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Transport Engineer in Boston
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These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.

Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.

They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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The best thing we can do when we see articles about Rahm Emanuel is to not click on them. Show no interest at all. The Atlantic actually paid to promote this article on IG.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Even Republican women at BU want nothing to do with broccoli-hair Florida Boy and his man-baby College Republican supporters dailyfreepress.com/11/15/19/216...
BUCR women send statement disaffiliating after president’s X post
After a recent X post by Boston University College Republicans President Zac Segal supporting the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s arrests of nine car wash employees in Allston, the women of...
dailyfreepress.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Lowtech vs hightech.
Streets of Kherson covered with anti-drone nets.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.

Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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They unilaterally canceled a faculty hiring initiative so successful it’s become a national model. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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They are, right now, considering new rules to limit what we can say in public and share information on our conduct with the police. Now. This is what they are doing. While we console panicked students and try to put our work back together. senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/under...
senate.universityofcalifornia.edu
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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I mean we had to sue them to *see the demand letter*. And when they lost they appealed to a higher court! www.latimes.com/california/s...
Under court order, UC publicly releases Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement, leading UCLA to publish the document o...
www.latimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Sorry, I’m sure I sound abysmally negative in a celebratory moment, but it’s important to know that UC admin have fought us every step of the way as we attempted to stand up for our university. It’s become very clear to many of us that they view the values we cherish as impediments to their work.
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Wow! The lengths Trump will go to just to make Americans starve. His administration has ordered states to “immediately undo” any steps taken to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families.
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Being in Boston 8+ years and only taking @mbta.com maybe once per month (choose to bike for health & reliability) I get to really see the change over time. Impressed by the announcements for passengers on the Orange Lime right now telling us all why we're standing by. Repeated regularly and clearly.
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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As someone who knows a child sex abuse whistleblower whose career was derailed by telling the truth, this is bravery. She could not be sure her truth telling would end this way
hey, another round of applause for @lindseyboylan.bsky.social, who has taken very significant risks and flack for being the first to come forward with stories about what an abusive POS Cuomo is.

She's the one who started these dominoes a-topplin'.

Thank you.
a group of girl scouts are clapping in front of a tree and their uniforms say girl scouts on them
Alt: a group of girl scouts are clapping in front of a tree and their uniforms say girl scouts on them
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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My great grandmother was haunted by the fact that the man who bought her prior home murdered his wife there
A quarter of Americans would be willing to live in a murder house today.yougov.com/society/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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GOOD MORNING
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Apropos of nothing at all related to this, of course, the current admin is really funny (not ha ha) because we know there are all these men who have jobs because the president thinks they are pretty — a thing we do not comment on enough, if I’m honest
Bloomberg: Duffy said he is prepared to close US airspace if the budget crisis makes flying unsafe.

FAA is already short on air traffic controllers, and many of them are working without pay.

More than 6,200 flights were delayed on Friday and nearly 500 were canceled.
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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You can’t gleefully cheer on the demonization and firing of civil servants in the place they all live then be upset that your neighbors don’t care if you live or die. Vogt said he wanted government employees scared to go to work, this is the political environment they built.
There's so many of these btw, NoVa right wingers realizing that their neighbors genuinely hate them
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”

www.transition2025.com/apply
A New Era for NYC
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.
www.transition2025.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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“in danger of”
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Zohran didn't go far enough. They should pay you to ride the bus.
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM