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Kent
@kentharnois.bsky.social
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Live in Boston Massachusetts with a wonderful wife and dog, three adult children and a grandson live nearby. Hobbies include photography, nature, hiking, and reading. Liberal.
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Check out @progressivemass.bsky.social's voter guide for the ballot questions this November. 🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️

#mapoli

www.progressivemass.com/2026-ballot-...
✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in. ✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception. ❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers. ✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout. ❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. Billionaires would get to enrich themselves, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services. ✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built. ❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies. ✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection. Progressive Mass has not yet taken a position on Question 6, which would dedicate the portion of the sales tax revenue collected from sporting goods, RVs, and golf courses to a nature and water conservation fund.
August 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
kentharnois.bsky.social
Irish Blessing for Saint Patrick's Day:
May those who love us, love us
And those who don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts
And if he can’t turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping!
March 17, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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prowroxroz.bsky.social
Chilly, windy at today’s Citizens Bank protest in West Roxbury MA but 35 people anyway. Some first time Citizens protesters, some first time altogether. Age range 8-78. Don’t fund warehouse prisons! @crowdcounting.bsky.social #boycottcitizens
@de-icecitizensbank.org
March 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
2 headlines from this week
March 14, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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universalhub.com
Massachusetts sets up online site to report ICE misconduct
www.universalhub.com/2026/massach...
March 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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browneyedsusan.bsky.social
March 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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“I never understood the idea that you’re supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn’t something I relate to at all. — I’ve done all kinds of things I said I wouldn’t do and, of course, now I’m glad. Thrilled.”

R.I.P. Diane Keaton, what a legend. 🕊️💫
October 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Funny how that works
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Oct 11
The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
kentharnois.bsky.social
Anne Lamott is such a wonderful writer. I love her books. Optimistic, honest, funny… Dusk Night Dawn. 💙📚
October 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social
Another episode of "This Epstein Thing"
September 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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prowroxroz.bsky.social
Tomorrow is the preliminary election in the city of Boston. There are several good candidates for city council who would appreciate your votes. Mayor Wu would also welcome your vote to allow her to continue her good work. If you have not already voted, make a plan to vote tomorrow. #BosPoli #vote
September 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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sharpdressedman.bsky.social
This people. This!
September 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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helenlane.bsky.social Helen Lane @helenlane.bsky.social · Aug 29
Gosh I love books.
August 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
kentharnois.bsky.social
“a coalition of mostly-blue states led by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is planning to coordinate on the purchase and distribution of pediatric vaccines”

newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
newrepublic.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Aug 23
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA.
I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe.
What's going on right now is not normal.
August 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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corpsepilot.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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feralcommie.bsky.social
Gaza is not starving.
It is being starved.
Gaza is not suffering.
It is being made to suffer.
People in Gaza are not dying.
People in Gaza are being killed.
August 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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collycee.bsky.social
I’m watching a live stream
August 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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npr.org
The NFL has banned the use of smelling salts during games, citing an FDA warning concerning the safety of the substance. Here's what experts say about the effects and the risks.
The NFL banned smelling salts. Here's why
The NFL has banned the use of smelling salts during games, citing an FDA warning concerning the safety of the substance. Here's what experts say about the effects and the risks.
n.pr
August 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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ronhacker.bsky.social
The sickening transformation of the White House is a painful metaphor for what is happening to the country with the implementation of Project 2025.
August 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
kentharnois.bsky.social
“The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” - F Scott Fitzgerald
August 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
kentharnois.bsky.social
Trumps mental decline. thehill.com/opinion/camp...
Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now?
hemselves, that there is a problem, just as Biden’s supporters did for him.    Donald Trump is showing all the signs of suffering from dementia. If this were a neighbor, a parent, or a family frien…
thehill.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM