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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers.

Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

We report from inside the American gulag.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 13h

Sounds good! Enjoy your trip in - I'll keep an eye out for next time.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 14h

Bummed to be missing this conversation tonight! @siddharthamitter.bsky.social, are you doing anything else around town over the next few days?

Arts Criticism: Why It (Still) Matters - Nieman Foundation

Please join us for this free in-person event 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., Thursday, October 9, 2025 Venue change:Harvard Art MuseumsRoom: Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St.(Enter via Broadway entrance, nea...

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 19h

Tosco's - as far as I know, Honeycomb isn't implicated!

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 2d

If Democrats want to stop fascism, they have to stop their cops from beating & arresting anti-fascism protesters in their own cities

Why is that a thing I have to say out loud

13 arrested, 4 police officers injured during pro-Palestinian protest in Boston

Thirteen people were arrested, and four police officers were injured during a pro-Palestinian rally in Boston Tuesday night.

www.cbsnews.com

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

"oh yeah, he was one of the people suing the city repeatedly over bike lanes in conjunction with the gluten free bakery lady and the fancy ice cream man."

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose the answer to *all the things happening* is not to hyperfocus on how much some people running for city council really suck, but. My goodness. Some people running for Cambridge City Council really seem to suck in ways very specific to Cambridge.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Dick Durbin has always been abysmal on immigration, but this is shameful stuff.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

"The rat will leave but the squirrel cometh" is a pretty impressive signoff.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 2d

www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 2d

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As ICE ramps up activity in Mass., this group bears witness

Activists connected through an immigrant advocacy group called LUCE are documenting arrests throughout the state. The "ICE watchers" record the names of those detained to make sure they’re accounted f...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 3d

Don't forget that you can help six families & a displacement camp with one link. The needs—for literal survival—are very high, but we meet this with every boldness and hope in our hearts. The despair can't be ours.

Anything helps. 666/3500 by Saturday afternoon. chuffed.org/project/hope...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

When the moon is so large and beautiful, I am incapable of saying much more than "I really like tha moon."

A harvest moon rising over the Charles River and the Boston skyline

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Cambridge Public Health Department @cambpublichealth.bsky.social · 3d

We're alerting residents of a cyanobacteria algae bloom in the Charles River downstream of the River Street/Cambridge Street bridge.

www.cambridgepublichealth.org/health-advis...

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Health Advisory: Cyanobacteria Algae in the Charles River (Update) - Cambridge Public Health Department

The Cambridge Public Health Department is alerting residents of a cyanobacteria algae bloom in the Charles River downstream of the River Street/Cambridge Street bridge.

www.cambridgepublichealth.org

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Person struck and killed by shuttle bus on Albany Street - The Boston Globe

The pedestrian was hit near Boston Medical Center and the Boston University Medical Campus.

www.bostonglobe.com

Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 4d

We went on a Boston architecture cruise this morning! Good buildings, great infrastructure, and WE SAW A HARBOR SEAL IN BOSTON HARBOR!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

I was considering that since I have a second piercing in each ear, I COULD get two pairs and be symmetrical, but that seemed like it was probably over the top.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

Happy anniversary!! This looks excellent!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

I am very pleased with them!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

Brookline Booksmith!!!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

Frog and Toad Are Earrings.

A selfie of a smiling white lady with black glasses and brown hair, wearing earrings with classic children's literature characters Frog hanging from one ear and Toad hanging from the other.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

The point of these raids is not "arresting criminals" and pretending it is gives them validity and implies that there is a number of suspected criminals they could have arrested that would make this worthwhile. The point is demonstrating power and impunity and terrorizing communities.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, they did all that and got *two* suspected gang members? Suspected? Wow. And two of them? Wow.

Plus a guy with a previous charge of marihuana possession? Wow.

Wow, that is impressive. Wow, when are we throwing these heroes a parade? Wow.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 5d

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh I'll see if I can get down to Union Square!

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