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Kate Royce

@kate-royce.bsky.social
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Fired CFPB attorney, Jamaica Plain resident, dog lover. Opinions entirely my own.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16h
A very good question indeed! Remember: The most dangerous words in the English language are “We’re from private equity, and we’re here to help.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/02/m...
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Why is the investment world financing a Mass. ballot question to eliminate partisan primaries? - The Boston Globe
A wave of wealthy individuals with ties to various investment, private equity, and venture capital firms has put millions of dollars behind a ballot question to scrap the state's party primaries.
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes you simply have to hand it to the photo editor, what a cover (not to discount the excellent reporting and analysis!)
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, how else would Dartmouth's provost have time to focus on the important aspects of the role (discrediting student sexual harassment reports against faculty, ensuring students' medical records are accessible as part of academic evaluations, ignoring confirmed discrimination)? Come on now.
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Fun fact: Jamaica Plain can now claim to have tossed out three incumbents."😎
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Boston DSA @bostondsa.org · 02/09/2026
We built a formidable campaign. In a race where our opponent had to resort to 6 Super PACs, we built a movement of people that came within striking distance.
Thank you Evan! (pic of Evan MacKay against a red backdrop)
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's official! Hooray!
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
also time theft (think of how many hours people spend lining up behind pointless and malfunctioning gates at south station) (by people I mean me) (also public transit should be free)
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
One last multispecies push for @evanforcambridge.bsky.social and @persisyu.bsky.social!
Kate wearing a headlamp after a Night Moves canvass for Evan MacKayKate canvasses a deer for Persis Yu
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Bike canvass to get out the vote for @evanforcambridge.bsky.social!
Me and Evan, helmets and Evan buttons proudly displayed, grinning at the camera as we prepare to start ANOTHER shift of GOTV canvassing. Cars rumble down Mass Ave in the distance but you know what, there's a protected bike lane between the sidewalks and the cars and so we felt quite safe biking around!
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Boston DSA @bostondsa.org · 10/08/2026
Want to meet @socialists.nyc's very own @claireforny.bsky.social and get @evanforcambridge.bsky.social across the finish line? Join us on Sat Aug 15th at 12 PM in the Cambridge Common for our biggest mega canvass yet. Sign up now!!!! At: bdsa.us/evanclaire
Canvass with Claire Valdez for Evan
Megacanvass

Sat. Aug 15 • 12 pm
Cambridge Common

RSVP at bdsa.us/evanclaire
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
idk I know a lot of people who would be thrilled to get the job, I'd advise them to start recruiting in Cambridge and Somerville IMMEDIATELY
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
lol. lmao
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This piece from @marisakabas.bsky.social is the best thing I've read on the Platner debacle.
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We didn’t need a rape accusation to know Graham Platner was unfit
Despite months of red flags, his allies insisted he was the vision of positive masculinity the party needed.
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Day 1 of DSA strike support for the MNA picket line! Had not realized until talking to the home care nurses that they don't all get paid in step
Kate at MNA picket line in Braintree with a Boston DSA button and a cowbell which she had frankly way too much fun with
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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Russ Vought has illegally ordered CFPB workers teleworking within 50 miles of DC to forget their collective bargaining agreement and report to a new office. He hopes to get everyone he can't fire to quit. We asked CFPB Union members how this affects them:
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Spoiler alert: you DO want Persis in that seat
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
this post inspired me to put up the kitchen wall hangings I have been procrastinating on for months, thank you Micah
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
enjoyed this article but would go a bit farther: the path to an energized left isn't through AI summaries of voter concerns (lol) and Democratic leadership *can't* harness voter rage. also the DSA is building exactly the infrastructure wistfully described! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Democratic Base Is Angry
Is the party paying attention?
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Dylan Wilbanks is not a Halloween person @dylanw.social · 01/06/2026
Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE
DS9 scene: Kor, a Klingon, greets Dax as Curzon. Dax corrects him as the host is now in Jadzia, a Trill female. Cor immediately responds, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend" without missing a beat. 

