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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My Massachusetts friends, y'all voting "No on Ballot Question #3", right?

Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I need you all to pay attention to Jonathan if you live in Massachusetts. Vote NO on Ballot Question 3 in November. One of the most important things you can do in this election cycle. Even in this blue state, we have our battles, and this is one of them.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trans people have fought and suffered and borne the brunt of the depravity of fascist excess (along with immigrants and Black people), and it looks like the most we can hope for is a decade or more fighting Democrats to restore rights we had in every state in the union as recently as 2020.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Running into the unknown this morning.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Farewell, summer of 2026. Give me the fortitude to get through seven months of stick season.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 27/08/2026

The real American 🇺🇸 “brain drain” isn’t that a few established scholars might get new jobs outside the US, it’s the enormous number of grad students - particularly international grad students - who can’t or won’t study in the US now or in years to come. That’s the body blow.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's not at the very top of my list of reasons for opposing Question 3 (jungle primaries), but the question is clearly an attack on non-establishment gubernatorial candidates. Requiring Gov candidates to pick their LG running mates pre-primary is a major barrier to outsiders and insurgents.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/08/2026

CAN HE? WILL HE? IT'S HAPPENING!!!! OH MY GOD HE'S GONE FULL PELICAN!!!!!!! 🪶

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

All this. Sen. Ed Markey all the way (plus, I owe Ed a birthday cake - long story.)

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy Friday! Rio was full of beans this morning, and insisted on playing hide and see. #Uglydogs

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Trying not to dance around the kitchen table this morning.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Literally this entire post. Every single bit of it. "Why are voters unhappy with Democrats?" It's trust, stupid!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/08/2026

You do not engage in these kinds of actions to change the world overnight. You do it to change one person's world, over and over, until eventually, the tide is too much and the world must change.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Someone did not want to get up, and someone had to work today (me)!

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

As Trump’s “1776 Project” and assault on the Smithsonian make clear, Republicans want to distort history of all kinds. (I write this as a professional historian in the state of Florida.)

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Let's all start our week with a new hair style! #Uglydogs

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I didn't realize being a shark scientist was so dangerous

BBC News headline. shark scientists get a million pounds to help protect them

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/07/2026

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them. Let's do it everywhere.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/06/2026

Listen I want to nationalize all the things, but we're not winning elections because people are up to date on Jacobin and know the difference between Counterpoint and WSWS. we're winning elections because people trust us because we're good people and these motherfuckers are pieces of shit.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

All this. Grassroots volunteers and funders have upheld the Dem Party for so long, the Dems have not matched our efforts, have not met the moment, have been reactive and not proactive...and we are bullshit. I knock doors. This is a must read thread.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Agreed But people will need to raise it, regularly and loudly, during what will be a lengthy D primary for POTUS. This is going to take sustained organizing over years and that's exceptionally hard bsky.app/profile/theg...

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Thank you Etel, for telling it like it is in Massachusetts.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Arlington Porch Fest is rockin today! Can attest, three bands are playing right now near my workplace, so many people out walking around.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I think that’s the existential question that got really lost over the course of decades and decades of commodification. The need to constantly ask why am I doing what I’m doing? How much am I doing for myself and how much am I doing for an invisible (and now literal) algorithm

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Watching a series on Netflix tonight and the credits roll...and you realize you babysat the director (frequently) when he was about 8-10yrs old. Damn. All I remember is baking chocolate chip cookies for him. Nope, not giving any hints.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@gregdoucette.bsky.social can you find out which NC state legislators own stock in this chatbot

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I don't officially recognize the Department of Defense, so we're even.

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Buddha Ferret @buddhaferret.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If you had proposed this to a film producer as a modern upgrade to Idiocracy, you would get thrown out, blacklisted, and probably dragged out into the alley by security and beaten with golf clubs.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 03/06/2026

Jesus, they've even broken Marc Elias.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Proud to be a @edmarkey.bsky.social delegate, ad to cast my vote for him.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

As a former town meeting member, I wholeheartedly agree with this.

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Introducing 250 to 250: A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica250

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Literally weeping this basic shit is what governance was always supposed to be and we have become so used to corporate corruption and theft that the most basic concept of "making people do the things they are legally obligated to do" seems revolutionary

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Perfectly said. Absolutely true.

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Give me the continued strength to work in Don Davis's district, getting voters to polls, knowing that we are building working class and rural power so that someday the door will hit him on the ass, and NC will finally get the representation they deserve.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

You need to know these names: AvalonBay and Equity Residential. If these two billion dollar real estate investment trusts merge, they will be the largest landlord in the United States — and by a large margin. This has massive consequences for tenants. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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US Apartment Giants AvalonBay, Equity Residential Explore $50 Billion Combination

Potential mega REIT tie-up raises plenty of antitrust and political questions.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

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