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Wood turner, woodworker, succulent lover, quilter, election/voting nerd, engineer, former teacher.
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This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

🕰️ #TimeMachine : 85 years ago #Chaplin decided to speak in one of his films for the first time in his career. It was to deliver this message that rings true today. #NoKings

No Kings Worcester protest with the wonderful Jim McGovern!

@repmcgovern.bsky.social What can you, as a lawmaker, do? Asking for the country.

@governorwalz.mn.gov I am so sorry for your and Minnesota’s loss.

@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social As information unfolds from the political assassination in MN , what can lawmakers do to prevent Amazon and other companies from selling fake Police,FBI, and “custom” patches that can be sewn on clothing?

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Doesn’t Elon have access to Trump’s taxes through the Doge data mining? #trumpvsmusk

@netflix.com is now my hero. Sure, I wasn’t thrilled with recent rate hikes, but if some of my money is going toward kids being able to watch Sesame Street, I’m fine with that. ❤️

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

When Rolling Stone picks up a story out of Worcester, it’s either because it’s incredibly good, or incredibly bad. In this case, incredibly bad. Very good article!

What a lovely background Nicole has provided us - things I only know because Mayor Baraka was arrested while doing the right thing.

"Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone." - Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-b...

Historian here, my fellow Worcesterites evoking the spirit of Thomas Wentworth Higginson when they sent slave catcher and federal marshal Asa O Butman packing yesterday! School board candidate arrested in confrontation with ICE on Eureka Street in Worcester www.telegram.com/story/news/2...