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Logan Airport wouldn't run without our SEIU 32BJ workers who take pride & dignity in what they do.
I was proud to join them to demand the wages, benefits, and working conditions they deserve.
Their work is essential and their livelihoods are important. It's what they're owed.
I was proud to join them to demand the wages, benefits, and working conditions they deserve.
Their work is essential and their livelihoods are important. It's what they're owed.
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Logan Airport wouldn't run without our SEIU 32BJ workers who take pride & dignity in what they do.
I was proud to join them to demand the wages, benefits, and working conditions they deserve.
Their work is essential and their livelihoods are important. It's what they're owed.
I was proud to join them to demand the wages, benefits, and working conditions they deserve.
Their work is essential and their livelihoods are important. It's what they're owed.
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Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
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I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this
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Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without medication. buff.ly/1EpCowD
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Transplantation of chemically induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived islets under abdominal anterior rectus sheath in a type 1 diabetes patient
Chemically induced stem-cell-derived islets were transplanted beneath the abdominal anterior rectus sheath in one patient with type 1 diabetes, resulting in tolerable safety and promising restoration…
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without medication. buff.ly/1EpCowD
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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New: A site licensing Trump's name is selling merch with the presidential seal — including a $20 beer-pong set with “Presidential themed balls.”
Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.
me, for @forbes.com
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Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.
me, for @forbes.com
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Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set Could Violate Federal Law
A site affiliated with Lee Greenwood sells merchandise with the seal—such as a $20 beer pong set with “Presidential themed balls”—and pays licensing fees to a Trump LLC.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New: A site licensing Trump's name is selling merch with the presidential seal — including a $20 beer-pong set with “Presidential themed balls.”
Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.
me, for @forbes.com
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Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.
me, for @forbes.com
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new from me this morning www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show
Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system and his friendships with powerful people
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
new from me this morning www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible
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Besides Marjorie Taylor Greene, it's telling that Dirty Donald's attacking Republicans who're calling for the release of the Epstein files. It's what a desperate pedophile would do. Trump is dividing the GOP into two sides: Republicans who support pedophiles and those who do not.
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Besides Marjorie Taylor Greene, it's telling that Dirty Donald's attacking Republicans who're calling for the release of the Epstein files. It's what a desperate pedophile would do. Trump is dividing the GOP into two sides: Republicans who support pedophiles and those who do not.
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This is what they've done.
This is super cool bc:
1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list
2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them
3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list
2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them
3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
CDC panel votes to limit who is eligible for this fall's Covid vaccine
Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.
www.nbcnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is what they've done.
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
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can’t really express the level of contempt i have for what is just a form of solipsism. “the things that annoy me are the only things that exist and also the worst things imaginable”
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
can’t really express the level of contempt i have for what is just a form of solipsism. “the things that annoy me are the only things that exist and also the worst things imaginable”
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in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
What Happens When an Empire Falls? This Novel Has Some Ideas.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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Some good news!!!
Congratulations MA! #FreedomtoRead bill with protections for authors now moves to the House! Call your MA reps!
Great work @massaabb.bsky.social ! malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
Great work @massaabb.bsky.social ! malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
Senate Passes Bill Guarding Against Politically Motivated Book Bans
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><em>Bill guards against political bias in library decisions, protects librarians from reprisals</em></p>
<p><strong>(BOSTON—11/13/2025) </strong>The Massachus...
malegislature.gov
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Some good news!!!
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Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
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Every time I get a brain MRI scan the doc says “everything looks perfect, see you in three weeks”
so trump just out there getting standard MRI scans as a standard part of the standard multiple annual check ups a president gets in the first ten months
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Every time I get a brain MRI scan the doc says “everything looks perfect, see you in three weeks”
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Congratulations, Democrats. You know the Trumpists are unhinged homicidal maniacs, but you just keep handing them knives.
BREAKING NEWS: Senators quietly put language into the shutdown deal helping their donors block rules to prevent food contamination & foodborne illnesses at farms & restaurants, according to bill text reviewed by @levernews.com.
The provisions come amid an explosion of foodborne illnesses.
The provisions come amid an explosion of foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
www.levernews.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Congratulations, Democrats. You know the Trumpists are unhinged homicidal maniacs, but you just keep handing them knives.
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I can’t remember a plausibly threatened invasion by the US that has received less attention and alarm by the press.
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I can’t remember a plausibly threatened invasion by the US that has received less attention and alarm by the press.
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‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
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"Accounts are hosted across numerous Mastodon instances and bridged into Bluesky, creating the appearance of independent sources. Activity on Bluesky helped reveal aggregate patterns, identical usernames, posting schedules, and content themes ..."
Since 15 Sept IFTAS has tracked a network of over 300 Mastodon accounts engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narratives:
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Accounts are hosted across numerous Mastodon instances and bridged into Bluesky, creating the appearance of independent sources. Activity on Bluesky helped reveal aggregate patterns, identical usernames, posting schedules, and content themes ..."
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They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
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This argument that we need to adopt fascism-lite to prevent electing fascists is a big ahistorical lie, and it has a lot of currency in Canada too. This will not solve any problems fascists blame on refugees, while it concedes the idea that they're correct to blame them. This is how you get ICE.
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This argument that we need to adopt fascism-lite to prevent electing fascists is a big ahistorical lie, and it has a lot of currency in Canada too. This will not solve any problems fascists blame on refugees, while it concedes the idea that they're correct to blame them. This is how you get ICE.
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For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.