kristamm
@kristamm.bsky.social
Toast connoisseur and elected school committee devotee.
Employee @massedjustice but opinions all my own.
Employee @massedjustice but opinions all my own.
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Boston folks: In classic @bostonschools.boston.gov fashion, BPS JUST RELEASED a survey on the school closures proposed LAST WEEK.
The survey runs this holiday-shortened week and ends next week (🙃), so please fill it out!
Even if your school isn't impacted now, it WILL be impacted in the future.
The survey runs this holiday-shortened week and ends next week (🙃), so please fill it out!
Even if your school isn't impacted now, it WILL be impacted in the future.
Panorama Education
surveys.panoramaed.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Boston folks: In classic @bostonschools.boston.gov fashion, BPS JUST RELEASED a survey on the school closures proposed LAST WEEK.
The survey runs this holiday-shortened week and ends next week (🙃), so please fill it out!
Even if your school isn't impacted now, it WILL be impacted in the future.
The survey runs this holiday-shortened week and ends next week (🙃), so please fill it out!
Even if your school isn't impacted now, it WILL be impacted in the future.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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Massachusetts folks: call/email your state reps and tell them to vote no on the climate rollback bill. Great toolkit for this here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ACTION TOOLKIT: House Climate Rollback Bill
TOOLKIT: Mass Power Forward Action on Cusack’s Costly Climate Rollback Bill, H.4744 Table of Contents Background How to Fight Back Core Messaging from which all communications flow Crafting Your...
docs.google.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Massachusetts folks: call/email your state reps and tell them to vote no on the climate rollback bill. Great toolkit for this here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The right thinks the left will fight to protect Bill Clinton. The actual left thinks the middle will fight to protect Bill Clinton. But I want to believe — tonight as winter creeps closer, and even the tiniest glimmer of hope is impossibly precious — that nobody would protect Bill Clinton.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
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Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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Well, friends, we lost this one.
Thank you to everyone who sent in their comments and took time out of their lives to try and prevent @bostonschools.boston.gov and @mayorwu.boston.gov from doubling down on exclusion.
We’re not done.
Thank you to everyone who sent in their comments and took time out of their lives to try and prevent @bostonschools.boston.gov and @mayorwu.boston.gov from doubling down on exclusion.
We’re not done.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Well, friends, we lost this one.
Thank you to everyone who sent in their comments and took time out of their lives to try and prevent @bostonschools.boston.gov and @mayorwu.boston.gov from doubling down on exclusion.
We’re not done.
Thank you to everyone who sent in their comments and took time out of their lives to try and prevent @bostonschools.boston.gov and @mayorwu.boston.gov from doubling down on exclusion.
We’re not done.
Nooooooo, they had some of the best politics reporting in the country!
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Nooooooo, they had some of the best politics reporting in the country!
What movie do you consider "perfect"?
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
What movie do you consider "perfect"?
At the @bostonschools.boston.gov school committee meeting. Only five members present tonight, the last meeting before the slated vote on exam school admissions changes. So given that SC members are basically unreachable except via public comment, how are we meant to talk to the missing three?
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
At the @bostonschools.boston.gov school committee meeting. Only five members present tonight, the last meeting before the slated vote on exam school admissions changes. So given that SC members are basically unreachable except via public comment, how are we meant to talk to the missing three?
Enjoying how zoom calls in New England in October reveal who turns their heat on and who is battling it out.
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Enjoying how zoom calls in New England in October reveal who turns their heat on and who is battling it out.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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That Tim Waltz transferred state funding and Maura Healey asked us to donate money tells us a great deal about the difference between them
minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walz-...
minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walz-...
Walz directs $4 million to food shelves as SNAP cutoff approaches • Minnesota Reformer
Gov. Tim Walz is giving food banks a $4 million boost as the emergency food system braces for the temporary pause of SNAP benefits due to the federal government shutdown. SNAP — Supplemental Nutritio...
minnesotareformer.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
That Tim Waltz transferred state funding and Maura Healey asked us to donate money tells us a great deal about the difference between them
minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walz-...
minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walz-...
Come to a community discussion about this tomorrow!!
bit.ly/BPSExamSchoolsCommunityDiscussion
bit.ly/BPSExamSchoolsCommunityDiscussion
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Come to a community discussion about this tomorrow!!
bit.ly/BPSExamSchoolsCommunityDiscussion
bit.ly/BPSExamSchoolsCommunityDiscussion
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all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
So disappointing. Fenway is supposed to be THE location for LGBTQIA care in Boston.
1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.
It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.
Community members are devastated.
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It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.
Community members are devastated.
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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump
“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”
www.erininthemorning.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So disappointing. Fenway is supposed to be THE location for LGBTQIA care in Boston.
Absolutely floored
Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Absolutely floored
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Everyone should experience the humbling effect of sending out a small request to an organizing listserve [of people who have self-selected to be on said list] and getting zero responses. It will help you to understand how hard it is to organize anything.
October 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Everyone should experience the humbling effect of sending out a small request to an organizing listserve [of people who have self-selected to be on said list] and getting zero responses. It will help you to understand how hard it is to organize anything.
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cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
October 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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"Blue" state Massachusetts is using a stacked "antisemitism" commission to join the Trump administration in suppressing criticism of Israel and its genocide and ethnic cleansing. Governor Healey should be ashamed.
jewishjournal.org/2025/10/03/p...
jewishjournal.org/2025/10/03/p...
Public commenters overwhelmingly reject antisemitism commission's findings and composition - Jewish Journal
BOSTON – Dozens of Jews and several legislators offered some suggestions for – but mostly criticisms of – the work of the state’s Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism at its public comment ses...
jewishjournal.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Blue" state Massachusetts is using a stacked "antisemitism" commission to join the Trump administration in suppressing criticism of Israel and its genocide and ethnic cleansing. Governor Healey should be ashamed.
jewishjournal.org/2025/10/03/p...
jewishjournal.org/2025/10/03/p...
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Powerful testimony last week by Alain Jehlen and State Sen. Pat Jehlen against the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which the MA Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism is trying to force on Massachusetts schools.
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Powerful testimony last week by Alain Jehlen and State Sen. Pat Jehlen against the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which the MA Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism is trying to force on Massachusetts schools.