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researcher — wrongful convictions and faulty forensics. neuroconforming less each day. into my plants, vhs, kicking it with my kid, and US politics. questionable music taste. new england coded. she/her. if you know me irl, no you don’t.

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Boston Commons on the 4th today (from r/boston)

I was 20 and my college boyfriend came to visit. My mom made him sleep on the couch. I fell asleep watching a movie next to him. She came out at 3 am, ripped the blanket off us, and accused us of fucking right then and there, despite being clothed. Embarrassing and didn’t teach me responsibility.

This seems like a sweet story about a teen couple using a PowerPoint presentation to persuade their parents to let them have a (no sex!) sleepover. But it also says a lot about how our culture of fear around teens and sex helped erode the US safety net. 1/ www.scarymommy.com/parenting/te...

Teen Couple Ask Parents' Permission To Have A Sleepover With Endearing Slideshowwww.scarymommy.com The couple had just turned 18 years old and gave a pretty compelling argument as to why they could be trusted to have a sleepover.

my cats have been amazing nurses, though, much better than the hospital’s following me to the bathroom and peeking at my puke with wide eyes straight back to sleep at my side when i’m quiet again

it’s been horrifically unpleasant but i’m (barely) living proof that you can lose ten pounds in four days if stress destroys your body enough

chronically online girlfriend is forced offline due to illness; makes that boyfriend’s problem. more at 11.

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ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

going on hour four at the local emergency room which has brought questions such as “what is an insulin pump?” and “you wear it all day? did you let it give you your dose yet today, then?”

so my doctor put me on a secondary insulin to help with my type 1 diabetes and i’m sooo sick like just take me to my grave pls i haven’t eaten in almost 48 hours and she’s like “ok yep not great, hopefully that passes” bc it’s a once weekly injectable lmao

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"The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidency" by Kate Shaw" Gift link!

Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

fweedom 👉👈🥺

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“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards. The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awardswww.msnbc.com The draconian plan supported by conservative groups to dismantle the government if Donald Trump is elected was the talk of the Black Entertainment Television Awards.

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For the same reason handlers of search & rescue dogs occasionally have volunteers put themselves in a position to be "found" alive in a grim disaster scene -- to keep up morale so that these dogs keep working -- I give you this screen shot from the BOP showing the current location of Steve Bannon.

I hate that we’re at a point where I’m actually happy to see my government tell doctors not to let me die, like “it’s not nothing!!”

In wake of Supreme Court ruling, Biden administration tells doctors to provide emergency abortionsapnews.com A copy of the letter was obtained by the Associated Press. It comes after the Supreme Court failed to settle a legal dispute.

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Meanwhile, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch in today's orders list saying the Occupational Health and Safety Administration is unconstitutional in its entirety www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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did anyone catch the protest-bashing line in gorsuch's homelessness decision? "It makes no difference whether the defendant is a person experiencing homelessness, on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building"

hey guardian, what the fuck are you doing

the panic in my one intern’s eyes as she realized the other intern overslept and now we were trapped attempting smalltalk over zoom same, girl.

apartment gossip blew in that the missing ceiling is the work of our current landlord’s ex husband, who she won the house from in spite after he cheated on her (real ted lasso situation here). he apparently got drunk and ripped it out “for the rustic look.”

ok but hearing gossip from the one neighbor she trusts (who also hates her) that the fire department lit her up for violations including an apartment that doesn’t have a ceiling. it’s just the top apartment’s floor. bb this place is getting condemned, mark my words.

just immediately log off today. i promise you.

Trump seeks to set aside his New York hush money guilty verdict after Supreme Court immunity ruling

Trump seeks to set aside his New York hush money guilty verdict after Supreme Court immunity rulingapnews.com His lawyers argue that a Supreme Court decision confirmed that prosecutors should have been precluded from introducing some evidence they said constituted official presidential acts.

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General PSA: If abusers didn't understand how to be genuinely friendly and how to cultivate allies, THEY WOULDN'T BE DANGEROUS. There is NO SHAME in being misled by an abuser, or being friends with someone you don't know is abusive. The only shame is in enabling them once you know better!

a daily pride parade ending at the alito’s that with eight people each wearing one brightly colored letter spelling out VERGOGNA in rainbow but the V is a giant fabulously textured vagina confetti canons explode spewing tiny penises all over the lawn i’m just creatively seething at this point

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What can you do now? Read "On Tyranny," especially the first bit: "Do not comply in advance." If you belong to any organized social group of any kind, ask everyone "do you have a voting plan for November? Can you ask 3 people to make a voting plan?" Counter "my vote doesn't matter" talk.

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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office. I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs. This morning, on that same post, was this picture.

feels like we fought really hard to get out from under one king and oopsie! nine kings

the monday from hell hat trick - surprise landlord visit - scotus says presidents are kings - execution date set in wrongful conviction case we’re working on feeeeliiiin’ kiiiiinda staaaabbyyyy

Karen Read trial ends with a divided jury and mistrial - best you can hope for with a judge ruling against the defense at every turn and shoddy, non-linear evidence from the prosecution on a cop killer case.

Watch Live: Karen Read murder trial ends in mistrial with "starkly divided" hung jurywww.cbsnews.com The Karen Read murder trial ended Monday after a "starkly divided" hung jury failed to reach a verdict, forcing Judge Beverly Cannone to declare a mistrial.

WE ARE ON A BREAK FROM THE LAW

my coworkers refuse to work and therefore, so do i

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Baby llama?