Pro tip: After an enjoyable afternoon spent rolling out cookie dough & making Christmas cookies, all while listening to holiday tunes, and while waiting for the snow to start falling, don’t add “use electric hedge trimmer to cut down ornamental grasses in the front garden” to your list of tasks. 😳

Fantastic show and experience tonight at Goodfolk in Topsfield. Sold out holiday show was terrific.

@astonthegolden1 at @bostonchildrens in Peabody today. She’s a total love bug to patients and staff. 🐾 🐾 #therapydog

Those of us involved with Bearing Witness @ICE in Burlington are pleased to announce the group’s new website: BearingwitnessNE.org. Sign up to receive regular emails with news about the group’s weekly Wednesday bearing witness protests at the ICE facility in Burlington.

Joined great friends tonight at the Boston ICE Tea Party with @mass50501.bsky.social & Boston Indivisible, on the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party! From the Irish Famine Memorial Plaza we marched to the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, where organizers dumped ICE into Boston Harbor! 👊🏻 🧊 💪🏻

Never had more respect for @officialjackwhite.bsky.social 👏🏻

After a busy morning escorting patients at Planned Parenthood, nice to get outside with the pups.

Aston and friends helped students at @merrimackcollege.bsky.social destress today before their final exams ❤️🐾🐾

“… Illinois now leads the nation in out-of-state abortion patients. Carbondale, a college town in Illinois’s southern tip within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, has become a major abortion hub.”

Aston kept this annoying thing on her head during our entire visit today at Boston Children’s Hospital Peabody. What a good girl ❤️ #therapydog #therapydogs Pets & People Foundation, Inc.

Me and some of the wonderful female warriors I escort with at Planned Parenthood, hanging out at our annual Volunteer Appreciation Event. Love these fellow rock stars for reproductive justice and rights. #clinicescort #clinicescorts #abortionishealthcare

With Bearing Witness @ ICE in Burlington.

Something else to thank Trump for. IMPEACH HIM. CONVICT HIM. IMPRISION HIM.

Blessings, gratitude, and thankfulness. ❤️🙏

With Bearing Witness in Burlington at this ICE detention facility where kidnapped people are house in inhumane conditions and cut off from family and attorneys. 😡

Just another day at Planned Parenthood. #clinicescort #clinicescorts #abortionishealthcared

Every now and then you catch a series that you know will stay with you forever. The latest for me is In My Skin (BritBox). Amazing acting, difficult viewing, and a bittersweet and profound ending. Incredible autobiographical storytelling by award-winning screenwriter Kayleigh Llewellyn.

FUCK HER.

Aston and the penguin she was gifted today while on the job at Boston Children’s Peabody 🐾 🐾 🐧 #therapydog #therapydogs #therapydogsrock

Nuremberg. Two thoughts: 1. This hit way too close to our modern day fight against fascism in this country. 2. Russell Crowe deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of the monster Hermann Göring.

Just a few shots from this morning at Beverly Bootstraps. Congrats to all involved with this Rock Voices Beverly North Shore food donation effort spearheaded by Shari Hewson! 👏🏻 🙌🏻 🎶

The Yorkshire Dales National Park was established on this day 1954 and extended 2016. Most is in North Yorkshire, with a sizeable area in Cumbria and a small part in Lancashire (photo Ribblehead Viaduct).

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Happy 4th birthday to our irrepressible, enthusiastic, crazy, lovable Sassy, aka Sassafras, Sassalicious, SassMaster, Sassparilla (and more we haven’t thought up yet). 🐾 🐾

Today’s Bearing Witness @ ICE Burlington community meeting was informative. 100s of folks have been protesting every Wednesday at the ICE facility since the beginning of the year. The stories of the detainees are horrible, and it’s hard to believe this is happening in the USA.

Another day, another group of women-hating misogynists. First time we’ve seen them here. They’re listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. I’m not providing a link 🤮 #clinicescort

Spotify cancel: Done ✅ #CancelSpotify #DontStreamFascism #StopICEAds

indivisible2026.org My message to Schumer.

Congressional Democrats are livid after a handful of their Senate colleagues voted Sunday to end the government shutdown. Chris Murphy called it a mistake. Bernie Sanders called it “a very bad night.” And Ro Khanna and Seth Moulton accused Chuck Schumer of being ineffective & called for his removal.

British journalist Sami Hamdi to be released after being held by ICE, lawyer says.

A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.

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A mobile lounge carrying passengers crashed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday, injuring more than a dozen people and causing some damage to the terminal.

please stop sending me this story, i have been sent it 25+ times, @parismarx.com covered it before Australia decided to threaten Microsoft, but there's nothing much more to add other than "yep" disconnect.blog/ive-had-it-w...

As @indivisibleteam co-executive director @ezralevin said in an email today about the Democrats caving on the GOP’s gov’t shutdown, “This was a surrender.” Feeling rageful? Feeling fed-up? Visit indivisible2026.org and sign up. We’ve got to fix this ourselves, people.

Damn! Even dogs hate him...

Good turnout for the “Rise of Authoritarianism: What’s Happening to Our Rights?” a panel discussion with judges and other legal experts, sponsored by the Newburyport Bar Association.

The cycling continues despite the cold. Nice Stone Wall ride yesterday with the North Shore Cyclists.

Can’t wait to get home from Boston to these two (and the photo-taker as well 😘) ❤️🐾🐾

Just the annual Men’s March, aka, gathering of white supremacists a la Hitler Youth, in front of Planned Parenthood and then off to the Boston Common. Not as many little boys with them this year. Hmmm, Epstein Files?

If you go to Bar25 NBPT in Newburyport and sit at the bar on the third floor, get anything and everything recommended by Lucas and you won’t go wrong!

Impressive. Cuz media are complicit.

Digging up weeds, removing old vines from fencing, yanking out old chicken wire fencing, helping create new garden beds, and more is the fun dirty work that we get up to when doing stewardship volunteering with Greenbelt. Working with Greenbelt staff & meeting other volunteers is another benefit!

The utter graft of these people just knows no depths — nor does their cowardice in facing the American people. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Thank you City of Newburyport for recognizing women like Caroline C. Cottrell. The role undertaken by freed slaves like Cottrell, who raised the children and ran the households of the wealthy deserves recognition and our humility.