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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"According to analysis by the non-profit Protect Our Care, 52 maternity wards have closed since the HR1 bill was announced in July 2025, with a further eight having announced their upcoming closure." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US maternity wards face wave of closures as Medicaid cuts kick in
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ spending cuts will be fully felt next year, but hospitals are already feeling the squeeze
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve had enough. It’s time we abolished leaf blowers.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“It’s kind of damning that it has taken Massachusetts this long because it really is a policy that the Legislature should have passed,” Cohn said, noting that MA and RI are the only New England states that have not implemented same-day voter registration. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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Question 4 could allow Mass. voters to register on Election Day. Here’s what to know.
Supporters say Question 4 would expand voting access, while opponents argue same-day registration jeopardizes election integrity.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve always been of the mind that the decline in party registration in MA was a knock-on effect of the way our Automatic Voter Registration system is designed. Sharp piece explaining that. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/mass...
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Massachusetts political parties stand by as their membership rolls evaporate
Why Massachusetts parties are allowing the slow-moving self-destruction to continue is anyone’s guess.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 09/09/2026
AI billionaires are jacking up our energy bills, poisoning our air and water, endangering our kids, and putting people out of work. Now their own researchers are saying that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Post from Jacob Coxon. "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
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CommonWealth Beacon @cwbeacon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In this week’s episode of The Codcast, Hallie Claflin speaks with Alecia McGregor of the Harvard School of Public Health and Katie Murphy of the Massachusetts Nurses Association about where Massachusetts really stands in terms of maternal health care access. Listen at the link: buff.ly/cTaMWio
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The Codcast - CommonWealth Beacon
THE CODCAST Tune into spirited debate, local stories, and insightful analyses with The Codcast. Hosted each week by a CommonWealth Beacon reporter, the
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CommonWealth Beacon @cwbeacon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Massachusetts has no maternity care deserts according to maternal health research group March of Dimes. Yet Bay Staters still report giving birth in ambulances and emergency rooms as they’ve watched over a dozen maternity units close in 16 years.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026
You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
lol
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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly betterThere are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. 

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. 

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Low key turning my gym into a socialist feminist hotbox 💪🏾
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Patrick Roath @patrickroath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The final weekend. Let’s go win this thing.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's called the Ames Room, and it was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1946 to screw with your brain. Original post
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Log Off. Live More. ✊ @logofflivemore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thousands of data center projects are stalled or dead. Not from a federal law from neighbors who read the zoning documents and showed up. The most powerful companies on earth keep losing to people with a folding chair and a free Tuesday. www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/23/d...
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Data Center Backlash Brings Thousands of Projects to a Screeching Halt
Americans’ growing opposition to the prevalence of data centers has led many politicians to limit or pause their increase altogether.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A lot of the 90s kneeling bus activism was disabled folks and working class moms working together. A case we do not teach enough.
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 25/08/2026
first of all, it's not "shrekking," it's "roger rabbiting," and second of all, jessica rabbit legitimately saw roger rabbit as hot and if you don't understand that, you shouldn't be writing about any of this
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026
Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program.  Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.
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Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
so funny www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
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A 4,000-year-old clay tablet captures a kid whining that his mom’s homemade clothes aren’t cool enough
His mother spent months weaving his clothes by hand. He wrote her a clay tablet to say his classmate's clothes were nicer and she must not love him.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”
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Dustin Du Cane @dustinducane.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The way Babylonians write is so simple and evocative. Like an angry NY bodega owner complaining to his supplier and wife. „You promised my goods. Your word is no good. Where are my goods? Your promises are no good. Look at my shelves. They are empty.”
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I keep thinking about how people are going THROUGH IT. Everyone. It’s so important to have compassion for ourselves AND — crucially — each other.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
60 presidential elections. Two lost by women. That’s not the most damning statistic when you consider that a man lost the other 58. Gender matters but it’s not fatalistic. It’s important to hold the gravity of things without thinking they are all-powerful.
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New from me on the importance of private enforcement in Massachusetts' soon-coming consumer data privacy law. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/data...
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Data privacy bill must have real teeth
We can end Big Tech’s abuses — but only if we have the courage to stand up to the tech oligarchs and maintain the strong standards of our consumer protection law when it comes to enforcing our data pr...
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bennatkin.bsky.social @bennatkin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Should’ve rebooted Hey Dude instead of
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
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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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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ICYMI: That freestyle at Yankee Stadium about Target and Colin Kaepernick got me wondering what type of shit Jay-Z is really on. Best as I can tell, the same shit he's always been on. I wrote about it here.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"store bought tomatoes are better than the ones you grow at home," says world's cleverest boy
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Justin Avery Smith @justinaverysmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Historically accurate Odyssey” is giving “women can’t be Ghostbusters”
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iKE PASTEL @ikexpastel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is taking me OUT!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Lizzie,MPA @lizzieinratcity.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Honestly may unsubscribe from @massterlist.com after that horrendous piece by Jon Keller. That was a borderline sociopathic piece and everybody on that team should be ashamed of letting that published.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The use of bike supremacists is really galling because what we're really asking for is to not die at the hands of the car supremacists
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The term “bike supremacists” is so disingenuous. What % of our main roads have any kind of physical bike infrastructure? No one is claiming or demanding supremacy over the road, just a small piece that we can safely travel on to get to work and home alive. But that doesn’t sound snarky enough.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Cyclists are being killed and Jon Keller thinks that advocates (who he calls "bike supremacists") aren't being nice enough. Seriously, fuck this guy. I'm not linking to this absolute piece of trash essay.
Which brings us back to Dale Carnegie, and his nine tips for how to change human behavior: “Begin with praise and honest appreciation; call attention to people's mistakes indirectly; talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person; ask questions instead of giving direct orders; let the other person save face; praise every improvement; give the other person a fine reputation to live up to; use encouragement, make the fault seem easy to correct; make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.”

These folks are batting oh-for-nine. It’s a whole new definition of hitting for the cycle.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"But she won reelection decisively and so has a mandate to move forward with her own vision for how roads should be shared among cars, trucks, cyclists, pedestrians, scooters, mopeds, and the like." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/o...
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Louisa Gag’s death demands a full investigation — and an end to Wu’s slowdown on bike lanes - The Boston Globe
The mayor slowed down street projects in the run-up to last year’s election. But too much of the city remains unsafe.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I don’t know Louisa, but her parents are wonderful community activists. And it is so tragic for someone who has spent her whole career working on safe streets to die such a tragic death while biking to work. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/09/m...
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Boston transportation planner fatally struck by car near Roxbury Crossing, family says - The Boston Globe
Louisa Gag, 36, "was a dedicated public servant to the City of Boston and passionately advocated for safer streets,” her sister said.
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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Independence Day, from the god Jack Handey.
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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is a pretty clear cut principle:
Cher: So, OK, like right now, for example, the Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?"

 
	
But it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I said RSVP because it was a sit-down dinner. But people came that, like, did not RSVP. So I was, like, totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings. But, by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier!

 
And so, if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians.



 
	 
And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say "RSVP" on the Statue of Liberty.

 

 

Thank you very much.
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