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Jim Henderson

@jdhenderson.com
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Progressive business and ballot question attorney in MA, founder of Crooked Mowth (a cappella!)

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.
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Boston Legacy FC @bostonlegacyfc.com · 03/05/2026
PUT IT IN THE WIN COLUMN
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I'm fairly sanguine that Democratic party politics will not tolerate a situation where Dems are so malapportioned, but if you're gonna do something to act, you'd better think ahead about how & when to do it *before* you're permanently locked into a minority
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A broken Congress produces an overpowered presidency and Supreme Court. The ways in which Congress is broken are a consequence of the electoral system. None of these things improve in any viable long-term way without structural electoral reform. It's not a nice-to-have, it's the bedrock necessity.
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Mic cut out during O Canada and the Buffalo crowd brought it home
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We need to wake up and realize that we are one people living on one miraculous planet. This is the only home we will ever have. We must start treating it that way.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A great profile of a great mayor--who will someday be the most important Democrat in America. @mayorwu.boston.gov www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Boston’s Michelle Wu Is a Model Wartime Mayor
Building affordable housing and filling potholes while trying to protect a democracy and economy under siege: Welcome to the world of a blue-city boss in the Trump era.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
To rebuild our democracy, we need to bring voters and representatives closer together. Here's my science-based dive into one way to do it: increase the size of the U.S. House. samwang.substack.com/p/rethinking... The comment section is open!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
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Jim Henderson @jdhenderson.com · 05/04/2026
And echoing the words of the great Jack Layton. Thank you. bsky.app/profile/shar...
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In a world where many doubt their own strength, the little honeybee proves them wrong every day. It doesn't wait to be big or important—it simply does its work, quietly, consistently, and purposefully. And in doing so, it sustains life itself. Never underestimate the impact of small actions.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My analysis: it's probably already too late. However, people won't figure it out until January 20, 2029 when Americans see someone who wasn't actually elected present inaugurated anyway. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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'Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election': US Defence Insider
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/03/2026
I would just add court reform to this list, because I bet SCOTUS strikes down any Fair Vote style reform leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-democr...
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The Democratic Party is about to make the most predictable mistake in American politics
Democrats will win in 2026 and 2028. The problem is winning in a system with a two-year half-life.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
oh hey whether you are dealing with snow or laying on the beach, there's a new cartoon for you www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Cartoon: Better things are possible
As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/02/2026
I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
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WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Goofinoff2day @goofinoff2day.medsky.social · 25/01/2026
"I feel like we're performing CPR on what may already be a corpse-called the constitution" Woke Hoth Man
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Jim Henderson @jdhenderson.com · 22/01/2026
This is the equivalent of "putting the sign in the window", as Mark Carney referenced the other day. No matter who we are, we must stand up for what's right, and not be afraid of the bully.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Who speaks for Earth? Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate
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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
On the eve of 1000+ rapid response "Ice Out for Good" protests, here's our generation's phil ochs/bob dylan/john prine/you get the idea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...
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Good vs. Ice
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says 

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Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/01/2026
If they could do this to Renee Nicole Good, they could do this to you. This is a lawless regime.
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JFB @mrgermy.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
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Jim Henderson @jdhenderson.com · 21/12/2025
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. ...
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Jim Henderson @jdhenderson.com · 20/12/2025
For a modest timeline cleanser, here's a song of the season, recorded 5 years ago... youtu.be/Jx5uNqApD6w #WelcomeYule #Chariots
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Chariots
YouTube video by In Good Company
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Political reforms which would set us on a path towards a new system which don’t require a constitutional amendment: - Proportional representation in the House with RCV in the Senate - Expanding the Supreme Court and limiting its power - Abolishing the filibuster - Adding DC and PR as states
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream.. Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
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Jim Henderson @jdhenderson.com · 13/11/2025
Great job again, @dropkickmurphys.com . Slava Ukraini! youtu.be/L3rtbOroe6c
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“Who’ll Stand With Us” featuring O’Hamsters [Recorded in KYIV 🇺🇦]
YouTube video by VALOR Media Network
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 04/11/2025
On election day, an election 🧵 @andycraig.bsky.social argues that institutional reform of congressional elections is necessary. Instead of the winner-take-all logic of gerrymandered single-member districts, he says, choose proportional representation.
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Want to End the Gerrymandering Wars? Embrace Proportional Representation
Trump has triggered a particularly fierce round, but the logic of war is inherent in a winner-take-all system
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions
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Over 200 Democracy Scholars Call on Congress to End Single-Member Congressional District
More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
In light of gerry-mania, let's talk... ✨proportional representation✨
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Want to End the Gerrymandering Wars? Embrace Proportional Representation
Trump has triggered a particularly fierce round, but the logic of war is inherent in a winner-take-all system
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
When will America wake up and realize that Democratic Socialism is far superior to Cutthroat Capitalism? Greed and competition are Neanderthal traits. We need to evolve into our higher selves with compassion, cooperation, generosity, happiness, enlightenment, peace, & love as the prime directives.
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Mass50501 @mass50501.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Are you tired of the same old talking heads rally? Us too. For #nokings #boston we're welcoming a variety of performing acts and a chance for you to learn how to up your activism to the next leve! Join us October 18th at Boston Common 12-3pm as we peacefully rise in solidarity to support #democracy!
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SM Graves @livinglocalsmg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Folks interested in learning more about our effort at @yankeenp.bsky.social find our story and our platform www.yankeenp.org/about.html
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Jim Henderson @jdhenderson.com · 11/10/2025
Music and art can fuel the resistance. Here is Bread and Puppet leading the way. youtube.com/shorts/7ddnU...
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Bread and Puppet Theater
YouTube video by Marc-Anthony Macon
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/09/2025
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
My son was 1 when leaders gathered in Paris & pledged to keep warming BELOW 1.5C. He’s now 11, & we’re spending our second year ABOVE 1.5C. They’ve doomed all our children because preserving a suicidal economy is more important. We. Should. Be. Furious.
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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
ICE is increasing its presence in Massachusetts. Here's a great resource to help keep communities safe: www.lucemass.org
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LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!
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Healey counters FDA, makes COVID boosters widely available in Mass. - The Boston Globe
Healey essentially wrote a prescription for COVID boosters for every person in the state over the age of 5.
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