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@prescientpear.bsky.social
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Boston, MA | she/her Big fan of public transit, Mannequin Pussy, & soup (all kinds)

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/01/2026
The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
the last year has left me with unending faith in the courage of ordinary people and bottomless contempt for the fecklessness of our ruling class
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/10/2025
Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth. I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/05/2025
'Hove' is a past tense of 'heave.'
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 29/01/2025
Northeastern promptly shows its belly to the Trump administration: Scrubs "diversity" references from its Web sites huntnewsnu.com/83151/campus...
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Northeastern purges DEI websites and messaging amid Trump executive order
Under the looming threat of federal examination, Northeastern has replaced or dismantled nearly all of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, messaging and websites.   Among several other change...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I can't remember a day where I have been so repeatedly disappointed by Massachusetts politicians. What are you doing here, Governor Healey? Playing semantics? Come on.
"I wouldn't describe them as raids," Healey said."What it seems to be, and what we expected and what I support, which is the apprehension of criminals in our communities."

Healey said she supports arresting criminals — whether they are undocumented or not.
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 23/01/2025
ICE swarms Chelsea, East Boston www.wcvb.com/article/fede...
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Mixed reaction after feds take several into custody in Mass. cities
A man was taken into federal custody Wednesday morning outside a busy Chelsea, Massachusetts, Market Basket location.
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prescientpear.bsky.social @prescientpear.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
It’s almost time…
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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com · 26/11/2024
What else is going on…… Oh, I made party sandwiches by baking focaccia in a bundt pan.
Two large, bundt-shaped sandwiches on a cutting board, with cropped people behind it. One sandwich is veggie, with roasted eggplant and peppers, arugula, hazelnut hummus, basil, half of it with cheese; the other is an Italian sandwich with mortadella, soppressata, provolone, mozzarella, giardiniera, arugula.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Democrats have spent years carefully abandoning political positions it fears might cost them votes, each time getting closer to the ultimate goal: a political party that has zero positions and therefore cannot lose votes.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Everyone can’t afford to move. And no one should HAVE to move. People shouldn’t just feel safe where they live; they should feel that they are vibrantly welcome and included in how that place defines itself. Ohio isn’t a red state; it’s now a gerrymandered state like too many others.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It’s impossible to overstate the anxiety US citizen children are already experiencing at the promise of mass deportation raids. Not knowing the how, coupled with the certainty of the when, is so much to bear for children–human beings whose brains are still developing.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The United States has oligarchs now. Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11/11/2024
Good morning, beautiful people of BlueSky. ICYMI, Assigned Media has a BIG, EXCITING new project. We're going to Washington DC on December 4th to cover gender-affirming care bans at the Supreme Court, and we need YOU to help get us there. fnd.us/f2TK88?ref=s...
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Mr. Trans Goes to Washington
Assigned Media is going to Washington, DC to report on gender-affirming care bans at the US Supreme Court, and we need your help!
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tim d (he/him) @doormouse12.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
a week from Saturday, "men against abortion" fools are going to march through Boston. people who support abortion and bodily autonomy will be there to protest them. i will be one of them. maybe you too? #BostonMA #AbortionRights
details on the protest against the anti-abortionists. Nov 16, 11am, at charlesgate park in Boston
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Seriously, they held signs up at the RNC about this and got basically no pushback on what it would actually look like. One of the reasons that we chose to write our big report on mass deportations is that nobody was asking these questions. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
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Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy
The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/11/2024
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I am seeing more and more opinions bubbling up about how throwing trans people to the wolves would be a winning strategy for Democrats, and I just want to quickly say: Fuck off with that absolute dog shit.
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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 07/11/2024
During the migrant bussing/flight crisis, several were put up in hotels used as family shelters nearby my town-- only to face local neo-Nazi groups. This was 14 months ago. I would imagine circumstances in 14 months from now will go far beyond this.
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Mass.-based neo-Nazi group targets immigrants in family shelter system
Members of a neo-Nazi hate group have demonstrated outside several hotels where the state is renting rooms for homeless families.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Trump voters are one of the most studied and understood political movements in US history. At what point are we allowed to say, "we understand these people's concerns, we just don't agree with them"?
Emotionally, there are two ways Democrats can respond: contempt or curiosity.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
The most frustrating thing about this "debate" is that we already live in the world right-wingers say they want: Vanishingly few trans people play sports; medical providers require long assessments before transition. You cannot appease bigots because their stated concerns are not based in reality.
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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Those of us who have any ability to make the US more tolerable for vulnerable folks by staying, we have no business running away.
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