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English prof, forest explorer, and clarity seeker.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson
October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson
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Got a knife pulled on me today in Thailand feeding the dogs. Not nice at all.
About as brutal a day as is possible to have. Got Thumper safely rescued at least.
About as brutal a day as is possible to have. Got Thumper safely rescued at least.
September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Got a knife pulled on me today in Thailand feeding the dogs. Not nice at all.
About as brutal a day as is possible to have. Got Thumper safely rescued at least.
About as brutal a day as is possible to have. Got Thumper safely rescued at least.
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I have been struck with something. We all mourn the death of Charlie Kirk. It absolutely was pure evil.
But there have been an immense amount of school shootings… against children.. and the GOP doesn’t show 1/456th of the remorse they demand America shows for Charlie
But there have been an immense amount of school shootings… against children.. and the GOP doesn’t show 1/456th of the remorse they demand America shows for Charlie
September 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I have been struck with something. We all mourn the death of Charlie Kirk. It absolutely was pure evil.
But there have been an immense amount of school shootings… against children.. and the GOP doesn’t show 1/456th of the remorse they demand America shows for Charlie
But there have been an immense amount of school shootings… against children.. and the GOP doesn’t show 1/456th of the remorse they demand America shows for Charlie
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Speak up for Free Speech--- a list of concrete actions with phone numbers! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Speak up for Free Speech
Concrete ways to make some noise as a community
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Speak up for Free Speech--- a list of concrete actions with phone numbers! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social A good/sad time to be reading "Scare Tactics."
September 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social A good/sad time to be reading "Scare Tactics."
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This is the whole ball game, gang.
NEW: Trump administration asks SCOTUS to intervene in the Lisa Cook case
September 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is the whole ball game, gang.
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Noem & Bondi are running neck and neck to see who can care less about the Constitution. I wrote about Bondi last night: joycevance.substack.com/p/a-not-so-n...
September 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Noem & Bondi are running neck and neck to see who can care less about the Constitution. I wrote about Bondi last night: joycevance.substack.com/p/a-not-so-n...
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Quick point. Trump cannot silence you, period. He doesn’t have the means or the tools, and if he did he would be too weak to use them. This is a bluff.
It only works if you let it.
It only works if you let it.
September 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Quick point. Trump cannot silence you, period. He doesn’t have the means or the tools, and if he did he would be too weak to use them. This is a bluff.
It only works if you let it.
It only works if you let it.
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A federal Judge in Birmingham has ruled that lines must be redrawn for districts used to elect county commissioners because they amount to a racial gerrymander. www.al.com/news/birming...
Judge rules Jefferson County commission lines are unfair to Black voters, must be redrawn
The federal ruling in the challenge to county maps case could shift political power in Alabama’s largest county by flipping it from commission majority Republican to Democrat.
www.al.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A federal Judge in Birmingham has ruled that lines must be redrawn for districts used to elect county commissioners because they amount to a racial gerrymander. www.al.com/news/birming...
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On Thu 9/25, 7 PM, I’ll read from Jailbreak of Sparrows & talk with Andre Dubus III at First Congregational Church, South Hadley (near Mount Holyoke). Sponsored by Odyssey Bookshop. Andre is a terrific writer & conversationalist. Free admission:
www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-esp....
www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-esp....
September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
On Thu 9/25, 7 PM, I’ll read from Jailbreak of Sparrows & talk with Andre Dubus III at First Congregational Church, South Hadley (near Mount Holyoke). Sponsored by Odyssey Bookshop. Andre is a terrific writer & conversationalist. Free admission:
www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-esp....
www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-esp....
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My statement condemning Prime Minister Netanyahu's extremist West Bank expansion plan:
September 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My statement condemning Prime Minister Netanyahu's extremist West Bank expansion plan:
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Trump weighed in on how criminal cases should proceed. He said prosecutions should move more quickly and that the United States should become more like China. “We have to have quick trials,” he said on “Fox & Friends.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Trump on Trials: How Our Legal System Shouldn't Work
Today, after Donald Trump announced it on Fox and Friends, law enforcement told the public it had apprehended a suspect who turned in after confessing to the murder of Charlie Kirk to his father, a fo...
open.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Trump weighed in on how criminal cases should proceed. He said prosecutions should move more quickly and that the United States should become more like China. “We have to have quick trials,” he said on “Fox & Friends.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
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Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
What Florida Is Doing To Vaccine Mandates Is Sick
Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
www.forbes.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
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The increasingly desperate imperial presidency open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Week Ahead
September 7, 2025
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September 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The increasingly desperate imperial presidency open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Who is RFK Jr? The Psycho at HHS
He’s a menace who is more like Trump than you know
adamkinzinger.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement.
One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
"Like making Elon Musk the head of the FAA"—meet acting CDC director Jim O’Neill
He's not a scientist but has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement.
www.motherjones.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement.
One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
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Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
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In the United States, there are nearly 1,000 billionaires, all of whom enable the Trump regime.
But there’s also 350 million of us—the people—and we have over 1,000 protests spread across the nation in protest of billionaires.
Join the war room for the working class: @solidaritydept.bsky.social.
But there’s also 350 million of us—the people—and we have over 1,000 protests spread across the nation in protest of billionaires.
Join the war room for the working class: @solidaritydept.bsky.social.
'Workers Over Billionaires': It's Time to Put Heat on the Oligarchy | Common Dreams
From the Hamptons to DC and across this nation, the working class get nothing but pain from the billionaire agenda. We’re fed up with fascist attacks and now we fight back.
www.commondreams.org
August 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In the United States, there are nearly 1,000 billionaires, all of whom enable the Trump regime.
But there’s also 350 million of us—the people—and we have over 1,000 protests spread across the nation in protest of billionaires.
Join the war room for the working class: @solidaritydept.bsky.social.
But there’s also 350 million of us—the people—and we have over 1,000 protests spread across the nation in protest of billionaires.
Join the war room for the working class: @solidaritydept.bsky.social.
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If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
The Time for a Pro-Democracy Movement Is Now
The Democratic Party must stop functioning solely as a political party and instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
www.lincolnsquare.media
August 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
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It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
August 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
x.com/dr_demetre/s...