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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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.
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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...
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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
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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.
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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...
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This will mean the end of the NIH - the world’s most successful biomedical enterprise, driving a 20 year increase in lifespan and 99% of all our medicines. There is no justification in this document for WHY? Is Congress going to let them do this solely for tax cuts for corporations and billionaires?
The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
April 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This will mean the end of the NIH - the world’s most successful biomedical enterprise, driving a 20 year increase in lifespan and 99% of all our medicines. There is no justification in this document for WHY? Is Congress going to let them do this solely for tax cuts for corporations and billionaires?
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Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.
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April 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.
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NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Absolutely not an exaggeration. High crimes and misdemeanors committed and endorsed in the Oval Office on live television.
The president is conducting a press event with the primary purpose of flouting the decisions of the courts and the letter and spirit of U.S. law. It is a press event to celebrate the Constitutional crisis and serial violation of human rights he has set in motion.
COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
April 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Absolutely not an exaggeration. High crimes and misdemeanors committed and endorsed in the Oval Office on live television.
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You have a club. You’re on 15. But so is James Harrison. He also has a club. His job is to stop you from making 15. You have a helmet and some padding. Good luck.
April 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
You have a club. You’re on 15. But so is James Harrison. He also has a club. His job is to stop you from making 15. You have a helmet and some padding. Good luck.
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Imagine how much more exciting golf would be if it was a contact sport.
April 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Imagine how much more exciting golf would be if it was a contact sport.
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We’re fighting antisemitism on college campuses. That’s why we pulled Holocaust history from the library of the Naval Academy but left two copies of Mein Kampf.
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We’re fighting antisemitism on college campuses. That’s why we pulled Holocaust history from the library of the Naval Academy but left two copies of Mein Kampf.
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I assume that representing AEA detainees in habeas counts towards the $100 million in pro bono under the "Ensuring fairness in our Justice System" category?
April 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I assume that representing AEA detainees in habeas counts towards the $100 million in pro bono under the "Ensuring fairness in our Justice System" category?
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Good morning. Donald Trump was a 10-year study conducted by Harvard University to design a policy platform opposed by 100% of economists. We have now reached the successful conclusion of that study. Thank you for your time.
April 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Good morning. Donald Trump was a 10-year study conducted by Harvard University to design a policy platform opposed by 100% of economists. We have now reached the successful conclusion of that study. Thank you for your time.
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.