Rest in Power, Barney Frank.

Looking forward to listening. Join me, won't you?

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Unpacking the Fight Over Telehealth Access to Abortion Medication | A Supreme Court hold on a ruling that will determine remote access to an abortion drug expires on May 11, reports @stateline.org.

If you love to create with yarn or fabric - but your family is saying things like, "Auntie, Nana, Uncle... please, no more scarves" have we got a task for you. Join us at @memorialblanket.bsky.social & memorialblanket.org Create a blanket 2 display in NYC Dec 21st and then it goes to folks in need!

These deaths are on him as well as the parents he has misled.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

What an adventure! Fellow writers, if you had a chance to learn to write screen plays, would you invest the time and energy in yourself? rocabertiwriters.com/scholarships/

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

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Just wondering if her goal was to damage him as much as possible and then get out of the race. Now she's free to hang around and watch the water table in Maine go down even more once the data centers she protected are built.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Sinks to New Low, Ties @bobharvie-pa.bsky.social's Position on Open Primaries to the White House Correspondents Dinner Attack | "America needs leaders to lower the temperature," the GOP Congressman wrote. Maybe he should take his own advice, writes @cmychalejko.bsky.social.

BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

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Every Day Is Earth Day, With @delriverkeeper.bsky.social's Anneke van Rossum | From organizing against data centers and fracking, to volunteering with a local environmental organization, to remembering your reusable coffee cup or grocery bag, there's a whole lot you can do to give back to the Earth.

Lucia Simonelli Wants #PA01 Democrats to Vote Their Hopes, Not Their Fears | This grassroots, anti-establishment congressional candidate believes a bold, progressive campaign offers the party the best chance to finally defeat Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick. Will primary voters? #BucksCounty

@memorialblanket.bsky.social @raygunsite.com site for our #memorialblanket Help folk experiencing homelessness and look cool while you're at it. www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...

They are excommunicating themselves.

Catholic Charities is a leader in humane treatment of women, children and refugees. He was bound to go after them sooner or later. Our @memorialblanket.bsky.social works closely with local offices of Catholic Charities - it is frustrating to think they are losing support for their important work.

Pennsylvania's Delaware County Bans Poll Workers From Using Election Prediction Markets | State law already prohibits poll workers from betting on elections, but prediction markets argue they are not betting operations, reports @votebeat.org. #Delco

What SCOTUS’ Decision to Overturn Colorado’s Conversion Therapy Ban Means for Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ+ Youth | “This ruling sends a message, and it’s a cruel one,” Planned Parenthood Keystone's Rainbow Room Director Marlene Pray told @patlamarche.bsky.social. #BucksCounty

How Local Journalism & Pro-Democracy Reporting Can Protect Main Street from Hate & Political Extremism, w/ @philinvestigates.com | "I'd hate to see what our communities look like w/out local news," said Williams, whose own reporting helped keep a candidate w/ neo-Nazi ties from being elected mayor.

REMINDER: ICE Executed Renee Good 3 Months Ago. She Was Killed by the Kind of State Violence Our Founding Fathers Warned Against | Once a state teaches its agents that force is the solution, force becomes their habit. That’s how police states are formed out of democracies. #AbolishICE

Thrilled to be celebrating ecological wisdom & humanity. We'll make a blanket in a day, giving out copies of "Humble Pie" & collecting fast food gift cards to share with our neighbors in need. We even have stage time to tell Times Square about @memorialblanket.bsky.social I'm on at 2:00pm!

Public pension funds from California to New York hold a combined billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while teachers and other public employees protest their retirement savings funding the tech powering ICE operations. No more tax payer dollars for plantir! readsludge.com/2026/03/31/t...

Meet the Top 24 Leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation in the U.S. | Get to know the under-the-radar leaders of a movement that helped organize January 6 and continues to pose a threat to American democracy. Reporting by @fredclarkson.bsky.social & @profgagne.bsky.social in @religiondispatches.org

Imagine being Prince Andrew and you're in jail. But your brother goes to visit a guy who is mentioned 30,000 times more often in the same mess. That's got to hurt a bro's feelings, just sayin'.

What if Europe waited out the Iran war and promised to help the nation rebuild and recover - as a bargaining tool for opening the Strait? How would that work? And if it wouldn't, why not? Sugar is so much more appealing than vinegar.

Gupta: If we’re making choices, we’re making a clear choice right now about how to spend $200 billion over three months. That money could very easily be repurposed to fund a public option and provide healthcare to everyone in the United States who needs it for years.

The first Emerson College Polling survey of the 2026 U.S. Senate election finds oyster farmer Graham Platner leading Governor Janet Mills in the Democratic Primary election, 55% to 28%. Thirteen percent are undecided.

This is the perfect time to support the Charles Bruce Foundation and @memorialblanket.bsky.social - Partnership for Better Health will make your donation go wicked far (the Mainer in me showing) - increasing it exponentially when you click this link. forbetterhealthpa.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

@pahdcc.com Today's story. buckscountybeacon.com/2026/03/heav...

It was a joy to interview each and every one of the people that I got to speak with for this story. Rep Andre Carol - a 35 year old man who grew up going to public school, with a dad in prison, is now a lawmaker working to change the lives of young everyday Pennsylvanians.

If you use Instagram - your chats won't be private anymore, come May. You may want to back them up. thedemlabs.org/2026/03/16/m...

Oh wow. The Dodgers aren’t going to the White House when they play the Nationals in early April. According to Bill Plunkett, a separate trip will be planned for the summer. IMO this is pretty smart to not go right now, of all times to not go. www.ocregister.com/2026/03/11/d...

Corruption. Soliciting cash on the backs of the power built and created by the American people www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Where's the anti-war movement? Americans struggle, fighting every last atrocity at home, every right usurped, that we've got little time left to oppose the slaughter of little girls and the escalating death count of our troops. #preoccupied #congressdoyourjob buckscountybeacon.com/2026/03/opin...

Pennsylvania House Speaker @repmcclinton.com to Headline @naacpbucks.bsky.social's Women’s History Month Town Hall in Newtown | The event, “Women Who Lead: Power, Representation & The Future of Justice in Pennsylvania,” will take place Monday at Bucks County Community College.

Good news! SCOTUS won't hear Taylor v. Singleton - holding that persons experiencing homelessness still have first amendment rights! So, people in distress got a right to say, "Please help me, I'm in trouble." And, you got a right to ignore their suffering. But we really wish you wouldn't.

If you need a night off from real horror. I recommend spending your evening this way!

Our hero Coach Steve Kerr knows the human cost of gun violence, and he is a deeply powerful voice for change in our movement. He is also an executive producer of the Academy Award nominated @netflix.com documentary All the Empty Rooms. Read about his experience of its content in @latimes.com

I can keep your secrets but I'm crappy at keeping my own. So finally shouting this from the rafters is wonderful. The collaborators of #AmericanRoulette have been signed by WGM Atlantic with offices in London and NYC. #americanroulette

@memorialblanket.bsky.social Are you making a blanket for a perfect stranger experiencing homelessness for the #memorialblanket display on Dec. 21, 2026?

And another one bites the dust. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Our greatest asset. And we're too foolish and our leadership too greedy to preserve it. For the love of the land - please, return it to the sovereign first peoples' nations. We should have done that a long time ago.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the director of the FBI.

MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.

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