Giordana Mecagni she/her
@gmecagni.bsky.social
Activist archivist. Bostonian. BPS parent.
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Stunned by how dishonest senators like Senate President Karen Spilka and Senator Nick Collins are being about Mayor Michelle Wu's tax shift home rule petition.
It was filed in February. They ignored it. No right to complain that it's a brand new ask. #mapoli
It was filed in February. They ignored it. No right to complain that it's a brand new ask. #mapoli
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Stunned by how dishonest senators like Senate President Karen Spilka and Senator Nick Collins are being about Mayor Michelle Wu's tax shift home rule petition.
It was filed in February. They ignored it. No right to complain that it's a brand new ask. #mapoli
It was filed in February. They ignored it. No right to complain that it's a brand new ask. #mapoli
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Pulled out of line as they waited for what they thought was going to be one of the best days of their lives. PULLED OUT OF LINE. Our government is cruel.
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Pulled out of line as they waited for what they thought was going to be one of the best days of their lives. PULLED OUT OF LINE. Our government is cruel.
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Congestion pricing in NYC has worked and has become popular. Cities like Boston should follow.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/o...
Three takeaways for Boston from NYC’s congestion pricing scheme - The Boston Globe
After a year of the first American program of its kind, there’s enough data to recommend the idea.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Congestion pricing in NYC has worked and has become popular. Cities like Boston should follow.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/o...
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Time for Boston #mapoli to flood Karen Spilka and Nick Collins with calls and social media posts demanding action to support the mayor’s efforts to offer property tax relief to homeowners.
We’re fighting to lower residential property taxes in Boston and need your help.
Go to malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator to contact your state legislators and call on them to pass our plan for tax relief.
Go to malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator to contact your state legislators and call on them to pass our plan for tax relief.
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Time for Boston #mapoli to flood Karen Spilka and Nick Collins with calls and social media posts demanding action to support the mayor’s efforts to offer property tax relief to homeowners.
THIS is what they have come up with to justify his statement? Unabashed xenophobia? I'm terrified.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
THIS is what they have come up with to justify his statement? Unabashed xenophobia? I'm terrified.
No, just no.
Reminder to those who think that "all-party primaries" seem like a good democracy measure: That is exactly the system Andrew Cuomo was trying to rig New York City's mayoral election into so that big money and racist politicking could overturn the primary result
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
No, just no.
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I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
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Want to make sure #mapoli read this: a low cost high impact project that is long overdue.
Our new piece on the importance of transit connectivity in Boston #mapoli - it's long past time to connect the Red and Blue Lines. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...
The Red-Blue Connector: A half-mile of subway that benefits an entire region - CommonWealth Beacon
It’s easy to look at the short length of the proposed Red-Blue Connector – less than half a mile – and mistake it for a project with small impact. Nothing could be further from the truth.
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Want to make sure #mapoli read this: a low cost high impact project that is long overdue.
Proponents of the changes to the Exam School policy in Boston claim they're "fixing a numerical error." But in truth, the policy is regressive, and follow well-trod paths of descrimination.
#bospoli #mapoli #bps #redlining
#bospoli #mapoli #bps #redlining
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Proponents of the changes to the Exam School policy in Boston claim they're "fixing a numerical error." But in truth, the policy is regressive, and follow well-trod paths of descrimination.
#bospoli #mapoli #bps #redlining
#bospoli #mapoli #bps #redlining
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Emergency Rally in Solidarity with the People of Los Angeles to End ICE Raids Now ‼️🇺🇸✊
#Boston will stand for Liberty.
Monday, June 9 @ 2pm
Boston City Hall - Circle Plaza
#NoKings
#50501protest
#Boston will stand for Liberty.
Monday, June 9 @ 2pm
Boston City Hall - Circle Plaza
#NoKings
#50501protest
June 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Emergency Rally in Solidarity with the People of Los Angeles to End ICE Raids Now ‼️🇺🇸✊
#Boston will stand for Liberty.
Monday, June 9 @ 2pm
Boston City Hall - Circle Plaza
#NoKings
#50501protest
#Boston will stand for Liberty.
Monday, June 9 @ 2pm
Boston City Hall - Circle Plaza
#NoKings
#50501protest
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good lord we are so screwed.
The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan
The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
good lord we are so screwed.
🌟🇺🇸😍😍 🫶🫶@mayorwu.boston.gov 🫶🫶 😍😍 🇺🇸🌟
Everyone deserves to have a Mayor like mine!
Everyone deserves to have a Mayor like mine!
Wu: "Boston is the target in this fight for our future because we are the cradle of democracy, pioneers of the public good, the stewards and keepers of the American Dream. We were built on the values this federal administration seeks to tear down."
