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siobhan mcdonough

@siobhan-m.bsky.social
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@uaw.org 2320 NOLSW national trustee chair. @cambridgedsa.bsky.social. civil rights lawyer🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. wife girl. opinions my own, not legal advice. join dsa: bdsa.us/joinus

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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday was the final day of employment for eight laid-off union workers at Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). This is how they were informed:
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fundamentally Jews being safe in NYC has *nothing inherently to do* with Palestine. Israel's genocide of Palestinians is a contributing factor to the rise in antisemitism, but that could end and there would still be antisemitic violence and harassment. Gotta disentangle them.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i am curious how a doctor can kill defenseless, restrained people without violating the whole “do no harm” principle
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s raining hard here in MA, and the private equity money has been raining down hard in support of Question 3 (jungle primaries). Remember, folks: The most dangerous words in the English language are “We’re from private equity, and we’re here to help.” Vote NO on 3. #mapoli
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is true, but it’s sorta like saying King Louis XIV was not on the side of democracy—they are unelected, lifetime rulers! their political power is fundamentally anti-democratic. it’s not an aberration when they make decisions to further weaken popular control of government
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harmonyFM @harmonyboyd.com · 25/09/2026
This happened to me I had so many disconnected calls I had to go in person. I still got denied in the end and so gave up. System working as intended.
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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
⚠️ A4TE @transequality.bsky.social is laying off our comrades TODAY ⚠️ In the final days of our layoff negotiation period, management has led with cruelty and threats.
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Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve been unemployed since June, and my claim has not yet been processed. I’m eligible for benefits and have filled out all the paperwork week by week, but I am still living on savings.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is absolutely true, and it isn’t just a SNAP problem. the dept. of unemployment assistance has an ancient website and overwhelmed phone lines. the commission against discrimination takes years to rule on complaints. we need government that works for the working-class.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i kept a ~15 save clean sheet against one of the best teams in my local women’s soccer league tonight. it was really fun! my teammates were thrilled!! as a trans woman, it was also stressful. i want to talk about that part a little bit.
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Cambridge DSA 🌹 @cambridgedsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Last Saturday, we spent some time with our local teachers’ union, the Cambridge Education Association, at Danehy Park’s Family Fun Day. Teachers are looking for support from the public next Monday, Sept 28th, at City Hall. Please show up and let our educators how much we appreciate their work.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
one reason (of many) i voted for fair share was that money would be used to support public transit to fight climate change. using those funds to subsidize individual, private auto use (and bail out trump) is a betrayal
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“we just have to limit the supply ourselves. be smart” would make my eyes light up with glee if i were an antitrust lawyer looking to take on people leeching off of a game for children (notably, i am not an antitrust lawyer and this is not legal advice)
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David Orkin @david4queens.com · 22/09/2026
Thank you to @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social, @jvp.bsky.social, and Congregation Kolot Chayeinu for creating a beautiful and moving Yizkor service yesterday during Yom Kippur. I feel ready to recommit to a year of solidarity and steadfastness. G’mar tov.
Mahmoud Khalil speaking at the Yizkor at Grand Army Plaza, behind him are the words “Refuse Remember Recommit” and on the podium it reads “For the sin of genocide we atone.”Crowd photo in front of the fountain at Grand Army Plaza. AM Diana Moreno, Senate candidate Aber Kawas, and Assembly candidate David Orkin gently smiling at Grand Army Plaza.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 22/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes bill passed which would protect CA providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state. www.ebar.com/story/170505...
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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More to read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/760...
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Azeez Al-Shaair on NFL fine for tribute to slain Palestinian girl: ‘What’s a life worth?’ (Gift Article)
Al-Shaair was fined $11,941 after writing “Hind Rajab" on eye black he wore during Houston's Week 1 game vs. the Buffalo Bills.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
coaching malpractice for the jets to not call a timeout there
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
published october 21, 2024
The Democratic Party's changed tune on trans rights is beginning to echo their dramatic shift in immigration policy. When Trump made anti-immigrant sentiment central to his 2016 campaign, Democrats responded with forceful calls that "no human is illegal" and a platform to "defend against those who would exclude or eliminate legal immigration avenues and denigrate immigrants." As Trump and Republicans have continued attacking immigrants, however, the Democratic Party has largely stopped speaking up in defense of immigrants and ceded more and more ground on immigration policy. Biden's administration has worked to expand Trump's border wall, even pushing to waive environmental regulations to allow them to do so more quickly. The administration has also taken executive action to significantly reduce avenues to apply for asylum. Perhaps most publicly, in early 2024, Biden and Congressional Democrats pushed a harsh immigration bill that Biden himself called the "toughest" in decades.
After Republicans refused to pass the bill, Biden excoriated them in his State of the Union, touting the bill's potential to "hire 1,500 more border security agents and officers" and its endorsements by the Border Patrol Union and the Chamber of Commerce and asking conservatives, "what are you against?" This total surrender by the Democratic Party to right-wing framing and policy on immigration could be an ominous sign for their commitment to trans rights.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
good reminder that the guy who runs this site is a ron desantis fan
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026
saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)
THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE
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onion person @junlper.beer · 17/09/2026
went to my first (chicago) DSA meeting tonight, it was genuinely so great. join DSA, its worth it
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
bipartisanship means the ruling class agrees on something. that’s usually bad for the rest of us
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you see bipartisanship like this in the Senate, always be wary. This is advancing a bill to union-bust college athletes.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
