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Bex, if you can keep it

@bextraordinary.bsky.social

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🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia. Work: Criminal justice, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction. Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs. bextraordinarycreatures.com

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · Nov 12

-- I'm a criminal justice and public health scholar interested in the intersection of health and the criminal legal system, especially substance use, harm reduction, and reproductive justice. This year I left my tenured Assoc. Prof. position to work for a research & evaluation nonprofit. It's great!

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6h

doomscroll break

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 2h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2h

"... in Massachusetts, challenges to books are most common at school libraries, where parents tend to complain about books that address LGBT issues and race."

@librarianjason.bsky.social

#MAPoli #WorcPoli #BannedBooksWeek

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'A library should have something for everyone': Library sets events for Banned Books Week

In honor of "Band Books Week," the Worcester Public Library will celebrate “the freedom to read” all afternoon on Oct. 11.

www.worcestermag.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

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It is not that I fail to understand the pressures such leaders face. I have served as a department chair at a major medical school, director of one of the NIH institutes, Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine, and as in a strategic leadership position at a major university. I recognize the risk that standing up for core principles might trigger retribution. But remaining quiet is, in my view, misguided. Silence may protect an institution from becoming an early target, but history shows that it increases the likelihood that that institution (and many others) will be become targets over time.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

They come from Indiana just like the guns in NYC come from Virginia. It's an open secret.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 12h

me, a non-religious person (closes eyes): I am praying for Dolly Parton. I would like to put in a prayer for Dolly Parton. Make that lots of prayers. I would like infinity prayers for Dolly Parton. Give Dolly Parton unlimited prayers. All the prayers that have ever existed should go to Dolly Parton.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 10h

The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, has issued a report on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The report highlights the catastrophic impact of the ongoing genocide on healthcare, with hospitals under siege, clinicians working without basic supplies or power, and at least 772

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 15d

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!

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Uncivil Democracy

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 13h

woo boy this kid is on one tonight 😅 "Mama, how old will I be when it's the end of the world?"

MAMA HAS ANXIETY, GO TO SLEEP.

Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 13h

omg I was waiting for someone to do a soc version. I was thinking quant, qual, "data science"

Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 15h

A body double will be brought in specifically to open your queso jars until such time that you are fit to return to duty.

Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 15h

is this a work-related injury

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 15h

I really liked the keyboard bit. Maybe because I have that exact memory 😅

Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 15h

Fairy bread time.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17h

"well what if he was the democratic nominee?" uh what if he wasn't? is everyone else on earth dead? find a better guy

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 16h

Aww, thank you! 🥰

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How cute!

Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 17h

Nothing better than that ADHD new information high 😅

Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 17h

Not to be weirdly earnest but I do love my job. It's a really good job. I hope we hire soon so I can share the wealth! Today I got to sit & read a ton about community resilience for a new project and now my brain is full of sparkles. ✨

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 18h

GOD. 🤬. It's fucking inescapable.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23h

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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