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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 2h

Sadly, as public funding for the arts disappears, the dependency on corporate and wealthy donor fundraising means that proactively appeasing fascism and trashing the rights of women now appears to be on the agenda. #NHPolitics www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/l...

Music Hall cancels fundraiser featuring abortion rights film, faces backlash

The Music Hall faces backlash after calling off Joan G. Lovering Health Center’s fundraiser featuring film about abortion rights activists.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 2h

Nope.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 23h

Don’t worry #Donnie. Maybe the Nobel Committee will give you the Miss Congeniality award. On second thought….nah… (And congratuations to a woman who’s kept the flames of democracy burning in her country while Trump works to burn democracy down in his.) www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 23h

Finally—an academic institution with the courage to stand up to a petty tyrant. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 1d

2/As legislators debate the merits of more giveaways to large corporations, bills are being filed by GOP reps to make the biggest corporate giveaway of all a reality. This is not about reducing taxes. It’s about shifting the cost of govt. services from the state to local property taxpayers.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The end game here isn’t to defy history and basic math and somehow magically boost tax revenue while cutting business taxes. The end game is to cut business taxes entirely on the way to defunding the services provided by state government. #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/10/09/a...

Amid sagging revenues, New Hampshire Republicans to push for lowering business enterprise tax • New Hampshire Bulletin

New Hampshire’s two business tax rates have dropped steadily over the last decade, descending from 2015 to 2023 under a series of cuts brought by Republicans.Now, House lawmakers are seeking to make o...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to understand how these corrections officers have escaped prosecution—that is until you realize that these cases could also become a legal liability for a state whose leaders apparently value pinching pennies over justice. #NHPolitics www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Investigators found evidence of potential crimes by NH prison staff. They decided not to prosecute.

An investigation into one of the biggest poaching cases in recent New Hampshire history also uncovered potential crimes inside the state’s struggling prison for men.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 2d

“This is very credible evidence of alarming behavior at a minimum and potentially criminal behavior at the other end of the extreme.” #NHPolitics www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Investigators found evidence of potential crimes by NH prison staff. They decided not to prosecute.

An investigation into one of the biggest poaching cases in recent New Hampshire history also uncovered potential crimes inside the state’s struggling prison for men.

www.nhpr.org

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 2d

“Trump and MAGA have massively overreached and they are awakening a sleeping giant…Fascism is not inevitable and no one knows what will happen next. Our protests need to keep building and expanding.” #NHPolitics www.concordmonitor.com/2025/10/06/m...

Opinion: The value of protest - Concord Monitor

The movement against the Trump regime is reminiscent of the protests against Nixon's presidency. Mass movements can bring down authoritarian regimes.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 3d

Having a convicted felon serving as president certainly helps normalize
a NH judge who cops a plea continuing to serve on our state Supreme Court. Or does it? Another textbook case of how the wealthy and the powerful escape consequences. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/10/07/j...

Justice Hantz Marconi Wants To Return To Work; Found Guilty On 1 New Charge; Fined $1,200

State Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi is looking forward to getting back to work, according to her lawyer Richard Guerriero, after all seven original criminal charges against her were...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4d

The #ICEstapo strikes again. In NH, this could be prosecuted as simple assault because 1) tear gas canister effects would likely qualify as bodily injury or unprivileged physical contact and 2) road rage isn’t protected under the supremacy clause. Yet…#NHPolitics www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Federal agent throws tear gas canister from SUV on busy Chicago street

Federal agents threw a tear gas canister at people on a busy street in the Logan Square neighborhood on Friday outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4d

“First, you tap into racism…From there, you create moral panic…Finally, you keep corporations, the wealthy, and their media-savvy champions happy enough so they’ll accept all the crimes and immorality.” #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/10/01/h...

How power is won and held, in New Hampshire and the nation • New Hampshire Bulletin

Several decades ago, Republican campaign consultant Lee Atwater described how, as The Nation put it, “Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves.” Atwater outlined the ...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4d

2/ Peaceful protest is a sign of empowerment in a healthy democracy and a sign of resistance and recovery in an unhealthy one. Be part of the resistance and the recovery. kentstreetcoalition.org/2025/09/19/n...

No Kings Protest Events In New Hampshire Oct. 18

From the organizers: He’s using OUR tax dollars to pay for HIS power grabs. Trump is pouring public money into his authoritarian takeovers of cities—deploying federal forces, seizing local police d…

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4d

1/We’ve seen this movie before in NH. Elected Republican leaders framing peaceful protesters as “terrorists”. But it didn’t work then and it won’t work now. On October 18, find the #NoKings protest near you. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/10/07/o...

Op-Ed: Overblown Threats of Terrorism, Then and Now

Three days before the Clamshell Alliance peaceably occupied the nuclear plant construction site in Seabrook in 1977, Governor Meldrim Thomson issued an inflammatory statement.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 4d

A sweetheart plea deal, a tiny slap on the wrist and she’ll likely get to keep her law license too. #NHPolitics www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

NH Supreme Court Justice Hantz Marconi to plead guilty, ending legal saga

Jury selection in the criminal case against Hantz Marconi was scheduled to begin next month. She will pay a fine and serve no jail time.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 5d

Wondering how many people with parents whose unflinching service to their country defined them feel the same way… substack.com/@tracymayne/...

Tracy Mayne (@tracymayne)

I’m grateful my father is dead. He was an infantryman in WWII. He only once talked about the war. That was the night my brother-in-law, Glenn, talked about his time serving in Vietnam. I listened as ...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 5d

2/At this point, full text versions of the bills haven’t been posted. But in most cases the titles are descriptive enough so you can get the idea. The full searchable list of bills being submitted for the 2026 session is available here. gc.nh.gov/lsr_search/L...

New Hampshire Legislative Service Requests (LSR's)

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 5d

1/This is a great summary of what elected NH Republicans have planned for us in 2026. But it’s only the tip of an iceberg that includes the possible return of the death penalty and a scheme to convert public schools to charter schools. #NHPolitics democracynh.com/2025/republi...

A glimpse into what the Republicans have in mind for New Hampshire | DemocracyNH

The New Hampshire House will begin the 2026 Session on Jan. 7th. Proposed legislation will make their way onto the floor for debate and a vote. Depending on the nature of these proposed bills and the ...

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 5d

Addressing educational funding disparities between communities is a necessity. But yet another scheme by elected NH Republicans to place the burden entirely on the backs of property taxpayers with no regard to health or income is not. #NHPolitics newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/10/06/a...

After Supreme Court school funding decision, Republican floats fix: increasing property taxes • New Hampshire Bulletin

In the months since the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that the state is underfunding its public schools, lawmakers have been divided over how to respond.

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 6d

For those who don’t follow #NHPolitics too closely, I’ve created this helpful chart. For those needing more of an explanation, read onward… www.davidmeuse4nh.com/updates1/202...

A NH Politics Primer: Understanding Elected Republicans — Rep. David Meuse

For my those who don’t follow NH politics too closely, I’ve created this helpful chart. For those needing more of an explanation, read onward…

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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 6d

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 6d

“Darkness is at its deepest, just before sunrise.”—Voltaire

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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 6d

What Trump is doing isn’t just violating yet another law that people are too busy or distracted to care about. He is decapitating trust in anything anyone in government tells you—starting with himself. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/10/04/d...

Distant Dome: Using Government for Partisan Purposes

White Mountain National Forest website says: “The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical fu...

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