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Jocie, she/her

@jocie63.bsky.social
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Higher education professional, focused on equity. Also musing about: social justice, politics, abortion access, millennial angst & YA books

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The mood in this country right now is electric
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Kelly Clarkson isn’t putting us in danger, but do you know what is? Massachusetts ballot questions 3, 5, and 8. Vote no on 3, 5, and 8.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If Democrats don’t enact D.C. Statehood by the end of the decade — both because it’s the right thing to do and as a pure power play for two Senate seats — just throw the entire party into the trash and start over
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My worldview is essentially that I do agree that social democracy and even socialism are limiting and that we should 100% aspire for far greater things for humanity (no wars, no borders, etc.) But we have the world we have now and we need things like universal healthcare first.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 14/10/2026
Military patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box at 6:44 pm "It's a public sidewalk" the lead soldier said when reminded of the law. Photo by self
One of a troop of three soldiers patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box, October 14, 2026
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
They SEIZED HER PHONE???? This would be a constitutional crisis if we had three operating branches of government, instead of all three doing whatever Trump wants.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
MA has a historic number of ballot questions. Here's a handy guide for the 9 statewide ballot questions this year.
✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in.

✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception. 

❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers. 

✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout. 

❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services. 

⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones. 

✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built. 

❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies. 

✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.
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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026
The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.
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Jocie, she/her @jocie63.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Just donated in your dedication— happy birthday month!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Library's far... [every community should have a public library within walking distance. some politician should run on this.]
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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
📞SAVE THE NYC HOTLINE NUMBER 📞 The NYC Hotline for ICE sightings (229-304-8720) is online. The hotline can receive calls and texts for tips about ICE sightings in NYC from 6AM-8PM daily. For status updates, legal resources, and other information, please check out their new website: nychotline.net
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And if you say that these are not by "the state" - well what are police? They are the gatekeepers of the state.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What are @wmata.com workers doing here??? Nothing?? WORSE???
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/09/q...
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Despite the Machismo of Prison, These Men Collaborated on a Quilt
A quilting workshop united men at Vermont’s Southern State Correctional Facility. The result? A museum-quality piece of art.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So many men appear to be wholly uninterested in being people.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
C’mon guys, do better. You don’t need to run ads about it. But do an event, make sure the candidate slips in in to a debate, get some press coverage. It’s the perfect way to peel off a few libertarian types and it puts your opponent on their heels.
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Jocie, she/her @jocie63.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“It takes all types of hot to win an election” 💀 thank you vibe check for starting my day off right @theferocity.bsky.social @zachstafford.bsky.social
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what in the WHAT
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you ever think about how we all lived through a pandemic where an estimated 35 million people died and how it almost certainly drove everyone a bit insane
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What do you mean a Democrat has a six point lead in TEXAS, I need to see this happen to believe it lmao
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Here’s an expert book I recommend www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
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Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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Jocie, she/her @jocie63.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Boycotting Starbucks is so easy imo— solidarity with workers
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/09/2026
Wishing my Jewish comrades a meaningful fast and bright things ahead in the new year. G'mar Chatimah Tovah.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
COOPERTOWN, TN: “The mayor said the Coopertown Police Department would remove its four Flock license plate reader (LPR) cameras to ‘ease citizens’ concerns’” www.wsmv.com/2026/09/21/m...
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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As ever, VIBE CHECK nails it. 💅👑
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*looks directly at camera*
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18/09/2026
“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"
Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question
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Dr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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By prompting students to turn to AI instead of to their fellow students, TAs, or professors, these technologies offer the illusion that human interaction is inconsequential. But learning with and from other people simultaneously supports learning and builds the human skills that make the world go ’round.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As a reminder, Bo French didn't attend the University of Texas, but -- in his role as a white man -- he thinks he gets to complain about the demographics of actual students who do attend classes there. White guys own everything, you see.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026
you don’t have to have the conversation on their terms and in fact you shouldn’t have the conversation on their terms more democrats should follow this playbook instead of existing in a constant defensive crouch
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
first bit of advice I always give to anyone organizing: don't use your work email address, your employer has access to it! now written into policy in Britain (this is good)
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026
Seems like a good time to re-up this post. It is a list of 26 Dems at the statewide/national level that have made anti-trans statements or voted anti-trans policies. I do not advocate for abstaining from all of the ones on this list, but if the worst offenders who call us “biological men,” I do.
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/09/2026
It really hasn't dawned on liberals that for trans people in some races, there is no meaningful difference between who wins. Kansas and North Carolina have Dem governors and they're some of the worst for trans people in the country. So why bother to vote for a transphobic Dem?
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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 14/09/2026
"Talarico very likely has persuaded the bullies that he will back down to pressure, and persuaded #trans people that he’d rather be liked by Republican bigots than by trans people in #Texas, and that even if he wins in November, they’ll be on their own."
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Jocie, she/her @jocie63.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
About damn time!!!!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026
As someone who has been covering transgender rights for years, let me be clear about something: When you see capitulation over sports, know that it NEVER stops at sports. And in fact, Turek illustrated this just yesterday when he embraced a federal ban on funding for all trans care.
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