was playing ping pong in a park in SF on my honeymoon and an older guy came up to my wife and i and told us (incorrectly) that we were serving wrong i just thanked him and turned back to playing, but he insisted it was “just the right way to play” i’m annoyed but tbh also amused and,,, affirmed?
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/09/2026
I will probably regret writing this but the underlying subject has been on my mind for a very long time, and it was time. @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Jewish Leaders Celebrating Macklemore’s Dismissal From Ed Sheeran’s Tour Have Lost the Plot on Antisemitism
The leaders of many Jewish organizations need to understand what their constituents think about Israel.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
lemme get this straight: -person on scooter was taken to the hospital -car driver was cited by cops -car has damage on the front windshield, meaning driver hit scooter, not the other way around and we’re calling it “a collision between a scooter and a car”
Boston EMS confirmed a person was struck at about 5:45 a.m. in the area of 1467 Tremont Street and transported to an area hospital. Boston police later said the scooter driver's injuries were considered non-life-threatening.The driver of the vehicle that was involved was issued a citation for violation of the auto laws, police added. Their name wasn't immediately released.
Video from the scene showed a scooter in the roadway, as well as a car stopped nearby with a damaged windshield.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
UK labour consultants are a threat to immigrants, trans people, and every other vulnerable constituency in the US. this is worsening, but it isn’t new. i wrote about Labour’s influence on the Harris campaign in 2024
Where Is This Headed?
One does not need to look far to see the potential end point. In the United Kingdom, the Labour Party, once supportive of trans rights as part of a broadly left agenda, has made a sharp rightward turn and is now leading a government that appears intent on driving trans people from existence in the UK. Labour have maintained a Tory ban on hormone therapy, including puberty blockers, from trans youth, forcing them to endure an excruciating puberty we have the capacity to prevent, but not entirely reverse. There are also disturbing reports of National Health Service GPs discontinuing their adult patients' hormone therapy and functionally forcing them to detransition. When a formerly-supportive party turns on a vulnerable constituency, the consequences are dire.Notably, Labour leader Keir Starmer's heads of strategy and policy were in Washington to meet with Democratic Party strategists in early September. These Labour Party advisors suggested Harris go "on the front foot and launch[] a new policy on" immigration akin to Starmer's
"Border Security Command," and encouraged Harris to think about a "longer-term question of making sure that the Democrats stay on the center ground."
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the point is not just to have electeds, it is to have a base loyal to *DSA* not voting for DSA because they are Better Democrats.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
fuck every dem who capitulates on trans rights, as always. also, if we had a truly democratic political system that allowed ranked choice voting and a proportional legislature, we’d be spending a lot less time arguing over whether trans people should vote for our “lesser evil” oppressors
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
thot daughter or bi son?
me walking up a trailme sitting on some rocks on a mountaintopgrassy field, bison in the distance
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
as a proud Bostonian let me be the first to say fuck Bob Kraft
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
bills defensive timeout, the spirit of sean mcdermott lives on
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A judge threw out a nuisance lawsuit against Northampton over a non-binding resolution by the city council that called on the city to divest from companies linked to Israel. The lawsuit was brought by the Zionist group National Jewish Advocacy Center.
masslive.com
Judge dismisses Northampton lawsuit over Israel divestment resolution
The judge in Hampshire Superior Court said the 10 residents lacked standing to bring the litigation.
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Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 13/09/2026
Please join us in mourning Sophie, a Black trans woman who was murdered Friday night in Baltimore. The vigil is tonight, Sunday, at 7pm, at Calvert and 24th where she was killed. See the fundraiser for more details and please donate what you can. www.gofundme.com/f/i-was-some...
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Donate to I WAS SOMEBODY’S CHILD. I DESERVED TO LIVE, organized by Baltimore Safe Haven
Before you see transgender, see someone’s baby. My name was … Baltimore Safe Haven needs your support for I WAS SOMEBODY’S CHILD. I DESERVED TO LIVE
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 10/09/2026
A call center is employing prisoners to make political calls for a conservative super PAC, Oklahoma Watch reports:
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Who’s Calling? - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma prison inmates are working in call centers placing political calls and insurance telemarketing on behalf of outside companies, earning $2 an hour while a Virginia super PAC paid nearly $600,000 to the vendor for calls supporting conservative candidates — including calls made during Oklahoma's primary election season.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
for those who aren’t familiar—the NAACP’s solidarity with trans people and willingness to recognize “similarities between exclusions of transgender kids and racial segregation” is something i find genuinely moving
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/09/2026
my latest: Massachusetts is one of the safest states for trans people—but multiple hospitals preemptively ended youth trans care over Trump admin threats to cut fed funding. on Wed, trans activists took their HRT at a govt office and refused to leave without a commitment to fight those hospitals.
theguardian.com
Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it
Activists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook office
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
happy labor day, workers deserve democracy in every part of our lives💖
me marching in parade w uaw wheelme being interviewed by NBC 10 Bostonme on NBC 10 Boston with the caption SIOBHAN MCDONOUGH
UNITED AUTO WORKERSlarge inflatables of a greedy pig and cat, representing billionaires
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is true, and it isn’t just in red cities & states. in cambridge—a city that formally bans collaborating with ICE/CBP—if our cops arrest a non-citizen, the state’s 287(g) agreement could turn them over to ICE
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
oh hey that’s me on the left! solidarity with tufts workers🫡🤝
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Cambridge DSA 🌹 @cambridgedsa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Right now, Cambridge public school educators and Harvard and MIT grad students are all starting the school year without contracts. We need to show up for them during their negotiations for livable wages and enforceable protections at work. Come help us organize to support their demands.
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Cambridge DSA 🌹 @cambridgedsa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's been amazing to be part of this campaign with so many of you. Thinking about how we can use the ways we've grown to continue in the struggle, please join us at the monthly Cambridge DSA meeting this coming Tuesday evening. RSVP: bdsa.us/CDSASep08
BDSA Cambridge Monthly Meeting 

