The #BenningtonBanner finally gets its #HandsOff article up. Over 1,200 people showed up in #Bennington #Vermont on Saturday! https://www.benningtonbanner.com/local-news/bennington-turns-out-for-hands-off-protest-people-are-scared/article_2e1ba71d-41de-44e4-8571-4794896af8f2.html

Sunflower in Autumn

Times like these, it’s so comforting to jump in the van and head out for a #fieldtrip. #geology #earthscience #fieldtrip #vermont #mining #resources

My reading of the supposed email from #Vermont #AoE is the operative phrase is this: ' We do not view this Certification to be announcing any new interpretation of Title VI or requiring us to certify to anything other than the current Title VI law as it stands. Based on our initial legal review, the certification requires us to reaffirm our compliance with existing law that AOE has always followed in our administration of federal funds. '

The furor would seem to be unwarranted. #VTpol

Vermont's Becca Balint is pretty dang .

Dear state and local governments: STOP using Google Drive as your only means to disseminate public information.

Private systems are not public, they are subject to arbitrary access controls with no public oversight or appeals process, and therefore they do NOT meet your responsibility to provide information via public means.

This means you, #Brattleboro and #Vermont. #VTpol

"The local fauna, who fortunately don't know what Fox News is, chime in with perfectly weighted sounds of encouragement as minimal guitar refrains and palliative synths weave themselves through the soundscape"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/go-outside-resilience-self-release

Find Go Outside in the Slow Ambient Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-ambient-playlist

Every school district in Vermont should refuse to do this!

https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/07/vermont-agency-of-education-asks-school-districts-to-certify-compliance-with-trump-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-ban/

On the other hand, a lot of folks in #Vermont turned out to protest on Saturday. I love the handmade birdflipping sign. https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/05/thousands-of-people-protest-trump-presidency-at-rallies-around-vermont/ #HandsOff

Apparently #PhilScott's continued silence about the new regime is consent. Fucker. #Vermont https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/07/vermont-agency-of-education-asks-school-districts-to-certify-compliance-with-trump-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-ban/

“President Trump's administration has moved to reshape federal government spending, including rescinding money that had been promised to groups in Vermont.

Vermont Public is tracking these cuts and their impacts in the table below based on reporting from our journalists.”

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-04-07/tracking-changes-and-cuts-to-federal-funds-in-vermont-under-trump-doge-musk?utm_source=app&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=tracker #Vermont

The story of Seth Andrew, a silver-tongued thief who wreaked havoc in my little Vermont town—until the FBI arrested him for stealing $218,000.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2022/08/seth-andrew

You know who else actively sought to destroy #Art besides the #Trump administration? ISIS, which has destroyed countless historical artifacts. https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-04-05/vermont-humanities-loses-all-of-its-federal-funding-under-latest-trump-cuts #Vermont

“From the Barton village square to the South Royalton green, the sidewalks of downtown Brattleboro to the brick walkway of Church Street in Burlington, thousands of Vermonters rallied Saturday afternoon in opposition to President Donald Trump and his policies.”

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-04-05/from-every-corner-of-vermont-thousands-protest-trump #Vermont

Photo dump from the #HandsOff protest today (South Burlington, VT)

“And even though we feel powerless, we won’t always be powerless.”

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-04-05/from-every-corner-of-vermont-thousands-protest-trump?utm_source=Vermont+Public&utm_campaign=974e523cf3-breaking_trump_protest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-974e523cf3-588792675&mc_cid=974e523cf3&mc_eid=ccb12c5ef5 #Vermont #HandsOff

Pretty decent sized crowd in St. Albans #Vermont, despite the rain. 300+. Lots of support from passing cars, far outnumbering the few MAGAts who drove up and down with their Chump flags giving us the finger and telling us to get jobs.

Police circling endlessly, but no boots on the ground and no confrontations.

One guy wanted to run me over, brake checking me with his car while swearing, but I was in the crosswalk so all he got was the finger.

#Vermont showing up for the #HandsOff protest.