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Lisa Smith. Writer, narrator, migraine advocate, connector of dots, Masshole. Sarcasm free of charge. She/her. (I block lots of ppl for tons of reasons, rarely personal ones.)
This is good news. Now is the time to deluge your representatives about stopping the OMB proposal forever, not just pausing it.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · yesterdayBREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Sean Walters@seanwrite.bsky.social · 38m agoJazz singer Cassandra Wilson has died at 70. In the 1990s, her Blue Note LPs had her covering popular artists from Joni Mitchell to The Monkees as well as releasing a tribute album to Miles Davis. Wilson live in 2003. #RIPCassandraWilson m.youtube.com/watch?v=5FXP...
All this was timed to blow up after the midterms -- the collapse of Medicare, the collapse of Medicaid, the collapse of employer-provided healthcare ...
Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 2h ago‘Large and small employers are bracing for what looks to be the sharpest increase in health care costs in more than two decades.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/b...
Far-right hate monger Jake Lang skipped his court hearing in DC today and an arrest warrant has reportedly been issued. (h/t @anarchyprincess.bsky.social) It’s as good a time as ever to listen to our “Who the Hell?” episode about this guy. open.spotify.com/episode/0tfG...
136: Who the Hell is Jake Lang? feat. Carrie Schreck
Posting Through It · Episode
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Some of Ken Paxton's scandals so far: —Offered an admitted child molester one day in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy —Impeached by his own party on 20 counts of corruption, bribery, abuse of public trust, and obstruction of justice
Mass. Sec. of State William Galvin says new federal vote-by-mail rules proposed in a Trump executive order are unlikely to take effect as legal challenges continue. “We’re going to be doing anything we can” to ensure smooth voting in November, he said. buff.ly/YU2SYzZ
Confusion, but no immediate impacts of court ruling on voting by mail
“The bottom line is the issues before the United States Supreme Court would only affect the general election," said Secretary of State William Galvin.
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Allison Guerriero security researcher whose information exposed the criminal conduct of former FBI counterintelligence official Charles McGonigal was found dead at her home in Fl. Hours before her death she posted messages criticizing RepJim Jordan, the FBI, McGonigal. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Woman who exposed FBI official for working with Russian oligarch found dead
A judge praised Allison Guerriero for her "extraordinary contributions" to counterespionage ops on behalf of the United States.
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COVID-19 is an exceptional disease. There are posters up all over hospitals encouraging patients to remind healthcare staff to perform hand hygiene before contact. How many posters have you seen supporting patients asking healthcare staff to wear a mask? Please. Wear a #respie.
The dopamine hit that keeps on giving.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5h agoOH MY GOD THIS IS FANTASTIC!
This (from Tom Wood) suggests more than just the typical thermostatic backlash is happening right now. In sixteen months, Trump and Republicans have turned the GOP’s largest party ID advantage this century into a tie for its biggest deficit
Massachusetts State Police arrested a woman outside a Plymouth courthouse Tuesday, accusing her of intimidating a witness or juror as deliberations continued in the closely watched Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Read more: https://bit.ly/4zNY0jD
Seth Moulton lost Salem, the town he lives in, by 33 percentage points.
Crab Rave on the Beach
ALT: Crab Rave on the Beach
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jstor is cutting their monthly free article limit from 100 to TEN??? ten articles??? per month? I'm lucky that I have a real job now so I can just request permission to expense the extra $200 per year this change is going to cost me, but that's not the case for everyone who wants to learn!!!
“It is not too much to ask Jeffries to pledge that the Democratic majority will conduct oversight more vigorously than any Congress in history…Instead, a whistleblower hands Democrats a blueprint of Trump’s secret plan to steal the midterms, and they turn right around and fund his government.”
Hoping Someone Else Stops Trump Is Not A Plan
A whistleblower exposed his illegal scheme to cheat in the midterms, and House Democrats turned around and funded his government. It’s a bad omen for 2027.
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Nature: 'When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes' 'Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.' www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes
Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.
nature.com
At my day job, these are the "Huge House, No Tip" towns.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7h agoThe list of towns that Seth Moulton won is pretty telling: Dover Hamilton Lynnfield Manchester-by-the-Sea Marblehead Newbury Topsfield Wellesley Wenham West Newbury
Time to call Glusenkamp Perez and Jared Golden. They voted with republicans on a rule in the House to advance 4 bills including the SAVE act. Turncoats need to be called out.
David Moore@davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 21h agoBlue Dog Coalition Reps. Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez crossed over to advance GOP-led bills, rescuing the Republican agenda. They did not inform House Dem leaders. The Blue Dogs have a long history of blocking the Dem agenda ⬇️. The media buzz over leftists should look at corporate Dems.
New at Media Nation: Why Moulton's reckless attempt to tie Markey to Jeffrey Epstein doomed his hopes of a comeback. #mapoli dankennedy.net/2026/09/02/w...
Why Moulton’s reckless attempt to tie Markey to Jeffrey Epstein doomed his hopes of a comeback
Even though the polls showed U.S. Sen. Ed Markey beating his Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, by 30 points or more, I figured the final tally would be closer — like maybe on the order…
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There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2w ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Taking a scroll through the detailed results it looks like Moulton not only lost, he lost most of the towns in his own Congressional district: apnews.com/projects/ele...
Massachusetts U.S. Senate Primary Election Live Results 2026
Live results for the September 1, 2026 Massachusetts U.S. Senate primary. Track election results with real-time vote counts, county-level maps and race calls from AP.
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I think Seth Moulton should find something else to do. I hate the anti-Trans stuff. I find it completely weird that people (esp someone in government) think it’s their business - just as I think it’s weird to stick my nose in a straight person’s business. newrepublic.com/article/2150...
Good Riddance, Seth Moulton: You Got What You Deserved
The congressman who got drubbed by Ed Markey on Tuesday tried to distance himself from the base. That just doesn’t work anymore.
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One huge reason this could not and should not happen is that one particular asshole spent $44 billion+ to make that be Democrats' takeaway because he hates himself for not being able to control his daughter. Giving in to that sickness would only infect us, too!
rose@breadnrosie.bsky.social · 9h agoin the wake of the 2024 election there was a lot of fear democrats were going to abandon trans people. i didnt think that was very likely because social liberalism has become the central core of how democratic voters envision themselves. given yesterday, think i was right!
A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.
Planting crops in fields of solar panels is more efficient, protects the plants and helps keep workers cool, study finds
A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.
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Google have changed Lake Ontario to Lake America on Google Maps. The leaders of common digital infrastructure should never be allowed to become embedded within the corridors of power. Not only does it corrupt politics, it corrupts businesses too, businesses that have far too much power already.
Aside from the transphobia, it didn't help Moulton that so many of us in his district had stories about him being completely and utterly useless, in addition to being an ass.
