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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8h

The argument that cinched opposition to the death penalty to me was "Should the state pay anyone to be an executioner?" I think the existence of that as a job is socially and morally corrosive.

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 8h

The death penalty is a wrong that can't be made right. We are now seeing or hearing of its horrors. Usually we shield ourselves from them. Tonight, I pray for Christa Pike that she be spared any further violence inflicted in our name

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North Shore Progressives @nsprogressives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A good way to remember how to vote on this year’s ballot questions: 3 + 5 =8 Vote NO on questions 3, 5, & 8 Vote YES on all other questions. I am fully in agreement with @progressivemass.bsky.social & am very disappointed that @lwvma.bsky.social is agnostic on Questions 3 & 8.

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Bob Geraghty @vulgeraghty.bsky.social · 8h

Every bit of this hits home. If there is no financial crisis then why the proactive cuts that will certainly produce a crisis?

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 10h

Couldn't sleep so went to work early. Worked from 7am-3pm, dashed to pick up 8yo and take him to Hebrew school, spend those 2 hours working, drove him home, changed, drove to the gym, came home, showered, argued with 6yo about going to bed. I am only just now making dinner.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 16h

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This (100% correct) point is made over and over again, every time that this happens. I was a college student 20 years ago, and we were making the same point about the Tufts administration. Academic integrity is more important than the safety of female students.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Massachusetts, ours is Oct 24. You can check your registration here: www.sec.state.ma.us/voterregistr...

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/09/2026

money can't buy happiness means rich people can't bribe reality to make them inwardly contented with their own personal demons they fashioned while stepping on the throats of others, not that people shouldn't need basic living necessities in a modern fucking society like shelter food and medicine

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Dread Pirate Zed @dreadpiratezed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One anti-pattern that I really, really hate is - when "offering" a feature or upgrade - only presenting a choice between Do It Now and Ask Me Again Later. I would guess that 90% of users, if given their druthers, would actually choose Fuck Off And Never Bother Me Again.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It figures that Kevin Sabet’s Project SAM would be behind this dark money scam. I’ve known him since he was a smarmy intern in the drug czar’s office under Clinton. He’s been a pro-drug war activist since he was a teenager!

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Question 3 (jungle primaries) supporters have built into their talking points that Zohran won and Cuomo lost because of a jungle primary system, and that is such a blatant lie that it is shocking anyone is willing to try it.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 29/09/2026

this is tonic masculinity + semiotically clever as hell 👍

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay so what was the big announcement at 2pm? I completely forgot because it's all bullshit and work was busy.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exactly. Duh. Fucking assholes.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's been irritating that flu and COVID vaccines for children just straight up haven't been available through local pharmacies or even our doctor's office. We're FINALLY able to get our kids vaccinated this week, and it's because our public schools are having clinics on Friday.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope it works.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would literally rather see you scribble a stick figure on a postit note than whatever you’re considering doing with AI

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Update your measles vaccine if you need it and make sure to vaccinate your children.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remember when people wrote articles excoriating middle aged conservatives for not knowing Lemonade and Bodak Yellow? I wonder white not…

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ll add to this that a big part of why Biden’s approach failed is because he tapped Title IX administrators to lead the effort, instead of survivors and their advocates. He picked the betrayers instead of the betrayed.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some of the voters with the ability to weigh in on the Senate race, unlike in other states!

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it's been a decade since I've been there, but tonight we did a belated birthday dinner date at the Publick House and the frites are still just as delicious as I remembered. I am so very full and satisfied.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal

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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have a lot of ambivalent feelings about GLP1s and even about me taking one. A lot of things can be true at the same time. But what it boils down to for me is that we live in a fat-hating world, and that this includes all the people who sneer at anyone who uses GLP1s to lose weight.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Speaking as a professor of public policy who studies housing policy: Trump take house.

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another Brock Turner arc in 2026. Truly grotesque choices from the administration; excellent work from this editorial board.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hate canceling my Sat morning gym reservation, but: - I worked from 7am until 5:30pm today with zero breaks - my ankle is hurting a lot (like it feels like it needs to crack but it can't) - my husband can't walk 6yo to dance tomorrow morning bc of the storm So, gonna give myself some grace here.

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Embrrrrrrr @embrrrrrrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The iced coffee debate is really just a microcosm for the great management debate of the 2020s: “Is the purpose of staff to do their jobs, or to flatter your sense of self-importance?” These two metrics are actually completely separate!

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Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 24/09/2026

i try to stay mum on elections i can't vote in, but if you're in massachusetts, take it from me in california: you really really really don't want top-two primaries. vote no on 3.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is my take as well. If you create a car that spontaneously accelerates because of how it’s designed, nobody says the car went rogue. You, who designed and sold the car, are on the hook. It’s not everybody else’s problem. Can’t keep it from spontaneously accelerating? Don’t sell it.

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The entire point of a collaborative medium is collaboration. It's getting a bunch of people who are all good at their jobs on one project and seeing what they each bring to it. The promise of AI is that you can replace that process with public masturbation. And not even FUN masturbation! For shame!

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In other words, as a rule of thumb, a high-profile race with polls showing the Democrat up 4 is probably actually a dead heat. A Dem up 5 points or more is probably safe. Up 3 or fewer is probably a loss. The lesson here is to keep the foot on the gas. Don't let up until polls close.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of good polling for Democrats right now. Keep in mind, however, that polling in the last few cycles has been significantly off (~4 points in big races), generally to the benefit of Republicans. My sense is that this is because voting for Trump drives shame. So respondents simply lie.

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Phira @phira603.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Absolutely exhausted. I should get to work early tomorrow if I can manage it. I think I'm gonna go to bed.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of the things that is so familiar about the proponents of Question 3 and Question 5 in Massachusetts is the way they got faux Democrats to make disingenuous to downright false claims on their behalf in advocating for Ballot Initiatives that further rigs the system in their favor. #mapoli

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Which raises incredibly pointed questions about that string of Republicans during the height of "where's Mitch"-mania who all insisted they'd had "15-20ish minute phone calls" with him where they all discussed eerily similar topics. If he's nonverbal after this much recovery time...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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