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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
It’s time! Make sure your voice is heard and vote on Tuesday, September 9th. Thank you Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social 💜
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 05/06/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/04/2025
Looks like ICE is using the New England Patriot’s plane - which is available for charter in the off-season - to carry out their assholery.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
zeteo.com
BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered
The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Harvard is suing the Trump administration
nytimes.com
Harvard University Sues Trump Administration
Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20/04/2025
Sir there’s a second Yemen Signal chat
Photo of President George W. Bush being told about 9/11 planes hitting the towers
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I'm late to the party, but wow, Judge Wilkinson: "We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Politicians are politicians -- I'm not going to fanboy over any one of them -- but this deserves some real credit. Direct pressure from leaders can work. Hope this is the start of returning him home to his family.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Government lawyers contended that Öztürk was both 'a flight risk and a danger to the community.'" Yes, those dangerous PhD students and their subversive op-eds
bostonglobe.com
Judge denies bond to Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts PhD student detained by ICE in Somerville - The Boston Globe
During the hearing in Louisiana, government lawyers contended that Öztürk was both “a flight risk and a danger to the community.”
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Emergency Is Here. With @asharangappa.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Emergency Is Here (Gift Article)
Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
youtube.com
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is brave This is good Thank you
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W
The gates of Harvard University. The text reads: "Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands." Photo by Sophie Park for The New York Times.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.
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chip goines @chip.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I try not to beat up on the Boston Globe, but New England's paper of record NOT publishing yesterday's massive protest on the front page when the Townie Times- i mean the Boston Herald did so, is unforgivable. Both covered Mayor Wu's campaign launch which happened AFTER the rally, so what gives? 🤷🏾‍♂️
boston herald shows yesterday's protest on the front page, boston globe doesn't.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/04/2025
people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff
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Jaime @msjme.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff My niece in Boston.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 05/04/2025
Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff
Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Incredible turnout at the #HandsOff rally in Boston
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
Haley Britzky @halbritz

AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID.

"They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2025
Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old child.
nytimes.com
He Got Clemency From Trump. Now He’s Facing Charges of Injuring a Child.
Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old.
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.
nhpr.org
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Good Lord
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.
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Car Free Boston @carfreeboston.org · 12/03/2025
A few recent articles in prominent Boston publications needed a proper response. The anti-bike backlash is in full swing and we're not having it. carfreeboston.org/rebutting-bo...
carfreeboston.org
Rebutting Boston’s Carhead Journalists
Boston is uniquely unsuitable for automobiles. Our narrow streets are not meant for car traffic, let alone the bigger autos of our time. Cycling infrastructure makes the road safer for all
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 11/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/03/2025
As hundreds of demonstrators made their way through Manhattan on Tuesday to protest the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University, the White House defended the arrest and rebuked the school for what it called lack of cooperation.
nytimes.com
New Yorkers Protest as White House Defends Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia
Hundreds of demonstrators marched downtown while a spokeswoman for President Trump said the president had the authority to detain Mahmoud Khalil.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 12/02/2025
In case this won't be reported, Senate Dems are holding the floor for 30 hours to try to stall the RFK Vote! Here's the press release from Wyden's office.
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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 05/02/2025
This is AMAZING news! Fuck Amazon www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
salon.com
Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025
i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
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Jordan The Grey @jordanthegreywitch.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
If TikTok goes down, Meta goes down with it. Delete all Meta apps.
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