Mary Jenkins
@maryefjenkins.bsky.social
Legal info pro, law librarian, gardener, community builder. Views expressed here are my own. "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." (Maggie Kuhn) "Nevertheless, she persisted." Mitch McConnell
"The New Hampshire Food Bank has already increased food distribution by 26% year-over-year to meet the growing demand." #foodinsecurity #newhampshire #snap #nutrition manchester.inklink.news/nh-food-bank...
NH Food Bank amplifying fundraising Efforts amid SNAP uncertainty - Manchester Ink Link
The New Hampshire Food Bank, a program of Catholic Charities New Hampshire, is intensifying its fundraising efforts to address the anticipated statewide rise in food insecurity as the federal governme...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"The New Hampshire Food Bank has already increased food distribution by 26% year-over-year to meet the growing demand." #foodinsecurity #newhampshire #snap #nutrition manchester.inklink.news/nh-food-bank...
And I'll say it again: the administration, federal and state, is saying it's okay to let people go hungry, that somehow access to food is not a human right.
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Choosing to let kids go hungry
The USDA asserts that Democrats are blocking funding to secure “health care for illegal immigrants” and funding for “gender mutilation procedures.” All of these claims are false.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
And I'll say it again: the administration, federal and state, is saying it's okay to let people go hungry, that somehow access to food is not a human right.
open.substack.com/pub/populari... #hunger #nutrition #potus #humanrights
open.substack.com/pub/populari... #hunger #nutrition #potus #humanrights
New Hampshire doesn’t join New England neighbors in SNAP injunction suit manchester.inklink.news/new-hampshir... #snap #supplementalnutritionassistanceprogram #foldinsecurity
New Hampshire doesn’t join New England neighbors in SNAP injunction suit - Manchester Ink Link
New Hampshire is the only New England state that has not joined a group of 26 in a suit filed Tuesday against the federal government over it’s refusal to use a contingency fund to pay Supplemental Nut...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
New Hampshire doesn’t join New England neighbors in SNAP injunction suit manchester.inklink.news/new-hampshir... #snap #supplementalnutritionassistanceprogram #foldinsecurity
Are you okay with the erosion of freedom of the press? I'm not.
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Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Are you okay with the erosion of freedom of the press? I'm not.
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"The beauty of community will help you grow as well as the other person involved. Haven’t you heard? We rise by lifting others. The sense of community will take you to some levels you can’t attain on your own."
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The price of community…
“If you want something, you need to give something.”
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October 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"The beauty of community will help you grow as well as the other person involved. Haven’t you heard? We rise by lifting others. The sense of community will take you to some levels you can’t attain on your own."
open.substack.com/pub/thewhirl... #community #publiclife
open.substack.com/pub/thewhirl... #community #publiclife
“Americans take their First Amendment rights seriously. In April 2025, a Pew Research Center poll showed that 92% of Americans thought it was important “that the media can report the news without state/government censorship.””
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September 17, 2025 (Wednesday)
This evening, John Koblin, Michael M.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“Americans take their First Amendment rights seriously. In April 2025, a Pew Research Center poll showed that 92% of Americans thought it was important “that the media can report the news without state/government censorship.””
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"A whole lot of people concentrated on a very different act of gun violence [Wed]. So much so that many missed a uniquely despicable American tragedy that occurred yet again... a whole new locale where our nation’s kids were treated to a lifetime trauma by the GOP."
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Today Republicans Traumatized our Kids at Their Schools Once Again
The Madness Must Stop
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September 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"A whole lot of people concentrated on a very different act of gun violence [Wed]. So much so that many missed a uniquely despicable American tragedy that occurred yet again... a whole new locale where our nation’s kids were treated to a lifetime trauma by the GOP."
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"With the wild-eyed conviction of a snake oil salesman, Ladapo likened childhood vaccines to “slavery”—an analogy so grotesque, so profoundly ahistorical, that it would make even a Confederate re-enactor spit out his chewing tobacco in disbelief."
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A Plague of Fools: Florida’s War on Sanity
Why Ron DeSantis Wants Florida's Kids to Get Sick & Die
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September 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"With the wild-eyed conviction of a snake oil salesman, Ladapo likened childhood vaccines to “slavery”—an analogy so grotesque, so profoundly ahistorical, that it would make even a Confederate re-enactor spit out his chewing tobacco in disbelief."
