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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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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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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MA has 9 statewide ballot questions this year. Be an informed voter! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/2026ballot/
This November, Massachusetts will see *9* statewide ballot questions, a historic number. But we’ve got you covered. 

✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in.

✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception. 

❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers. 

✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout. 

❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services. 

⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones. 

✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built. 

❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies. 

✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.
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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Massachusetts has a very long ballot this November. The last one, question 9, is especially weird. For that is for that one, and only that one, we have to vote “yes” to keep things the way they are.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Okay yeah see I think we should be a lot more worried about this kind of shit than the killer machine god and not just because this is a clear concrete thing that’s happening right now
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I also think it is great that the kind of mega rich guy who mostly operates behind the scenes in these situations is having his name blasted everywhere and framed, correctly, as the person who actually made the call not to exculpate Ed, but as a reminder of how business decisions in music get made
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I say this for anyone who doesn’t know, because a lot of people still don’t - Palestine is serious business in Ireland. It’s real in ways it is nowhere else in the West, & after what Sheeran did an Irish person couldn’t work with him & go back to Ireland. Fair play indeed.
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J.J. @jdotj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As the parent of a 14-yr old who is also in AP classes, let me be clear here: this kid is 15 like I’m a 25-yr old blonde influencer.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can't get numb to this: it's frightening how Trump et al have normalized lawless behavior by govt officials. US govt cruelty to immigrants is not remotely new, but people like Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, moved the Overton window on accepting scandalous outrages. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 28/01/2025
Sorry to be A Geography Bitch about this but want to remind people that Google Maps has been doing dodgy shit labeling politically sensitive places differently depending on location for a long time, this is just the first time it's happening to a place related to the USA
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Moulton repeated this smear every day for the last month. 3 days ago he even told a teenager this. The student of course found out that it was false. For close to a year he has lied about and attacked a trusted public servant with no positive message of his own. I look forward to his irrelevance.
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Seth Moulton visited a high school yesterday and a student wrote on Reddit about meeting him. Moulton advocated for Flock cameras and told the teenager to look up Ed Markey in the Epstein files.
Screenshot of reddit post: Experience Meeting Seth Moulton for the First Time as a Teenager. Text is too long for alt text but link is in reply.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did what literally no techbro billionaire would even think of doing: filling her life with good deeds that make people mourn her when she dies. Not one of these assholes would even think of this, they are all right now completely and honestly baffled by the outpouring of love for her.
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Andy Tulin (Subscribe to The Post Presence version) @andytulin.net · 24/08/2026
“Guests who choose not to adhere to this Code of Conduct will be subject to penalty including, but not limited to, ejection, without refund, revocation of their season tickets and/or prevention from attending future games.” Enforce your rules @wnba.com www.wnba.com/fan-code-of-...
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Fan Code of Conduct
FAN CODE OF CONDUCT The Women’s National Basketball Association is committed to creating a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable sports and entertainment experience. WNBA fans have a right to expect an env...
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I have destroyed lots of books. They won’t make an impact on the state of community knowledge. What is being described here? You are watching us lose knowledge in hyperdrive. You should not be chill about this.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Once again and over and over until it gets through: archives and libraries scanning something for preservation is an entirely different story than private citizens and companies doing it, because there are strict ethical standards for the former and the latter consider them annoyances.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On this date in 1920, Tennessee state legislator Harry Burn, who was 24, listened to his mother and cast the deciding vote for ratification of the 19th amendment.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026
14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I think we can safely assume this is about the UK’s easily exploited libel laws, and a certain wizard author’s vast bank accounts. But I think it sucks. Amnesty is a huge, internationally recognized organization. Make her sue you! Defend yourself! You’re right!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2026
Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor. Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded. (Published March)
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She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.
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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 01/07/2026
Again, I don’t believe in shame as a social control, AND you know who is not getting enough blame for the utter cowardice of folding like a cheap beach umbrella? Charlie Baker. Dude SIGNED legislation in support of trans athletes as MA governor. But as NCAA czar he sold out 11 trans athletes.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...
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Daughters of the American Revolution Live Up to Their Name by Rejecting Ban on Trans Women
“Transgender Americans are patriots, family members, volunteers, historians, and descendants of Revolutionary War ancestors just like anyone else.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is a “color-blind” Constitution that the architects of Jim Crow could love. Many of the devices employed during segregation, such as poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests, were superficially race-neutral. In fact, slavery itself could conceivably be race-neutral—after all, one does not need to be a racist to seek cheap labor for a profitable business!
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Nanya Bzniz 💗 💜 💙 @nanyabzniz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
But even here in the US people die during heat waves, so I don't know where these fools find the nerve to spout off! Some people just love attacking powerless individuals over systematic issues; real "what was she wearing" vibes, just pretending bad things only happen to those who deserve it. 😡
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I was thinking this about Haiti and Scotland here in Massachusetts.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this
A photo from the inside of the mutual aid tent to benefit the families of detainees at Delaney Hall. Boxes of donations, clothes  and materials are strewn all over the floor, documents and boxes open and thrown everywhere. NJ state police are evil.
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Transgender Menace, wishing ill on JK Rowling @transmenacetcf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
More people need to wake up to the active trans genocide in this country. It’s never talked about anywhere.
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Boring Manager Rob 🅅 @bourboninexile.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Nothing is inevitable
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I was honestly just thinking this yesterday about our state budget and school funding. I know that inflation is more difficult to explain than a per pupil increase, #mapoli, but it isn't *that* much harder, and gosh, it's what's actually happening rather than making a bigger mess. #MAEdu
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/04/2026
Ruth Bader Ginsburg told her children’s school to call her husband, she could not come, she was a literal Justice at the Supreme Court and had oral arguments deciding issues of national importance and nonetheless she would come back from oral argument and they’d have called her and not her husband.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’ve started to get irrationally annoyed when American toy makers/pattern designers etc put hedgehogs AND raccoons in their “woodland creatures” designs. Pick one! Hedgehogs are British! Raccoons are American!
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026
All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/04/2026
With Tax Day coming up, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/03/2026
I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.
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Proloe 🌙🧚‍♀️ Very Fairy Vtuber @proloe.gay · 28/02/2026
I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/03/2026
This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.
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