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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 21h

They didn't even try!! Meanwhile Children's is out here ten toes down on the topic

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 21h

So disappointing. Fenway is supposed to be THE location for LGBTQIA care in Boston.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21h

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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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

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely floored

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 2d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

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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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 11d

That was tacky, but also unfortunately straight couples are frequently not actually friends.

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Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 11d

"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...

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

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Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social · 15d

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.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18d

Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 20d

He is in great shape, I'm sure he feels able, and also unfortunately statistics are against him. He's already just over the average American male lifespan!

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 20d

Because he'll be 80 years old starting a 6-year term! I love him but we have got to start convincing our politicians that part of their job is creating people who can take their place so we don't have Dianne Feinsteins and Eleanor Holmes Nortons all over the place!

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 20d

<250 responses to a Google form are the totality of community feedback on this sudden change.

Here’s why I’m against this proposal:

Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · Sep 11

Sorry for yet *another* Sumner post, but with the opening of the new Sarah Roberts school in Boston I believe her case pertinent to the continued gatekeeping of public schools.

BLS is a hell of a drug, so maybe folks addicted to it will consider the words of an esteemed alumnus 175 years later.

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 20d

I sent this text to someone seated across from me at a meeting recently. This has not been my favorite week and I am out of basic decency.

I am not in a headspace to be kind tonight so I need to shut up, please kick me when my face betrays me

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 20d

"abolish ICE" also accepted but yeah your point stands

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 20d

an elderly woman says it 's almost too correct in front of a white board

ALT: an elderly woman says it 's almost too correct in front of a white board

media.tenor.com

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 21d

Please take a second to sign this petition — BPS is YET AGAIN trying to get away with a lazy & shallow community engagement process for a really significant potential change. We as families at least deserve more time to understand the proposals.

Jamaica Plain Progressives @jpprogressives.bsky.social · 21d

Sign to Urge Boston Public Schools to Allow Time For Community Feedback: actionnetwork.org/petitions/bp...
Take a second to sign this petition & ask @bostonschools.boston.gov to extend the community engagement process for proposed exam school changes -- families deserve robust, in-depth engagement!

Support BPS Exam School Admission Policy Changes

Boston deserves a fair, transparent, and inclusive process - one that reflects our shared values of equity, diversity and educational opportunity for all students This decision is too important to ru...

actionnetwork.org

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 21d

I had to physically stop myself from yelling "transphobe" at him at the convention but I'll drop the rules of polite society if he runs

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 21d

JFC how

How is this even possible

Are they in a shallow grave somewhere or what

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 22d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jamaica Plain Progressives @jpprogressives.bsky.social · 22d

Or next Know Your Rights training is in ONE WEEK! Sign up now!
mailchi.mp/jpprogressiv...
And join us this weekend to collect signatures during JP Open Studios.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24d

In Those Years
Adrienne Rich

In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to

But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I

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IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social · 26d

@warren.senate.gov: (617) 565-3170 / (202) 224-4543

@markey.senate.gov: (617) 565-8519 / (202) 224-2742

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 26d

Only seven Senate Democrats are signed onto a resolution put forward by Jeff Merkley for the United States recognize the State of Palestine.

They are:

Sen. Jeff Merkley
Chris Van Hollen
Tim Kaine
Bernie Sanders
Peter Welch
Tina Smith
Tammy Baldwin
Mazie Huron

Senate Democrats introduce first-ever bid to recognize Palestinian state

Senate Democrats, grappling with a party riven by Israel’s war in Gaza, plan to introduce a resolution recognizing the Palestinian state. The largely symbolic measure is expected to fail.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26d

Let your legislators know you want action to protect immigrants in MA: actionnetwork.org/letters/ma-s...

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · Sep 15

This was what I was given to understand!!

kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · Sep 15

A wild time for my first in-person convention experience.

Yawu Miller @yawumiller.bsky.social · Sep 15

A heated standoff between MassDems Chair Steve Kerrigan and angry delegates on the floor derailed the party's attempt to craft a more centrist platform.
flipsidenews.net/can-massachu...

Can Massachusetts chart a path for the Democratic Party?

Saturday’s convention highlighted the difficulty local and national Democratic party leaders have had in offering a vision that distinguishes their party from that of the Republicans.

flipsidenews.net

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · Sep 14

The organizers did an excellent job and the rest of us yelled very very loudly.

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