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etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social
District 5 Worcester City Councilor. Serving District 5 residents and running for a third-term. Housing is a right. Climate justice. Vision Zero. Safe streets. Fire prevention saves lives.
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I may have gotten a little animated this morning when discussing on The Rundown on @totcshow.bsky.social why the #Worcester City Manager should re-appoint the Chair and Vice Chair of the Human Rights Commission. Let me explain. Short 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Last night I expressed my desire for the Chair and Vs. Chair of the Human Rights Commission to be re-instated and continue the important work they’ve been doing. I expressed my hope that the CM re-considers his decision. It matters.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Omg. Let the 🐔s be.

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This is one of the very few commissions that has executive power & authority. It isn’t an advisory board. It has specific powers, which they have tried to exercise.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is today! As a reminder, I have asked the City to present two ordinances: 1. Tree reform 2. Minimim Parking Requirements. I'll be there for part of this is. It's a super important conversation. I hope folks can attend.

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Worcester County receives $11 mill in homelessness grants. Most of this $ supports Worcester housing & homelessness services. If this goes away, our homelessness response collapses entirely. We’re not listed in this lawsuit. But, we’re not safe. No one is. I’ll keep sounding the alarm.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not lost on me that telling a female councilor “you have two min” to speak, as a male councilor, is so friggin disrespectful. Why don’t you also suggest I sit with my hands folded neatly on my lap, ask for permission to speak, and wear an apron when coming to Council.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

There is no reform without community moving it. Pushing it. Debating it. Challenging, grappling with it, and pushing the envelope. W/out this, there is the tiniest incremental steps. Steps nevertheless. But not leaps towards a transformative change that allows us to

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I’m approaching 45 in a week or so. I have more gray hairs. I feel quite confident my older teen one-word responses are only temporary. I am more comfortable shooting dirty looks back, when necessary & I really think I’m entering the best time of my life.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This race will be very competitive. Negative campaigning has already started & we anticipate significant PAC contributions behind my opponent's campaign. I'll be counting on your support for hosting backyard fundraisers, assisting with phone banks & connecting with our neighbors door-to-door.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Let’s go!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Really?? It’s a life-saving strategy! We literally depend on it to keep people alive. Opioid deaths have decreased steadily. Why would you take this away now? While your colleagues are also cutting Medicaid- the only health insurance program that covers folks in the throes of addiction.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Damn @neslusan.bsky.social speech made me tear up. 😭😭

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to celebrate @neslusan.bsky.social Kelly Turley and Andrea Park with @progressivemass.bsky.social tonight! Congratulations to all three and also to all other honorees.

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The 35th Earth Day Clean Up is still on!! I’ll be heading the one at Beaverbrook Parkway and Maywood location. It’s ☔️ but we’ll keep at it as much as we can 🙌

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Many homeless families will be out as they receive their “you’re out of here” letters. Their options? $3000 rent & a subsidy that won’t stretch more than a year. Overcrowding w/ other families. Sleeping in cars or crappy places.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

What a great feature of our Council Aide, Aidan Giasson, who does amazing work for our City Council office and the City. Proud of you Aidan! www.worcestermag.com/story/lifest...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

By the way, if these students lived in the District I represent, I'd be there in a heart beat. But, my congressman is on it. As he always is! Special thank you to @repmcgovern.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you SOO much @markey.senate.gov @pressley.house.gov @repmcgovern.bsky.social for traveling to Louisiana to meet with Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil and demand their release. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is sending a Russian scientist who created a breakthrough cancer detection microscope back to Putin's Russia. She was a dissident who criticized Putin and now will be in danger.

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

I see no political delegation demanding release of Khalil and others like him.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments