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@drleightg.bsky.social
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Urbanist, New Englander, Scholar, Advocate.

Background pic: Art from Survival Series by Jenny Holzer (Cheekwood, Nashville)
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Northampton Survival Center in Massachusetts. $100
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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$100
October 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Assessor! That’s the word. This is the relevant portion of QR’s comment in the forum re: never missing a chance to impugn a public servant.
This is an excerpt of transcribed comments by an incumbent city council candidate alleging lack of transparency and also errors in tax assessment in the city of Northampton.
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Icon.

(Cast yourself as a villain)
September 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Thank you so much for highlighting how important Gwen’s campaign is for genuine representation on Northampton’s City Council. I’m her Treasurer and the op-ed writer! Folks can learn more about Gwen at gwennabad dot com. They can also DM me for a lawn sign if they’re a Ward 1 voter!
August 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Last sign collage from Hands Off DC
#HandsOffDC
#HandsOff #Indivisible
Collage of 4 images from Hands Off protest in DC on 5 April. Top left: a white woman is holding a sign with a cartoonish drawing of Trump in side profile with the words “If explosive diarrhea was a person.” A woman wearing a Hands Off! sign on her back is taking her photo. Top right: a lime green poster board that says “The road to authoritarianism is paved with people saying “You’re overreacting.” Bottom left: a flag waving above a crowd headed to the Washington Monument. It looks like the American flag but instead of stars it says 1776 and across the stripes it says We the People. Bottom right: the crowd at the Washington Monument with a man in the foreground wearing a flag that is part US flag and part Ukraine flag with the words “We stand with Ukraine” on it.
April 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Photo collage from Hands Off DC
#HandsOff #HandsOffDC #Indivisible
Three images from Hands Off protest in DC on 5 April. Top left is back of a woman walking in a crowd towards the Washington Monument holding a sign that says “Stop Gangster Capitalism.” She is also wearing yellow caution tape. Top right image: a sign that says “Eat the Reich.” And bottom image, the crowd exiting the Metro on the escalators to head for the protest. It is four crowded escalators left to right.
April 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Collage of signs from Hands Off DC protest
#HandsOff
#HandsOffDC
#Indivisible
A collage of six signs from Hands Off DC. From top left, clockwise: 1) an older white man holding a sign saying “Fighting for democracy is my retirement plan,” 2) a crowd from the back with a “Deport Musk” sign and the S is a swastika, 3) the back of a woman wearing a sandwich board that says “What is DOGE doing with our data?,” (now bottom left) 4) a sign in the crowd exiting the Metro station that says “Congress do your job,” 5) a white woman holding a sign that says “Make America smart again,” and 6) a sign in a sitting crowd with the Ukrainian flag and the words “Support Ukraine!”
April 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Pikachu at Hands Off DC! Sign: “Got to catch ‘em all shouldn’t be our immigration policy”
#HandsOff
#HandsOffDC
A protester dressed in an inflatable Pikachu costume at the Hands Off DC protest on 5 April. Pikachu is holding a sign saying “Got to catch ‘em all shouldn’t be our immigration policy.” Pikachu is a Pokemon character and Gotta catch ‘em all is its tag line.
April 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Top story on the home screen of @bostonglobe.com
Top store on the home page of The Boston Globe shows how far the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped since the import taxes were announced.
April 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Freedom is an Endless Meeting

(Quite possibly the best academic book title)
Cover image of Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements by sociologist Francesca Polletta. Book cover is grey and features an image of American civil rights activists in a meeting. An older Black woman is standing and speaking while others listen. Her body language, including raised arms and a slightly forward posture, suggests passion and fervor.
March 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A few more signs from Northampton Resists Together protest today in Massachusetts. Powerful speakers for disability justice, immigrants and refugees as our neighbors, and women’s bodily autonomy. The kids are alright.
#mapoli
A picture of the crowd at Pulaski Park in Northampton Massachusetts attending the Northampton Resists Together protest. A sign in the foreground says “With fear for our democracy WE DISSENT.” Another sign behind it looks like a tombstone and says “Here Lie the Vulnerable.” A photo of the crowd at Northampton Resists Together protest in Massachusetts, close cropped to show two signs side by side. One says “Let Ukraine Remain Free” and is in the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag. The other says “Save Our National Parks.” A photo of a sign at the Northampton Resists Together protest today in Massachusetts. It is green writing on a yellow flag and says “DOGE stole 20 million from Holyoke.” Holyoke is a deindustrialized Puerto Rican majority city in Western Massachusetts. Photo of a sign from the Northampton Resists Together protest today in Massachusetts. A man is wearing it on his back. It says in black block lettering on white, “DON’T BE A TRUMP CHUMP.”
March 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Some great signs from Northampton Resists Together protest today in Massachusetts.

#mapoli
Sign from Northampton Resists Together protest today in Massachusetts. The sign says How’s America? Not great. Again. Sign from Northampton Resists Together protest in Massachusetts. The sign has four images plus text underneath each, 3 ticks and Trump’s face. The text says, Deer Tick Dog Tick Wood Tick Luna Tick (this text references the picture of Trump) Sign from Northampton Resists Together protest in Massachusetts today. It has a drawn image of the Cat in the Hat with text that reads: I do not like your lying ways. I do not like your hate for gays. I do not like you old phony grump. I do not like you Mr. Trump! A sign from the Northampton Resists Together protest today in Massachusetts. It is held by a woman who is wearing a navy flag with the earth shown from space wrapped around her. The sign says: Diversity hurts no one you stupid orange f*ck.
March 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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@markey.senate.gov We are not just “the Bay State we are the Brave State” and energetically defending Medicaid and NIH. THANK YOU!!!

#mapoli

NIH is also “the National Institutes of Hope”
Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey speaking at the Northampton Resists Together protest.
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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“Neighbor is a moral concept.” Rabbi at protest in Northampton, quoting someone whose name I missed.
Protest gathering in Northampton Massachusetts
March 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Musk’s benefit from tariffs should be in every single media mention.
A screenshot of a New York Times article summary about how tariffs on auto imports helps Elon Musk, since all of his cars are built in California and Texas.
March 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Your daily moment of zen.

#MaternalHealth
Photo of a bumper sticker that says “Midwives help people out!”
March 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Attn @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Technical difficulties webpage from Senator Chris Murphy’s office when I tried to contact him.
February 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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A tale of two headlines
#MApoli #FightAntisemitism
#FightFascism
In the local paper of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, two top stories focus on antisemitism in Massachusetts public schools. One is about a tense hearing about whether the state teachers union’s materials are antisemitic and too “pro-Palestinian,” and the other is about Amherst public schools investigating a middle school student making a Nazi salute.
February 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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It is these 17 states - you can contact your Attorney General if you live in one of these states and ask them to drop the lawsuit.
17 states - in pink on the map and listed below it - are suing to overturn Section 504, federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities to access healthcare and education. You can call or email or write to your Attorney General if you live in one of these states and ask them to drop the case: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
February 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Reuters is paywalled now!
January 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I’m routinely struck by how much history teaches us about the current moment; I know it intellectually but the emotional impact of reading the past. Excellent article highlighting MLK’s words and goals.
Excerpt from a speech MLK Jr. delivered to the AFL-CIO in 1961, talking about our unfulfilled multiracial “dream of equality of opportunity” where we “respect the dignity and worth” of every human.
January 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I know scantily clad female-presenting pornbots preoccupy us. But wondering if other women’s new followers list look like this. It’s been years since I was on a dating site but trust men to turn every digital square into a singles night.
Dudes following me Dudes following me on horizontal layout
January 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM