William of Attainder
@williamofattainder.bsky.social
Massachusetts-based unhype woman. Interests include freeclimbing, ultrarunning and orthopedic surgery. Here to meet Esperanto-speaking backyard Capsicum hybridizers who like *good* music.
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Armed, masked agents of the federal government in the midst of a campaign of racial and partisan retribution against a free state executed someone in broad daylight.
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Armed, masked agents of the federal government in the midst of a campaign of racial and partisan retribution against a free state executed someone in broad daylight.
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BREAKING: I just introduced a discharge petition to force a vote on extending TPS for Haiti.
Our Haitian neighbors deserve to continue their essential work & contributions to our communities.
And if Donald Trump won’t act to protect Haitian lives, then Congress must.
Our Haitian neighbors deserve to continue their essential work & contributions to our communities.
And if Donald Trump won’t act to protect Haitian lives, then Congress must.
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 AM
BREAKING: I just introduced a discharge petition to force a vote on extending TPS for Haiti.
Our Haitian neighbors deserve to continue their essential work & contributions to our communities.
And if Donald Trump won’t act to protect Haitian lives, then Congress must.
Our Haitian neighbors deserve to continue their essential work & contributions to our communities.
And if Donald Trump won’t act to protect Haitian lives, then Congress must.
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I don’t believe in hell but these people really make me wish I did.
January 22, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I don’t believe in hell but these people really make me wish I did.
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If you live in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont save these numbers for the various ICE watch hotlines
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
If you live in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont save these numbers for the various ICE watch hotlines
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NEW: There's a bill in Massachusetts that'd do something really important — give a pathway out of prison to people, often women, who are in prison due to a crime they committed against their abuser.
Several states adopted a version of this very recently: OK, NY, GA. Can Massachuetts be next?
Several states adopted a version of this very recently: OK, NY, GA. Can Massachuetts be next?
Massachusetts Could Be the Next State to Give Abuse Survivors a Pathway Out of Prison - Bolts
The Massachusetts Survivors Act emulates recent resentencing reforms across the country that allow for reduced sentences for people with convictions related to their abuse.
boltsmag.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 PM
NEW: There's a bill in Massachusetts that'd do something really important — give a pathway out of prison to people, often women, who are in prison due to a crime they committed against their abuser.
Several states adopted a version of this very recently: OK, NY, GA. Can Massachuetts be next?
Several states adopted a version of this very recently: OK, NY, GA. Can Massachuetts be next?
@douglassfreestate.bsky.social
“ICE’s proposal specifically requested Ford Police Interceptor Utility SUVs, Dodge Durango Pursuit SUVs, and Chevy Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle SUVs.”
lexobserver.org/2026/01/14/n...
“ICE’s proposal specifically requested Ford Police Interceptor Utility SUVs, Dodge Durango Pursuit SUVs, and Chevy Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle SUVs.”
lexobserver.org/2026/01/14/n...
New SUVs delivered to Mass. ICE office. Locals worry escalated ICE activity could come.
It’s unclear what the vehicles will be used for. Stickers on windshields indicate they’re for work purposes and have customized features.
lexobserver.org
January 21, 2026 at 4:37 PM
@douglassfreestate.bsky.social
“ICE’s proposal specifically requested Ford Police Interceptor Utility SUVs, Dodge Durango Pursuit SUVs, and Chevy Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle SUVs.”
lexobserver.org/2026/01/14/n...
“ICE’s proposal specifically requested Ford Police Interceptor Utility SUVs, Dodge Durango Pursuit SUVs, and Chevy Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle SUVs.”
lexobserver.org/2026/01/14/n...
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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It's almost like the issue isn't training but the fact that these are terrible human beings working for inherently violent agencies.
ICE agents are trained on CPR but "It took more than 10 minutes after Macklin Good was shot by a federal immigration officer before someone gave her CPR." They also prevented a medical professional on the scene from intervening. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents are trained in CPR. They didn’t use it on Renee Macklin Good
Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Age...
www.mprnews.org
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 PM
It's almost like the issue isn't training but the fact that these are terrible human beings working for inherently violent agencies.
This is terrible. I’m no longer a California resident. Why can’t they buy Massachusetts instead?
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
This is terrible. I’m no longer a California resident. Why can’t they buy Massachusetts instead?
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Sign on to the Massachusetts Teachers Association's petition to oppose the elimination of library & civics educations programs, the removal references to DEI, and dangerously revised accreditation standards that harm low-income, first-generation students.
