Carole
@truebluevt.bsky.social
A letter written to my neighborhood blog on VT #health #insurance renewal offers this compelling argument to extend the #ACA premium tax credits.
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A letter written to my neighborhood blog on VT #health #insurance renewal offers this compelling argument to extend the #ACA premium tax credits.
This is some fine investigative journalism. Respect @muellershewrote.com 👏
EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI
Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau
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July 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is some fine investigative journalism. Respect @muellershewrote.com 👏
Heart-wrenching indeed. In Nashville, ICE unlawfully detained between 80 & 100 people this week by discriminatory traffic stops, pulling over Uber & DoorDash drivers, detaining pregnant women, etc…
NASHVILLE… heart-wrenching scene as a bus pulls away after ICE & @TNHighwayPatrol terrorized & raided immigrant neighborhoods all through the night…
From @raydipietro.bsky.social : www.instagram.com/raydipietro?...
From @raydipietro.bsky.social : www.instagram.com/raydipietro?...
May 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Heart-wrenching indeed. In Nashville, ICE unlawfully detained between 80 & 100 people this week by discriminatory traffic stops, pulling over Uber & DoorDash drivers, detaining pregnant women, etc…
A place to escape to? #LifeonPlanetK2-18b
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
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April 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A place to escape to? #LifeonPlanetK2-18b
LIHEAP was #1 program that constituents called about when I served as congressional staff.
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
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April 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
LIHEAP was #1 program that constituents called about when I served as congressional staff.
Made my sign for the #HandsOff protest in Montpelier tomorrow. Join us! @indivisible.org handsoff2025.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Made my sign for the #HandsOff protest in Montpelier tomorrow. Join us! @indivisible.org handsoff2025.com
When your now-out-of-work child calls to ask whether he should sell the few shares of Apple stock gifted to him by his grandparents. #TrumpTariffs 🤬
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When your now-out-of-work child calls to ask whether he should sell the few shares of Apple stock gifted to him by his grandparents. #TrumpTariffs 🤬
At 7:19 pm ET tonight #CoryBooker will break the marathon filibuster record of Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 civil rights debate on the Senate floor. Go Cory! #RedeemTheDream
April 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
At 7:19 pm ET tonight #CoryBooker will break the marathon filibuster record of Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 civil rights debate on the Senate floor. Go Cory! #RedeemTheDream
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Peeps, for the sake of this historic moment, let's get the name of the hero right! His name is #CoryBooker not #CoreyBooker. A Black man is about to break #racist Strom Thurmond's ugly record. GO CORY! #CoryBooker
April 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Peeps, for the sake of this historic moment, let's get the name of the hero right! His name is #CoryBooker not #CoreyBooker. A Black man is about to break #racist Strom Thurmond's ugly record. GO CORY! #CoryBooker
Thank you Cory Booker Live on Senate floor for over 16.5 hours to #MakeGoodTrouble & #DefendDemocracy.
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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April 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thank you Cory Booker Live on Senate floor for over 16.5 hours to #MakeGoodTrouble & #DefendDemocracy.
Learned today from Sugarbush ski instructor when one of my kindergartener students didn’t offload Heaven’s Gate lift and rode around the bull wheel: “Vice President JD Vance did the same thing 3 weeks ago!”
March 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Learned today from Sugarbush ski instructor when one of my kindergartener students didn’t offload Heaven’s Gate lift and rode around the bull wheel: “Vice President JD Vance did the same thing 3 weeks ago!”
First Boil 2025 - Liquid Gold! #MapleSyrup
March 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
First Boil 2025 - Liquid Gold! #MapleSyrup
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This should tell you all you need to know.
March 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This should tell you all you need to know.
Bhutan, the tiny Buddhist & Hindu country often touted as the Happiest Place on Earth is proposed for an absolute ban on entry by Trump AX. Make it make sense!
Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries (Gift Article)
A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Bhutan, the tiny Buddhist & Hindu country often touted as the Happiest Place on Earth is proposed for an absolute ban on entry by Trump AX. Make it make sense!
God help us & every living thing on earth. #ZeldinGutsEPA
E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’ (Gift Article)
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, reframed his agency’s mission, saying it is to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.
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March 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
God help us & every living thing on earth. #ZeldinGutsEPA
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EJ at EPA is still being shredded. Small unknown numbers of staff being called back for unknown reasons is not a resumption of the EJ program. Recipients of EJ grants are being bullied and their awards ripped from their hands. insideclimatenews.org/news/1003202...
Rollbacks Gut Environmental Justice Gains, Former EPA Official Says - Inside Climate News
“The worst outcome I feared is happening,” says Matthew Tejada, the former director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, reflecting on changes the Trump administration has brought to the agency.
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March 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
EJ at EPA is still being shredded. Small unknown numbers of staff being called back for unknown reasons is not a resumption of the EJ program. Recipients of EJ grants are being bullied and their awards ripped from their hands. insideclimatenews.org/news/1003202...
‘If anybody needed a clearer sign that this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States, this is it.’ —Matthew Tejada
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
‘If anybody needed a clearer sign that this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States, this is it.’ —Matthew Tejada
Video of Sully, a Bernese Mountain Dog, found after 3 days high up on Steins, one of steepest runs at Vermont’s Sugarbush mountain with help of heat-seeking drone, dad, ski patrol & lots of bacon. Not all hero’s wear capes! 💕
Dog missing 3 Days Found with Thermal Drone on Sugarbush MTN VT & Rescued by Large Team SAR Part 107
YouTube video by 2A Tac Air Operations
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March 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Video of Sully, a Bernese Mountain Dog, found after 3 days high up on Steins, one of steepest runs at Vermont’s Sugarbush mountain with help of heat-seeking drone, dad, ski patrol & lots of bacon. Not all hero’s wear capes! 💕
Gosh, if only the WSJ Editorial Board had been this emphatic in their views of #TrumpTariffs 6 months ago.
Opinion | Trump Takes the Dumbest Tariff Plunge
He says the 25% levies on Mexico and Canada will begin Tuesday. Stocks fall.
www.wsj.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Gosh, if only the WSJ Editorial Board had been this emphatic in their views of #TrumpTariffs 6 months ago.
Trudeau: "Your Government has chosen to do this to you."
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
March 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Trudeau: "Your Government has chosen to do this to you."
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So the title of Trump’s speech tonight is ‘Renewal of the American Dream’?
March 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
So the title of Trump’s speech tonight is ‘Renewal of the American Dream’?
Canada fights back on massive #TrumpTariffs. Good for them. Turn out the lights. “We keep the lights on for 1.5 million homes and manufacturing in New York, in Michigan, and in Minnesota.” -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford
Ford threatens to cut off energy to U.S.
YouTube video by CBC News
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March 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Canada fights back on massive #TrumpTariffs. Good for them. Turn out the lights. “We keep the lights on for 1.5 million homes and manufacturing in New York, in Michigan, and in Minnesota.” -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford
Bravo Lucy!
The snow report for Sugarbush from Saturday morning. It also went out in a subscriber email. #NotAllHeroesWearCapes billmckibben.substack.com/p/special-ve...
Special Vermont Resistance edition
Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.
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March 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Bravo Lucy!