Rebecca Borison

Rebecca Borison

@borisonr.bsky.social

Engineering manager Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about

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Gus Garcia-Roberts
@ggarciaroberts.bsky.social

New for @propublica, how MLB created perfect the market conditions for predatory moneylenders in Dominican baseball, and David Ortiz’s hidden role bankrolling the most notorious prestamista in the DR www.propublica.org/article/how-...

propublica.orgHow the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False PromisesTeams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it.
Rebecca Borison
@borisonr.bsky.social

Age 15 is the last year that most women will be able to find their size in standard women's clothing sections

The Pudding@pudding.cool

Few life experiences feel as universal, across generations, as the pains and frustrations of trying to find clothes that fit. In our newest project we dive into the data about women's sizing chaos. pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...

Rebecca Borison
@borisonr.bsky.social

Such a fun revival. The I Love You Song still hits so hard

BroadwayWorld@broadwayworld.com

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has extended its run at New World Stages!

broadwayworld.comTHE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Extends Run at New World StagesThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will extend its run off-Broadway through April 12, 2026, due to popular demand. The production opens tonight, Monday, November 17, at New World Stages, and celebrated with a gala on Sunday, November 16.
Rebecca Borison
@borisonr.bsky.social

💀 " Penn employs a robust information security program; however, access to these systems occurred due to a sophisticated identity impersonation commonly known as social engineering."

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Julia Carrie Wong
@joolia.bsky.social

Replying to @joolia.bsky.social

If you think that Zohran doesn’t have the experience yet, you back Lander, who does, or Adrienne Adams, who also does. You don’t turn to a washed up sex pest who doesn’t even live here and has a track record of bringing about the deaths of 17,000 New Yorkers bc he wouldn’t stop swinging his dick.

Rebecca Borison
@borisonr.bsky.social

This is so disappointing, it's such a fun, creative, timely musical. Highly encourage folks to try to see it before it closes

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The musical “Real Women Have Curves,” announced on Tuesday that it would close on June 29 after struggling to find an audience on Broadway.

trib.alBroadway’s ‘Real Women Have Curves’ to Close Because of Soft SalesThe immigration-themed musical is the second show to announce a plan to close in the aftermath of this year’s Tony Awards.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This story is horrifying. Scammers got people to pay thousands of dollars to hire a fake lawyer. To keep the scam going and keep the money flowing, the scammers also set up fake USCIS appointments, fake ICE check-ins, and fake court hearings. Worse, they told one guy to skip his real court hearing.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

What a disturbingly intricate scam: Immigrants end up paying thousands of dollars and attending fake virtual immigration hearings over many months—all the while jeopardizing their real immigration cases by missing the real hearings.

thecity.nycFake Immigration Courts Take Advantage of Immigrants Desperate for AnswersImmigrants seeking legal help online to protect themselves from Trump’s deportation plans are increasingly falling prey to costly scams.
Rebecca Borison
@borisonr.bsky.social

Props to HBO for promoting their Jewish heritage month category after I finished this episode 👀

Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social

In the latest episode of The Rehearsal, (which streams on HBO), Nathan Fielder (who is Jewish) Depicts Paramount+ as Nazis After the Streamer Removed a ‘Nathan for You’ Episode (which raised millions of 💵 for Holocaust education) Due to ‘Sensitivities’ Around Antisemitism variety.com/2025/tv/news...

variety.comNathan Fielder Depicts Paramount+ as Nazis After Streamer Removed ‘Nathan for You’ Episode Due to ‘Sensitivities’ Around AntisemitismIn 'The Rehearsal,' Nathan Fielder accuses Paramount+ of antisemitism for removing an episode of 'Nathan for You' and depicts the streamer as Nazis.

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Sam Levin
@samtlevin.bsky.social

NEW: Thousands incarcerated in California were given faulty drug tests that produced false positives – some denied parole due to erroneous claims of opioid use, according to internal records + lawyer testimony. Officials have known about the issue for months, but have not cleared people's records.

theguardian.comRevealed: drug tests in California prisons yielded false positives, affecting thousands of peopleRecords suggest Quest Diagnostics erroneously detected opiates. Lawyers say parole requests were jeopardized in the process

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Working Families Party 🐺
@workingfamilies.org

PHONEBANK: wfpus.org/WiscoPhonebank CANVASS: forms.seedthevote.org/doorknocking...

wfpus.orgWI Supreme Court Spring Election Phone Bank w/ WFP & Seed the Vote · Wisconsin Working Families PartyJoin Working Families Party and Seed the Vote to make calls to turn out and persuade voters in this pivotal election. We will use an autodialer and can call up to 200 numbers per hour per volunteer,...
(ac)abigail ⛓️‍💥@tackycamp.bsky.social

Saving this to story next weekend when I’m walking around in freezing temps and hard rain in Milwaukee KNOCKING ON GODDAMN DOORS FOR DEMOCRACY WITH @workingfamilies.org 😂

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Brent Toderian
@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

businessinsider.comDenver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.

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Max Berger
@maxberger.bsky.social

My heart has really been broken by how many people on the left have celebrated or minimized the murder of over 1000 Jewish people. Naomi Klein does a beautiful job of explaining how unwise and unkind it is to celebrate Jewish death. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comWhy are some of the left celebrating the killings of Israeli Jews? | Naomi KleinSome continue to minimize massacres of Israeli civilians, and some even seem to celebrate them – this only fuels militant Zionism

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Mekka Okereke
@mekka.mekka-tech.com

"🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman professor and researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen!"

thehill.comNobel Prize winner for mRNA vaccines discusses being demoted by UPennKatalin Karikó, who is sharing the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with mRNA vaccines, says she was previously demoted by the University of Pennsylvania for her research in that area.  “I…

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Tracy Chou
@triketora.com

pro tip for getting the most of your flu shot and covid booster: follow it up with 90 minutes of exercise! i know, i’m sure you’re excited www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.comExercise after influenza or COVID-19 vaccination increases serum antibody without an increase in sid...Vaccination is an effective public health measure, yet vaccine efficacy varies across different populations. Adjuvants improve vaccine efficacy but of…