Jenn
@dorchesteresq.bsky.social
organizer of people & things, attorney & ???, parent/spouse, fan of joy & jazz
🏳️🌈 she/her
#UU | #YIMBY @dotgrow.bsky.social | #BLM | 🌊
🏳️🌈 she/her
#UU | #YIMBY @dotgrow.bsky.social | #BLM | 🌊
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Jenn
@dorchesteresq.bsky.social
· Nov 17
#Dorchester
who's here??? I've got about 100 more slots available to add folks ...
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who's here??? I've got about 100 more slots available to add folks ...
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Healey: Massachusetts insurers have to cover the cost of all vaccines approved by the state, no matter what the brainworm in chief says. This includes MassHealth and GIC.
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Healey: Massachusetts insurers have to cover the cost of all vaccines approved by the state, no matter what the brainworm in chief says. This includes MassHealth and GIC.
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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
September 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
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Increasingly I go to meetings and just say some version of “everyone here is the exception, not the rule, including me, most people don’t care one way or the other”, and this is why.
It’s cool though, an overwhelming old and white crowd at a town hall held in a majority minority school hated the plan so they think they are “representing the community”
August 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Increasingly I go to meetings and just say some version of “everyone here is the exception, not the rule, including me, most people don’t care one way or the other”, and this is why.
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Today we’re launching our new podcast: Everybody Gets Pie 🥧 - conversations about making America abundant again: housing, energy, childcare, innovation & more.
Ep. 1: The landmark CEQA reform in California with @scottwiener.bsky.social & @buffywicks.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEMG...
Ep. 1: The landmark CEQA reform in California with @scottwiener.bsky.social & @buffywicks.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEMG...
The Law That Stopped California with Sen Scott Wiener & Asm Buffy Wick (EP 1)
YouTube video by Everybody Gets Pie
www.youtube.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Today we’re launching our new podcast: Everybody Gets Pie 🥧 - conversations about making America abundant again: housing, energy, childcare, innovation & more.
Ep. 1: The landmark CEQA reform in California with @scottwiener.bsky.social & @buffywicks.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEMG...
Ep. 1: The landmark CEQA reform in California with @scottwiener.bsky.social & @buffywicks.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEMG...
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I think about this constantly
July 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I think about this constantly
✨ We Need More Yes ✨
I’ve helped co-moderate two City Council forums the past two nights. My general takeaway is that I’m at the point where I can’t support candidates, even ones I like personally, whose first instinct is No. As in No to new housing, No to bus lanes, etc. We have enough No in our city. We need more Yes.
July 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
✨ We Need More Yes ✨
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News -- Chilacates is planning to open yet another location, with this one being in Dorchester. bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/06/chil...
#restaurant #dorchester #boston
#restaurant #dorchester #boston
Chilacates Plans to Open in Dorchester
A growing local group of Mexican restaurants is expanding further into the area, with a new one being planned for a Boston neighborhood. Acc...
bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
News -- Chilacates is planning to open yet another location, with this one being in Dorchester. bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/06/chil...
#restaurant #dorchester #boston
#restaurant #dorchester #boston
BPD Missing Person Alert: 13-Year-Old Brianna Joseph, of Dorchester
Learn More At: police.boston.gov/2025/06/19/b...
Learn More At: police.boston.gov/2025/06/19/b...
June 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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pride is next week
pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.
do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.
pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.
do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.
May 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
pride is next week
pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.
do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.
pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.
do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.
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At the risk of sounding corny, hope really is a practice. I’m as much of a cynical depresso as the next person. The reason why I find doomerism so toxic is that it forecloses the possibility of a better future. The devils want us to fall into despair.
May 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
At the risk of sounding corny, hope really is a practice. I’m as much of a cynical depresso as the next person. The reason why I find doomerism so toxic is that it forecloses the possibility of a better future. The devils want us to fall into despair.
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The best later abortion reporting I’ve ever read. Thank you @amylittlefield.bsky.social for lifting up our patients and staff in such a tender, respectful way, and for calling out the terrible political decisions that got us viability bans.
My cover story in the June issue of @thenation.com is a dispatch from one of the few clinics offering abortions in all trimesters.
It’s a call to defend all abortions and to trust pregnant people.
It’s also, incidentally, my pregnancy announcement:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It’s a call to defend all abortions and to trust pregnant people.
It’s also, incidentally, my pregnancy announcement:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?
www.thenation.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The best later abortion reporting I’ve ever read. Thank you @amylittlefield.bsky.social for lifting up our patients and staff in such a tender, respectful way, and for calling out the terrible political decisions that got us viability bans.
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as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
May 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
#Dorchester — Do you have any info to help find this missing child?
Boston police seek help finding missing 10-year-old Dorchester girl | Click on the image to read the full story
Boston police seek help finding missing 10-year-old Dorchester girl
Boston police are searching for 10-year-old Zayleigh Bourget, last seen in Dorchester. She has a developmental disability and was last spotted near Hecla Street.
www.wcvb.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
#Dorchester — Do you have any info to help find this missing child?
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The 45th annual Ashmont Hill Yard Sale will take place on Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
May 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The 45th annual Ashmont Hill Yard Sale will take place on Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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A new, weekly podcast focused on #Dorchester music, culture, and current events launched this weekend. The Reporter is a proud sponsor and supporter of the DotLife pod — produced by Erin Caldwell—and excited to be featured on the debut episode! Learn more here: www.dotnews.com/2025/new-wee...
April 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A new, weekly podcast focused on #Dorchester music, culture, and current events launched this weekend. The Reporter is a proud sponsor and supporter of the DotLife pod — produced by Erin Caldwell—and excited to be featured on the debut episode! Learn more here: www.dotnews.com/2025/new-wee...
Sat April 26, 10-3 -- Neighborhood flea market at Second Church, Codman Square in #Dorchester, rain or shine! Over 20 community vendors ready to sell kids & adult clothing, houseware, jewelry, books, houseplants, etc! Kids tables, music and community!
RSVP: dorchesterfleamarket.eventbrite.com
RSVP: dorchesterfleamarket.eventbrite.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Sat April 26, 10-3 -- Neighborhood flea market at Second Church, Codman Square in #Dorchester, rain or shine! Over 20 community vendors ready to sell kids & adult clothing, houseware, jewelry, books, houseplants, etc! Kids tables, music and community!
RSVP: dorchesterfleamarket.eventbrite.com
RSVP: dorchesterfleamarket.eventbrite.com
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Mark your calendars for Sat., May 31 — Dorchfest 2025 to feature live music at dozens of porches and yards in Ashmont-Adams section of #Dorchester
dotnews.com/2025/get-pum...
dotnews.com/2025/get-pum...
April 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Mark your calendars for Sat., May 31 — Dorchfest 2025 to feature live music at dozens of porches and yards in Ashmont-Adams section of #Dorchester
dotnews.com/2025/get-pum...
dotnews.com/2025/get-pum...
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you know if the industrial revolution had arrived 300 years later it would have meant shortened and immiserated lives for easily hundreds of millions of people, but they wouldn't have even realized it. wouldn't have known there was a better future they could have had. stolen progress is invisible.
BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
www.science.org
April 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
you know if the industrial revolution had arrived 300 years later it would have meant shortened and immiserated lives for easily hundreds of millions of people, but they wouldn't have even realized it. wouldn't have known there was a better future they could have had. stolen progress is invisible.
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Julia Gelatt (Migration Policy Institute): “Revoking TPS for Afghans would be a stark reversal in the country’s treatment of Afghan allies who fought & worked alongside the US. Most Afghans in the US have strong asylum cases based on their US affiliation. This is even more true for Afghan women.”
Scoop: Trump Will End Temporary Protections for Afghans and Cameroonians
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Trump Will End Temporary Protections for Afghans and Cameroonians
More than 10,000 peopl
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Julia Gelatt (Migration Policy Institute): “Revoking TPS for Afghans would be a stark reversal in the country’s treatment of Afghan allies who fought & worked alongside the US. Most Afghans in the US have strong asylum cases based on their US affiliation. This is even more true for Afghan women.”
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Planning on being at this year's Taste of Dorchester but don't have your tickets yet? Get them before 11:59pm tonight (April 11th) to get the Early Bird pricing of $40!
Buy your tickets: mahahome.org/taste-dorche...
Buy your tickets: mahahome.org/taste-dorche...
April 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Planning on being at this year's Taste of Dorchester but don't have your tickets yet? Get them before 11:59pm tonight (April 11th) to get the Early Bird pricing of $40!
Buy your tickets: mahahome.org/taste-dorche...
Buy your tickets: mahahome.org/taste-dorche...
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Such a powerful telling- that liberation must be from a place of abundance. For all. Not just me and my mine. The scarcity mindset of just us getting ours, means no one gets free!
April 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Such a powerful telling- that liberation must be from a place of abundance. For all. Not just me and my mine. The scarcity mindset of just us getting ours, means no one gets free!
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i need people to understand that asian grocery stores aren’t just a lifeline to asian americans: they’re also a source of fresh and affordable produce to low income non-asians who live in HCOL areas
Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
Asian grocery stores, a lifeline for immigrants, brace for steep new tariffs
Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
www.npr.org
April 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
i need people to understand that asian grocery stores aren’t just a lifeline to asian americans: they’re also a source of fresh and affordable produce to low income non-asians who live in HCOL areas
At least we have some schadentainment to help season the collapse of our democratic experiment and all its institutions. Bless 🙏!
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says he’s out $7 million bc of Trump’s tariffs 😏
April 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
At least we have some schadentainment to help season the collapse of our democratic experiment and all its institutions. Bless 🙏!
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Getting our first look at city’s redesign plans Morrissey Boulevard and they look incredible!
🚦 Better traffic flow
🌊 Making it flood resilience
🚴🏽♀️ More pedestrian & cycling access
archboston.com/community/th... @dotnews.bsky.social #dorchester #urbanplanning #boston
🚦 Better traffic flow
🌊 Making it flood resilience
🚴🏽♀️ More pedestrian & cycling access
archboston.com/community/th... @dotnews.bsky.social #dorchester #urbanplanning #boston
Morrissey Boulevard Redesign
-Figured Id create one thread to consolidate everything regarding morrissey blvd upgrades.
Morrissey blvd corridor study:
https://www.mass.gov/doc/draft-morrissey-boulevard-corridor-study-report/dow...
archboston.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Getting our first look at city’s redesign plans Morrissey Boulevard and they look incredible!
🚦 Better traffic flow
🌊 Making it flood resilience
🚴🏽♀️ More pedestrian & cycling access
archboston.com/community/th... @dotnews.bsky.social #dorchester #urbanplanning #boston
🚦 Better traffic flow
🌊 Making it flood resilience
🚴🏽♀️ More pedestrian & cycling access
archboston.com/community/th... @dotnews.bsky.social #dorchester #urbanplanning #boston