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Megan Figueroa

@meganfigueroa.bsky.social
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Chicana. Child language development expert. 🧪 Forever a Scientist👩🏽‍🔬First Gen. Linguist. Writer. Podcaster. she/her. The Vocal Fries 🍟 co-host. Tucson, AZ

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is democracy working right. I’ve been voting by mail in Arizona since I turned 18. It works and it works well.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just kidding still sick, on a second round of antibiotics, AND I fractured two ribs coughing
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LOOKOUT @lookoutnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A shuttered prison in Marana is about to reopen as an ICE jail. The for-profit company running it, Management and Training Corporation, has a track record of scandals. Read our investigation in partnership with @theintercept.com:
lookoutnews.org
Prison That Didn’t Report Sex Abuse Allegation Against Staffer to Reopen as ICE Camp
A whistleblower says the warden didn’t make a federally required disclosure. Now the company is turning the Arizona prison into an ICE jail.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tucson-based humanitarian group Humane Borders issued a statement announcing that federal land agencies ended the permits for their live-saving water stations including those at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument which have helped people for over 25 years. This is a loss of 30% of their stations.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Genius.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
god should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men - Elisabeth Hewer #Cornell7 #evergreen
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
god should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men - Elisabeth Hewer #Cornell7 #evergreen
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We had so much fun reading THE LANGUAGE BEAT and talking with Michael! Please check it out and support your favorite Canadian/American woman run indie podcast that could! 🍟
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Carrie Gillon @carrieg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was so fun! Please have a listen, especially if you’re a linguist or journalist Or hell, even if you aren’t
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We had so much fun reading THE LANGUAGE BEAT and talking with Michael! Please check it out and support your favorite Canadian/American woman run indie podcast that could! 🍟
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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the first things I did on summer holiday was have this really great conversation with @carrieg.bsky.social and @meganfigueroa.bsky.social about The LANGUAGE BEAT and writing about language. New episode, just released! vocalfriespod.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...
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The Language Beat Essays - The Vocal Fries
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Michael Erard about his newest e-book, The Language Beat: Essays and Reporting on Language and Life. AI Indigenous correspondents
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What’s more American than Latines having to watch other Latines being shot by ICE during “Hispanic Heritage Month”?
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Fuck Fascism, Racism & Capitalism" Seen in Halifax, Canada
"Fuck Fascism, Racism & Capitalism"
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Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations @breakingmews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Your daily moment of Zen: an otter cracking open a crab in Monterey Bay. Otters are the puppies of the sea.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sunday Taquitos #33: One of the Good Ones Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
A cartoon of a man wearing a t-shirt that says “Latinos for Trump” being detained by two ICE agents.

Text below reads “You’re supposed to deport people who look like me, not me!”
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shove your toxic rugged individualism
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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is Harvard the embarrassing professor capital of the USA?
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And he’s been about eugenics for a long ass time
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also, it’s not just men who gaslight women about their discomfort/pain and/or the severity of their illness/condition.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
14 whole ass days later and I feel like I am on the mend. Don’t let doctors gaslight you. Sometimes you DO need the antibiotics and it’s not just a problem Sudafed can fix.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
¡Feliz día de independencia de México!
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is democracy in action. I have been on the early voting list in Arizona since I turned 18 and was old enough to vote.
OFFICIAL - Pima County Recorder's Office:  As a voter on the Active Early Voting List, your ballot request has automatically been created for the 2026 General Election and will be mailed on 10/07/2026.   To stop receiving notifications please text back STOP
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A statement saying, “I am not complicit” is truly something else. Such a bad look.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sorry I don't think that the Democratic party is capable of leading us through the current AI bullshit. I think it should be clearly said so that community leaders emerge.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My heart simply cannot handle a Catherine O’Hara tribute after the Dolly Parton tribute. IT CANNOT #Emmys
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is democracy in action. I have been on the early voting list in Arizona since I turned 18 and was old enough to vote.
OFFICIAL - Pima County Recorder's Office:  As a voter on the Active Early Voting List, your ballot request has automatically been created for the 2026 General Election and will be mailed on 10/07/2026.   To stop receiving notifications please text back STOP
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sometimes you just need the antibiotics.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Girl, I can hear your terrible sinus infection from here”
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At the urgent care and so excited to have time for this book
“Wassup, my n*gga: the hidden history of a controversial word” by Hiram L. Smith
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Team Macklemore
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I should say this more because assuming it’s obvious is not enough: I have so much love for you, trans fam, and I think of you so often. This world is so fucking cruel and gross and your strength, grace, rage, sadness, everything, in the face of it—I see it and you.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hive mind: day 10 of an upper respiratory infection. Should I consult a medical professional at this point?
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hive mind: day 10 of an upper respiratory infection. Should I consult a medical professional at this point?
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/09/2026
jasmine crockett honoring chris brown on stage at his show is truly one of the most embarrassing things i’ve ever seen
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Mike's like a scandal piñata, everytime you shake him, more misdeeds fall out."
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My toxic personality trait is seeing something and thinking, “I can make that.” And never making it.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A mother in Arizona is working two jobs while living in a car with her kids because there's nowhere else for them to go. Inside, temperatures have reached 125 degrees since the A/C died. Her 8-year-old son was hospitalized with heat exhaustion. This is America today.
abc15.com
Arizona heat shows no mercy to homeless families living in cars
Arizona’s intense heat is showing no mercy to homeless people living in their cars. In some cases, entire families cannot find housing, leaving them with no alternative.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tired of reading about the stereotype of Mexicans being lazy as an example of a stereotype.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Let us not forget that Gallego and Swalwell were best friends.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“We gave it all. When we got to ground zero we felt so much fear. Oh the fear we felt! No one ever asked to check our immigration status. Oh no, they treated us like we were real important back then. It was: 'Go in Lucelly. Go Lucelly. Get in there.'"
npr.org
They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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