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@eagrierson.bsky.social
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She/her. Wilderness Heals lifer; Office Manager/HR person for GLAD; She Who Removes Spiders from the House. Missing Augie.

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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Don’t miss “The Dads” – join an upcoming screening and conversation with the director, producer, and fathers featured in this powerful film. 📍 9/17 in Worcester, MA 📍 9/18 in Portsmouth, NH 📍 9/20 in Portland, ME Tickets available now 🎟️ : bit.ly/3Sq4JiY
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Howdy world - Wilderness Heals is a pledge hike that raises money to benefit the Roxbury Stone House and provide wrap-around services to people facing homelessness due to domestic violence and other forms of trauma.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026
to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)
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Opinion | Five Words That Changed America
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
To trans and non-binary folks and their allies: I see you, I’m sorry, and I will keep doing my little bit to fight for your right to belong.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Iran hawks got the war they wanted, it went as badly as critics warned, and now the question is if they'll admit it. Admit they were always wrong and in reality JCPOA diplomacy checked Iran a lot more than military force? That'll never happen. But at least admitting Trump's war left Iran stronger.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
NEW: Texas middle schoolers could be taught about a Christian revolutionary war movement that never existed. The so-called “Black Robe Regiment” is a favorite myth of David Barton and other Christian nationalists who are leading massive revisions of Texas curricula to focus on US “exceptionalism.”
texasmonthly.com
Scholars Call the Black Robe Regiment a Myth. It Could Soon Be Taught in Texas Schools.
The State Board of Education meets this week to vote on a K–12 curriculum some experts warn elevates Christianity over other faiths.
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Work on a farm, they said. It will be fun, they said.
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The DOE's investigation into Smith is "profoundly offensive" – and "clearly designed to threaten" the school's funding, says GLAD Law's Jennifer Levi. This isn't about protecting women. It's about controlling them. Read more from @gretajochem.bsky.social at @masslive.bsky.social: bit.ly/4dgO2wO
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Legal experts assail DOE probe of Smith College for admitting trans women
Several legal experts specializing in Title XI and gender say a federal probe into Smith College's policy of admitting transgender women is a misapplication of the law and offensive.
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Happy as I am with this development, Chuck Schumer is very bad at his job. Made a questionable pick in the first place, then left Mills to twist in the wind. wapo.st/4ekJVBR
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills drops out of race to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins
The seat is critical to Democrats’ hopes of retaking the Senate. Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and Democrat, is likely to win the primary.
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There’s always a tweet.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim* If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Heads-up, fellow Massachusetts peeps - time to call the governor (more detail in the comments). #meltice
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I swear, I have met onions with thicker skin than this asshat.
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
NEW: HHS won’t target funding for hospitals and providers offering health care to transgender adolescents while a lawsuit by 22 states moves forward. To trans youth: You are not alone. GLAD Law is fighting for you, and we’re not backing down.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/01/2026
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 03/12/2025
Immigrants commit fewer crimes. Immigrants pay taxes. Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy. The problem isn't immigrants.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/12/2025
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The right's obsession with SNAP recipients buying popsicles is a modern version of a centuries-old tradition of scolding the poor for what they eat. It mimics verbatim Victorian complaints about the poor indulging in tea and sugar, mistaking consumption as a cause of poverty instead of a symptom.
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POP(SICLE) PSYCHOLOGY | Gin and Tacos
Get more from Gin and Tacos on Patreon
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Because "support the troops" should mean supporting ALL the troops...
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Super impressed with the turnout in Abingdon, Virginia- in a county Drumpf won 85% of the vote
Poster says “Papaw didn’t run shine in these hills for you to be a bootlicker”Protesters holding anti-Trump signs.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
MLK Junior is actually a good analogy for Charlie Kirk in this situation; right wingers are eager to selectively quote him and they don’t actually care that he was murdered.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Any risk we expect a second-grader to accept by going to school should be expected of the rich and powerful as well.
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Well, good thing the Democrats saved the filibuster for a rainy day 🤬 Why does Chuck Schumer still have a job?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses. People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The Supreme Court’s ICE ruling undermines safety and dignity, and puts Black, Latino, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities at risk. Everyone deserves safety, respect, and freedom from discrimination and racial profiling. bit.ly/4pwnbCa
Ricardo Martinez, GLAD Law Executive Director, at a pride protest. Text overlay reads "Statement from Ricardo Martinez, Executive Director of GLAD Law, on the Supreme Court's ruling on ICE profiling". There is a GLAD Law logo in the bottom right corner.
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
As someone old enough to remember “gay marriage “ being blamed for Bush’s re-election, the only way to dismiss same-sex marriage simply “superficial ” and “assimilationist “ is to ignore the entire history of that fight, let alone the insane freak outs and backlash it engendered.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/07/2025
The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
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eagrierson.bsky.social @eagrierson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Booort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is a recurring strategy with these assholes: -Break the thing that's been working -Wait until people forget about you breaking the thing that was working -Complain loudly about the thing being broken and how the Left never fixes anything and why isn't anything working
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"I choose to stand in support of my trans siblings because we deserve love. We deserve the opportunity to compete. And most of all we deserve community." Read Sloan Phillips’s powerful testimony on supporting transgender youth against harmful legislation in Maine: bit.ly/3F6SUr4
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Reject anti-trans bills to allow all Maine children to be confident and free
"I ask you to encourage young people to be themselves, not to fold themselves into your definition of what they should be."
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
These transgender servicemembers and military candidates are ready and able to serve. Last night’s @thedailyshow.com segment highlights what’s at stake as legal challenges to Trump’s trans military ban continue.
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
“This is blatantly unlawful for multiple reasons—because it discriminates against transgender people, because it violates statutory and constitutionally protected medical privacy rights, and because it has no legal basis and is therefore arbitrary and capricious”–Shannon Minter, NCLR legal director.
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Doctors warn of ‘terrifying’ effects as Trump creates snitch line to report gender-affirming care patients
Under the administration’s latest guidance, reporting a trans patient’s care may no longer violate HIPAA — and that’s exactly the problem, providers say.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This Day in Labor History: April 5, 2010. The Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia exploded, killing 29 of the 31 workers laboring in the mine. Let's talk about the murderous owner of this mine, the vile Don Blankenship, and why he killed his workers.
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C Trombley @ctrombley1.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Also this is just insanely untrue? The US COVID response was incredibly pro poor? Like we just got rid of child poverty. For years we didn’t have child poverty until Republicans and Manchin demanded we bring child poverty back!
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Jon Hyman @thejonhyman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In honor of Pi Day, remember: Equal rights does not mean fewer rights for you—it's not a pie … despite what those who seek to eliminate DEI want you to believe.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2025
“we must substantively engage with obviously specious and disingenuous claims as long as there is a veneer academic inquiry” is why we’re in a place where scientific racism can circulate in the mainstream
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Talked with Rep. Veronica Escobar, who opposed the Laken Riley Act, about why so many Dems caved and supported it. Among the answers...
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