Swampscott Racial Justice Action Group
@swampacottrjag.bsky.social
Though it was viewed as “radical“ in 2018, “Abolish ICE” has now become a fairly moderate position with over half of Americans surveyed saying ICE has gone too far.
maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...
maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Though it was viewed as “radical“ in 2018, “Abolish ICE” has now become a fairly moderate position with over half of Americans surveyed saying ICE has gone too far.
maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...
maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...
Asking basic questions on whether the district is continuing metrics from its CORE program is going about as well as one would expect…
sites.google.com/swampscott.k...
sites.google.com/swampscott.k...
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Asking basic questions on whether the district is continuing metrics from its CORE program is going about as well as one would expect…
sites.google.com/swampscott.k...
sites.google.com/swampscott.k...
In previous years there have been reported gaps in levels of inclusion and belonging amongst students, but with all this talk of metrics, that seems to have just disappeared from the Swampscott School District’s focus areas.
swampscotttides.org/featured/swa...
swampscotttides.org/featured/swa...
Swampscott School Committee Approves Superintendent’s Goals
Superintendent Jason Calichman sits in his old Middle School office || Monica Sager In a brief meeting held on Thursday, November 6, the Swampscott School Committee voted 4–1 to approve Superintend…
swampscotttides.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In previous years there have been reported gaps in levels of inclusion and belonging amongst students, but with all this talk of metrics, that seems to have just disappeared from the Swampscott School District’s focus areas.
swampscotttides.org/featured/swa...
swampscotttides.org/featured/swa...
Reposted by Swampscott Racial Justice Action Group
Fuck ICE and Fitchburg PD. We have laws in this state that say cops are not supposed to assist ICE. Nevermind that they did nothing to help that man during a medical event.
ICE agents take mother into custody during hostile arrest in Fitchburg
The Fitchburg Police Department says its assistance was requested twice by ICE agents during a raid in the city Thursday morning.
www.wcvb.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Fuck ICE and Fitchburg PD. We have laws in this state that say cops are not supposed to assist ICE. Nevermind that they did nothing to help that man during a medical event.
Again, the person who attacked him seems to be a fan of Trump and not even remotely “liberal” by all accounts, but his entire identity seems wrapped up in being a victim to “the violent left” at this point so he’s just going to try and post through it.
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Again, the person who attacked him seems to be a fan of Trump and not even remotely “liberal” by all accounts, but his entire identity seems wrapped up in being a victim to “the violent left” at this point so he’s just going to try and post through it.
Because this story is making the rounds and because people are trying to pin this on the No Kings attendees… it is pretty easy to find the man who attacked the other man in the inflatable trump outfit on social media. He appears to also be a Trump supporter.
www.wcvb.com/article/man-...
www.wcvb.com/article/man-...
Man dressed in Trump costume allegedly assaulted at 'No Kings' protest
A man dressed in a Donald Trump costume was allegedly assualted by another man during a 'No Kings' rally in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
www.wcvb.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Because this story is making the rounds and because people are trying to pin this on the No Kings attendees… it is pretty easy to find the man who attacked the other man in the inflatable trump outfit on social media. He appears to also be a Trump supporter.
www.wcvb.com/article/man-...
www.wcvb.com/article/man-...
The great thing about local Facebook group posts casually posting something like a picture or video of the No Kings rally today in Swampscott is that it gives you a good block list in that group to make your online experience better.
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The great thing about local Facebook group posts casually posting something like a picture or video of the No Kings rally today in Swampscott is that it gives you a good block list in that group to make your online experience better.
No Kings Swampscott is underway at the Monument.
October 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
No Kings Swampscott is underway at the Monument.
Racism is a political policy choice. This is why those here on the North Shore of MA who descended from Irish and Italian immigrants do not find themselves oppressed despite historic discrimination.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Racism is a political policy choice. This is why those here on the North Shore of MA who descended from Irish and Italian immigrants do not find themselves oppressed despite historic discrimination.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
It’s worth a reminder that what bigoted social media influencers and their followers call “debate” is really just a way to create, often highly edited, hate-based content for like-minded viewers. We have had this show up in our history here in Swampscott.
jewishjournal.org/2022/11/23/s...
jewishjournal.org/2022/11/23/s...
She has Jewish relatives. And she’s the state’s Holocaust denier-in-chief - Jewish Journal
Meet Dianna Ploss, the demagogue next door. Unsuccessful candidate for governor of “Mass-a-JEW-setts,” as she phrases it. Holocaust denier and alt-right extremist. In her telling, Jews, Israel, and th...
jewishjournal.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It’s worth a reminder that what bigoted social media influencers and their followers call “debate” is really just a way to create, often highly edited, hate-based content for like-minded viewers. We have had this show up in our history here in Swampscott.
jewishjournal.org/2022/11/23/s...
jewishjournal.org/2022/11/23/s...
