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NotNotSam

@oshendoschen.bsky.social
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Boston voter. Ex-ESG.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 10/10/2026
In Tuesday's Maine Senate debate, Senator Susan Collins said she once couldn't afford health insurance. What she left out: after she lost a campaign in 1994, an assault-rifle maker who’d donated to her campaign helped land her next job. She later backed a bill shielding gunmakers from lawsuits.
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Susan Collins’ Hard-Luck Story Has An Assault-Rifle Twist
An assault-rifle manufacturer helped Collins land a job after a failed gubernatorial campaign. She later backed legislation shielding gunmakers from lawsuits.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can make a good living while helping people. It's not either/or. You don't have to be a crook.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump is historically unpopular, launching an illegal war no one wants, doing everything he can to increase prices, and breaking records for corruption. Any Democrat running for office who embraces transphobic talking points is acting like a loser in a defensive crouch. Nobody likes losers.
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NotNotSam @oshendoschen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Genuine questions: why are Captchas so intensive lately? I thought it was getting easier for them to know if you’re human. But lately I have to go thru 10-12 screens of identifying crosswalks before I can complete my transaction. Is it just that I’m bad at doing them, or that AI needs more data?
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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What's the corollary to Hanlon's Razor? "Any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice"?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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NotNotSam @oshendoschen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Passing this would be a step in the wrong direction. No on Three, please.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"The news media need to say plainly: Trump is building a dictatorship. Use the D word...say that the president is mentally unstable...state painful truths directly and loudly before it’s too late." Via @markjacob.bsky.social, the conventions of political reporting aren't up to the moment:
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/08/2026
This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names
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Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home
The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.
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votolatino.bsky.social @votolatino.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a Houston enforcement operation. His family says he was a hardworking father on his way to work. This is a deadly pattern at DHS: no transparency, no oversight, no accountability. We demand an independent investigation.
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SHRED @tshred.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Clarence Thomas worked for Monsanto and should have recused himself. www.npr.org/2026/06/25/g...
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Supreme Court backs Monsanto in its fight against liability from popular weed killer
The central issue in the Roundup case, filed by Missouri resident John Durnell, was who decides what should appear on a pesticide or insecticide label and whether a federal law overrides state claims.
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NotNotSam @oshendoschen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@progressivemass.bsky.social what is your take on the ballot measure to move to all-party primaries? It seems to me like a bad idea, that will lead to vote-splitting, but I’m not sure if I see all its likely outcomes clearly.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dear Santa, This year for Prime Day I want the breakup of Amazon as a corporate conglomerate monopoly, with Kindle and Audible being nationalized into a sort of publicly owned internet library funded by a progressive tax on the hyper-rich and an annual stipend for authors.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When people compare AI to the industrial revolution, what they leave out: the IR was hell on earth for working people. Their pastoral lives forcibly destroyed, their new jobs dreary, dangerous, low pay, and monotonous compared to their varied work before. It took decades of violence to fight back.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.
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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 06/05/2026
I've spent more than six months job hunting, only to continue to be unemployed, so I've decided to officially set up shop & put my skills & experience to work for others. If you have boring admin tasks you need done so you can focus on what you enjoy, get in touch. billiebookcom.wordpress.com
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Let Me Do the Boring Stuff So You Can Focus on the Fun Stuff
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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is happening in the middle of Tel Aviv 👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼💙
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The revocation of TPS for Haitians is just making me so angry. These are people who escaped a horrific situation, followed the rules, and have become part of communities across the U.S. And now this regime just wipes out their status and has the gall to smear them as "illegal."
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John Bisognano @johnbisognano.com · 12/12/2025
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
A photo of workers at Individualized Shirts, a shirt factory in New Jersey. Each person has their fist in the air as a sign of solidarity. There's a sign behind them with photos and the words: "Fair Contract Now."
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 20/11/2025
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
schumer: don't worry, I've got us right where they want us
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Heartless 🐸🖕🐸 Creatures @heartlesscreatures.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
So What Can Our Elected Reps Do? 🧵 1. Nothing about what is going on is normal. Dems are presenting, let's say odd, responses to the dismantling of this nation, from protesting at different agencies, to throwing their hands asunder as if they're powerless, to this nonsense. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 27/02/2025
When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Cameron, Ariz. Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electrical power, Thomasina Nez's entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckts of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unfridgerated produce rots qucikly in the Arizona heat. Its a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heate after its fumes killed her two dogs.A fierce battle for electric power is being waged across the nation, and Nez is one of thousands of people who have wound up on the losing end. Amid a boom in data acenters, the energy intensive warehouses that run supercomputers for Big Tech companies, Arizona is racing to increase electricity production. In February, the state utility board approved an 8 percent rate hike to bolster power infrastructure throughout the state, where data centers are popping up faster than almost anywhere in the US But it rejected a plan to bring electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation land, concluding that electric consumers should not be asked to foot the nearly $4 million bill.
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NotNotSam @oshendoschen.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Please call us in the USA if you need any stories about how SHIT a privatized healthcare system can be!
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Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ @chrisstein.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The greatest cover exists
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New study from IIHS shows that car bloat is dangerous even at low speeds: If hit by a sedan going 27 mph, a pedestrian has a 60% chance of a moderate+ injury and 30% chance of a serious one. If it's a pickup going 27 mph, those odds rise to 83% and 63%, respectively. www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
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Vehicle height compounds dangers of speed for pedestrians
New pedestrian injury risk curves calculated by IIHS show that vehicles with taller front ends begin to cause serious injuries at lower speeds.
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