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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
I think Elon's NAZI salute was the end for me on Twitter. I never called it X. But it is time to bluesky it 100%. Find me there at JusticeWithJean @trounstinej.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/trounstinej…
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
Adagio for Strings by the great American composer Samuel Barber 🇺🇸 The music on my mind this week as I look towards the USA from the west coast of Ireland
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
She literally put herself in harms way to deliver this message.
Wow. This made me cry! During his visit at the National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde went off script and pleaded with Trump to “have mercy” on LGBTQ people in the country who are scared. This is what courage looks like.
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
Birthright citizenship is a right spelled out in the Constitution. The President can’t take that away by executive order. We intend to make that clear. We will be reviewing this flood of executive orders and stand ready to defend the law and protect the people of Massachusetts.
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
BREAKING: President Biden has commuted the life sentence of Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier, allowing him to serve the rest of his sentence on house arrest. Despite pleas from supporters, the White House refused to issue a full pardon.
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
Donald Trump plans to try and end birthright citizenship via executive order. He can't. The 14th Amendment is very clear on this, as is Supreme Court precedent. Watch & share my explainer:
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar13 Jan 2025
Jennifer Rubin has resigned from the Washington Post and she’s launching a publication with Norm Eisen.
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
As wildfires blaze in California, we're reminded of the incarcerated people who are deployed to fight them – an extremely dangerous job that pays just dollars per day.
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
The end of the year is the perfect time to reflect on what we're grateful for. For us, that’s all of you who support this account! Here’s to another year full of inspiration and art. Happy New Year! 🎇 This animation is by Andrey Zakirzyanov. 👏 🖼️ © Musée d’Orsay
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
Woody Guthrie’s New Years Resolutions from 1943.
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
Older people now make up 5x as much of the prison population as they did three decades ago. Turning prisons into “makeshift nursing homes” is one of the nation’s most wasteful, morally bankrupt experiments to date. And it certainly doesn’t make our communities safer.
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
A message from ... me ...
A message from founding BINJ Editorial Director Chris Faraone about heading into our 10th year of doing independent reporting in Massachusetts. If you're worried about local and state media, then we're thinking along the same lines. Help the cause at binj.news/give-to-binj/
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
This Christmas Eve, we're looking at an early version of the poem ‘Holly’ which was sent out to family and friends on the Heaney family Christmas card in 1981. A revised version was published in Station Island three years later and featured in their Christmas card that same year.
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
When I moved to MA from FL in 2022, I was wowed by the lack of transparency on Beacon Hill compared to Tallahassee. For the last year, @MattPStout, @emmaplatoff, @lauracrimaldi, + I worked to bring some sunlight to the Golden Dome. Here's what we learned: bostonglobe.com/2024/12/19/m…
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
🚨NEW REPORT: Pushing reforms through the criminal justice system will be an uphill battle in 2025, but we're prepared – and you should be too. Here are 34 policy ideas for lawmakers & advocates looking to reform the system without making it bigger 👇 prisonpolicy.org/reports/win…
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
7,000 authors and book workers have now joined the boycott of complicit Israeli literary institutions Upon its release on October 28th, 2024, the public letter announcing the campaign already constituted the largest boycott against Israeli cultural institutions in history. Now, with thousands more signing on, this letter signals a watershed moment in the international movement for Palestinian rights. Among the new signatories are Khaled Hosseini, Piper Kerman, Ling Ma, Robin Coste Lewis, Michael Rosen, Peter Carey, Omar El Akkad, Chris Kraus, R.O. Kwon, V (fka Eve Ensler), Annie Baker, Brandon Taylor, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Akwaeke Emezi, adrienne maree brown, Bette A. & Brian Eno, John Cusack, Sapphire, and Greta Thunberg. The signatories include winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Giller Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, Miles Franklin Award, and National Book Award—including three of this year’s winners: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Percival Everett and Shifa Saltagi Safadi—and editors at each of the Big Five publishing houses, and many independent publishers. palfest.org/press-release-re…
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Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky retweeted
BREAKING! 🚨 Proposed settlement agreement in our class action lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) & Dublin officials who perpetrated & allowed rampant staff sexual abuse, retaliation, & medical neglect in the now closed FCI Dublin women's prison: bit.ly/dpsc-settlement
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