Vaccination is a good defense against COVID. Inoculation works similarly and builds your resistance against being infected by disinformation.

Rand Waltzman is an expert at analyzing disinformation and how it’s used to manipulate people. This StoryMap summaries his recent report from #disinformation and explains 18 common tactics along with recent examples.

“Understand and recognize cognitive attacks and attempts to manipulate you. The success of such attacks heavily depends on you NOT understanding and recognizing them.”

Watch this StoryMap freely with this link https://arcg.is/qajWj0

Dear Grafton County Dems,

Slip sliding away is the dire message . . . whether it’s the Antarctica or women’s rights or public education in New Hampshire. We can do very little about the polar ice sheets at this point, but we CAN and MUST stop the slippage in our own front yards. 

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Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after lawmakers voted to raise the debt ceiling after exempting the legislation from the filibuster.

“If Democrats can carve out the filibuster to raise the debt ceiling to avoid economic collapse for millions of American families, then we can do the same thing for voting rights. Our economy was at stake with the debt ceiling, and our democracy is at stake with voting rights. We should abolish the filibuster to provide electoral integrity at the ballot box and take action now to enshrine the will and voices of the American people.”

For almost a century, it has been completely legal for companies to pay workers with disabilities mere cents on the hour. Employees have reported receiving pennies in their paychecks, with no limit on how little they can be paid.  Build Back Better could help end that.  Now, a little-known provision in the Build Back Better Act being negotiated in Congress could help catalyze the full federal repeal of the sub minimum wage for people with disabilities.  The proposed legislation would incentivize states to move away from the sub minimum wage by providing grant funding to help companies offer those workers jobs alongside the rest of their workforce — paying minimum wage or higher.

Without affordable, accessible child care, parents can’t work. If parents can work, shelves don’t get stocked, goods don’t get delivered, manufacturing slows.
President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda offers an investment of $400 billion for childcare as well as an investment in universal pre-K.

A broad coalition formally requested on Friday that the Public Utilities Commission reconsider its recent decision to cut funding for state energy efficiency programs over the next two years and that the decision — which they said would cause irreparable harm — be suspended in the meantime.

All of the state’s electric and gas utilities, as well as clean energy and environmental advocates and the state’s largest community action agency, made the request together in a joint filing.

Not only do we have the Infrastructure Bill funding coming in, we have the American Rescue Plan Funds coming due. Remember that?

The North Country/Lakes Region conference this weekend was a wonderful kickoff to 2022. It helped us focus on us. Now we need to take the next step. Please consider signing up for one of the programs this Thursday. Unfortunately they are on the same evening.  Read on!