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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Judges should be in the Judiciary.
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Jennifer 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.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolute power corrupts absolutely arstechnica.com/science/2026...
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Corporate Democrats love economic concentration and hate competition
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A 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...
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Golf 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.
Photo in the museum of the golf cart covered in an absurd amount of weapons, including a nuclear missile, artillery, mini guns and a machine gun on the roof, on a golf green base with a US flag sticking out the golf hole and a putting golf club bent in half on the ground
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/09/2026
maybe we shouldn't call it "American Samoa" if people who are born there aren't American!
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 21/09/2026
ICE 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.com
ICE signs contracts worth up to $7.3B to expand detention in 5 states
With 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.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Real authoritarian, no rule of law action. Every single person involved in this decision needs to be in prison.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Keep advocating for freedom from surveillance until everyone who works there gets a severance program
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Move fast and break the law. Increasing costs is a feature, not a bug to them.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump’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.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Boston City Council has voted to ban BPD from using social media monitoring software twice.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Would be a shame if the cameras got hacked and shut down.
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By 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...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I 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?”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day, everybody. Hey, remember when this was a joke?
theonion.com
Supreme Court Upholds Bill Of Rights In 5-4 Decision
WASHINGTON—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...
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R 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"
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Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 15/09/2026
If 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.
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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These 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.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 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.com
Immigrants’ 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.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Would 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.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The 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?
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Amnesty 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...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026
I am curious if any of the Harper's Letter signers will comment on this?
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Many 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".
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Making 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!
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Maurice T. Cunningham @masspolprofmo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Boston'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.com
Boston Oligarchs Fund Another Hostile Takeover of Our Democracy
Welcome to OligarchPalooza2026!
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another 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.org
Flock Safety failed to secure Boston vehicle data during 2025 pilot, report finds
Three 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...
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Screwing people who built this country is American as apple pie, but it must not be that way!
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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026
Miss 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.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Corporate Stasi enables a government Stasi.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Corporate 1984 stuff. ++ungood.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
All our govt. data the DOGE bros stole likely made its way to this propaganda project.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Expect the Boston Regional Intelligence Center does this
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Blatant corruption that the courts deny is corruption
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/08/2026
So, 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.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026
hey 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
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Otter Poppa's Poppaler Nature Facts @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bro 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."
Mark Gurman on X saying "The other plan that stays the same as my last report on the Airpods with cameras: the lenses are for AI and visual intelligence only. They cannot take pictures or record video, so people need not be worried"
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post hawk tuah ergo propter hawk tuah @factorone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I 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.
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Freeminds @freeminds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
During 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.com
Trump threatens ‘baseless’ $5B lawsuit over National Guard report he didn’t like
Center for American Progress CEO Neera Tanden says the president is trying to ‘silence’ the group with yet another First Amendment threat
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trump has no loyalty to the country. He wants to make sure everyone else feels that way too.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just a reminder that Top Two systems are designed to harm third parties.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks 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...
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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.
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.
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Massachusetts Pirate Party @masspirates.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Here is a quick guide to requesting to vote by mail and registering to vote in Massachusetts. masspirates.org/blog/2026/07...
Select portion of the Massachusetts register to vote page highlighting how to select the Pirate Political Designation. More explanation and links at https://masspirates.org/blog/2026/07/13/vote-by-mail-applications-due-by-august-25th/
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Emily 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.org
Keshia 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.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This 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...
How are scientists adjusting the way they work during the Trump administration?
The survey asked a representative sample of university based scientists: "Since January 2025, have you intentionally done any of the following due to concerns about possible negative consequences for you, your work environment, or your career?" [then data]
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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 21/08/2026
Censored 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/ddosecrets
ddosecrets.org
Censored Amnesty International UK report - Distributed Denial of Secrets
A 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...
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Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com · 21/08/2026
See 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...
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