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Jessi Murray
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I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account

MA > WA > MA again
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I understand that some people think Pluribus is too slow (honestly, welcome to Vince Gilligan) but I cannot overstate how much I am enjoying the detective adventures of the world's grouchiest lesbian
pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Me Too Me Furious
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Both the Boston Fleet and Boston Bruins won today. Good day for Boston hockey. #PWHL #NHL
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"

Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My cousin brought this board game (Magical Athlete) to Thanksgiving and it was quite fun! Easy for people to pick up/understand, fairly quick gameplay, and quirky art boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...
Magical Athlete
A racing game of pure chaos
boardgamegeek.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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We live in a time when you can be blown up because you “might” be carrying drugs…

But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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A massive popular gathering is taking place in Martyrs’ Square in #Latakia, affirming the unity of the #Syrian people in all their components and rejecting all calls for partition or separation.
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Cards Against Humanity is doing this crazy thing again www.99percentoffsale.com
Cards Against Humanity's 99% Off Sale: Part II
It's Black Friday, and we're selling a dazzling array of items for 99% off.
www.99percentoffsale.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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One of my favorite Wikipedia tables documents how each year's Gävlebock met its maker en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4...
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Plate picture plus pup who wanted my plate picture (she did get some turkey…)
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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today, both Americas come together
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong

this story delights me every year
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
LLMs will lie to you about being able to open and parse your CSV rather than go to therapy
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A grant opportunity we thought was dead was revived, with the 10 days to respond overlapping Thanksgiving. Grateful we have this opportunity still, and also very tired from several late nights in a row.

Gonna be a vegetable tonight!
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.

We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The New York Yankees have been eliminated from postseason contention

#MinnesotaTwins #TwinsBaseball #MLB
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I can't get over how quickly the window shifted at Google over what is acceptable from its image generator.

Photorealistic 'evidence' of sensitive events was once a red line.

No longer. "Show the White House on fire with emergency crews responding" returns the desired image with no jailbreak.
Google’s Nano Banana Pro generates excellent conspiracy fuel
What are facts?
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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My entry for #WoodpeckerWednesday is this Pileated Woodpecker in my yard a few years ago in #Tacoma. #Birds #Nature #Photography
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM