Cynthia Stillinger
@ceci767.bsky.social
Gardener, auntie, Balloon Juice reader
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🌼 Sunday 11/16 is World Day of Remembrance 🌼
RSVP for the rally at the State House: secure.everyaction.com/ZJiKM4trHk2Y...
Apply for help with your community event in honor of victims of traffic violence & their families: www.massbike.org/2025_world_d...
#WDoR2025 #SafeSpeedsSaveLives
RSVP for the rally at the State House: secure.everyaction.com/ZJiKM4trHk2Y...
Apply for help with your community event in honor of victims of traffic violence & their families: www.massbike.org/2025_world_d...
#WDoR2025 #SafeSpeedsSaveLives
Ride and Walk For Your Life
Join us on the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims to Ride and Walk for Our Lives. In 2024, our Ride for Your Life bike ride and rally drew over 400 people to Boston Common on the World…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🌼 Sunday 11/16 is World Day of Remembrance 🌼
RSVP for the rally at the State House: secure.everyaction.com/ZJiKM4trHk2Y...
Apply for help with your community event in honor of victims of traffic violence & their families: www.massbike.org/2025_world_d...
#WDoR2025 #SafeSpeedsSaveLives
RSVP for the rally at the State House: secure.everyaction.com/ZJiKM4trHk2Y...
Apply for help with your community event in honor of victims of traffic violence & their families: www.massbike.org/2025_world_d...
#WDoR2025 #SafeSpeedsSaveLives
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Kicking millions of Americans off Medicaid does not save money for the U.S. health system. It just transfers costs onto families who need at-home care or who get insurance through their employer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5li0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5li0...
Jake Auchincloss on Republican cuts to Medicaid
YouTube video by Rep. Auchincloss
www.youtube.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Kicking millions of Americans off Medicaid does not save money for the U.S. health system. It just transfers costs onto families who need at-home care or who get insurance through their employer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5li0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5li0...
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On the importance of townhalls, constant civic engagement and the need for all of us to choose to be "tall poppies" right now and stand up to Trump. Other than not being offered a high-fashion photo shoot, I had a lot of fun talking to the folks at Vanity Fair. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
“Fascism Works If Everybody Is Afraid”: One Democratic Congressman’s Antidote to Trumpism
Illinois representative Sean Casten tells VF that town halls are at the core of democracy because people “deserve to have their voices heard,” and explains how historic progress takes collective effor...
www.vanityfair.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
On the importance of townhalls, constant civic engagement and the need for all of us to choose to be "tall poppies" right now and stand up to Trump. Other than not being offered a high-fashion photo shoot, I had a lot of fun talking to the folks at Vanity Fair. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
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Your occasional reminder that executive orders are not laws, and the Republican members of Congress could stop this carnage today.
April 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Your occasional reminder that executive orders are not laws, and the Republican members of Congress could stop this carnage today.
This is helpful framing. Privilege is not simply a question of who's got it harder.
Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
April 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is helpful framing. Privilege is not simply a question of who's got it harder.
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I keep referring to the "Republican Administration" rather than saying "Trump" or "Trump and Musk" because it would take four (4) congressional Republicans voting with the Democrats, to call the question of whether we even have a government anymore.
Just four (4).
Just four (4).
April 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I keep referring to the "Republican Administration" rather than saying "Trump" or "Trump and Musk" because it would take four (4) congressional Republicans voting with the Democrats, to call the question of whether we even have a government anymore.
Just four (4).
Just four (4).
Tough news from the UK. There's a Trans Day of Visibility March here in Boston this Saturday (Apr 19th) from 1 – 3:30 PM at Harambe Park in Dorchester.
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Tough news from the UK. There's a Trans Day of Visibility March here in Boston this Saturday (Apr 19th) from 1 – 3:30 PM at Harambe Park in Dorchester.
Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.
He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.
Leavitt describes Abrego Garcia as "hiding in Maryland" and says, "based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year"
April 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.
M. Gessen’s piece is particularly pertinent in light of the Harvard news. The academic community has spent a long time in an environment where competing against each other was the top priority for success & survival.
That is simply no longer the case.
That is simply no longer the case.
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
From "History Lessons Matter, Even in Preschool," my sister's piece in Early Learning Nation.
April 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From "History Lessons Matter, Even in Preschool," my sister's piece in Early Learning Nation.
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They are trying…and making headway toward their goal every day…to squeeze every last breath out of the lungs of democracy. At that point, they plan to stomp on the lifeless corpse. You already know that, but sometimes it helps to see it in print. If we let it slip away…it’s gone forever.
April 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
They are trying…and making headway toward their goal every day…to squeeze every last breath out of the lungs of democracy. At that point, they plan to stomp on the lifeless corpse. You already know that, but sometimes it helps to see it in print. If we let it slip away…it’s gone forever.
The GOP's plan is to hurt our most vulnerable populations in order to give tax breaks to billionaires.
April 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The GOP's plan is to hurt our most vulnerable populations in order to give tax breaks to billionaires.
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it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
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I also just need to tell everyone again about our 80s & 90s hip hop night in Cambridge on April 14 because I think it's going to be fun & it would be sad if no one showed up to listen to the playlist we made (Please RSVP!) www.portersquarebooks.com/event/themed...
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April 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I also just need to tell everyone again about our 80s & 90s hip hop night in Cambridge on April 14 because I think it's going to be fun & it would be sad if no one showed up to listen to the playlist we made (Please RSVP!) www.portersquarebooks.com/event/themed...
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
Been struggling this week with the feelings this brings up. The hope boosted by WI election results and Senator Booker's filibuster is accompanied by deep rage and sorrow that so many white voters, including my fellow GenX women, chose immiseration. Nobody was tricked into voting for this.
And this is being done voluntarily, whenever we ask whether people are voting against their self interest we have to remember they get to define what’s in their own interest and a solid majority decided immiseration was preferable to equality.
April 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Been struggling this week with the feelings this brings up. The hope boosted by WI election results and Senator Booker's filibuster is accompanied by deep rage and sorrow that so many white voters, including my fellow GenX women, chose immiseration. Nobody was tricked into voting for this.
Unfun memories of 1990s Moscow: enfants terribles Taibbi and Ames.
Damn. Ranking Member Kamlager-Dove calls GOP witness Matt Taibbi a "serial sexual harasser" and enters articles into the congressional record about his history as a sex pest
April 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Unfun memories of 1990s Moscow: enfants terribles Taibbi and Ames.
Big thanks to the Massachusetts Pollinator Network (MAPN) for their outreach and advocacy, and for creating so many opportunities for people to connect and share ideas and experiences.
MAPN website just got a glow up - check it out!
masspollinatornetwork.org
MAPN website just got a glow up - check it out!
masspollinatornetwork.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Big thanks to the Massachusetts Pollinator Network (MAPN) for their outreach and advocacy, and for creating so many opportunities for people to connect and share ideas and experiences.
MAPN website just got a glow up - check it out!
masspollinatornetwork.org
MAPN website just got a glow up - check it out!
masspollinatornetwork.org
"Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back" = a lie. We must fight these fascists and that includes rejecting their lies.
April 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back" = a lie. We must fight these fascists and that includes rejecting their lies.
Recommended reading, aptly self-described as “a fun read with serious purpose”: Northern Woodlands magazine, published quarterly by the Center for Northern Woodlands Education.
From “A Lesson in Turtles,” by Madeline Bodin (Spring 2025 issue): 1/4
From “A Lesson in Turtles,” by Madeline Bodin (Spring 2025 issue): 1/4
March 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Recommended reading, aptly self-described as “a fun read with serious purpose”: Northern Woodlands magazine, published quarterly by the Center for Northern Woodlands Education.
From “A Lesson in Turtles,” by Madeline Bodin (Spring 2025 issue): 1/4
From “A Lesson in Turtles,” by Madeline Bodin (Spring 2025 issue): 1/4
General strike time.
March 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
General strike time.
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WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT NOT SENDING OUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?!!!!
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT NOT SENDING OUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?!!!!
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Public services aren’t optional – they’re essential. When they’re undermined, working people pay the price. This week, join us for a week of action to stand up for the services we all rely on.
Find an event near you:
www.mobilize.us/aflcio/
Find an event near you:
www.mobilize.us/aflcio/
AFL-CIO Volunteer Events on Mobilize · AFL-CIO on Mobilize
We are the democratic, voluntary federation of national and international labor unions that represent more than 15 million working people. We strive to ensure all working people are treated fairly, wi...
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March 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Public services aren’t optional – they’re essential. When they’re undermined, working people pay the price. This week, join us for a week of action to stand up for the services we all rely on.
Find an event near you:
www.mobilize.us/aflcio/
Find an event near you:
www.mobilize.us/aflcio/