Bridget Eileen Madden (she/her)
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Feel like gettin' salty up in here BIO FACTS: Eclectic Pagan UU Witch | Literary Arts, Literacy & Library Professional | Janeite | EWF | Boston Sports Fan (truly) | Women's Rights Activist | Zealous Ally | Lifelong New Englander, year 8+ in RI
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Hear me out, what if we just all started calling him Jonald T Dump, super matter-of-fact-ly, every single time we discussed him, from now until his presidency ends? Wouldn't that be so funny? 😆 (See alt text for example.)
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Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
Right-Wingers Are Calling For Military Intervention, Violence to Free Tina Peters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
I went to see a bunch of these with my mom last year. It was delightful. She's in a skilled nursing facility now, so I extra-appreciate the memory. 🙂🎄☃️
It's officially December! If you’re looking for a fun, free way to make your season merry and bright, bundle up and head to one (or all!) of these local light displays.
Deck the Halls: 2025’s best holiday light displays in RI, Mass.
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — It takes hours of planning, programming and assembly to deck these halls, but once they’re done, folks from far and wide flock to see these homes dressed in hol…
www.wpri.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I went to see a bunch of these with my mom last year. It was delightful. She's in a skilled nursing facility now, so I extra-appreciate the memory. 🙂🎄☃️
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₊˚｡⋆❆⋆｡˚₊ Welcome, December! ₊˚｡⋆❆⋆｡˚₊
"If you need good luck, my friend
Keep this simple habit
Right when you wake
On a new-month morn
Say “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!”
#RabbitRabbitRabbit #WhiteRabbit
Art by Ontario born artist and printmaker Doreen Foster.
"If you need good luck, my friend
Keep this simple habit
Right when you wake
On a new-month morn
Say “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!”
#RabbitRabbitRabbit #WhiteRabbit
Art by Ontario born artist and printmaker Doreen Foster.
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
₊˚｡⋆❆⋆｡˚₊ Welcome, December! ₊˚｡⋆❆⋆｡˚₊
"If you need good luck, my friend
Keep this simple habit
Right when you wake
On a new-month morn
Say “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!”
#RabbitRabbitRabbit #WhiteRabbit
Art by Ontario born artist and printmaker Doreen Foster.
"If you need good luck, my friend
Keep this simple habit
Right when you wake
On a new-month morn
Say “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!”
#RabbitRabbitRabbit #WhiteRabbit
Art by Ontario born artist and printmaker Doreen Foster.
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“[Eventually] humanities depts will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.”
really important thread ⬇️
really important thread ⬇️
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
“[Eventually] humanities depts will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.”
really important thread ⬇️
really important thread ⬇️
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The investigators asked Clint Massie how many more girls in the church might come forward with stories about him touching or kissing them.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The investigators asked Clint Massie how many more girls in the church might come forward with stories about him touching or kissing them.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
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Here's some news to be thankful for!
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Here's some news to be thankful for!
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When you see Donald Trump's government, a government that works great for those with money and connections and doesn’t work for anyone else, that’s corruption—plain and simple.
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
When you see Donald Trump's government, a government that works great for those with money and connections and doesn’t work for anyone else, that’s corruption—plain and simple.
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
BOSTON—Prematurely assuming he had reached the end of the 1977 rock masterpiece, local man Peter Verran, who thought Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” was over, was reportedly in for the thrill of his fucki...
theonion.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
S/o to @rhodesben.bsky.social & Tommy Vietor for reminding us this Macy's Parade #felching moment
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
S/o to @rhodesben.bsky.social & Tommy Vietor for reminding us this Macy's Parade #felching moment
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If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
From local to national to across the pond, the establishment sector of the ostensibly left-wing parties has been letting every day people down, to the destruction of the party itself. I'm ready for the ideals to be the norm for a change.
Even on the heels of a historically successful election and the largest protest in US history, Chuck Schumer’s caucus caved in the shutdown fight. Senate Democrats need bold new leadership to fight the Trump regime, and that starts by making Schumer step aside: indivisible2026.org?utm_source=b...
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
From local to national to across the pond, the establishment sector of the ostensibly left-wing parties has been letting every day people down, to the destruction of the party itself. I'm ready for the ideals to be the norm for a change.
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Billionaires love it when we’re busy arguing with each other.
Meanwhile, they're rigging the system to hoard money and power while we fight over the scraps.
We’ve got more in common than they want us to think.
Meanwhile, they're rigging the system to hoard money and power while we fight over the scraps.
We’ve got more in common than they want us to think.
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Billionaires love it when we’re busy arguing with each other.
Meanwhile, they're rigging the system to hoard money and power while we fight over the scraps.
We’ve got more in common than they want us to think.
Meanwhile, they're rigging the system to hoard money and power while we fight over the scraps.
We’ve got more in common than they want us to think.
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Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
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I got this excellent image of Jonald T Dump looking up at Zohran with an almost visible thought bubble of, "you are the Muslim son I wish could replace my versions of Uday and Qusay" from @50501movement.bsky.social
Hear me out, what if we just all started calling him Jonald T Dump, super matter-of-fact-ly, every single time we discussed him, from now until his presidency ends? Wouldn't that be so funny? 😆 (See alt text for example.)
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I got this excellent image of Jonald T Dump looking up at Zohran with an almost visible thought bubble of, "you are the Muslim son I wish could replace my versions of Uday and Qusay" from @50501movement.bsky.social
Hear me out, what if we just all started calling him Jonald T Dump, super matter-of-fact-ly, every single time we discussed him, from now until his presidency ends? Wouldn't that be so funny? 😆 (See alt text for example.)
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hear me out, what if we just all started calling him Jonald T Dump, super matter-of-fact-ly, every single time we discussed him, from now until his presidency ends? Wouldn't that be so funny? 😆 (See alt text for example.)
Rhode Island is home, so is Maine, but golly did I love being the 5th of 6 generations in my family to have lived in Roslindale, the best neighborhood of Boston.
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Rhode Island is home, so is Maine, but golly did I love being the 5th of 6 generations in my family to have lived in Roslindale, the best neighborhood of Boston.
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Alcoholic Father Granted Posthumous Sainthood By Catholic Family
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Alcoholic Father Granted Posthumous Sainthood By Catholic Family
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Billionaire companies are bankrolling Trump’s ballroom and it stinks of bribery.
That’s why @robertgarcia.house.gov and I introduced a bill to crack down on this potential corruption.
That’s why @robertgarcia.house.gov and I introduced a bill to crack down on this potential corruption.
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Billionaire companies are bankrolling Trump’s ballroom and it stinks of bribery.
That’s why @robertgarcia.house.gov and I introduced a bill to crack down on this potential corruption.
That’s why @robertgarcia.house.gov and I introduced a bill to crack down on this potential corruption.
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This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
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God this is so utterly despicable. Trump is “he was no angel”- ing a journalist who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by agents of an authoritarian regime.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
God this is so utterly despicable. Trump is “he was no angel”- ing a journalist who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by agents of an authoritarian regime.
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If you have not come forward in a situation like this, it's almost impossible to explain how difficult it is to do so. These women are so inexpressibly brave. I thank them for their fathomless moral courage.
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse have released a PSA urging Congress to make the records public, produced by World Without Exploitation.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you have not come forward in a situation like this, it's almost impossible to explain how difficult it is to do so. These women are so inexpressibly brave. I thank them for their fathomless moral courage.
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A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!
November 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!