Saturday, June 14, 2025

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Ben Hillman

Ben Hillman is a film maker, designer, author and illustrator who loves subatomic particles and Betty Boop. After obsessing for years about the evils of mass manipulation, Ben decided to do it himself by forming Ben Hillman & Company – realizing his boyhood dream of messing with the minds of the general public (as well as making films and writing and illustrating books). Ben lives in the beautiful Berkshire hills of Massachusetts with his wife Amy and daughter Maizy. He is a member of the Sheffield Tree Project and the Antarctican Society.

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EDGECAST: Ben Downing on why winning the White House isn’t enough

Former State Sen. Ben Downing spoke via Zoom to the Town of Sheffield Democratic Committee.

Happy Bombaversary!

The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Public health experts have long expressed concerns that the Trump administration is politicizing science and undermining its health experts.

EDGECAST: Black Lives Matter rally in Great Barrington

More than 2,000 people attended the Black Lives Matter demonstration in front of the historic Great Barrington Town Hall where the first resistance to British rule took place in 1775.

Playtime for Cheeto

Just like adults, kids sometimes need a break.

ORANGE ALERT: The cure

Never mind that poisoning the air will only add to the suffering of people with respiratory trauma due to the virus.

Fashion forward: Donna Korona

What today's most socially distant are wearing.

Dr. President’s virus update

Donald Trump did an about face from downplaying the number of possible COVID-19 deaths in America, now suggesting that 2.2 million people here could die.

ORANGE ALERT: Praise me

'Don’t call the governor of Washington; you’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan. It doesn’t make any difference what happens.'
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