Mary Patterson
@maryjpatterson.bsky.social
Renter, science teacher, dog lover, naturalist
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Nope.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Nope.
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Does this seem like a good idea?
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Does this seem like a good idea?
Having a blast at the mural unveiling and pop up art event at Arts Collaborative Medford. artscollabmedford.org
New mural alert!
New mural alert!
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Having a blast at the mural unveiling and pop up art event at Arts Collaborative Medford. artscollabmedford.org
New mural alert!
New mural alert!
I don’t even live in NYC, but this is really exciting.
Zohran Mamdani wins!
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I don’t even live in NYC, but this is really exciting.
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Zohran Mamdani wins!
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Zohran Mamdani wins!
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
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What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
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FYI: The J.P. Morgan Chase Fireworks, hosted by Pyrotecnico Fireworks, have been lighting up the Boston Inner Harbor off Long Wharf for the past two nights.
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
FYI: The J.P. Morgan Chase Fireworks, hosted by Pyrotecnico Fireworks, have been lighting up the Boston Inner Harbor off Long Wharf for the past two nights.
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We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)
BREAKING: A Ninth Circuit judge has sua sponte — on their own — already called for a vote on whether there should be an en banc rehearing (which means all active judges will vote on whether the matter should be reheard). Briefing is called for on that question, due by mid-week.
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)
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The marines wanted to fire live artillary over I-5; Newsom didn't want them to, but they said too bad; that it was safe.
Then, oh, look: a shell detonated prematurely. Good thing Newsom had shut down 17 miles of freeway (used by 80,000 Californians daily).
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Then, oh, look: a shell detonated prematurely. Good thing Newsom had shut down 17 miles of freeway (used by 80,000 Californians daily).
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The marines wanted to fire live artillary over I-5; Newsom didn't want them to, but they said too bad; that it was safe.
Then, oh, look: a shell detonated prematurely. Good thing Newsom had shut down 17 miles of freeway (used by 80,000 Californians daily).
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Then, oh, look: a shell detonated prematurely. Good thing Newsom had shut down 17 miles of freeway (used by 80,000 Californians daily).
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
On building social rapport and the importance of the folks who showed up to protest. It’s part of the whole.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
On building social rapport and the importance of the folks who showed up to protest. It’s part of the whole.
A travel recounting (with content warning) that is both personal (to the author) and widely relatable (to my eastern european jewish history and events of today). See also: VT young republicans callous texts
While traveling in Germany recently, I toured the Memorial Museum in Hadamar, "commemorating those who were persecuted and murdered during the National Socialist 'euthanasia' crimes of 1941 - 1945."
Content warnings on this thread, obviously.
www.gedenkstaette-hadamar.de/en/
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Content warnings on this thread, obviously.
www.gedenkstaette-hadamar.de/en/
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Gedenkstätte Hadamar - Internationaler Ort des Gedenkens
Wir erinnern an die Verfolgten und Ermordeten der nationalsozialistischen „Euthanasie“ und laden zur Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte ein.
www.gedenkstaette-hadamar.de
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A travel recounting (with content warning) that is both personal (to the author) and widely relatable (to my eastern european jewish history and events of today). See also: VT young republicans callous texts
This is devastating for trans kids in MA.
1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.
It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.
Community members are devastated.
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It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.
Community members are devastated.
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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump
“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”
www.erininthemorning.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is devastating for trans kids in MA.
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Last Friday, all but two senior staff members in the federal Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs received reduction-in-force notices.
These layoffs are a major blow to the agency that's in charge of the money needed for the roughly 7.5 million disabled students.
These layoffs are a major blow to the agency that's in charge of the money needed for the roughly 7.5 million disabled students.
Trump's new layoffs hurt disabled kids
"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."
www.motherjones.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Last Friday, all but two senior staff members in the federal Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs received reduction-in-force notices.
These layoffs are a major blow to the agency that's in charge of the money needed for the roughly 7.5 million disabled students.
These layoffs are a major blow to the agency that's in charge of the money needed for the roughly 7.5 million disabled students.
The grift is so obvious.
Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts
Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts
Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The grift is so obvious.
Only bots would argue with this point. One could complain about Democrats, but that’s not who is cutting the budget and then trying to blackmail the minority party to vote for more cuts (because even R’s don’t have the votes to do the damage they want).
Let’s be clear: Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House.
They have chosen this chaos over canceling Medicaid cuts, lowering the costs of medicine, and saving health care!
They have chosen this chaos over canceling Medicaid cuts, lowering the costs of medicine, and saving health care!
