a Republican business owner or farmer to get arrested for illegally employing migrant workers. When are we going to get perp walk videos of them being hauled off to vans in cuffs by masked agents?
All of us deserve better than this tyrant.
Believing that no one should suffer under fascism is an important first step toward defeating it.
Impeach. Convict. Remove. Have courage.
