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"No voting on who gets to be people." -- N. K. Jemison. Trans rights are human rights.
The "meaningful reforms" are too timid and not responding to the continual stakes-raising of the administration. At a minimum, bring back safe zones of schools and daycare, hospitals, places of worship, courts, and POLLING PLACES. @schumer.senate.gov
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
The "meaningful reforms" are too timid and not responding to the continual stakes-raising of the administration. At a minimum, bring back safe zones of schools and daycare, hospitals, places of worship, courts, and POLLING PLACES. @schumer.senate.gov
TIL that the building of the Mass Turnpike through Newton paved over a Black neighborhood. patch.com/massachusett... via links posted by @mekka.mekka-tech.com
A City Divided: The Building of the Mass Turnpike in Newton (Part II)
One of your neighbors posted in Arts & Entertainment. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)
patch.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:08 PM
TIL that the building of the Mass Turnpike through Newton paved over a Black neighborhood. patch.com/massachusett... via links posted by @mekka.mekka-tech.com
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
January 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
TIL about Operation MIlkweed operationmilkweed.org which is a clearinghouse of links for GoFundMe's for Massachusetts families harmed by ICE, and other organizations helping those families.
Operation Milkweed
operationmilkweed.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:14 PM
TIL about Operation MIlkweed operationmilkweed.org which is a clearinghouse of links for GoFundMe's for Massachusetts families harmed by ICE, and other organizations helping those families.
Here go the democrats negotiating against themselves again. Shut it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Senate Democrats urged to demand ‘real reforms’ over ICE funding bill
Progressive caucus leader Greg Casar calls for five ‘non-negotiable’ items to be included before Democrats vote yes
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Here go the democrats negotiating against themselves again. Shut it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Here are the seven Democrats who voted for ICE funding:
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)
Wouldn’t it be nice to see them all challenged? But alas…. See 🧵
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)
Wouldn’t it be nice to see them all challenged? But alas…. See 🧵
January 23, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Here are the seven Democrats who voted for ICE funding:
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)
Wouldn’t it be nice to see them all challenged? But alas…. See 🧵
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)
Wouldn’t it be nice to see them all challenged? But alas…. See 🧵
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Organizing is 10% doing the thing and 90% trying to make it as simple and accessible for other people to do the thing
January 22, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Organizing is 10% doing the thing and 90% trying to make it as simple and accessible for other people to do the thing
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This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index
True story, last week my mom, who is gf, was in an ER for about 8 hours with no food that she could eat. Eventually someone found her a banana. When I got there late in the evening, I brought her a meal from home, but otherwise she might have gotten nothing until morning.
For the food and drink, obviously listen to the nurses about whether they can have it, but I have been in the scenario where "the hospital kitchen closed an hour ago and all we can feed you is the Graham crackers we have at the nurse's station" after almost 24h of no food.
January 21, 2026 at 12:29 AM
True story, last week my mom, who is gf, was in an ER for about 8 hours with no food that she could eat. Eventually someone found her a banana. When I got there late in the evening, I brought her a meal from home, but otherwise she might have gotten nothing until morning.
Completely agree with this. Roberts Court decisions should not stand as precedent, if we can get to a point where we are healing the damage of these years.
#SCOTUS is a captured entity, corrupted through the core. If the body is ever healed, all decisions made by the Roberts Court should be revisited.
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Completely agree with this. Roberts Court decisions should not stand as precedent, if we can get to a point where we are healing the damage of these years.
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Trump’s plan is that the entire world uses Chinese EVs while America’s auto industry sells gas powered cars literally only to Americans
January 16, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Trump’s plan is that the entire world uses Chinese EVs while America’s auto industry sells gas powered cars literally only to Americans
We agreed to meet at noon.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
We agreed to meet at noon.
Between the pardons for other drug traffickers and the obvious collusion between DOJ and a political agenda, you'd think there would be a vindictive prosecution case. Just thinking about the recent Abrego Garcia case. Or hey maybe it'll be a good old fascist show trial.
January 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Between the pardons for other drug traffickers and the obvious collusion between DOJ and a political agenda, you'd think there would be a vindictive prosecution case. Just thinking about the recent Abrego Garcia case. Or hey maybe it'll be a good old fascist show trial.
This is a beautiful wish.
My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.
January 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
This is a beautiful wish.
I vaguely knew that American political parties don't have much control over who adopts their label, but TIL that "party discipline" is not just not practiced, it's illegal in our electoral system..
This little tiff reminded me of this great piece about why political parties are illegal in the United States. We don't have parties like they exist elsewhere in the world, & so our expectations about them are all screwed up. Which is too bad, because democracy is unthinkable without parties.
Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
December 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I vaguely knew that American political parties don't have much control over who adopts their label, but TIL that "party discipline" is not just not practiced, it's illegal in our electoral system..
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Another huge blinding neon sign of how Not Normal politics is right now. The very mention of a politician cutting a single penny of funding to homeless vets would've been a major scandal at any time between WWII and 2016. Today? Billions of dollars? Just part of the scenery.
Trump is stealing almost $4 billion from a program to prevent homelessness in Vets, by falsely claiming it isn't working. As usual, the facts contradict Trump's claims.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
Trump's plan to gut program that houses homeless veterans prompts panic among experts
During Donald Trump's second presidency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) plans to redirect $3.9 billion away from Housing First — a program that got underway under President...
www.rawstory.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Another huge blinding neon sign of how Not Normal politics is right now. The very mention of a politician cutting a single penny of funding to homeless vets would've been a major scandal at any time between WWII and 2016. Today? Billions of dollars? Just part of the scenery.
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This shows Democrats should contest every race, in all 50 states. Concede nothing. Gerrymandering wins again,. tonight, but the day will come when districts like this will be tinder for the fire.
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TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This shows Democrats should contest every race, in all 50 states. Concede nothing. Gerrymandering wins again,. tonight, but the day will come when districts like this will be tinder for the fire.
bsky.app/profile/tani...
bsky.app/profile/tani...
I see we have reached the "collective punishment" page of the Nazi playbook. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
Trump administration pauses all immigration applications from Afghans after National Guard shooting in D.C.
Federal immigration authorities said Wednesday they have paused processing requests from Afghan nationals, after a man from Afghanistan was identified as the suspect in the D.C. National Guard shootin...
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I see we have reached the "collective punishment" page of the Nazi playbook. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
It's not just the ones who folded. Schumer has been signaling all week that a capitulation was going to be a-ok, not holding the caucus together. His no vote is no figleaf.
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It's not just the ones who folded. Schumer has been signaling all week that a capitulation was going to be a-ok, not holding the caucus together. His no vote is no figleaf.
There is a petition to sign and not much time - deadline is Nov 19.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
There is a petition to sign and not much time - deadline is Nov 19.
That seems about right to me.
October 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That seems about right to me.
Taking a moment to honor the aunts by courtesy and by blood in my life, most of them gone now. They've been my guides when I needed them.
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Taking a moment to honor the aunts by courtesy and by blood in my life, most of them gone now. They've been my guides when I needed them.
I don't get it. Why isn't Dem leadership using the ballroom as a symbol of lawless destruction and connecting that to the SNAP benefits cuts next week?
GOV. WHITMER: “.. no one is worried about building a ballroom in Washington, D.C. What they want is to make sure that they can feed their kids next week.” Most Americans are “never going to step foot in a ballroom over the course of their lifetime.”
@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
October 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I don't get it. Why isn't Dem leadership using the ballroom as a symbol of lawless destruction and connecting that to the SNAP benefits cuts next week?
A reminder to Massachusetts voters, next Saturday Oct 25 is the close of voter registration before election day. You can check your registration status and register online at www.sec.state.ma.us/ovr/ See you at the voting booth showing "this is what democracy looks like" all over again.
www.sec.state.ma.us
October 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A reminder to Massachusetts voters, next Saturday Oct 25 is the close of voter registration before election day. You can check your registration status and register online at www.sec.state.ma.us/ovr/ See you at the voting booth showing "this is what democracy looks like" all over again.
My list isn't exactly this but it's similar. It's not sustainable.
I now communicate with people via text, Gmail, Discord, FB messenger, Whatsapp, Signal, iMessages (iPad only), IG dms, Tumblr dms, bsky dms, and two different healthcare messaging systems and I don’t even currently work. It’s absurd and untenable.
October 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My list isn't exactly this but it's similar. It's not sustainable.