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Only bots would argue with this point. One could complain about Democrats, but that’s not who is cutting the budget and then trying to blackmail the minority party to vote for more cuts (because even R’s don’t have the votes to do the damage they want).
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Republicans have latched onto the fact that 1.4 million of the 10 million people who lost health care from OBBBA are immigrants — but all of them are here legally.
Republicans are lying and saying they’re here illegally, and then lying to pretend actually the entire 10 million were here illegally.
Republicans are lying and saying they’re here illegally, and then lying to pretend actually the entire 10 million were here illegally.
October 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Republicans have latched onto the fact that 1.4 million of the 10 million people who lost health care from OBBBA are immigrants — but all of them are here legally.
Republicans are lying and saying they’re here illegally, and then lying to pretend actually the entire 10 million were here illegally.
Republicans are lying and saying they’re here illegally, and then lying to pretend actually the entire 10 million were here illegally.
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Who elected Stephen Miller?
Miller alleges Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Obama, and Monaco conspired to sabotage democratic institutions. He claims this involved pre-dawn raids, spying on Trump’s campaign, removing his national security adviser, and filing false charges—all an “unrelenting attempt” to overthrow the gov.
Stephen Miller calls Obama, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan insurrectionists, accusing them of sabotaging democracy.
They keep describing Jan 6 - they’re just switching the cast.
They keep describing Jan 6 - they’re just switching the cast.
September 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Who elected Stephen Miller?
Medical professionals want women to have successful healthy pregnancies. The regime wants to be in charge of your bod and make you suffer. Who you gonna listen to?
Pregnant women shouldn’t listen to the sociopaths in the Trump regime.
What happens if pregnant women stop taking Tylenol?
Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking paracetamol will, scientists say.
go.nature.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Medical professionals want women to have successful healthy pregnancies. The regime wants to be in charge of your bod and make you suffer. Who you gonna listen to?
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It’s Wednesday and that means it is time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!
This week we tackle RFK Jr.’s false claims about fluoride.
This week we tackle RFK Jr.’s false claims about fluoride.
Whopper of the week: Kennedy's Lies About Fluoride Undermine Public Health | Defend Public Health
RFK, Jr comments about the dangers of water fluoridation are not supported by data and put the dental health of the public at risk.
www.defendpublichealth.org
September 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It’s Wednesday and that means it is time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!
This week we tackle RFK Jr.’s false claims about fluoride.
This week we tackle RFK Jr.’s false claims about fluoride.
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Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
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"The State Department claimed...that its focus was on eliminating “abortifacients”—drugs or devices that induce abortion. However, none of the contraceptives stored in the Belgian warehouse fit that definition...Beyond the outrageous fiscal and material waste, the harms are equally massive."
Setting fire to women's health
The Trump administration would rather burn contraceptives than help women and girls in developing nations.
contrarian.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"The State Department claimed...that its focus was on eliminating “abortifacients”—drugs or devices that induce abortion. However, none of the contraceptives stored in the Belgian warehouse fit that definition...Beyond the outrageous fiscal and material waste, the harms are equally massive."
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YES to the expanded service and YES to this framing for it:
"We're doing this to ensure that the people that need to use the system can use the system. We're a public transit agency. We do it to provide a public service."
www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...
"We're doing this to ensure that the people that need to use the system can use the system. We're a public transit agency. We do it to provide a public service."
www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...
MBTA will again experiment with late-night service
As part of a new schedule that takes effect Aug. 24, the T plans to extend evening service by almost an hour on all four subway lines on Friday and Saturday nights and on a handful of bus routes, incl...
www.wbur.org
August 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
YES to the expanded service and YES to this framing for it:
"We're doing this to ensure that the people that need to use the system can use the system. We're a public transit agency. We do it to provide a public service."
www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...
"We're doing this to ensure that the people that need to use the system can use the system. We're a public transit agency. We do it to provide a public service."
www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...
Cancelling mRNA vaccine research and development sounds like a good way to create public un-health. Easy to call and let them hear what’s on your mind.
I called and am getting transferred to the secretary, that direct line is: 202-690-7000
Introverts: it's after office hours right now, so you won't have to speak to a human if you call the direct line now and leave a message.
#DidThisToday
Introverts: it's after office hours right now, so you won't have to speak to a human if you call the direct line now and leave a message.
#DidThisToday
August 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Cancelling mRNA vaccine research and development sounds like a good way to create public un-health. Easy to call and let them hear what’s on your mind.