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"You’re not alone. There are many other people who are like you, feeling afraid from the direction that politics is going in this country. In every situation of darkness, there is always light" - Mohsen Mahdawi on Vt Conversation VTDigger vtdigger.org/2025/05/14/ver…

NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested and attempted to be deported by the Trump administration, receives his degree during a commencement ceremony at the university this morning. Mahdawi, wearing a keffiyeh, bowed to the cheering

Karen Kevra was passionate about playing the flute as a child. But in college, she became disillusioned and walked away. Her winding journey brought her back to music and transformed the music scene in Vermont. buff.ly/r9FAfA9

Music is “a respite from all of the difficult stuff that’s going on in the world and the news. We’re offering a kind of salve for the soul”- Flutist Karen Kevra on The Vermont Conversation VTDigger vtdigger.org/2025/05/21/ver…

Immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra says she is being held as a political prisoner, much like Mahmoud Khalil. In this extended clip from @latinousa, Maria Hinojosa 🥑 interviews Vizguerra in Colorado ICE detention.

Remarkable reporting from inside an ICE detention facility by Latino USA, produced by Ariel Goodman

Jarecki’s new film, “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” chronicles Assange’s crusade to reveal inconvenient truths that governments seek to bury. buff.ly/8EDXOZk

"We’re living at a time with fascism on the rise all over the world, a crackdown on truth telling by those in power who do not find the truth convenient" - filmmaker Eugene Jarecki on Julian Assange and the crackdown on truth - Vt Conversation VTDigger vtdigger.org/2025/06/04/ver…

Emmanuelle Soumailhan, coordinator for Capstone Community Action’s food shelf, said that the pantry gets about 800 to 1,000 visitors per month — double the traffic it received before the Covid pandemic. buff.ly/LBqiUUA

Stephanie Doyle said that her SNAP benefits did not cover her family’s food needs for the month. “You just can’t afford getting fruits and vegetables and all that stuff that you need to do to be healthy." buff.ly/LBqiUUA

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Hot takes on the wars at home and abroad from Rep. Becca Balint on The Vermont Conversation VTDigger #vtpoli

"We are going to prevail because the American electorate does not want what this administration is offering right now" – Rep. Becca Balint on The Vermont Conversation VTDigger #vtpoli vtdigger.org/2025/06/25/ver…

Civil unions grew out of a lawsuit filed by three gay and lesbian couples in 1999 who had been denied marriage licenses in Vermont. It would take until 2009 for the state to legalize same-sex marriage. buff.ly/OfrUDio

In December 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled unanimously that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the same benefits of marriage as heterosexual couples. buff.ly/OfrUDio

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Vermont Conversation: Sociologist Arlie Hochschild on the rise of the right in rural America vtdigger.org/2025/07/09/ver…

"That’s the job ahead of us: to be fighters and creators of this new narrative." - Vermont Conversation: Sociologist Arlie Hochschild on the rise of the right in rural America VTDigger vtdigger.org/2025/07/09/ver…

"It’s about abortion. It's about controlling people and their ability to make decisions and decide when to have a family,” says Nicole Clegg of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Planned Parenthood

My story in today's The New York Times New York Times Travel Fear of ICE Jolts a Maine Beach Town nytimes.com/2025/07/28/tra…