Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Judges should be in the Judiciary. 011
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyJennifer P. Mushrooms @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"trans people require medical care for the rest of their lives" is the craziest anti-trans talking point because everyone requires medical care for the rest of our lives. 16924249
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Absolute power corrupts absolutely arstechnica.com/science/2026...arstechnica.comRussel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grantsPending move comes over the objections of the NIH director. 010
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Corporate Democrats love economic concentration and hate competition 010
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A war with China would be a huge mistake, but closing the research institutes that study China's military ensures that war is more likely and we will end up far worse off if it happens. bsky.app/profile/waya... 000
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartySpelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Golf Cart One (2026) - my new sculpture at the @lucasmuseum.bsky.social in LA. A life-sized, cast-aluminium, militarised presidential golf cart, commissioned for the museum by George Lucas and based on a 1:12 scale model version I made back in 2017. 816849
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/09/2026maybe we shouldn't call it "American Samoa" if people who are born there aren't American! 4506
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyProject Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 21/09/2026ICE just signed $7.3 billion in contracts to build detention space on land it owns, after its warehouse plan stalled. A $1.2 billion contract for a California site ICE left in 2014 went to a company tied to a developer facing more than a dozen lawsuits.projectsaltbox.comICE signs contracts worth up to $7.3B to expand detention in 5 statesWith its warehouse plan stalled, ICE is building on land it already owns, and one of the companies it hired is tied to a developer who worked on its earlier property deals. 14321217
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Real authoritarian, no rule of law action. Every single person involved in this decision needs to be in prison. 030
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 13253641941
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Keep advocating for freedom from surveillance until everyone who works there gets a severance program 084
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Move fast and break the law. Increasing costs is a feature, not a bug to them. 001
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyJane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Trump’s DOGE efforts to derail agencies & save money by firing federal workers, ended up costing us $9.5 Billion in administrative leave costs. If anyone had read the contracts, they would have known they were paying people to not work. When you use a sledgehammer approach, you get massive waste. 611087
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Boston City Council has voted to ban BPD from using social media monitoring software twice. 052
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Would be a shame if the cameras got hacked and shut down. 011
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026“A Handful of Emeralds” by David K. Stone, published by NASA, 1987 thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8280062... 2655
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think this is something candidates should lampshade relentlessly: “Why does my opponent want to talk constantly about five trans kids playing volleyball and some Twitch streamer in LA? Is that stuff really important to your daily life? If it’s not, why are they trying to make you feel like it is?” 4571104
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Happy Constitution Day, everybody. Hey, remember when this was a joke?theonion.comSupreme Court Upholds Bill Of Rights In 5-4 DecisionWASHINGTON—In a landmark decision Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled to uphold the Bill of Rights, the very tenets upon which American society is based. "After carefully considering the rel... 328968
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyR Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 17/09/2026"NPR tracked down equipment and found that some of it was auctioned, donated or thrown in the trash... NASA donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of radio communications equipment to Capitol Technology University without the knowledge of the scientists who used it" 8555254
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyNicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 15/09/2026If Donald Trump bankrupts the Kennedy Center, I'm pulling a @bencollins.bsky.social and buying it to rebrand as the “Dead Kennedys Center” and creating a national music venue for vernacular modern American music. 142
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyAren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 15/09/2026These cages remind me of the case of Marcia Powell, a sex worker who died in an Arizona prison in 2009. Prison guards locked her in an outdoor metal cage for four hours in 107 degree heat. She was serving a 27 month sentence for soliciting. 12213
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Trump administration is deliberately withholding and redacting documents that legal residents need to prove their status. Claiming they can't find the documents is bad enough. But to turn them over only after redacting them to the point that they're useless is another level of evil.nytimes.comImmigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say. 2280161
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Would add: No corporate bailouts when the investments crash. Take over the corporations. Fire management. Zero out the investors. Rationalize the debts. Throw people in jail. Not happening under Trump, of course, or if it does, it will be done in the most corrupt manner. No expansion of copyright. 000
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The real question is what are WE going to do? What do we want Congress to do? How are we going to make them do it? How can we build power for legislation that holds AI companies accountable for current & past harm, even if the story animating the headlines is "future extinction?" What's the plan? 16513
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyStef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Amnesty did a report, "Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at 'Alligator Alcatraz' and Krome in Florida - Amnesty International". bsky.app/profile/gill... 153
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyMike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026I am curious if any of the Harper's Letter signers will comment on this? 1135269
