Forward Boomer
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Vermont Nana–married
Pro-people, justice, mercy, equity
Retired from faculty development, adjunct faculty, State gov service
BS Music; MS, EdS Adult Learning
ALL memes need alt text
Vermont Nana–married
Pro-people, justice, mercy, equity
Retired from faculty development, adjunct faculty, State gov service
BS Music; MS, EdS Adult Learning
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Class warfare is when there’s a limit to what poor & disabled people can earn before losing their benefits, but no limit to what billionaires can hoard while avoiding taxes.
We must reject the twisted idea that money incentivizes the rich but poverty incentivizes the poor.
We must reject the twisted idea that money incentivizes the rich but poverty incentivizes the poor.
This is spot on 🎯
"We must reject the twisted idea that money incentivizes the rich but poverty incentivizes the poor"
"We must reject the twisted idea that money incentivizes the rich but poverty incentivizes the poor"
Sometimes I wonder what America would be like if she had won. An election that reduces our choices this much is not a free election. Yes I would have voted for her had I lived in a State where it mattered. Yet I wonder.
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Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial and the Crisis of Moral Credibility in American Politics
Her latest decision to accept an invitation from Trump mega donor Miriam Adelson to whitewash genocide is a reminder of why we're in this mess
Hillary Clinton recently (and again) claimed that young ...
lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Sometimes I wonder what America would be like if she had won. An election that reduces our choices this much is not a free election. Yes I would have voted for her had I lived in a State where it mattered. Yet I wonder.
lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/hillary-clin...
lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/hillary-clin...
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“Since 2016,” Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule has “emerged as a proponent of integralism, the idea that society and government should be based on Catholic principles. He has also become a staunch critic of liberalism, which he views as inherently reactionary and unstable.” 10/4/25 … 1/
The Theory, Born at Harvard, That Could Remake Right-Wing Jurisprudence | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Over the past five years, common good constitutionalism has taken tenuous root in elite legal academia. It’s now beginning to find its way into courtrooms. But scholars remain divided on its potential...
www.thecrimson.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Since 2016,” Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule has “emerged as a proponent of integralism, the idea that society and government should be based on Catholic principles. He has also become a staunch critic of liberalism, which he views as inherently reactionary and unstable.” 10/4/25 … 1/
“Peace through strength is…what King Herod sought to protect when he ordered the execution of children in the ancient Christmas story.…
“Peace is the silence that comes as the whole world waits for the strongman’s next decree.”
ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/advent-pea...
“Peace is the silence that comes as the whole world waits for the strongman’s next decree.”
ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/advent-pea...
Advent Peace When There Is No Peace
Prophetic nonviolence disturbs the false peace of authoritarian regimes
ourmoralmoment.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“Peace through strength is…what King Herod sought to protect when he ordered the execution of children in the ancient Christmas story.…
“Peace is the silence that comes as the whole world waits for the strongman’s next decree.”
ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/advent-pea...
“Peace is the silence that comes as the whole world waits for the strongman’s next decree.”
ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/advent-pea...
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Happy Caturday
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Happy Caturday
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More than 1,000 state and local agencies have partnered with ICE this year. 😡
Even Louisiana's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is helping catch immigrants
More than 1,000 state and local agencies have partnered with ICE this year.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
More than 1,000 state and local agencies have partnered with ICE this year. 😡
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Utah has had universal vote-by-mail since 2019, and a recent poll found that 87 percent of Utahns trust that their ballots are counted accurately. But Utah’s governor signed a law this spring that ends this system.
Utah Was a Rare Red State to Champion Mail Voting. That Era Is Ending.
Inspired by the architects of Project 2025, Utah adopted a Republican bill to end universal mail voting and impose new restrictions on absentee ballots.
boltsmag.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Utah has had universal vote-by-mail since 2019, and a recent poll found that 87 percent of Utahns trust that their ballots are counted accurately. But Utah’s governor signed a law this spring that ends this system.
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"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
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This is what’s happening to immigrants doing it “the right way” in Trump’s America.
We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is what’s happening to immigrants doing it “the right way” in Trump’s America.
We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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-Bust up monopolies
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
-Bust up monopolies
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
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Today in the December Comfort Watches: Trading Places, a tale of disparate classes coming together during the holiday season to do what's important: Punish rich dickheads! Also, remembering Eddie Murphy's rise as a generational talent in comedy:
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Six: Trading Places
Trading Places takes place within the holiday season, with two of the big moments happening on Christmas and New Year’s Eve; does this make it a holiday movie? I suppose it might, although un…
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December 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Today in the December Comfort Watches: Trading Places, a tale of disparate classes coming together during the holiday season to do what's important: Punish rich dickheads! Also, remembering Eddie Murphy's rise as a generational talent in comedy:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/06/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/06/t...
List of #DomesticTerrorists will include those expressing “opposition to law and #immigration enforcement;…anti-capitalism; and #antiChristianity.”
open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
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FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
List of #DomesticTerrorists will include those expressing “opposition to law and #immigration enforcement;…anti-capitalism; and #antiChristianity.”
open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
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Wired - The Louisiana Department Of Wildlife And Fisheries, typically responsible in part for overseeing wildlife reserves and enforcing local hunting rules, has assisted US immigration authorities with bringing at least six people into federal custody this year. www.wired.com/story/story/...
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE
Louisiana’s hunting and wildlife authority is one of more than 1,000 state and local agencies that have partnered with US immigration authorities this year alone.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Wired - The Louisiana Department Of Wildlife And Fisheries, typically responsible in part for overseeing wildlife reserves and enforcing local hunting rules, has assisted US immigration authorities with bringing at least six people into federal custody this year. www.wired.com/story/story/...
