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Focused on social and economic justice. Art, music, reading, knitting, craftism keep me sane. Grateful. 🌩️👀 HhqZvrGS7B6G
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Alright #Boston we need you to lace up your boots and join us on the #BostonCommon on Saturday! The time to #Resist is NOW! Bring a friend, bring a sign and please consider bringing a #Donation for the Bread of Life in Malden. #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #StrengthInUnity

Always grateful to @aclu.org

Chicago showed up!! Alrighty #Boston, it's our turn this Saturday! See you on 3/15, 12pm at the Parade Ground (Beacon and Charles) of Boston Common! See our pinned post for details. 🇺🇸💪🇺🇸 #50501protest #protest

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Lost my last pair of gloves on the MBTA. Super bummed but so easy to skip Amazon (Target too!) and pick up a pair and a spare at Kohls instead.

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

Trump and Musk "accidentally" fired government officials who were working to contain the bird flu—now they're scrambling to rehire them. A complete and total shitshow.

The kids are alright. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

Costco, which has come out saying it supports DEI, will make no changes to its existing programs, AND pays workers a minimum of $30/hour, is up 15% YTD. Target, which announced it is ending all DEI programs and has a minimum wage of $15-$24/hour, is down over 4%. Keep voting with your wallet.

NEW: Treasury Dept agrees not to let anyone who isn't a current, regular (non-SGE) employee access its payment system/records, with the exception of Tom Krause and Marko Elez, who will have read-only access. The agreement will last until the judge decides whether to grant a preliminary injunction.

Leah and Ezra explain how you can help stop the nomination of Russell Vought, the architect of Trump’s unconstitutional power grab that set off mass chaos: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Massachusetts friends: Support Reproductive Equity Now’s legislative agenda. They have an easy tool to tell your state senator and representative that you expect their support.

Indivisible offers up quick action items to fight MAGA. Probably ten minutes of time tonight. Super appreciative.

Hey Boston, check out your 2024 BlueBikes usage! YoY increase of 28.66%, aka over 1M more rides than 2023!

I want to thank the little voice in my head that stopped me from captioning this 'don't shoot the messenger'... www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Brilliant.

We need your help. NH Republicans are trying to pass an abortion travel ban & it’s being heard TOMORROW. The bill could criminalize: 1) People who bring a young person to an abortion appt 2) Sharing any info on how to access abortion care We CANNOT let this pass. Here's what you can do: 🧵

No executive order has the power or the right to tell you who you are. F*ck that noise. Surround yourself with love, and when you’re ready, get back in this fight. We need you. 🫶🏽

The Senate just passed the Laken Riley Act, which would shred constitutional rights and let MAGA extremists gut legal immigration. This dangerous bill now moves to the House, where 48 Democrats recently voted for it. Call your representative and demand they vote NO: indivisible.org/resource/tel...

I appreciated her equal measure of inspiration and pragmatism. F@ck Cancer.

House Speaker Johnson refused to back a measure to let new moms in Congress vote remotely. So a member of his party turned to Democrats: cnn.it/42iLTfW

When folks wake up… Coming to a bar near you in about 6 months.

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Spineless. That’s the only word for the Senate Democrats who handed Republicans a victory without a fight. The Laken Riley Act is a racist, xenophobic attack on immigrants that shreds constitutional rights and lets MAGA extremists hijack federal immigration policy.

A September 2024 KFF Health poll found 85% of registered voters supported Medicare drug price negotiation, including 77% of Republicans.

Let’s give deserving folks a clean slate. Time for MA to join the 12 states already sealing criminal records automatically once eligibility is reached, to increase opportunities in education, housing, and jobs. Follow @cleanslatema.bsky.social. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/09/m...

Heartwarming. Lewis tells the Washington Post, “The better educated the librarians are,” he says, “the greater ammunition they’ll have to fight back these community efforts to ban books.”