Heather
@hedy.bsky.social
Vegetarian, Broadway, Disney Adult, Smith alum, aunt, cat mom. Chronically online. 🏳️🌈 She/her #stop the shock
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Heather
@hedy.bsky.social
· Nov 17
About me:
40 something working in the service industry
I live and work in suburban Boston
Mom of @rorytheboycat.bsky.social
Interests: Disney, cats, musicals, Yellowjackets, Mamrie Hart, Grace Helbig, Smith College alumna.
40 something working in the service industry
I live and work in suburban Boston
Mom of @rorytheboycat.bsky.social
Interests: Disney, cats, musicals, Yellowjackets, Mamrie Hart, Grace Helbig, Smith College alumna.
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Check out this cool program available to Massachusetts residents: www.masstpc.org/what-we-do/g...
G.E.A.R. - Gender Euphoria and Affirmation Resources - MTPC
Request Your G.E.A.R.! Through our partnerships with trans-led businesses, we supply gender-affirming and health products to individuals in Massachusetts at no cost. You can pick up your product at ou...
www.masstpc.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Check out this cool program available to Massachusetts residents: www.masstpc.org/what-we-do/g...
Mayor Mamdani should be the strongest argument for us here in MA to get ranked-choice voting.
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Mayor Mamdani should be the strongest argument for us here in MA to get ranked-choice voting.
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Per the People for Bernie Sanders. Breaking: Zohran Mamdani is the next mayor of NYC
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Per the People for Bernie Sanders. Breaking: Zohran Mamdani is the next mayor of NYC
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“The vampire epidemic began nearly a century after Salem. . . . Were witch-hunting and vampire-hunting divergent responses to the same deep layer in the New England psyche?” Read an excerpt from John Blair’s Killing the Dead in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social:
Vampires of America - Pittsburgh Review of Books
During the nineteenth century, pulmonary tuberculosis (‘consumption’) killed up to a quarter of the population in the northeastern United States. The
pghrev.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“The vampire epidemic began nearly a century after Salem. . . . Were witch-hunting and vampire-hunting divergent responses to the same deep layer in the New England psyche?” Read an excerpt from John Blair’s Killing the Dead in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social:
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The NFL must act NOW to stop ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime sign.moveon.org/petitions/su...
NFL: No ICE at the 2026 Super Bowl!
The @NFL must act NOW to stop Trump's ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime
sign.moveon.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The NFL must act NOW to stop ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime sign.moveon.org/petitions/su...
No war on Venezuela: rootsaction.org/war-powers-v...
Tell Congress to Pass War Powers Resolution to Prevent War on Venezuela
Congress may soon be voting on a war powers resolution on Venezuela, and has a responsibility to vote Yes. Tell them so!
rootsaction.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
No war on Venezuela: rootsaction.org/war-powers-v...
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If you see something, squeak something: New ad campaign urges Bostonians to OUT RAT THEM
www.universalhub.com/2025/if-you-...
#Boston #rats
www.universalhub.com/2025/if-you-...
#Boston #rats
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If you see something, squeak something: New ad campaign urges Bostonians to OUT RAT THEM
www.universalhub.com/2025/if-you-...
#Boston #rats
www.universalhub.com/2025/if-you-...
#Boston #rats
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Just out of curiosity — has any — even one — billionaire that lives in Massachusetts offered to fund the United Response Fund? Abigail Johnson? Robert Kraft? They could jointly feed hungry Massachusetts residents for a month while the shutdown looms. Have they even been asked?
Massachusetts can't cover SNAP benefits shortfall if funding stops amid government shutdown, Healey says
Massachusetts can't cover SNAP benefits shortfall if funding stops amid government shutdown, Healey says
Gov. Healey says there's "no way" Massachusetts would be able to make up for lost SNAP funding from the federal government.
www.cbsnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Just out of curiosity — has any — even one — billionaire that lives in Massachusetts offered to fund the United Response Fund? Abigail Johnson? Robert Kraft? They could jointly feed hungry Massachusetts residents for a month while the shutdown looms. Have they even been asked?
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"I'm a citizen. They didn't care."
#TrumpRepublicanICE
#TrumpRepublicanICE
" That whole ordeal - being in a prison, no phone call, no lawyer, no shower - that entire situation threw me for a loop. It wasn't just the arrest itself. ... I mean, before all this happened, I didn't know that federal officials were basically untouchable." www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...
