Monday, March 23, 2026

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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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ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

The FBI gave strong indications about evidence that Trump campaign officials were in contact with Russian officials during the campaign.

EDGECAST VIDEO: Sugar Shack Alliance makes a stand

As chainsaws wielded by workers from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company began to bite into the state-protected trees of Otis State Forest, members of the Sugar Shack Alliance stood in defiance of this dismemberment of the sanctuary for a natural gas pipeline. Ben Hillman provides a video report.

EDGECAST VIDEO: March for Science in Boston: Go fact yourself

Weekends of protests continue. This weekend (April 29), a nationwide People's Climate March; last weekend (April 22), the March for Science. Here is Ben Hillman's video report on the Science March.

Climate change … the Trump administration response

"We’re not spending money on climate change anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money." --- White House budget director Rick Mulvaney

‘Holocaust Centers,’ according to White House press secretary

"He [Hitler] was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing…he [Hitler] brought them into the Holocaust centers.” -- Sean Spicer, White House press secretary

ORANGE ALERT: Failing health

"I worked as a team player. I’ve been in office, what, 64 days? I've never said repeal and replace Obamacare within 64 days." --- President Trump

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost daily) outrage

Matthew 25:34-36: Then the king will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world..."
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