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Heather

@hhanson.bsky.social
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History teacher, erstwhile wine educator.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enjoyed this article about the growing number of men adopting cats, bucking gender stereotypes. Apparently Mamdani is allergic to cats, but has been getting allergy shots because his wife wants to adopt one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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Dave Franco, Jordan Poole and Other Everyday Cat Dads Are Redefining Gender Stereotypes (Gift Article)
We’re living in the age of the “cat dad” and he’s being used to sell premium cat products and talk about healthy masculinity.
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The speed at which abortion functionally disappeared as a live political issue is incredibly bleak. Overturning Roe cost Republicans a couple seats in one midterm election. That was functionally its total electoral impact.
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Heather @hhanson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
abcnews.com/video/136522... #DropUber4Em
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Video Family speaks out after $40 million payout from Uber
The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was struck and killed after her Uber driver left her along a California freeway were awarded $40 million in an arbitration against Uber and the driver.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/09/2026
How public schools in the U.S. have effectively surrendered much of their pedagogy, curricula, and operating systems to a handful of trillion-dollar technology companies. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Laguna Beach: Your right to vote is under attack. Measure E would shut out proven Laguna Beach City Council members after just two terms, no matter how well they serve you. That is not reform. That is a limit on your ballot, fixing a problem this town does not have.
No Term Limits in Laguna
No on Measure E
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Heartbreaking to hear that Gloria Steinem has died & very painful for it to happen when the world feels so poisoned by misogyny. A brilliant, generous activist who devoted her life to making the world a freer place 💔
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I actually can’t take it anymore, not just that these guys are our national leaders, but that their repulsive, degenerate behavior doesn’t even elicit comment
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
i have no doubt that both of those kids have done more in their short lives than hegseth will ever accomplish in his.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/08/2026
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I keep thinking about how people are going THROUGH IT. Everyone. It’s so important to have compassion for ourselves AND — crucially — each other.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/08/2026
The CIA reportedly bombed multiple civilian fishing boats off the Galápagos Islands earlier this year, and the public is only finding out now. Join us in demanding that Congress holds the Trump administration accountable NOW for carrying out these illegal, inhumane boat strikes.
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Tell Congress: Stop President Trump's illegal boat strikes
Since September, the Trump administration has murdered nearly 90 people in international waters, ordering over 20 lethal strikes on civilian boats near Venezuela. Congress must conduct oversight and c...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can’t make me apologize for woke 1, I refuse. The only mistake was not going far enough
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just finished walking a two hour picket line with UFCW 324 and a bunch of other labor unions to protest Mother’s Market’s unjust suspension of fifteen workers who were trying to unionize, so if you shop at Mother’s, go find somewhere else for a while.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/07/2026
The family of Johan Sebastián has launched a GoFundMe and is asking for support to help his family cover legal expenses, funeral costs, and the repatriation of his body to Colombia, where his parents are waiting to lay him to rest: gofundme.com/f/justice-and-support-for-johan-sebastians-family
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Donate to Justice and Support for Johan Sebastián’s Family, organized by Friends of de Guerrero Family
[English version below] Hoy, una vida fue arrebatada inju… Friends of de Guerrero Family needs your support for Justice and Support for Johan Sebastián’s Family
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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, lying on his side and licking his shoulder. His pink tongue sticks out as he turns his head over his shoulder. One eye is closed, as Mr Lover sniffs at his cheek. Mr Lover is an orange and white tabby cat and the top of his head is in frame.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Me Too did not go far enough.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
That the U.S. appears to have completely visibly given up after a catastrophic own goal fuck up is a little on the nose.
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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
smiley guy
Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, laying on his back. He looks at the camera with a wide, playful expression.  He curls his paws towards his body. His canine teeth poke out slightly from behind his cheeks.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
this dynamic described by jenny racicot is, as i understand it, very common among progressive women in maine. they’ve been put in an impossible position and feel like they’re tanking platner’s campaign when in reality he did that on his own by being a violent and reckless person.
“One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” she said. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about a mass AI cheating scandal at Brown is the complete lack of leadership from the university's administration and a complete lack of support for a professor trying to maintain ethical standards. english.elpais.com/education/20...
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Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: ‘Academic integrity is at risk’
The renowned economist Roberto Serrano has ‘overwhelming evidence’ that his students cheated. He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of higher edu...
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The ruling in the Birthright Citizenship case makes it crystal clear that the embrace of "originalism" by conservative justices, to interpret the meaning of our constitution, goes only so far as it is useful in bringing about a desired result. Today we saw how easily they are willing to abandon it.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/06/2026
6-3 is absolutely appalling here, I expected Alito and Thomas but Gorsuch is a nasty surprise after the oral arguments dismantle this court
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights, fuck each and every single person who tries to remove their freedoms and shared humanity.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 21/06/2026
Thought this was absolutely lovely (gift link)
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Opinion | To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Breaking | The Trump Administration is negotiating a deal to repaint Reflecting Pool to prior color, allow algae to stay.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dude looks like Nikita Khrushchev got sent to Hell and doomed to spend eternity selling used Pontiacs
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 13/06/2026
Reasons for hope from Belfast! A huge turnout today at Belfast City Hall to stand again hate and against fascism!
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Having spent the weekend in DC, let me assure you that no matter how much you think you hate what he’s done to our capital, you should hate it more. Giant banners of his mugshot, tacky gold paint on the statues, a fucking UFC cage on the White House lawn and armed troops everywhere. (spits)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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Mike Houston @noalarm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thank you! You maybe saw the contract approval agenda item for hiring the new guy - wild how non-transparent that is, aside from the law. Always begs the question of why the cover up...
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Just spoke at the Laguna Beach Unified School District about transparency in government (they fired their superintendent after 10 months into a 4 year contract, in a closed door meeting, and haven’t given the community any reasons), and got treated to this view walking back to my car. Not bad.
A view through a Laguna Beach canyon overlooking the Pacific Ocean on an overcast day
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assbutt @nasboat.org · 03/06/2026
I’m Bethany Mandel. I’m Clay Travis. I’m Todd Starnes. I’m Savannah Chrisley. I’m Jacob Wohl. I’m Dog The Bounty Hunter. I’m John Rocker. and I’m The Undertaker. Those stories, and Joe Rogan, tonight on 60 Minutes.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/05/2026
Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
One of my favorite moments of being on a show ever. Stephen Colbert is a clever, hilarious, and genuinely kind person, and I am so grateful I got a chance to interact with him. The fact CBS got rid of him tells you everything you need to know about the shitty people now running it.
Me flexing my biceps at Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report
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