This is a phenomenal story and a powerful summary of this moment in our history all in one.
Bill Shein
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Writer. Journalist. Friend to animals. Founder/Editor berkshireargus.com.
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
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For #DogDay, our sweet almost 14 yo pup, beating cancer and as energetic as ever, and our 4 y.o. pup tolerating the cat. All three adopted from shelters.
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Today in Black History: On Aug. 25, 1927, tennis legend Althea Gibson was born in Silver, SC. The daughter of sharecroppers, she rose from Harlem’s courts to win Grand Slams, shatter racial barriers in tennis, and later break ground as the first Black woman on the LPGA tour.
#BlackHistory
Althea Gibson - Early Life, Championships & Legacy | HISTORY
Trailblazing athlete Althea Gibson became the first great African American player in women’s tennis. She won a string...
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Always read Jamelle Bouie.
Opinion | What Jesse Jackson and Zohran Mamdani Have in Common
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I worked for Sen. Paul Simon in NH ahead of the 1988 primary. Used to go listen to Jesse’s speeches, complete with call-and-response like “More Farms!” “Clean Air!” and always summed with “Bold leadership … and a new direction.” (I could do a passable impression of him. And of Paul…)
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I’m re-reading the first chapter of “All the President’s Men” today and it’s just astounding how quickly and easily people—both at the White House and Pentagon—gave up information to Bob Woodward in the first few days after the Watergate break in. Times have definitely changed.
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@eos.org has provided a valuable service, chronicling in detail what’s unfolding as EPA moves to repeal the climate-change endangerment finding and undermine necessary and urgent action on climate.
Day 4 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding is beginning now. It is the final scheduled day of the public hearing. 🧪
We'll be following along with some of the testimony here: 👇🧵
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New from me: Documents I obtained this week provide more details about a data breach and response at the largest employer in Berkshire County—that provides health-care services to most residents here.
NEW: Previously undisclosed documents obtained by The Argus shed new light on a data breach at Berkshire Health Systems—and its response, which raise questions about its data-privacy practices and auditing.
Berkshire Health Systems told regulators it can’t afford a full investigation of decade-long data breach
Even as it acknowledged a decade of improper access to patient data by a “rogue employee,” the largest employer in Berkshire County—and provider of health care to most residents—claimed a full audit w...
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On this #Caturday, Percy does what’s required to get some sun.
