😕 How do our legislators hold companies accountable when they are receiving donations from those exact companies?

🤔 Every NECTA member falls outside this definition. The age verification mandates, addictive design bans, and fines up to $5,000/violation apply only to social media platforms.

👉 H.5366, Ch 93M, Section 1, lines 173-177 defines “social media platform” as a service displaying content “primarily generated by users.” It excludes “email, cloud storage, SMS, MMS, RCS or similar text messaging telecommunications services or document viewing, sharing or collaboration services.”

🤬 As @act-on-mass.bsky.social reported "The social media ban was not filed as a bill in our legislature and did not receive a public hearing."
🤔 What is the New England Connectivity and Telecommunications Association's (NECTA) role in all this?
💸 Follow the money - who did they donate to?
#mapoli

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Rotunda of the US Capitol where people are standing, many in military camouflage, holding signs that read "End the War on Iran" among other messages.

The #BraveOfUS stand up and confront power and that's exactly what @vetsaboutface.bsky.social is doing with 150 veterans and active duty military in the Capitol rotunda right now to demand Congress end this criminal war on Iran.

I believe it would be beneficial to American if we were to take away the lifetime healthcare and pensions for elected representatives and made them find healthcare and benefits just like their constituents
We have created lifetime of benefits for a job that was not meant to be a career

Term limits!

it's DISCOVERY TIME

#BoatOfCruelFools

From the Stow Minutemen marching to Concord to Burlington where good people are exercising their constitutional right to free speech and right to assemble 🇺🇸

Who doesn't want an AI-powered death delivery system?

Data centers are expensive, unpopular — and could be a tipping point in the midterms Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections.

@massgovernor.bsky.social - just say no

www.ideastream.org/npr-news/202...

#ShutItDown

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

💯 THIS!!!

Trump's DOJ has undermined the rule of law and judicial independence. #HoldThemAllAccountable

#IdiocracyOnSteroids 💉
#WorldOnFire 🌎 🔥
Trump's cabinet of raccoons 🦝

Robert Reich 29K likes, 2.2K comments. "Could This Actually End Citizens United?"

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.

No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed.

Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

Lies. 🤥 Harm. 🩸 Democracy in danger. 📉

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Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

“I am choosing to return home as planned to continue my career as a woman scholar without losing more time to the state-imposed violence and hostility I have experienced in the United States…” —Rümeysa Öztürk

Let’s sit with this a bit.

🧵 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

Rep Justin Jones made a statement entrance, walking into the Tennessee legislature with an"Abolish ICE" flag. No subtlety. No backing down.🔥🔥

🎯 This. Please. Pay attention. #AbolishICE

As many have said ... budgets are moral documents.

Trump’s Clash With the Pope Is Raising Alarm in Black Churches “We serve a God who believes in peace and love, but you have an administration pushing war and hate,” a Chicago faith leader says.

"We’ve spent a lot of time putting out information and organizing coalitions so that leaders can return to their congregations and correct some of the rhetoric that’s been put out," The Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain tells Capital B News.

"Our goal is to basically train the trainer."

#Organize

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