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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 18h

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“…the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 1d

ICE arrested a 13 year old Mass boy and sent him 500 miles away alone to Virginia.

13 years old.

Trump and his enablers are sadistic monsters.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks SCOTUS & particularly Kavanaugh

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 1d

*doesnt!

Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 2d

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #NewtonMA

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

Billionaire corporations are already seeing the money roll in from the giant tax giveaways Donald Trump and the Republicans stuffed into their Big, Beautiful Bill.

What about working Americans? They're losing their health care, and their costs just keep going up.

It's shameful.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 4d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears
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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Nice recap

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 3d

The iconic Head of the Charles Regatta takes place next weekend, in the midst of a toxic cyanobacteria bloom.

It does have to be this way. Let's finish the job of cleaning up the Charles so that it is safe for recreation all year long.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/s...

Welcome

CutTheCrapCharles.org

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 3d

Most Americans Who Rely on Obamacare Live in Republican Areas

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Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas

Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 3d

Totally agree w you

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 4d

“The Troubles” a model of how warring neighbors can find peace

“Northern Ireland is veined with frustrated hope and unsettled grievance, but also proof that a dirty war fought around questions of identity can be channeled into a peaceful, albeit fraught, politics.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Northern Ireland, Gaza and the Road to Peace

www.nytimes.com

Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 4d

“Separating humans from the rest of the living world is false, and it feeds delusions of human exceptionalism, which places us on the summit of life rather than entangled in the web of life.” #WaterIsLife

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/02/o...

Turning outdoor recreation into ‘re-creation’ - The Boston Globe

Robert Macfarlane thinks getting outside is not just about leisure — it’s a spiritual journey.

www.bostonglobe.com

Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 5d

We can’t afford health care for our citizens but we can bail out Argentina for $20B. Thanks GOP voters

www.bbc.com/news/article...

US kicks off controversial financial rescue plan for Argentina

The Trump administration will purchase pesos in a bid to calm Argentina's economic crisis.

www.bbc.com

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 5d

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 6d

“…at a time when democracy is under threat every single day, we can’t let our emotions dictate our decisions. We have to be level-headed and understand what the winnable races are.”

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 6d

Democrats Are Done With Vanity Candidates
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Democrats Are Done With Vanity Candidates

Party insiders worry about running long-shots or no-shots who’ll drain money and energy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 8d

"At Least 170 US Hospitals Face Major Flood Risk" -- including Mass General in Boston.

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At Least 170 US Hospitals Face Major Flood Risk. Experts Say Trump Is Making It Worse. - KFF Health News

As a warming climate intensifies storms, KFF Health News has identified more than 170 U.S. hospitals at risk of significant and potentially dangerous flooding. Climate experts warn that the Trump admi...

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 8d

Great news for public health and the 🌎

“…with Merrimack Station shutting down, there will no longer be coal burned in New England to power the grid.”

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New England’s last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

Granite Shore Power, the company that owns the coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire, said they ceased commercial operations Sept. 12, about a year and a half after they announced they would retire their f...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 9d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 9d

South Carolina judge rules against Trump and then her house has an explosion. Coincidence? I’m hereby guessing NO.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Judge’s $1.5m home destroyed in huge fire as her family is rushed to hospital

Circuit court justice Diane Goodstein, who ruled against Trump administration last month, was out walking when mansion erupted into flames

www.independent.co.uk

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