Ruth
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Writer and ASL interpreter in western Massachusetts. Pushcart nominated poet. Screenwriter. Author of YA novel, BEING FISHKILL #mglit #yalit #mapoli
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its very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon (CTWS) Wildfire Recovery Fund
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UAINE@mahtowin1.bsky.social · 6d agoRelief efforts for Northwest fires: ‘The whole rez is on fire’ As wildfires burn through Native nations in OR and WA, communities have banded together to set up sites to donate and support families impacted by the fires. How to help details are in article. ictnews.org/news/northwe...
Hey western Massachusetts CD1, we can have a rep in congress who listens to us!
Whalen for Congress@jeromiewhalen.bsky.social · 4d agoIn just 30 days, we’ve got a chance to vote for Jeromie to be our democratic nominee for Congress. A chance to be one step closer to sending a public school teacher and someone who shows up for us to Washington. None of that can happen without your help though.
This goes out to my sister who claims to be an environmentalist but uses AI …
Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
Kinda funny how Seth Moulton has made so much money in defense-linked start ups while sitting on the House Armed Services Committee. Not funny haha. Funny weird…..
My daughter: “Never date a guy who uses AI. Because he doesn’t understand consent.”
⭐️ Hey western Massachusetts, this primary we have a choice! We’ve settled for such a low bar for so long. Let’s choose a congress member who doesn’t take PAC cash and who actually SHOWS UP for us! @jeromiewhalen.bsky.social is the real deal ⭐️
Whalen for Congress@jeromiewhalen.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW AD JUST DROPPED True representation means showing up.
My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w agofascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!
LOL Who said you can’t find the answers to life on the internet??
iKE PASTEL@ikexpastel.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is taking me OUT!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Let me get this straight... Trump is blocking $1B in Medicaid payments to blue states over spurious accusations of mass fraud. Meanwhile, he's literally pardoned over 70 convicted fraudsters — including a nursing home owner who stole over $1.3B from Medicare and Medicaid. Hello?
I don’t think I even need to see the movie after this version…
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 2w ago{watching this video of emily wilson reciting aloud from the odyssey in the original greek} Ma'am,, respectfully,,,, 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
There is a Go Find Me for these single mothers’ in Minneapolis who need help paying for their DACA renewal. They ran through their savings hiding from ICE and need our help! www.gofundme.com/f/support-da...
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Hello, my name is Bri and I am asking for support for the Dreamers affected by the Metro S… B M needs your support for Support DACA Dreamers After Metro Surge
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Chabeli Carrazana@chabeli.bsky.social · 2w agoThe world may have moved on from Minneapolis but its immigrant community continues to struggle. We spoke to single mothers who hid from ICE for months, ran through their savings, and now can’t pay to renew their DACA applications. At least dozens are in this situation. 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...
⭐️ Hey western Massachusetts, this primary we have a choice! We’ve settled for such a low bar for so long. Let’s choose a congress member who doesn’t take PAC cash and who actually SHOWS UP for us! @jeromiewhalen.bsky.social is the real deal ⭐️
Whalen for Congress@jeromiewhalen.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW AD JUST DROPPED True representation means showing up.
#ElectionsMatter. So make a plan NOW to vote in the Massachusetts primary elections on Sept. 1. Vote like your rights depend on it — because they do!
Using ChatGPT as your search engine is like using a refrigerator as your air conditioner.
The single most important weather satellite (the GOES-19) for the east coast of the U.S. is down, and there is no timeline for its repair … thinking of T’s cuts to NOAA …
Hackaday@hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 3w agoGOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating
“…definitions of “sexually oriented material” are vague and intended to be as far-reaching as whoever interprets the potential law wishes it to be. The one exception is that it clearly calls out anything related to “gender dysphoria” and “transgenderism” [sic] as violating the bill”
Republican Senators Introduce Nationwide Book Ban Companion Bill, S. 4925
Republican Senators have introduced a nationwide book ban bill in the Senate, S. 4925 and it's a warning of their summer plans.
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Hey if any rich people see this, I need $50,000 to sponsor an event celebrating formerly incarcerated women and daughters of incarcerated parents. The first one we threw was 2024 but I wanna do it MUCH BIGGER and MUCH BETTER. More decorations. More people. More! Now we’re a $1M organization.
Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4
Had to look twice to see this wasn’t a current paper …
100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 3w agoJuly 12, 1926: Publishing houses Henry Holt and MacMillan have begun altering high school biology textbooks to satisfy Texas officials who regard Darwinian science as anti-religious. All references to “evolution” are changed ro “development” and mentions of human evolution are entirely removed.
Apropos of today’s news… who’s the Democratic candidate for SC senate? Dr Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com
SayItToMyFace💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿@sayittomyface.bsky.social · 4w agoDr Annie Andrews has been moving up in the polls to the point where she has exceeded him with informed voters and has been closing in, in general. If you don’t know anything about her, I recommend following her on social media and watch some videos of her speaking on YT. She’s really great!
Hachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history- The book world just got a little brighter! Congrats!
Hachette Workers Coalition@hbgworkers.bsky.social · 4w agoIn a 388-130 vote, we have won our union election with a near 75% majority! A massive thank you to everyone who supported us along the way. Here’s to a brighter future!
![[Update, 12:20 p.m. July 14: Law Dork confirmed that funds totaling more than $5.62
million were transferred to E. Jean Carroll on
Tuesday.
"Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll. Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict," Roberta Kaplan, Carroll's lawyer, said in a statement.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiai4d25iejywhjzddqs2ptuikl7vc4bjj6eci4xricn4qocmqfgqy)
