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@independentmena.bsky.social
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Writer, ponderer, looking for some quiet in a very loud world

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Matthew W Nugent @n00ge8.bsky.social · 9h
🗳️ Vote Yes ~ Save Lives ✔️ Ballot referendum in Massachusetts Protect gun safety laws Yes on Question 9 Election Day is Tuesday November 3rd Early in-person voting period October 17th - 30th 🗳️ Vote Yes on 9 For a Safe Massachusetts ✔️ 🔗 www.YesForaSafeMA.com #YesForaSafeMA #YesOn9 #VoteYesOn9
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Home | Vote Yes: Protect MA Gun Safety Law in 2026
Vote Yes in 2026 to protect Massachusetts’ new gun safety laws… Keep communities safes.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Disability advocates warn these changes could push more people into institutions by making the support they need at home harder to get. This affects children, adults, and elderly parents. Nobody should have to give up their freedom to get the care they need.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disabled people tried to warn you. We were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. Fascists will always come for the “useless eaters”. They want to institutionalize us. Hide us away from the rest of society. Remove our supports so we either die or disappear. It’s eugenics.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 30/09/2026
We'll never have justice for Nolan Wells, for in a just world he'd still be alive. But there must be accountability. We'll never stop saying his name & demanding the answers his family deserves. And we'll never stop fighting for a world where Black men can grow old and thrive.
A graphic that reads: Nolan Wells deserved to grow old.
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jestpier.bsky.social @jestpier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks to @markey.senate.gov for calling for impeachment, but how about it @pressley.house.gov? Are you willing to take a stand on this?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @repauchincloss.bsky.social Your move
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly.
State Rep. Angie Nixon: Folks. If we’re going to be a big tent, then damnit we need to be a big tent. We need all hands on deck right now. Trump isn’t going to willingly leave in 2028. We need to send more folks to DC with the political will and courage to stand up to his bullying.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💯. But the press won't bother itself to start reporting what experts think of this. Instead they try to make sense of it and recast his gibberish in failed efforts to make it cohere.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is just crazy.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So sick of money being the priority. Why is Regalcare still allowed to operate in MA or anywhere? Thank you @globespotlight.bsky.social for continued excellent reporting.
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also made a donation to the Cornell Sun. If college student newspapers aren't going to tell the truth about what happens on campus, no one will.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today I wrote about the Cornell fraternity brothers who saw the group chat about a rape in progress and chose silence. The high school that missed the opportunity to teach boys how to speak out against sexual assault. And the path of silence that connects them dot-connecting.ghost.io/the-silent-p...
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The silent path from Cornell to Hope High
Three hundred and twenty six miles separate Cornell University from Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island, but right now those two schools sit adjacent in my mind. Two stories of sexual assault...
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Heard that Wordclown on Insta (Toby Morton) is making a satirical website mocking the vile humans known as the Cornell 7. Can't wait to see what he does. www.thecornell7.org
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Home | The Cornell 7
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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My thoughts on the recent #mapoli political posturing: Suspending the gas tax would be a shortsighted election year stunt commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/susp...
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Suspending the gas tax would be a shortsighted election year stunt
The state gas tax is the price we pay to ensure that we have safe and reliable ways to get where we need to go, with sufficient funding to build, operate, and maintain the essential transportation inf...
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't understand why Cornell is getting to decide the fate of these rapists. Why aren't the police involved? How does US justice work? Are universities laws unto themselves?
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Many others have never reported whether their assault was at hands of these vile humans or others. Continuing to treat these crimes so cavalierly will insure we never do. That is the point.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This reeks of Brock Turner. So tired of "promising young men" being spared after destroying the lives of women. Ten years later and it is the same BS. Thank you to the editorial staff of the Cornell Daily Sun for having the courage to do the right thing.
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𝐊 @girlybojon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I would pay.
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💙🦋 @humanity101.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We have internment or concentrated detention camps. But not enough people care. Regime Change is coming Nov 3. #iceout #iceOutforGood #usDrmocracy #dv1 #voicra4victory
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump sacrificed Americans because he wanted RFK’s voters and so bribed him with a cabinet position.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It has been a brutal and protracted slugfest. But I think we can finally declare a winner in the long-running "Who is the dumbest United States Senator?" competition.
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wish there was a way to pipe this through speakers everywhere.
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AHI - Human Kind (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by AHI
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And there you have it..
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Those statutes handed the executive branch power with strings attached so that Congress, judges, and ordinary people could check whether the laws were being faithfully executed. Today’s court has kept the power and cut the strings.”
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not wanting anyone to think about your politics turns out to be the quickest path to *everyone* thinking about your politics.
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Mitch McConnell is obviously and irreversibly incapacitated. The politicians and staffers closest to him should have the decency to allow him to retire peacefully among family and friends.” @schaller67.bsky.social | @atrupar.com in a 🤯 PN
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stock Trades by Presidents While in Office: Bill Clinton: ZERO George W. Bush: ZERO Barack Obama: ZERO Donald Trump (first term): 517 Joe Biden: ZERO Donald Trump (second term): 24,000+, averaging >60 trades per trading day. This is why the crook in the Oval Office manipulates the markets.
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How much longer before Squid Games become a real thing?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rep. Ayanna Pressley is introducing a bill to compensate survivors of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Ayanna Pressley introduces bill to compensate Epstein victims - The Boston Globe
The first-of-its-kind bill would help address economic burdens of victims whose rights have been violated by the federal government.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@atrupar.com out here doing the Lord's work! 😂🤙
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independentmena.bsky.social @independentmena.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Going to send my letter asking for a new president for Christmas.
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Ginnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The "I don't do politics" folks..
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Stoned Feminist 👻 Spooky Version @ladylinds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fun fact: Bob kraft's new wife is on the board at the Kennedy Center
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good question
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Ginnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mic drop
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Ginnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app @caffeinehusky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Baba @africanacarr.bsky.social mentioned this during In Class With Carr @knarrative.bsky.social
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