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Suzanne McGillicuddy
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Live music + travel lover | #WFUV volunteer | #HigherEd #StudentAffairs | civic engagement | sustainability | social impact | #FolkFamily #Bramily
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Time to introduce myself: since I'm from Boston and live in the Bronx I was @bostonbronx on that other app. A #LiveMusic enthusiast mildly obsessed w/ #NewportFolk and ongoing love of #WFUV #PublicRadio. Spend my days working in #HigherEd #StudentAffairs in student support and love to #travel
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Can I let you in on a little secret?

Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.

It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term.

Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”

By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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It's less than a week since a national guard trooper was shot dead in DC by someone the Trump administration vetted. I know it's lame and tired and pointless to say this but... Biden (for whom I carry no water btw) would've been CRUCIFIED.
Trump: "Washington now is, uh, no murders. It's been a miracle."
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Keep in mind: Trump put tariffs on Ukraine and exempted Russia
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Just WOW!
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I’m so incredibly here for this
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."

They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Genuine question: has any GOP member of house or senate spoken out about the Dept of defense and Hegseth threatening sen Mark Kelly with lawfare? Beyond disturbing

Especially any veterans?

Shame on all those who stay silent
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Trump just called for the death of Democratic elected officials.

Absolutely vile.
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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FASCISM AND ITS SYMBOLS ARE BEING ACCEPTED INTO US MILITARY

Thats the headline
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Huh.

Trump dropped the tariffs on coffee, beef, and tropical fruit to LOWER PRICES.

I thought other countries paid for those?
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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This tendency to frame the weakness of our party as some tedious debate over leftists vs. center-left vs. moderates is ridiculous to me. This is his caucus, and he failed to lead them in this moment. ACA coverage is now lost for millions of Americans. That's all that matters. We need new leadership.
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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It’s time to chuck Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Andy Beshear is speaking truth to all Kentuckians.

Hope y'all are listening.

The man and the republicans the majority of y'all voted for are letting you, your families, and your friends go hungry. 47, and your reps are the reason your food banks are going empty.

Bc 47 is a pedophile.

#SheShed
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM