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Boston 💜 "A straight-talking advocate for housing, early education, & economic development" - Boston Globe ed board. Dad, Coach, Atty, Volunteer. Personal acct 🦋 Do you hear me, do you feel me, we gon be alright.
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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 10 hours ago • 156 comments

All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

submitted 20 hours ago • 148 comments

This is our city. We’re going to continue following & enforcing the laws to keep all Bostonians safe. And it goes without saying that our police commissioner has my complete confidence & support.

submitted 12 hours ago • 42 comments

Last time fascists tried to show out here, the Dropkick Murphys told them to show up the next day at M Street Park to fight them. The Dropkicks and a bunch of people showed up. Obviously the fascists didn’t. Not a city to trifle with.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Leia #catsofbluesky

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 23 hours ago • 234 comments

ICYMI: NBC 10 Boston's Matt Prichard covers the launch of Boston's Access to Counsel pilot program @bostonlegalaid.bsky.social @ben4district6.bsky.social @housing.boston.gov www.nbcboston.com/on-air/as-se...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Will say it on repeat that politics still matters and this guy is a lame duck with a razor thin House majority. He is not some Goliath

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Green T Coffee Shop in Roslindale. I’m sure the president will get on those high grocery prices any day now. @universalhub.com

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Someone with business acumen” aka I saw him pretend to be smart on his teevee show

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Politics still matters. These guys are not political geniuses. They have a razor thin House majority and a lame duck president. Bush was more powerful after his reelection in 2004 and Harry Reid and other strategic Dems brought him down. It can be done now too if they will fight.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Once again the public is ahead of Democratic leaders

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Anyway I hope the bozo in the MAGA hat who paid thousands of dollars to sit behind the US bench even though they’re probably the worst seats in the house has a bad weekend

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Canada is our friend and ally in all things no matter what our clown president says, except for in hockey where they’re our sworn enemy for three periods 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Real Niedermeyer in Animal House energy here

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: As legal challenges to DOGE mount, the White House claims Elon Musk is not technically in charge of the effort and has no decision-making power. That contradicts Trump/Musk's own public portrayal. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 5 days ago • 142 comments

My Nation’s Capitol 🫡

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Presidents’ Day to some of them

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My mother Diana recently retired after 29 years serving the residents of Boston at City Hall. She served under multiple mayors & w countless colleagues, so many of whom have shared stories of her guidance, steady hand, & commitment to service. We love her, are inspired by her, & so proud of her.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Merrick Garland is probably more responsible for this than any single individual. A complete obedience to norms that long ago were blown to shit. Republicans were never gonna do the right thing; it was always on Garland and he whiffed.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 9 days ago • 467 comments

Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Yay the Sox signed someone

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

pretty convincing www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

The president looks very small here and is clearly taking a backseat to Musk. Sad!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Time to hold administration officials and attorneys in contempt. The admin officials might ignore it but the attorneys can’t unless they want to lose their law licenses.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 12 days ago • 180 comments

Sleepy Leia #catsofbluesky #cats

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

All these attorneys need to be disbarred

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Another win for the rule of law and @massago.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 12 days ago • 207 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 13 days ago • 119 comments

gritty has seized control of the federal government

submitted 13 days ago • 203 comments

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

submitted 13 days ago • 647 comments

Poor guys. You just really feel for them.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

My mom wants to know what Kendrick and Drake are fighting about

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

All of these “we’re not so different” commercials fall flat when a president trying to legislate people out of existence is attending the game.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

These weird calls for unity (sponsored by Rocket Mortgage et al) really landing flat this year with, ya know, going on #SuperBowl

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

America runs on cringe…

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Figured we’d at least get into the second quarter before the Chiefs benefited from a bs ref call

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

If Kendrick can unite LA’s gangs, I believe we can unite the left. Communists, liberals, champagne socialists, we may argue but deep down we all share a common dream: sending Elon on a one way mission to Mars. We need to set aside our differences and harness the power of collective hate.

submitted 13 days ago • 71 comments

I remain very upset that I have to root for a professional sports team from Philadelphia

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments