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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 13h
Healey-Driscoll support the 2024 MA gun law that made us safer, while maintaining the # of gun licenses issued to legal owners. Minogue supports Smith & Wesson’s $50,000 investment to repeal the law; prioritizing profits over our safety Yes on #9 (the final ballot question,on page2 of your ballot)
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Want to learn about MA’s 9 ballot questions? Join us in person at the Willows on 9/29 7-8:30 - or register for a Zoom link at: docs.google.com/forms/d/1jdO... I'll kick off the program explaining why it's vital to VOTE YES on #9 to preserve MA’s current gun safety laws! #VoteYesOn9
Flyer for Ballot Information Night on Tuesday 9/29 7:00-8:30 at the Willows in Westborough
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Unconscionable - and totally predictable. Thank you for your important reporting @propublica.org!
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Power to the people! ✊
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/08/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/08/2026
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So important! ⬇️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Republicans want to spend $1billion of our taxpayer dollars to build Trump a new ballroom - while revoking lifesaving benefits for elderly people & young people who are intellectually disabled. Disgusting.
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's time! My latest article about the Blue Envelope, including clearing up common misconceptions about the initiative. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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The Blue Envelope Program protects police officers and autistic drivers. Let's make it law
In April 2024, Massachusetts State Police rolled out a voluntary Blue Envelope Program to protect autistic drivers and officers. But the program must still be codified into law to ensure its longevity...
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
3 infant #pertussis deaths this year in Kentucky. "Of the three infant deaths reported over the past 12 months, all three were not vaccinated, nor were their mothers." We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/11/2025
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life. Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
2 different justice systems in Trump’s America - one for the most wealthy who shower Trump w/gifts and money; the second for the rest of us. Un-American
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/11/2025
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
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To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros”
These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.
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Sam @usedtobe-ikerot.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
@panetto.bsky.social @moneill16.bsky.social @mlauriat.bsky.social THIS sounds insane..but getting rid of Roe versus Wade, destroying the White House to build a ballroom sounded insane. A private Army he's forming, sounded insane. Presidential immunity sounded insane..
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2025
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year.
The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/08/2025
NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response. She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/06/2025
If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Jesus.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Meet the Pentagon’s new press secretary
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/05/2025
Your weekly reminder that the highest court in the country does not agree with Donald Trump and his administration’s actions. “The justices found that the federal government violated the due process rights of detainees.”
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SCOTUS again halts Trump's Alien Enemies Act deportations
"A powerful rebuke to the government's attempt to hurry people away to a Gulag-type prison."
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I want to write a report fully detailing the conditions in CECOT via curatorial journalism—there is so much people don't know—but I'll tell you honestly that writing my last three reports on this subject has broken my spirit. My health has been affected. This is the worst topic I've ever written on.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 15/04/2025
As someone who knows how to read, I can tell you with certainty the Supreme Court did not say that.   The White House admitted it was an "administrative error" to deport Abrego Garcia and the Supreme Court called on the government to facilitate his return.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
8/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0. If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 05/04/2025
Donald Trump’s tariffs are the biggest tax hike in American history on working families, plain and simple.
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Trump tariffs would hit lower-income Americans hardest
Tariffs are another blow to people struggling with higher prices.
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
So worth reading. Thank you Governor Pritzker!
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.
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ilyselk.bsky.social @ilyselk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How can this be our country?
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