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seanmartinowen.bsky.social
@seanmartinowen.bsky.social
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PA Public Defender, JD, MA. Fan of currently struggling sports teams (#COYS), other than the Celtics.
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itskylelucas.com
Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.
A sign at a protest reads “you lost” next to a Confederate flag, “you lost” next to a Nazi flag, and “you’re next” next to a MAGA hat.
June 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
seanmartinowen.bsky.social
Lol, this speaks to me. MA, JD.
rubashkin.bsky.social Jacob Rubashkin @rubashkin.bsky.social · May 8
The existence of Chicago Pope implies the existence of MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY.

www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
In some cases this can add up to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees, as it did for a woman named Shelby Hoffman. Originally sentenced to seven years, she served only ten months before being released. A couple years later while applying for a job and jumping through the typical hoops that a formerly incarcerated person has to do as a matter of course, she found out she still owed $127,750. "I felt so tricked and so fooled," Hoffman said. "There is no ladder with them. There is nothing that you can do. Apparently. That will ever truly allow you to be a second chance anything. There isn’t. And they make sure of it.” Obviously this is not really about reimbursing the state for your stay in Hotel Hell, it's also, as so many things in this country are, about creating and entrapping people in a permanent underclass from which there is little hope of escape. Saddling people, and yes usually a certain kind of people, who have served their time, with crippling debt so that they'll be forced into accepting worse working conditions forever. Or end up back in prison again where the state can further profit off of their bodies. As an added bonus, those that cannot pay the fees have also not technically completed the terms of their sentence and therefore cannot have their voting rights restored.
February 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
CHOP has taken care of both my kids, most recently when my daughter had thyroid cancer this past fall.

I am so fucking mad at these goddamn ghouls.
orengur.bsky.social Oren Gur @orengur.bsky.social · Feb 8
Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic.

This is devastating
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 8
These overhead rates are negotiated. Lowering it unilaterally to 15% is another way to destroy science in the US. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
February 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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scotthech.bsky.social
As news spreads about the wildfires in Los Angeles know this: We depend on incarcerated people to risk their lives to fight wildfires. They get paid mere pennies to do so bc slavery is still legal in prison. And once released, their records bar them from becoming firefighters.
January 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM