MacLaren
@suemaclaren.bsky.social
Traveler, hiker, skier, sailor, biker. Lover of data. MA liberal democrat.
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I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
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The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
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🚨PLEASE SHARE 🚨 #Missing 15 year old from #Winnipeg#Manitoba #Canada
Larenzo is described as:
EYES: Brown HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT: 5'7" WEIGHT: 140lbs Medium build
Last seen Aug 6 2025
#MMIM #MMIW #MMIWG #EveryChildMatters
www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingperso...
Larenzo is described as:
EYES: Brown HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT: 5'7" WEIGHT: 140lbs Medium build
Last seen Aug 6 2025
#MMIM #MMIW #MMIWG #EveryChildMatters
www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingperso...
August 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🚨PLEASE SHARE 🚨 #Missing 15 year old from #Winnipeg#Manitoba #Canada
Larenzo is described as:
EYES: Brown HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT: 5'7" WEIGHT: 140lbs Medium build
Last seen Aug 6 2025
#MMIM #MMIW #MMIWG #EveryChildMatters
www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingperso...
Larenzo is described as:
EYES: Brown HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT: 5'7" WEIGHT: 140lbs Medium build
Last seen Aug 6 2025
#MMIM #MMIW #MMIWG #EveryChildMatters
www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingperso...
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"More than 116,000 metric tons of food aid have been sitting in position along the aid corridors into Gaza, UNICEF & the World Food Program said, adding that it represents enough food to feed 1 million people for four months."
Mass starvation is a choice.
"More than 116,000 metric tons of food aid have been sitting in position along the aid corridors into Gaza, UNICEF & the World Food Program said, adding that it represents enough food to feed 1 million people for four months."
Mass starvation is a choice.
Washington Post: 1 in 5 people in Gaza are starving amidst the aid blockade that Israel imposed more than two months ago. If this continues, the entire population could be starving by September.
Imagine if 1 in every 5 people you knew, where you lived, were starving.
Imagine if 1 in every 5 people you knew, where you lived, were starving.
May 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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"More than 116,000 metric tons of food aid have been sitting in position along the aid corridors into Gaza, UNICEF & the World Food Program said, adding that it represents enough food to feed 1 million people for four months."
Mass starvation is a choice.
"More than 116,000 metric tons of food aid have been sitting in position along the aid corridors into Gaza, UNICEF & the World Food Program said, adding that it represents enough food to feed 1 million people for four months."
Mass starvation is a choice.
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I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report
Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.
Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.
Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report
Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.usatoday.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report
Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.
Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.
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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
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Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
April 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
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Wake up America before it's too late!
In a chilling warning of potential abuse by an overreaching Executive Branch, Justice Sotomayor outlined the very real possibility of American citizens being confined to foreign prisons without redress. Here is that portion of her dissenting opinion:
In a chilling warning of potential abuse by an overreaching Executive Branch, Justice Sotomayor outlined the very real possibility of American citizens being confined to foreign prisons without redress. Here is that portion of her dissenting opinion:
April 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Wake up America before it's too late!
In a chilling warning of potential abuse by an overreaching Executive Branch, Justice Sotomayor outlined the very real possibility of American citizens being confined to foreign prisons without redress. Here is that portion of her dissenting opinion:
In a chilling warning of potential abuse by an overreaching Executive Branch, Justice Sotomayor outlined the very real possibility of American citizens being confined to foreign prisons without redress. Here is that portion of her dissenting opinion:
Hands off Boston. Musicians marching by The Embrace — statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
April 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hands off Boston. Musicians marching by The Embrace — statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
Hands off Boston. Proud of my city.
April 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Hands off Boston. Proud of my city.
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Also I hope we're all on this same page
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
April 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Also I hope we're all on this same page
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole
they were ALL wrongfully deported.
I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'
but NO ONE should've been sent there
Trump/Musk are trying to turn the US into Hungary. Let’s respond the way the people of Hungary are.
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
April 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump/Musk are trying to turn the US into Hungary. Let’s respond the way the people of Hungary are.
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:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
April 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
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No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
March 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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The only way someone can be added to a Signal chat is if the person who started the text group--the admin--directly adds them or directly approves their request to be added.
There is no way Jeffrey Goldberg could wish his way into that text group.
Mike Waltz accidentally added him. That's it.
There is no way Jeffrey Goldberg could wish his way into that text group.
Mike Waltz accidentally added him. That's it.
March 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The only way someone can be added to a Signal chat is if the person who started the text group--the admin--directly adds them or directly approves their request to be added.
There is no way Jeffrey Goldberg could wish his way into that text group.
Mike Waltz accidentally added him. That's it.
There is no way Jeffrey Goldberg could wish his way into that text group.
Mike Waltz accidentally added him. That's it.
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March 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
March 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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AOC: I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal… just to see some senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk. I think it is a huge slap in the face.
March 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
AOC: I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal… just to see some senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk. I think it is a huge slap in the face.
You aren’t serving the democratic voters who worked for you and supported you when Trump congratulates you. 😡
March 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You aren’t serving the democratic voters who worked for you and supported you when Trump congratulates you. 😡
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From October 2024: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/totem-and-...
March 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
From October 2024: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/totem-and-...
Thank you for speaking up @billkeating.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thank you for speaking up @billkeating.bsky.social
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Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…
February 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…