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A letter written to my neighborhood blog on VT #health #insurance renewal offers this compelling argument to extend the #ACA premium tax credits.

I miss Halloween with you dear friend. It was spooky fun!🎃👻💕

This is some fine investigative journalism. Respect @muellershewrote.com 👏

Heart-wrenching indeed. In Nashville, ICE unlawfully detained between 80 & 100 people this week by discriminatory traffic stops, pulling over Uber & DoorDash drivers, detaining pregnant women, etc…

Major Shipping Company To Cut 20,000 Jobs: Will CA Facilities Close? The company operates over hundreds stores in California

Sometime real soon the gig is gonna be up on Trump Tariff Gaslighting.

Well, Temu is reporting the new Trump tariff tax separately. . . they should call it that instead of import charges.

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

A place to escape to? #LifeonPlanetK2-18b

Favorite protest signs #HandsOff Montpelier, VT

Strong turnout despite the cold rain for #HandsOff in Montpelier, VT

Here is my template if you want to print and make your own. :) drive.google.com/file/d/1Vfhd...

Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

LIHEAP was #1 program that constituents called about when I served as congressional staff.

Mine for #HandsOff protest in Montpelier VT.

Made my sign for the #HandsOff protest in Montpelier tomorrow. Join us! @indivisible.org handsoff2025.com

It looks like the patient is flatlining to me.

When your now-out-of-work child calls to ask whether he should sell the few shares of Apple stock gifted to him by his grandparents. #TrumpTariffs 🤬

Thank you. My Indiana family is submitting similar prayers to the church in their names.

At 7:19 pm ET tonight #CoryBooker will break the marathon filibuster record of Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 civil rights debate on the Senate floor. Go Cory! #RedeemTheDream

Peeps, for the sake of this historic moment, let's get the name of the hero right! His name is #CoryBooker not #CoreyBooker. A Black man is about to break #racist Strom Thurmond's ugly record. GO CORY! #CoryBooker

What is Sperm Thurmond's record Melanie? Go Cory!! #MakeGoodTrouble

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Thank you Cory Booker Live on Senate floor for over 16.5 hours to #MakeGoodTrouble & #DefendDemocracy.

Learned today from Sugarbush ski instructor when one of my kindergartener students didn’t offload Heaven’s Gate lift and rode around the bull wheel: “Vice President JD Vance did the same thing 3 weeks ago!”

An elder care staff watching this clip on the news tonight remarked that if her mom’s SS didn’t arrive next month, she would have to choose between paying her rent or buying her insulin for diabetes.

First Boil 2025 - Liquid Gold! #MapleSyrup

This should tell you all you need to know.

Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries (Gift Article) A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.

Bhutan, the tiny Buddhist & Hindu country often touted as the Happiest Place on Earth is proposed for an absolute ban on entry by Trump AX. Make it make sense!

E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’ (Gift Article) Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, reframed his agency’s mission, saying it is to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.

God help us & every living thing on earth. #ZeldinGutsEPA

Rollbacks Gut Environmental Justice Gains, Former EPA Official Says - Inside Climate News “The worst outcome I feared is happening,” says Matthew Tejada, the former director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, reflecting on changes the Trump administration has brought to the agency.

EJ at EPA is still being shredded. Small unknown numbers of staff being called back for unknown reasons is not a resumption of the EJ program. Recipients of EJ grants are being bullied and their awards ripped from their hands. insideclimatenews.org/news/1003202...

E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

‘If anybody needed a clearer sign that this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States, this is it.’ —Matthew Tejada

Dog missing 3 Days Found with Thermal Drone on Sugarbush MTN VT & Rescued by Large Team SAR Part 107 YouTube video by 2A Tac Air Operations

Video of Sully, a Bernese Mountain Dog, found after 3 days high up on Steins, one of steepest runs at Vermont’s Sugarbush mountain with help of heat-seeking drone, dad, ski patrol & lots of bacon. Not all hero’s wear capes! 💕