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"Across the country, Trump’s GOP continues to champion policies that literally kill people. ...
And now, they’re gunning to roll back vaccines. This isn’t governing—it’s more state-sponsored terrorism."
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And now, they’re gunning to roll back vaccines. This isn’t governing—it’s more state-sponsored terrorism."
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How Do We Campaign vs/Crush MAGA?
Rant: DeSantis Ends Vaccine Mandates; Guest: Maine’s Angus King III, Running For Governor & Answering Our Questions
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September 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
"Across the country, Trump’s GOP continues to champion policies that literally kill people. ...
And now, they’re gunning to roll back vaccines. This isn’t governing—it’s more state-sponsored terrorism."
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And now, they’re gunning to roll back vaccines. This isn’t governing—it’s more state-sponsored terrorism."
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"Think of all [Trump's] moves...controlling the Fed, or occupying ... cities, or unleashing ICE..., or imposing ... tariffs..., or attacking... universities and museums, or shaking down CEOs...as motivated by an unquenchable thirst to accumulate bargaining power..."
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Trump and the Art of Extortion
How to understand his desire to control the Fed (and everything else)
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September 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Think of all [Trump's] moves...controlling the Fed, or occupying ... cities, or unleashing ICE..., or imposing ... tariffs..., or attacking... universities and museums, or shaking down CEOs...as motivated by an unquenchable thirst to accumulate bargaining power..."
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"[NH] gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts are familiar with highly invasive vines like knotweed and bittersweet... These invaders are very much like the plague of outside money and anti-democratic ideology that came to NH 20 years ago as the Free State Project."
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Opinion: Root out invasive extremists - Concord Monitor
New Hampshire gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts are familiar with highly invasive vines like knotweed and bittersweet. They climb all over power poles and fences, smothering and killing trees and shru...
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August 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"[NH] gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts are familiar with highly invasive vines like knotweed and bittersweet... These invaders are very much like the plague of outside money and anti-democratic ideology that came to NH 20 years ago as the Free State Project."
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California A.G. Rob Bonta:
"Defend the Constitution, defend the rule of law, defend the future of this most incredible nation in the history of the world... We all have the agency and the ability and the power to fight back..."
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"Defend the Constitution, defend the rule of law, defend the future of this most incredible nation in the history of the world... We all have the agency and the ability and the power to fight back..."
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Law Dork talks with California A.G. Rob Bonta
The president, Bonta said, "is probably the most powerful person in the world with their actual given official power ... but he regularly attempts to grasp and seize power that he does not have."
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August 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
California A.G. Rob Bonta:
"Defend the Constitution, defend the rule of law, defend the future of this most incredible nation in the history of the world... We all have the agency and the ability and the power to fight back..."
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"Defend the Constitution, defend the rule of law, defend the future of this most incredible nation in the history of the world... We all have the agency and the ability and the power to fight back..."
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New Hampshire is paying a long-term price for the high cost of a college education newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/08/14/n...
New Hampshire is paying a long-term price for the high cost of a college education • New Hampshire Bulletin
August is an anxious month for parents preparing to drop off their young adults at the University of New Hampshire.
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August 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
New Hampshire is paying a long-term price for the high cost of a college education newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/08/14/n...
"He is testing the limits of his power — and, by extension, of our democracy. He’s feeling out what the Supreme Court, Congress, and the public will let him get away with. And so far, he’s been able to do what he pleases."
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Trump's trial run at a police state
Normalizing military intervention for domestic policing is the beginning of the end of democracy
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August 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"He is testing the limits of his power — and, by extension, of our democracy. He’s feeling out what the Supreme Court, Congress, and the public will let him get away with. And so far, he’s been able to do what he pleases."
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"According to a class action lawsuit, that turned out to be literally true. Hundreds of people are being held at the [Alligator Alcatraz] facility without charges, without access to attorneys, and without the ability to contest their detention in court."
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A legal black hole
"We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland," President Trump said earlier this month, referring to the new detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz.
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July 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"According to a class action lawsuit, that turned out to be literally true. Hundreds of people are being held at the [Alligator Alcatraz] facility without charges, without access to attorneys, and without the ability to contest their detention in court."
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"Librarians form the last line of defense against an information apocalypse."
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The Revolution Will Be Card Cataloged: Dispatches From The Law Librarian Frontlines - Above the Law
At AALL's annual meeting, the research profession searches for its war footing.