March 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🌟🇺🇸😍😍 🫶🫶@mayorwu.boston.gov 🫶🫶 😍😍 🇺🇸🌟
Everyone deserves to have a Mayor like mine!
Everyone deserves to have a Mayor like mine!
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“The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law,” said your government about a man they surveilled, arrested, detained, & flew more than 1,400 miles from his pregnant wife before beginning the process of revoking his greencard & deporting him for life
So what is it--and what's next?
So what is it--and what's next?
"THE ALLEGATION HERE IS NOT THAT HE WAS BREAKING THE LAW"
so... what is it?
deportnation.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
“The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law,” said your government about a man they surveilled, arrested, detained, & flew more than 1,400 miles from his pregnant wife before beginning the process of revoking his greencard & deporting him for life
So what is it--and what's next?
So what is it--and what's next?
From my immigration lawyer friend Matt Cameron:
EVERYTHING THAT JUST HAPPENED TO MAHMOUD KHALIL MIGHT (BUT SHOULD NOT) BE LEGAL deportnation.substack.com/p/everything...
EVERYTHING THAT JUST HAPPENED TO MAHMOUD KHALIL MIGHT (BUT SHOULD NOT) BE LEGAL deportnation.substack.com/p/everything...
EVERYTHING THAT JUST HAPPENED TO MAHMOUD KHALIL MIGHT (BUT SHOULD NOT) BE LEGAL
yes, they really can do that--if we let them
deportnation.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
From my immigration lawyer friend Matt Cameron:
EVERYTHING THAT JUST HAPPENED TO MAHMOUD KHALIL MIGHT (BUT SHOULD NOT) BE LEGAL deportnation.substack.com/p/everything...
EVERYTHING THAT JUST HAPPENED TO MAHMOUD KHALIL MIGHT (BUT SHOULD NOT) BE LEGAL deportnation.substack.com/p/everything...
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I think it’s so emblematic of the modern GOP that they thought today’s house oversight hearing would go well for them, instead of basically serving as a campaign opportunity for someone like Mayor Wu, who is usually the smartest and best prepared person in any room she finds herself in.
March 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I think it’s so emblematic of the modern GOP that they thought today’s house oversight hearing would go well for them, instead of basically serving as a campaign opportunity for someone like Mayor Wu, who is usually the smartest and best prepared person in any room she finds herself in.
This Could have Been an Email www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh7-...
NPR Tiny Desk Concert 2025 Submission : This Could Have Been an Email - Boston Typewriter Orchestra
YouTube video by Boston Typewriter Orchestra
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This Could have Been an Email www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh7-...
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this that grey poupon that evian that ted talk
Kendrick Lamar’s Multilayered Halftime Show Was About Far More Than Just a Rap Beef
To dismiss the performance as the squandering of a global platform in service of nursing a petty grievance is to miss the significance of exactly what he is saying.
capitalbnews.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
this that grey poupon that evian that ted talk
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Ayanna Pressley: "Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby."
February 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Ayanna Pressley: "Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby."
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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
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I said someone was old today, and my husband asked, "Are they old, or are then SENATE old?"
January 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I said someone was old today, and my husband asked, "Are they old, or are then SENATE old?"
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literally where is everyone?
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
literally where is everyone?
As usual, @mattcameron.bsky.social is the voice of reason. I was about to blow a gasket after seeing the picture of the ICE officers outside of my beloved Chelse MarketBasket!
January 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
As usual, @mattcameron.bsky.social is the voice of reason. I was about to blow a gasket after seeing the picture of the ICE officers outside of my beloved Chelse MarketBasket!
Whose AG is this? MY AG. And I cannot be prouder.
BREAKING: President Trump thinks he can ignore the constitution and deny birthright citizenship from thousands of innocent children.
It's a cruel, egregious overstep of his authority.
We're suing to stop this unlawful plan in its tracks.
It's a cruel, egregious overstep of his authority.
We're suing to stop this unlawful plan in its tracks.
January 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Whose AG is this? MY AG. And I cannot be prouder.
Mayor Wu: a person who fights for everyone in the city to have the _choice_ to take family leave. And then decideds to forge a different path of blended leave and work after giving birth.
Catching up with a few thoughts on everyone else’s thoughts on how I (& presumably all women) should behave re: work/family 🧵
Overall- important & meaningful to see the range of takes here reflecting so many personal, hard decisions made in a system that so often blocks balance & choice.
Overall- important & meaningful to see the range of takes here reflecting so many personal, hard decisions made in a system that so often blocks balance & choice.
The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, apparently worked all morning before going to the hospital to have a baby in the afternoon. 😳 That is some dedication. (Also, congrats Mayor Wu and family!)
January 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Mayor Wu: a person who fights for everyone in the city to have the _choice_ to take family leave. And then decideds to forge a different path of blended leave and work after giving birth.
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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.