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Many of us would like friends to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to throw a party for us. Strange how it is always powerful people (Trump's family or Clarence Thomas, say) that get these "gifts". 011
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Making sure low income children die earlier than wealthy children so that wealthy children inherit more wealth is a political choice. It should not be this way! 021
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyMaurice T. Cunningham @masspolprofmo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Boston's financial Oligarchs would like more say over who makes the ballot in Massachusetts. Here is the big money behind Q3 on the ballot, the "jungle primary" question. mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/boston-oli...mauricecunningham153.substack.comBoston Oligarchs Fund Another Hostile Takeover of Our DemocracyWelcome to OligarchPalooza2026! 21611
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Another corporation lying about the privacy of the data they collect on us. We are all the product to them. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...wbur.orgFlock Safety failed to secure Boston vehicle data during 2025 pilot, report findsThree days into a pilot program with the Boston Police Department, city officials realized Flock Safety had been distributing data it promised not to share with external law enforcement agencies, acco... 055
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Screwing people who built this country is American as apple pie, but it must not be that way! 030
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyBlake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026Miss me with the whole "he's trying to win Texas, not Massachusetts" argument. Conceding your opponent's frame and validating their bullshit blowup of a non-issue is not how you win. Getting everyone to recognize that Ken Paxton wants genital examinations for your daughter is how you win. 1228
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Corporate Stasi enables a government Stasi. 063
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026All our govt. data the DOGE bros stole likely made its way to this propaganda project. 051
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Expect the Boston Regional Intelligence Center does this 020
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Blatant corruption that the courts deny is corruption 021
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/08/2026So, so proud of the work @shokdiesel.bsky.social has done on this piece, and so furious, at always, about how this country is treating immigrants. 011851
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate Partyutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026hey remember when people said he wouldn’t fuck with the numbers so it turns out you can fuck with the numbers by dragging the names of the agencies through the mud like this, repeatedly, thus achieving the same outcome 322643
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyOtter Poppa's Poppaler Nature Facts @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Bro that is SO MUCH MORE worrisome. "Don't worry, you won't be able to actually use anything they gather, it's just for spying ON you and gathering data for US to profit from." 1632379
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate Partypost hawk tuah ergo propter hawk tuah @factorone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I am a regular contributor to deflock.me, and I've been noticing that someone (or multiple people) are going through and deleting cameras that I know I've added before, and that's concerning. 372
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyFreeminds @freeminds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026During the military occupation of Blue cities crime stats showed no significant change in crime patterns even though Trump claimed there was. Now a think tank released a report finding the same thing and Trump threatened them with law suits for showing him to be a liar.the-independent.comTrump threatens ‘baseless’ $5B lawsuit over National Guard report he didn’t likeCenter for American Progress CEO Neera Tanden says the president is trying to ‘silence’ the group with yet another First Amendment threat 022
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Trump has no loyalty to the country. He wants to make sure everyone else feels that way too. 020
Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Just a reminder that Top Two systems are designed to harm third parties. 020
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyMassachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Thanks to everyone who came out to this event and to Muslim Justice League for organizing it! Come out to MJL's ALPRs in MA Teach-In on Sep 2, 2026 07:30 PM us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...us06web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: MJL ALPRs in MA Teach-in. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: MJL ALPRs in MA Teach-in. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. 024
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyMassachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Here is a quick guide to requesting to vote by mail and registering to vote in Massachusetts. masspirates.org/blog/2026/07... 012
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyEmily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“What is a woman’s right to defend herself against her abuser? And why is her abuser entitled to harm her? Why have we normalized that?”19thnews.orgKeshia said it was self defense. She goes on trial for murder next week.In a system stacked against both survivors of domestic violence and Black women, Keshia Golden hopes to be acquitted. Advocates want the case dropped entirely. 13716
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This data on self-censorship among U.S. academic scientists and engineers -- not even humanities people, this is STEM -- is so disturbing. theconversation.com/self-censors... 6187114
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyDistributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 21/08/2026Censored Amnesty International UK report (345.47 KB) A report by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed, which was censored after J.K. Rowling made legal threats. ddosecrets.org/article/cens... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecretsddosecrets.orgCensored Amnesty International UK report - Distributed Denial of SecretsA complete version of a censored report produced by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed of TERFs. The report sharply criticized organizational e... 0727497
Reposted by Massachusetts Pirate PartyDr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/08/2026See whole thread - this is really concerning. Amnesty are going to extraordinary lengths to remove both versions of their withdrawn report, under threat of getting sued by JK Rowling. The longer version can for the moment still be found here. Download it now ia902908.us.archive.org/6/items/repo...ia902908.us.archive.org 075