Violent events are always tragic, but maybe our local governments shouldn’t put our flags to half mast for a victim of it who often encouraged violence and had no redeeming qualities.
Cc @massgovernor.bsky.social
Cc @massgovernor.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Violent events are always tragic, but maybe our local governments shouldn’t put our flags to half mast for a victim of it who often encouraged violence and had no redeeming qualities.
Cc @massgovernor.bsky.social
Cc @massgovernor.bsky.social
Why is it important to allow for more housing, especially multi-family housing, to be built in your town? Well part of it is to save democracy, and unfortunately that isn’t hyperbole or “partisan” to say right now.
#mapoli
www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...
#mapoli
www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...
Explainer: Understanding the mid-decade redistricting push in Texas
Powerful new techniques and a partisan environment are influencing congressional redistricting by Texas Republicans, Benjamin Schneer explains. Schneer is a faculty member at Harvard Kennedy School.
www.hks.harvard.edu
September 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Why is it important to allow for more housing, especially multi-family housing, to be built in your town? Well part of it is to save democracy, and unfortunately that isn’t hyperbole or “partisan” to say right now.
#mapoli
www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...
#mapoli
www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...
People sure like to complain about bike lanes. “Bike lanes” have become code for “woke liberal nonsense” and to some they are even part of a global conspiracy focused on evil communist control (sadly, not a joke).
September 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
People sure like to complain about bike lanes. “Bike lanes” have become code for “woke liberal nonsense” and to some they are even part of a global conspiracy focused on evil communist control (sadly, not a joke).
The executive summary from Swampscott’s DEI consulting engagement (or at least the slides portion) is now available to the public via the town’s website. This is 3 months after it was presented to the Select Board.
www.swampscottma.gov/sites/g/file...
www.swampscottma.gov/sites/g/file...
www.swampscottma.gov
August 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The executive summary from Swampscott’s DEI consulting engagement (or at least the slides portion) is now available to the public via the town’s website. This is 3 months after it was presented to the Select Board.
www.swampscottma.gov/sites/g/file...
www.swampscottma.gov/sites/g/file...
Only the classiest individuals in the Swampscott area follow this account.
August 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Only the classiest individuals in the Swampscott area follow this account.
In Swampscott, we only allow housing with 4 or more units on 0.5% of our land. With the MBTA Communities Act, we might raise that to 1%. The state average is a paltry 4%. Tedesco takes up 7.4% of our land in Swampscott.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/b...
96 percent of Massachusetts is off limits to most apartment buildings. Some hope a new map will change that. - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts Zoning Atlas is part of a broader effort to document the zoning of every state in the United States.
www.bostonglobe.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In Swampscott, we only allow housing with 4 or more units on 0.5% of our land. With the MBTA Communities Act, we might raise that to 1%. The state average is a paltry 4%. Tedesco takes up 7.4% of our land in Swampscott.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/b...
“Swampscott is just the buffer between Marblehead and Lynn” is an old joke people used to say as a way to denigrate people who live in Lynn. To be clear, the subtext of the joke is racist and classist.
#mapoli
marbleheadcurrent.org/2025/07/08/b...
#mapoli
marbleheadcurrent.org/2025/07/08/b...
BREAKING NEWS: Marblehead voters overturn multifamily housing zoning - Marblehead Current
Marblehead’s voters Tuesday overturned state-mandated multifamily housing overlay districts approved at May’s Town Meeting, with 6,939 of 16,732 registered voters turning out to reject the measure 3,6...
marbleheadcurrent.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“Swampscott is just the buffer between Marblehead and Lynn” is an old joke people used to say as a way to denigrate people who live in Lynn. To be clear, the subtext of the joke is racist and classist.
#mapoli
marbleheadcurrent.org/2025/07/08/b...
#mapoli
marbleheadcurrent.org/2025/07/08/b...
The Swampscott Police Department is starting a “Peace Officer” training program soon in a perhaps well intentioned, but misguided effort to improve the department.
July 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The Swampscott Police Department is starting a “Peace Officer” training program soon in a perhaps well intentioned, but misguided effort to improve the department.
Reposted by Swampscott Racial Justice Action Group
Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT
July 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT
As if climate activists didn’t have enough overwhelming anxiety about the future.
#mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
#mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI
Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these vis...
www.wbur.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
As if climate activists didn’t have enough overwhelming anxiety about the future.
#mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
#mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
April 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