Join us for the Cambridge Working Group monthly meeting!

Cambridge Public Library Main Branch
449 Broadway, Cambridge
Community Room 

Tuesday September 8, 2026, 6 - 7:30 pm est

RSVP at bdsa.us/CDSASep08

Zoom option available too!
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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
And if the people funding it wanted to improve democracy in Massachusetts, ranked choice voting is a thing that exists.
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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
so infuriating that trans people worked for decades to get covered by anti-discrimination protections in blue states but when major medical institutions in blue states categorically refuse to give us medical care they freely offer to cis people, blue state AGs just refuse to enforce said statutes
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CourtWatchMA @courtwatchma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What continues to happen day in and day out at South Bay is unconscionable. The continuing use of force by officers involved in a killing! The regular irregular brutality. #mapoli Read more about what @plsma.bsky.social has documented via @masslive.bsky.social: www.masslive.com/boston/2026/...
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Officers tied to Shacoby Kenny death still working with prisoners at Boston jail, advocates say
Since Kenny’s death, his mother and other political leaders have called for the officers involved to be suspended while the investigation is pending.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
this is why grassroots, people-powered movements—things like unions & DSA, based on a membership structure and dues from regular people—are so powerful & important. there’s no switch a billionaire can flip to defund us
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: 9 activists arrested protesting gender affirming care reductions in MA More here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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BREAKING: 9 Activists Arrested After Demanding MA AG Restore Trans Youth Care - Assigned Media
In Boston, Massachusetts this afternon a group of 40 protesters associated with Protect Trans Futures ratcheted up pressure on the Attorney General’s office to take action against providers who have c...
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
thinking about the time i—a then 11 year old umpire for a 7 & 8 year old baseball league—had to tell off a grandma between innings and tell her she wasn’t “setting a good example for the children” she looked like i’d slapped her, but she stopped arguing balls & strikes after that!
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