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Co-founder, Kent Street Coalition, an all-volunteer, grassroots, progressive advocacy org in the Granite State. kentstreetcoalition.org Officially Twitter free

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/06/2025
You can argue the merits of deporting Marcelo—a young man brought here at age 5—if you want to. But this is someone we should be proud to call American. He’s solid on every level. And if you’re really a Christian, you should be lifting him up, not casting him out. Listen w/an open mind—and heart.
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NH House Democratic Caucus @nhhousedems.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
House Republicans just voted to make it harder for elderly & disabled Granite Staters to vote absentee. No printer? No notary? No ride? ❌ NO BALLOT. This is voter suppression—plain and simple. #NHPolitics
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
VICTORY: NH Lawmakers in both chambers voted against legislative provisions in HB 10 and SB 72 that could have banned confidential birth control for Granite Staters under the age of 18. This is a win for bodily autonomy and personal, private medical decision-making. #nhpolitics
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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Some good news. SB54—a bill that would have raised penalties for people suspected of DUI who refuse a chemical test that was inexplicably amended by GOP lawmakers to include mandatory firearms safety training for K-12 public school kids—was tabled Thursday in the NH House. #NHPolitics
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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Get out your wallets folks. Wealthy people want subsidies from taxpayers like you to send their kids to private schools. On Thursday, our GOP-majority legislature decided that they’re going to get them—and you’re going to pay for them. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/06/05/e...
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Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House
The House once again voted to expand the Education Freedom Account program, opening it to any New Hampshire child regardless of his or her parents’ income.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/05/2025
Guy who got a "free" $400M plane from Qatar was up late tweeting about corruption.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/05/2025
Great Replacement Theory in action… On day one, Donald Trump suspended the refugee settlement admissions program. But now he’s giving white Afrikaners U.S. citizenship because they “could be assimilated easily into our country”? This isn’t a dog whistle—it’s a freaking bullhorn!
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
1955: Whites-only water fountains 2025: Whites-only immigration.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13/05/2025
It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.
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Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says
Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare (But get your mom flowers, too)
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We are back in court today to defend our victory in our classroom censorship case against the state of New Hampshire. #nhpolitics
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is hugely horrifying.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
OK patriots, "each fat-cat firm that caves in response to Trump’s demands makes next capitulation that much easier, & puts the whole industry more firmly under Trump’s thumb." Paul, Weiss and Skadden: Capitulating Cowards of the Legal Profession newrepublic.com/article/1935... via @newrepublic.com
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Paul, Weiss and Skadden: Capitulating Cowards of the Legal Profession
Some firms have caved to Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional demands. Others have stood and fought. We know which ones deserve our admiration.
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Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Looking at the flow of posts about Tr*mp's #tariffs and utterly staggered by how anyone could be that much of an incompetently spoiled narcissist, to bankrupt a country because they're throwing a tantrum... ...oh wait, no I'm not. This is awful, and utterly terrifying. My love to my friends...
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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com apparently don’t find it newsworthy that the nation’s public health infrastructure was summarily imploded yesterday, a move which will kill untold thousands of Americans and sicken and immiserate millions more. Ho hum.
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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
When we strangle higher education, we strangle opportunity and growth. We also give young people in an aging state no reason to come here or stay here. As for the paranoid right-wing grievances fueling this disaster in the making? 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻 #NHPolitics www.wmur.com/article/hous...
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House lawmakers advance 30% budget cut to University System of New Hampshire
Citing a tough budget environment, New Hampshire lawmakers gave initial approval Friday to a two-year, $50 million cut to the state university system.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker is STILL going. This is what resisting fascism looks like. I don’t care if it’s not a “real” filibuster. Booker is taking drastic action to show his constituents that they are not alone. More of this, please.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 31/03/2025
I was elected in 2010 with Kristie Noem. She used to be kind, compassionate, and put her faith above any personal gain. She like so many others, is now broken
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Reasonable to ask if we are now oppressing the Russian opposition at Putin’s behest. theins.press/en/news/280037
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Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stance
A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention. According to multiple independent Russian media outlets and the scient...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/03/2025
History books won’t make sense of this either. It will be up to psychology studies.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
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Granite Post @granitepostnews.com · 27/03/2025
Hundreds turned out to the New Hampshire State House this week to protest Republican bills that look to ban trans granite staters from bathrooms and forcibly out students by state educators. 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽 #NHPolitics #NHLGBTQ
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NEA-New Hampshire @neanh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Today, the NH Senate passed SB 295 - a universal voucher bill. It is outrageous that politicians are choosing to expand our state’s unaccountable school voucher program instead of fully funding special education or easing the burden of property taxes. neanh.org/2025/03/27/p... #NHPolitics
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PRESS RELEASE: NH Senate Republicans Vote to Take Public Dollars Away from Public Schools – NEA-NH
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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“ We believe in ‘live and let live.’ We believe in live free or die.’”—Rep. James Roesener, a trans man sharing his story opposing a bill that would ban breast surgery on minors with gender dysphoria. The bill passes 200-165 anyway because cruelty is the point. #NHPolitics
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
ICYMI: Here is American Oversight’s lawsuit against Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio, and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration for violations of the Federal Records Act and Administrative Procedure Act. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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American Oversight v. Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Bessent, Rubio, and NARA Regarding Military Actions Planned on Signal Messaging App
Lawsuit filed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State and acting Archivist Marco Rubio, and the U.S...
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/03/2025
Short sided AF! We can shut borders, cut ties, and look away—but viruses don’t care. The next pandemic is just a 12-hour flight away and we have an HHS secretary, who doesn’t believe in vaccines. This decision will hurt us at home…
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Alissandra Rodriguez Murray @alissandra4mht.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I have never been more disappointed in a friend and colleague than I am by Jonah Wheeler. It’s really sad what people will do to gain political power.
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Senator Megan Hunt @meganhunt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hegseth says women are a liability in combat. Gabbard says DEI puts lives at risk. Waltz warns DEI will destroy military readiness. Then they all turn around and share classified war strategy in a Signal thread. They don’t fear “low standards.” They fear accountability.
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nacholib.bsky.social @nacholib.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Sad reality
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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 20/03/2025
Showing up at the State House this morning to oppose discrimination and hate, and to stand with our constituents. Gonna be a long day in Concord, but this was a strong start. #NHPolitics
Pride flag waving in front of a crowd standing in front of the NH State House. "Dismantle Discrimination, Not Protections" button on my lapel, along with the NH House security pin and my name tag. 

I'm standing on the NH House floor as session is about to begin. Large group of supporters in front of the State House, and most of the NH Dems on the steps to support that group.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Columbia has a $14 BILLION dollar endowment. It could have held firm.
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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Paul Weiss and Columbia have shown that our rich institutions won’t save us; they’re too complicit. AOC and Bernie’s tour show what has always been true: no one is coming to save us. It’s up to us, all of us, together
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Because we must... @louise-spencer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#SchumerMustGo now.
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Schumer has got to go.
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Because we must... @louise-spencer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander: "This is not normal. It is deeply dangerous." Thank you for stating it clearly and out loud. These word need to be repeated over and over again.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Key point
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