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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · Aug 22

my incredible friend ivy set this up to help nuno. i have reached the max reimbursement from my pet insurance and we still have radiation to go. if you can help i will be so very grateful. if not. just your thoughts are appreciated. thanks. www.gofundme.com/f/nuno-needs...

Donate to Nuno Needs Your Help for Recovery, organized by Ivy Nelson

Dear Friends, My friend Maura Johnston's beloved cat Nuno was recently diagnosed with… Ivy Nelson needs your support for Nuno Needs Your Help for Recovery

www.gofundme.com

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 12h

related: bsky.app/profile/vija...

vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 12h

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 12h

they are scum and anyone cooperating with them is complicit

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 1d

turns out the answer to “are they malicious or just stupid” — a question often asked about big media boss types — is “yes, but sliiiightly more the former”

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 1d

lmao

maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 1d

bananas and pineapples together at last

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

Another one for the list

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 1d

butt watch… feels appropriate

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

I love this image.

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

❤️🔥

maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

he followed it up with “i’m yours”???

maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

also i can’t believe someone was listening to “H•A•M” in 2025

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

yes i’m listening to it again

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

new watch alert!!!

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

2025 kanye can’t even ruin it youtu.be/xNH43Xf24nQ?...

Funkmaster Flex Premieres Otis on Hot 97, July 20, 2011 FULL

YouTube video by DeezWare

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

“H•A•M” came on in my uber tonight and i had the pleasure of telling the driver about funk flex’s “otis” premiere

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

well that’s bluesky for you

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t. kendal mintcake @mintcaketime.bsky.social · 2d

congratulations to the 2025 nobel peace prize winner, Ugly Kid Joe Logo

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 2d

“Communication must be freed from the misguided thinking that corrupts it, from unfair competition and the degrading practice of so-called clickbait.” look the catholic church is definitely not without its huge issues but i like aspects of this guy’s style

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 3d

Enough with the clickbait, Pope Leo told news organizations today, urging journalists to fight against “junk” information and help people to distinguish between fact and fiction.