@massteacher.bsky.social
@massteacher.bsky.social
Reject changes that undermine the mission of public higher education
Accreditation and governing bodies set standards for what quality education in Massachusetts will look like and the changes being considered to lower standards and reduce credit requirements represent...
actionnetwork.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Sign on to the Massachusetts Teachers Association's petition to oppose the elimination of library & civics educations programs, the removal references to DEI, and dangerously revised accreditation standards that harm low-income, first-generation students.
@massteacher.bsky.social
@massteacher.bsky.social
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There is zero reason for anyone, especially reporters, to trust anything that comes out of this administration at any level. This is fantastic reporting.
October 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There is zero reason for anyone, especially reporters, to trust anything that comes out of this administration at any level. This is fantastic reporting.
"The National Republican Senatorial Committee offers perfectly cromulent insights into the leanings of Democratic primary voters." — People on here, apparently
October 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"The National Republican Senatorial Committee offers perfectly cromulent insights into the leanings of Democratic primary voters." — People on here, apparently
If it isn't illegal to say fascism, it's incorrect to say fascism. Basically, don't say it. It's a no-no word, which means we don't use it, because it's not a good word to use. OK! Who's ready to make a macaroni picture?
October 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If it isn't illegal to say fascism, it's incorrect to say fascism. Basically, don't say it. It's a no-no word, which means we don't use it, because it's not a good word to use. OK! Who's ready to make a macaroni picture?
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What if we invented true nanobots. It would allow us to fix any injury, cure any disease, even de-age our bodies BUT we only used the technology to secretly give kids cancer.
Here’s Aaron Rodgers talking about vaccines causing “turbo-cancer” and killing children. Rodgers then wonders about the nanobots implanted inside the Covid vaccines.
May 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What if we invented true nanobots. It would allow us to fix any injury, cure any disease, even de-age our bodies BUT we only used the technology to secretly give kids cancer.
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Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!
May 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!
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As someone whose lungs are messed up from growing up in a working class industrial Detroit neighborhood, this makes my blood boil.
Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
May 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
As someone whose lungs are messed up from growing up in a working class industrial Detroit neighborhood, this makes my blood boil.
Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
Pfft. Via an intensive multipronged effort to crater vaccination rates, eliminate food and workplace safety standards, cut FEMA to the point of having post-hurricane cholera epidemics, promote violent unrest, etc., we *can* achieve the great goal of spending more on acute medical care.
60% of Americans have a chronic condition. Among people over 65, it's 95%.
Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.
Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.
Dr Oz says being healthy is a patriotic duty
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
May 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pfft. Via an intensive multipronged effort to crater vaccination rates, eliminate food and workplace safety standards, cut FEMA to the point of having post-hurricane cholera epidemics, promote violent unrest, etc., we *can* achieve the great goal of spending more on acute medical care.
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If you haven't read Damien Davis's new piece about the mainstream media's treatment of successful Black artists as something to be 'managed' he adds "…the institutional framing shifts from recognition to risk assessment." MUST READ!
Who’s Afraid of Successful Black Artists?
This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.
hyperallergic.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you haven't read Damien Davis's new piece about the mainstream media's treatment of successful Black artists as something to be 'managed' he adds "…the institutional framing shifts from recognition to risk assessment." MUST READ!
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I cannot express enough how much these people actively hate the U.S. Constitution and would tear it into shreds if they were permitted.
Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
May 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I cannot express enough how much these people actively hate the U.S. Constitution and would tear it into shreds if they were permitted.
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A big part of the reason for the significant "inefficiency" in government is that the law builds in process and redundancies. It is easy to increase "efficiency" if you are not law-abiding, but the scare quotes are needed because legal compliance is not inefficient if it is part of the goal.
Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.
May 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A big part of the reason for the significant "inefficiency" in government is that the law builds in process and redundancies. It is easy to increase "efficiency" if you are not law-abiding, but the scare quotes are needed because legal compliance is not inefficient if it is part of the goal.
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guy who thinks the Protect The Dolls shirts are about tariffs
May 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
guy who thinks the Protect The Dolls shirts are about tariffs
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Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.
May 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.
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Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.'
We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads.
Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter
We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads.
Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter
April 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.'
We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads.
Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter
We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads.
Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter
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As DOJ argues that federal courts have no authority to order "any particular acts of diplomacy," I want to remind everyone that SCOTUS let Matthew Kacsmaryk seize control of Biden's border policy for 10 months and micromanage diplomatic negotiations with Mexican officials. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As DOJ argues that federal courts have no authority to order "any particular acts of diplomacy," I want to remind everyone that SCOTUS let Matthew Kacsmaryk seize control of Biden's border policy for 10 months and micromanage diplomatic negotiations with Mexican officials. slate.com/news-and-pol...