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July 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"Librarians form the last line of defense against an information apocalypse."
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"How do you deal with a reactionary, far-right U.S. Supreme Court majority in this moment of the Trump administration’s repeated lawlessness if you are a federal district judge who believes in the rule of law?" open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order
Judge Susan Illston provided a great example on Friday of how to deal with the current Supreme Court in an order that the Trump admin turn over its mass-firing plans.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"How do you deal with a reactionary, far-right U.S. Supreme Court majority in this moment of the Trump administration’s repeated lawlessness if you are a federal district judge who believes in the rule of law?" open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
Law #librarian / legal info pro friends and anyone else supportive of #reading and childhood #literacy: please give to the AALL Social Responsibilities SIS book drive. Thanks! #smartreading
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July 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Law #librarian / legal info pro friends and anyone else supportive of #reading and childhood #literacy: please give to the AALL Social Responsibilities SIS book drive. Thanks! #smartreading
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Good news for #NewHampshire children, families, schools, and transgender people – and the whole state. Hate and excessive intrusion into reading, healthcare decisions, and neutral sex ed has no place in NH. Vote out the sponsors of those awful bills. indepthnh.org/2025/07/15/a...
Ayotte Vetoes Book Ban Bill, Fetus Videos and Locker Room Bill
Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a bill that would have school districts establish a process to ban books and other “inappropriate materials” from public schools.
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July 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Good news for #NewHampshire children, families, schools, and transgender people – and the whole state. Hate and excessive intrusion into reading, healthcare decisions, and neutral sex ed has no place in NH. Vote out the sponsors of those awful bills. indepthnh.org/2025/07/15/a...
"This is a major expansion of presidential power, permitting the president to disregard laws Congress has passed, despite the Constitution’s clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 15, 2025
Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court’s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while th...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"This is a major expansion of presidential power, permitting the president to disregard laws Congress has passed, despite the Constitution’s clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"...the White House is up for sale, and Big Ag is buying.
... [B]ig ag is quietly preparing to dismantle the USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Act reforms, ... designed to level the playing field between independent farmers and the corporate meatpacking giants..."
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... [B]ig ag is quietly preparing to dismantle the USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Act reforms, ... designed to level the playing field between independent farmers and the corporate meatpacking giants..."
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JBS Gave Trump $5 Million. Now He’s Giving Them Our Farms.
How Trump hooking up a foreign-owned giant is a death sentence for small-town America.
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July 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"...the White House is up for sale, and Big Ag is buying.
... [B]ig ag is quietly preparing to dismantle the USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Act reforms, ... designed to level the playing field between independent farmers and the corporate meatpacking giants..."
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... [B]ig ag is quietly preparing to dismantle the USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Act reforms, ... designed to level the playing field between independent farmers and the corporate meatpacking giants..."
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"Not only have today’s Republicans launched an attack on the Fourteenth Amendment’s ... protect[ion of] Americans against discrimination in the states, ... Trump has launched an assault on the birthright citizenship that is the centerpiece of the amendment."
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July 9, 2025
On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S.
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July 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Not only have today’s Republicans launched an attack on the Fourteenth Amendment’s ... protect[ion of] Americans against discrimination in the states, ... Trump has launched an assault on the birthright citizenship that is the centerpiece of the amendment."
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"...America doesn’t need a third party financed by the richest person in the world ... We need a third party dedicated to just the opposite — getting big money out of politics." open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Read more for the real reason Musk wants a third party.
Read more for the real reason Musk wants a third party.
What’s the Real Reason Musk Wants a Third Party?
Not to reduce the federal debt.
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July 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"...America doesn’t need a third party financed by the richest person in the world ... We need a third party dedicated to just the opposite — getting big money out of politics." open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Read more for the real reason Musk wants a third party.
Read more for the real reason Musk wants a third party.
"...Trump suggested he could take over New York City if voters elect Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. He then suggested the administration could take over Washington, D.C., as well..."
Letters from an American, July 8, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
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Letters from an American, July 8, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
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July 8, 2025
One hundred and eleven people are dead and more than 160 are still missing in Texas after Friday’s tragic flood.
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July 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
"...Trump suggested he could take over New York City if voters elect Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. He then suggested the administration could take over Washington, D.C., as well..."
Letters from an American, July 8, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
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Letters from an American, July 8, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
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