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A stack of books, only the spines are visible: The Child Catchers (Kathryn Joyce) Beggars and Choosers (Rickie Sollinger) You Should Be Grateful (Angela Tucker) Relinquished (Gretchen Sisson) The Girls Who Went Away (Ann Fessler) Lost and Found (Betty Jean Lifton)

in honor of #NAAM, here are some of my favorite books about adoption that you should definitely read. 🥚

Check out this cool program available to Massachusetts residents: www.masstpc.org/what-we-do/g...

Mayor Mamdani should be the strongest argument for us here in MA to get ranked-choice voting.

Per the People for Bernie Sanders. Breaking: Zohran Mamdani is the next mayor of NYC

Vampires of America - Pittsburgh Review of Books During the nineteenth century, pulmonary tuberculosis (‘consumption’) killed up to a quarter of the population in the northeastern United States. The

“The vampire epidemic began nearly a century after Salem. . . . Were witch-hunting and vampire-hunting divergent responses to the same deep layer in the New England psyche?” Read an excerpt from John Blair’s Killing the Dead in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social:

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

NFL: No ICE at the 2026 Super Bowl! The @NFL must act NOW to stop Trump's ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime

The NFL must act NOW to stop ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime sign.moveon.org/petitions/su...

Tell Congress to Pass War Powers Resolution to Prevent War on Venezuela Congress may soon be voting on a war powers resolution on Venezuela, and has a responsibility to vote Yes. Tell them so!

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Tell Your State Senator: Fight the Threat of Harmful Budget Cuts Witches, vampires, ghosts--they are all scary in movies. But the threats faced in real life are much scarier. Massachusetts faces deep cuts in health care access, food assistance, and more due to ...

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Subway ad that urges Bostonians to join the war on rats

If you see something, squeak something: New ad campaign urges Bostonians to OUT RAT THEM
www.universalhub.com/2025/if-you-...
#Boston #rats

Live in town where flagship campus is located.
Oh no, the students?
Jesus Christ, people.

Just out of curiosity — has any — even one — billionaire that lives in Massachusetts offered to fund the United Response Fund? Abigail Johnson? Robert Kraft? They could jointly feed hungry Massachusetts residents for a month while the shutdown looms. Have they even been asked?

"I'm a citizen. They didn't care."
#TrumpRepublicanICE

AI of a Thousand Faces What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

It gets crazier. Source in Maryland Gov Wes Moore's admin tells me they informed Trump officials that the ailing counties were in Appalachia, and the Trump people were surprised to hear this!

(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)

newrepublic.com/article/2022...

Really happy to see folks in the SF/F community here stepping up and donating to food banks and organizations that feed people. This is @adapalmer.bsky.social's doing, and it's making a difference. You can donate too, even if you're not on the Bluesky SF/F community. Need is everywhere.

☎️ #mapoli - Reach out to @massago.bsky.social to ask for a portal to review federal immigration enforcement in MA.

www.mass.gov/orgs/office-...

New England loves women's soccer 😍

C. notafraid

The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W

Oct. 24, 1871: Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre A lynch mob of 500 Anglo and Latino Los Angelinos rioted and murdered at least 17 Chinese residents after a white civilian died in a shootout.

#tdih 1871, a mob of about 500 Anglo & Latino men rioted in LA's Chinatown. They lynched at least 17 Chinese residents. 💔

Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...

How Political “Authenticity” Became Code for Masculinity It’s a trait that’s too often defined by traditional gender expectations. Here’s how the latest generation of women in politics are navigating these waters.

Good piece on how much of the "authenticity" discourse can code "authenticity" as masculine newrepublic.com/article/2021...

As someone else pointed out, it’s also in this gif…

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PETITION: Restore the Right to Read at DoDEA Schools Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop the DoDEA book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad.

Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop Trump's book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad.

action.everylibrary.org/rtrdodea via
‪@everylibrary.bsky.social‬

Photo of a field with rows of strawberries stretching into the distance. Autumn trees are at the horizon with orange and red and green colors. The sky is blue and streaked with cirrus clouds.

Yesterday at the farm

Inflatable characters at South Portland No Kings (lobster, and several unicorns)

2 Inflatable frogs among the big crowd South Portland No kings

Sign from South Portland No Kings: “ If not handmaids tale, why handmaids tale shaped?

Signs from South Portland No Kings

Checking in from South Portland Maine (pop. 26.5k)

Hundreds out at No Kings event

Bay State!

A woman wearing jeans and a T-shirt that says "Don't mess with immigrants" with an American flag draped on her shoulders is standing in the middle of a street with a crowd in the background. There is a smiley face with cowboy hat sticker over her face.

Howdy from No Kings Dallas! Couldn't get a good shot of the crowd, but there was a fantastic turnout despite torrential rain early on.