Reposted by Because we must...Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/06/2025You 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. 33882212775 0
Reposted by Because we must...NH House Democratic Caucus @nhhousedems.bsky.social · 05/06/2025House 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 2119 0
Reposted by Because we must...ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025VICTORY: 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 0283 0
Reposted by Because we must...davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Some 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 74613 0
Reposted by Because we must...davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Get 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...indepthnh.orgEducation Freedom Accounts Expanded by HouseThe 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. 19219121 0
Reposted by Because we must...Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025The 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. 20788774450 0
Reposted by Because we must...Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Sure, 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. 1073301787676 0
Reposted by Because we must...The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/05/2025Guy who got a "free" $400M plane from Qatar was up late tweeting about corruption. 1411166923838 0
Reposted by Because we must...Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/05/2025Great 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! 34340971536 0
Reposted by Because we must...Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 13/05/20251955: Whites-only water fountains 2025: Whites-only immigration. 345107013730 0
Reposted by Because we must...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...time.comWhy I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of CongressI cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging. 471171115918 0
Reposted by Because we must...The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13/05/2025It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.politico.comRule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice saysSpeaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices. 2201250436720 0
Reposted by Because we must...Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/202573% 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) 248170864002 0
Reposted by Because we must...ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025We are back in court today to defend our victory in our classroom censorship case against the state of New Hampshire. #nhpolitics 422628 0
Reposted by Because we must...Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/04/2025This is hugely horrifying. 8439551233 0
Reposted by Because we must...Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025OK 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.comnewrepublic.comPaul, Weiss and Skadden: Capitulating Cowards of the Legal ProfessionSome firms have caved to Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional demands. Others have stood and fought. We know which ones deserve our admiration. 24589166 0
Reposted by Because we must...Danie Were @danacea.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Looking 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... 31179 0
Reposted by Because we must...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. 16381104 0
Reposted by Because we must...davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 31/03/2025When 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...wmur.comHouse lawmakers advance 30% budget cut to University System of New HampshireCiting a tough budget environment, New Hampshire lawmakers gave initial approval Friday to a two-year, $50 million cut to the state university system. 29424 0
Reposted by Because we must...Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Cory 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. 442613328 0
Reposted by Because we must...George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/04/2025It’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. 41457317711346 0
Reposted by Because we must...MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025You 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.youtu.be20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John LithgowYouTube video by PoliticsGirl 5862481512974 0
Reposted by Because we must...Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 31/03/2025I 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 3408356134979 0
Reposted by Because we must...Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Reasonable to ask if we are now oppressing the Russian opposition at Putin’s behest. theins.press/en/news/280037theins.pressRussian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stanceA 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... 517116544732 0
Reposted by Because we must...Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This 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. 438261996622 0
Reposted by Because we must...Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/03/2025History books won’t make sense of this either. It will be up to psychology studies. 439140743486 0
Reposted by Because we must...Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Really 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? 29276212112040 0
Reposted by Because we must...Granite Post @granitepostnews.com · 27/03/2025Hundreds 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 0146 0
Reposted by Because we must...NEA-New Hampshire @neanh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Today, 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... #NHPoliticsneanh.orgPRESS RELEASE: NH Senate Republicans Vote to Take Public Dollars Away from Public Schools – NEA-NH 053 0
Reposted by Because we must...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 132 0
Reposted by Because we must...Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now 1114545167887 0
Reposted by Because we must...Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025If 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. 7553590510984 0
Reposted by Because we must...Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/03/2025ICYMI: 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...documentcloud.orgAmerican Oversight v. Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Bessent, Rubio, and NARA Regarding Military Actions Planned on Signal Messaging AppLawsuit 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... 262135733956 0
Reposted by Because we must...Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The 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. 11313854710059 0
Reposted by Because we must...Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/03/2025Short 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… 30960781927 0
Reposted by Because we must...Alissandra Rodriguez Murray @alissandra4mht.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I 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. 3175 0
Reposted by Because we must...Senator Megan Hunt @meganhunt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Hegseth 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. 321046261 0
Reposted by Because we must...nacholib.bsky.social @nacholib.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Sad reality 158147474428 0
Reposted by Because we must...Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 20/03/2025Showing 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 213113 0
Reposted by Because we must...Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Columbia has a $14 BILLION dollar endowment. It could have held firm. 2640576 0
Reposted by Because we must...Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Paul 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 49018 0
Because we must... @louise-spencer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Congresswoman 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. 040 0
Reposted by Because we must...Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Key point 001 0