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“Their 17-page report showed that while thimerosal in vaccines given to pregnant women had fallen steadily, autism rates were still rising,”
“The C.D.C. posted the report on its website the night before the meeting.”
An ally of RFK Jr said his staff had it removed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
“The C.D.C. posted the report on its website the night before the meeting.”
An ally of RFK Jr said his staff had it removed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Their 17-page report showed that while thimerosal in vaccines given to pregnant women had fallen steadily, autism rates were still rising,”
“The C.D.C. posted the report on its website the night before the meeting.”
An ally of RFK Jr said his staff had it removed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
“The C.D.C. posted the report on its website the night before the meeting.”
An ally of RFK Jr said his staff had it removed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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As a lifelong wagon supremacist, I feel compelled to clarify: our movement does not endorse huffing leaded gas fumes straight from the tank like this guy.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
As a lifelong wagon supremacist, I feel compelled to clarify: our movement does not endorse huffing leaded gas fumes straight from the tank like this guy.
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Keep ‘em coming
“The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access.”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/m...
“The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access.”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/m...
New York Times sues Hegseth over Pentagon press crackdown | CNN Business
The lawsuit, set to be filed in federal court in Washington, DC, names the Defense Department, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the chief Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, as defendants.
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Keep ‘em coming
“The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access.”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/m...
“The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access.”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/m...
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So WHY are we at war with Venezuela? Its it really because he wants their oil or other resources -but that doesn’t sound as acceptable as a war on drugs ?
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So WHY are we at war with Venezuela? Its it really because he wants their oil or other resources -but that doesn’t sound as acceptable as a war on drugs ?
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I wonder how much of Trump’s pardon spree is an explicit bribe and how much is just feeling that, “I did that” or “I could have done that,“ or “he reminds me of me.”
President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Timothy Leiweke, a real estate developer who had been charged by the president’s own Justice Department earlier this year with rigging the bidding process for a sports arena.
Trump Pardons Developer Prosecuted by His Administration
This summer, Trump administration officials had lauded the indictment of Timothy J. Leiweke as an effort to root out corruption and unfair business practices.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I wonder how much of Trump’s pardon spree is an explicit bribe and how much is just feeling that, “I did that” or “I could have done that,“ or “he reminds me of me.”
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Neoliberalism is the cult of accumulation: GDP worship, austerity as scripture, inequality as ritual, feudalism as destination.
The planet burns and countless suffer and die so that a handful of billionaires profit.
The world needs rational #economics focused on care, #solidarity, and #democracy.🔻
The planet burns and countless suffer and die so that a handful of billionaires profit.
The world needs rational #economics focused on care, #solidarity, and #democracy.🔻
Care vs Neglect
Why the Left–Right Divide Is Finished
substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Neoliberalism is the cult of accumulation: GDP worship, austerity as scripture, inequality as ritual, feudalism as destination.
The planet burns and countless suffer and die so that a handful of billionaires profit.
The world needs rational #economics focused on care, #solidarity, and #democracy.🔻
The planet burns and countless suffer and die so that a handful of billionaires profit.
The world needs rational #economics focused on care, #solidarity, and #democracy.🔻
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the @washingtonpost.com reports that 80% of aliens arrested in DC crackdown had no criminal record--932 individuals. (DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin routinely asserts that 70% of those arrested have US criminal records.)
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
the @washingtonpost.com reports that 80% of aliens arrested in DC crackdown had no criminal record--932 individuals. (DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin routinely asserts that 70% of those arrested have US criminal records.)
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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he's the Cal Ripken Jr. of never reading the news
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
he's the Cal Ripken Jr. of never reading the news
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I was listening to NPR this morning and was struck by the fact that they clearly, straightforwardly called this racist.
“The indifferent, Trump-normalizing Gray Lady was provoked to observe, ‘Even for a president who has frequently made derogatory comments about immigrants, the rant against Somalis was an alarming use of vulgarity from the White House against an entire community.’”
“A barrage of bad economic news has spurred Trump to unleash his hate-infested id on any nonwhite target that flits through his overtaxed brainpan.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I was listening to NPR this morning and was struck by the fact that they clearly, straightforwardly called this racist.
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Sgt. Schultz of the House
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Sgt. Schultz of the House
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Exclusive: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are pressing leaders of Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Meta for details on their donations to support President Trump’s White House ballroom.
Democrats Press Firms About Trump Ballroom Donations
Lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, ask if Nvidia, Apple, Meta and others made donations in exchange for favorable treatment.
on.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Exclusive: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are pressing leaders of Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Meta for details on their donations to support President Trump’s White House ballroom.
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Trump's BFF is doing exactly what we all knew he would, including Trump.
Trump is complicit.
Trump is complicit.
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Trump's BFF is doing exactly what we all knew he would, including Trump.
Trump is complicit.
Trump is complicit.
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Scoop: Louisiana's fish/wildlife agency is detaining people not guilty of any crimes & transferring them to ICE. It's one of 1000+ state + local agencies that started doing so this year.
ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them:
www.wired.com/story/story/...
ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them:
www.wired.com/story/story/...
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Scoop: Louisiana's fish/wildlife agency is detaining people not guilty of any crimes & transferring them to ICE. It's one of 1000+ state + local agencies that started doing so this year.
ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them:
www.wired.com/story/story/...
ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them:
www.wired.com/story/story/...