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CEO of the MA Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. Knitter, cat lady, grey hair evangelist. Oh, and I box. #COYS. Opinions strong, plentiful, and my own. Check out my essays at: https://dot-connecting.ghost.io
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The most harmful immigrant in the country. I hope they told him to self deport.

I detest this woman. She’s a very mean girl with a very big podium.

Three members of the Obama family have degrees from Harvard and I can’t help but wonder how that factors in to Trump’s full out war against it.

“Ventura isn’t charged with anything. But like so many women who are victimized by, then testify against powerful men, it’s her reputation that’s on trial.” - @rygraham.bsky.social This is a reason why many survivors don’t press charges against their abusers… 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/o...

Paging Jake Tapper

Explains a lot about where we are as a country that people are still willing to believe trickle-down economics is going to happen but ignore the dozens of massive, high-quality studies showing that just giving poor people money actually does solve their problems.

ELLIS Prep Principal Norma Vega: “One of our kids was taken.” This country kidnaps high school students.

ICE active on Martha’s Vineyard today. “We were not informed they would be here,” Dukes County Sheriff Bob Ogden said. www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/27/i...

“Ventura isn’t charged with anything. But like so many women who are victimized by, then testify against powerful men, it’s her reputation that’s on trial.” - @rygraham.bsky.social This is a reason why many survivors don’t press charges against their abusers… 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/o...

Every fiber of my Jewish soul decries this. This whole war has been a chillul hashem, or a desecration of G-d’s name. The path to peace isn’t paved with death, subjugation, and collective punishment. There is no justification for this.

I lost my dad to COVID. It’s difficult to find enough words to describe how profoundly angry this makes me.

Just a woman and mom out here asking how on earth one man is “forgiven” so much domestic violence and apparently allowed to keep his guns??? And then he finally shot and killed a deputy responding to a domestic violence call. Honestly who could have foreseen this?

“This flow of weapons is connected to the drug trade in the U.S. and is enabling increased gang violence in Mexico, causing more people to flee across the border.” From Mexico to Haiti our guns are driving migration to the U.S. An inconvenient truth the GOP would like us to ignore. Sadly, we do.

"Trump defeated two women, so we can never run another women." "Trump defeated two candidates under 75, so we can never run another candidate under 75." we have exactly the same evidence for both of these claims. 1

Trumpist fascism is coming for everyone. Yes, you too. This time it was a legal resident of New Hampshire (a) with an American-citizen child, (b) married to an American-citizen cardiologist.

“The legislation makes it a felony for a volunteer to collect more than 25 signatures for a campaign from people outside their family without getting approval from the state, which requires background checks and training.” Another assault on democracy.

There’s a lot to sit with in this piece. Including the concern that the ever increasing number of guns in circulation heightens the potential of police shootings. Here in the U.S. we have more guns than people. And that means every conflict can escalate… 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/24/n...

“This flow of weapons is connected to the drug trade in the U.S. and is enabling increased gang violence in Mexico, causing more people to flee across the border.” From Mexico to Haiti our guns are driving migration to the U.S. An inconvenient truth the GOP would like us to ignore. Sadly, we do.

Wow, how maddening that people actually expect you to show up for the job they hired you to do. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/26/n...

While the post has since been deleted, let the record show that the President of the United States saw fit to call his own people scum. If you think Trump has got your back, he doesn’t. You’ll be scum too as soon as you’re not useful to him.

"You guys are trash and this is trash." That's what Phoenix cops told a homeless man before tossing his belongings. Last June, the Justice Dept found systemic abuse: illegal arrests, excessive force. Now Trump's DOJ is retracting those findings, greenlighting more violence against unhoused people.

“In a country where our Justice Department’s civil rights division is focusing less on racism & equity and more on destroying diversity, fighting against brutality & injustice requires a masterclass in navigating gaslighting & violence… Safety doesn’t live here.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/26/m...

Five years ago it was kneeling on someone’s neck. Today it’s breaking a car window, ripping someone from their child, or abducting someone from a street corner. And even more deaths at the hands of police. Still so much to fight for. Every person should have the right to be safe.

There’s a lot to sit with in this piece. Including the concern that the ever increasing number of guns in circulation heightens the potential of police shootings. Here in the U.S. we have more guns than people. And that means every conflict can escalate… 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/24/n...

Unbelievable. As in JD Vance is literally unbelievable.