A U.S. citizen detained by ICE is pushing to hold agents accountable
NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with George Retes, a U.S. citizen who was detained by federal immigration officers in July while attempting to enter his workplace.
www.npr.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"I'm a citizen. They didn't care."
#TrumpRepublicanICE
#TrumpRepublicanICE
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🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
AI of a Thousand Faces
What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
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It gets crazier. Source in Maryland Gov Wes Moore's admin tells me they informed Trump officials that the ailing counties were in Appalachia, and the Trump people were surprised to hear this!
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
October 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It gets crazier. Source in Maryland Gov Wes Moore's admin tells me they informed Trump officials that the ailing counties were in Appalachia, and the Trump people were surprised to hear this!
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
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Really happy to see folks in the SF/F community here stepping up and donating to food banks and organizations that feed people. This is @adapalmer.bsky.social's doing, and it's making a difference. You can donate too, even if you're not on the Bluesky SF/F community. Need is everywhere.
Just now donated to casamariatucson.org, a group whose approach to hunger is to give people food.
Homepage - Casa Maria Soup Kitchen
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? – Dorothy Day Who are we Casa Maria is a Catholic Worker House...
casamariatucson.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Really happy to see folks in the SF/F community here stepping up and donating to food banks and organizations that feed people. This is @adapalmer.bsky.social's doing, and it's making a difference. You can donate too, even if you're not on the Bluesky SF/F community. Need is everywhere.
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☎️ #mapoli - Reach out to @massago.bsky.social to ask for a portal to review federal immigration enforcement in MA.
www.mass.gov/orgs/office-...
www.mass.gov/orgs/office-...
October 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
☎️ #mapoli - Reach out to @massago.bsky.social to ask for a portal to review federal immigration enforcement in MA.
www.mass.gov/orgs/office-...
www.mass.gov/orgs/office-...
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New England loves women's soccer 😍
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
New England loves women's soccer 😍
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C. notafraid
Free will rules
October 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
C. notafraid
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The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W
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#tdih 1871, a mob of about 500 Anglo & Latino men rioted in LA's Chinatown. They lynched at least 17 Chinese residents. 💔
Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
Oct. 24, 1871: Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre
A lynch mob of 500 Anglo and Latino Los Angelinos rioted and murdered at least 17 Chinese residents after a white civilian died in a shootout.
www.zinnedproject.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#tdih 1871, a mob of about 500 Anglo & Latino men rioted in LA's Chinatown. They lynched at least 17 Chinese residents. 💔
Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
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Good piece on how much of the "authenticity" discourse can code "authenticity" as masculine newrepublic.com/article/2021...
How Political “Authenticity” Became Code for Masculinity
It’s a trait that’s too often defined by traditional gender expectations. Here’s how the latest generation of women in politics are navigating these waters.
newrepublic.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Good piece on how much of the "authenticity" discourse can code "authenticity" as masculine newrepublic.com/article/2021...
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As someone else pointed out, it’s also in this gif…
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
As someone else pointed out, it’s also in this gif…
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October 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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NEW $250 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway to celebrate the launch of our WhatsApp Channel! If you entered last week’s giveaway, you can enter this NEW giveaway!
How to enter --> gleam.io/g9vTR/250-am...
BONUS entries when you turn on WhatsApp notifications 🔔
Giveaway ends: 10/29/25 11:59pm PDT
How to enter --> gleam.io/g9vTR/250-am...
BONUS entries when you turn on WhatsApp notifications 🔔
Giveaway ends: 10/29/25 11:59pm PDT
October 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
NEW $250 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway to celebrate the launch of our WhatsApp Channel! If you entered last week’s giveaway, you can enter this NEW giveaway!
How to enter --> gleam.io/g9vTR/250-am...
BONUS entries when you turn on WhatsApp notifications 🔔
Giveaway ends: 10/29/25 11:59pm PDT
How to enter --> gleam.io/g9vTR/250-am...
BONUS entries when you turn on WhatsApp notifications 🔔
Giveaway ends: 10/29/25 11:59pm PDT
Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop Trump's book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad.
action.everylibrary.org/rtrdodea via
@everylibrary.bsky.social
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@everylibrary.bsky.social
PETITION: Restore the Right to Read at DoDEA Schools
Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop the DoDEA book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad.
action.everylibrary.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop Trump's book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad.
action.everylibrary.org/rtrdodea via
@everylibrary.bsky.social
action.everylibrary.org/rtrdodea via
@everylibrary.bsky.social