Right: Two tweets from 2019: "This Pride Month, never forget that Klingons had trans rights"; "No hostility, no confusion, no clumsy excuse-filled justification, just a quick self-correction and the exact same amount of love and respect before and after. Cis allies: Be like Kor."
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Cannot overestimate how important it is to give pets a place to stay with their people, and also how much I love Mr. Beans and his person www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/r...
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More Shelters Make Room for Four-Legged Friends
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Remembering a tenant I worked with who really wanted to get Mass Save due to $600 heating bills, but the landlords wouldn't let him bc they might have to pay a one-time fee. Easy fix here would be to require landlords to meet energy efficiency standards before they can pass utility costs to tenants!
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
" It is feminist because it rejects the model of political leadership as individual domination, heroism, and investment...in favor of collective work and accountability, conditions under which equality within political movements can flourish." www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...
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AOC for President
Whether or not she runs, Ocasio-Cortez is invoking a feminist politics that Democrats should adopt if they are serious about defeating fascism.
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
if you happen to feel a chill in the room tomorrow at the DCU in Worcester, it's me, in the nosebleed seats with the Second Suffolk delegation, glaring at Seth Moulton
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
may I take this opportunity to plug the new Boston DSA run club
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Here am I, a regular person worried about the health of the economy. Time to take a big sip of coffee and read the news!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
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A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
sunday night reading ICYMI
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Refusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalism
Humans, however flawed, are
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Financial companies know that no one is minding the store as the Consumer Bureau (CFPB) remains largely frozen. Last year, Senate Democrats *abandoned* leverage to restore the CFPB by passing GENIUS Act, a giveaway to Trump’s massive crypto corruption. This year—will they fight for CFPB instead?
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/03/2026
Fantastic piece on the evils of deregulation - something unfortunately bolstered by the Democratic Party www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...
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Opinion | This Is Why Flying Is So Awful
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Persis Yu @persisyu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
One year ago, I sued the Trump admin for illegally blocking millions from affordable student loan repayment options. Today, Trump is still being forced to cancel loans because that lawsuit is working. Fighting back works. It's why I'm running. #DemocracyStartsAtHome #studentloans #studentdebt
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The main takeaway from this article is that Sam Alito wouldn't have gotten in to Princeton if they had admitted women lol Hang on, his admission seems like an action... that had some kind of an affirmative role... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/o...
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Opinion | Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor Did Not Attend the Same Princeton
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Might I just say, in my official capacity as a Dishonors Attorney: lol. further, lmao.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm glad to learn this term and propose a corollary or subtype where the plot is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that nobody consulted their lawyer/followed their lawyer's advice.
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Very proud that I have Ellen, Alexis, and Alissa (not to mention Rosie lol) as comrades in FUN!
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
At least we got rid of all those civil servants for government efficiency! (CFPB budget in 2024: $697 million, for a year)
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It is a Saturday morning in January. I wake up to discover we have started an illegal war in Venezuela. It is a Saturday morning in February. I wake up to discover we have started an illegal war in Iran. Can't wait to see what March brings (hopefully Nuremberg trials!)
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/02/2026
a better world is possible prospect.org/2022/11/30/b...
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The Best Tax System on Earth - The American Prospect
What America and the world can learn from the Faroe Islands
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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Federal workers and unions have proven to be a bulwark defending the rule of law and vital public services during President Trump’s second term. Our union at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a case in point."
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Consumer Protection Workers Survived DOGE Attacks through Quick Mobilization
Federal workers and unions have proven to be a bulwark defending the rule of law and vital public services during President Trump’s second term. Our union at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Greg Vasil, chief executive officer of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, said his group’s members... are clear on which fees are legal and he would be surprised if lawyers representing such large landlords are charging dubious fees." Reader, I lol'd. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/25/m...
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Can landlords charge renters legal fees for eviction if the case is dismissed? Two lawsuits say no. - The Boston Globe
Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the lawsuits against two real estate corporations argue the practice goes against Mass. state law.
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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a man is walking down the sidewalk carrying a bag of trash .
Alt: a man is walking down the sidewalk carrying a bag of trash .
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CSR @croyce62.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
had a neighbor do this once. Three-finger neighbor, we called him after that
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Would just add here that NH pays legislators an annual salary of $100 (yep, three digits)—if you make public service something only rich idiots can afford to do, you get public policy made for rich idiots!
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
THAT'S MY UNION
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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This month marks one year in our fight to save the CFPB. The rumors of the CFPB's complete demise are premature. But to stop Vought from shutting it down for good, Americans must demand Congress restore the bureau’s funding and impeach Vought. thehill.com/opinion/fina...
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Russ Vought is destroying consumer financial protection — impeach him
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
To be fair, this is also how many of my breakfasts in law school went.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 20/02/2026
Do not let Brett Kavanaugh's increasingly reactionary politics distract you from the simpler fact that Brett Kavanaugh is a dullard and a shitty writer whose colleagues all (albeit for different reasons) very obviously have nothing but contempt for him
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Kate Royce @kate-royce.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
you know what they say, government of the investment portfolios, by the investment portfolios, and for the investment portfolios
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