Elizabeth S.
@valkyriegf.bsky.social
finally made a bsky (with my IG handle; apologies to anyone I followed who didn't recognize the handle)
Still reading more than posting.
Prison abolition. Trans rights.
she/her 🏳🌈
Still reading more than posting.
Prison abolition. Trans rights.
she/her 🏳🌈
![Upon [James] Storrow’s death, his wife Helen Osbourne Storrow sought to memorialise his efforts and ensure that his vision would be fulfilled. She generously donated one million dollars in his name “to enlarge and beautify the Boston shores of the Charles river" (Cox, 7). The City of Boston also contributed $400,000. By 1929, efforts were underway to improve the esplanade, offering enough seating, shade, and interesting diversions to make the esplanade a destination worth visiting.
In subsequent decades, Helen Storrow stood up against the construction of a freeway that would cut into the Esplanade, protecting the space. Only after her death in 1944 was the freeway constructed, forcing planners to then shrink the width of the Esplanade and lengthen it instead.
Frustratingly, today that freeway which Storrow resisted is named for her. This incorrect memorialisation would probably mislead many into forgetting or confusing her legacy for Boston.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2tosb4qcnpwvgcgitksoitq/bafkreibwwiajvj26q6gcbak3uxpf65t4lcz43aecjyi6bwcpwdbqwqicam@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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[OP said, "Interesting reflections from India Walton, the democratic socialist who won the Buffalo mayor primary in 2021 but lost in the general to the establishment mayor hellgatenyc.com/india-walton... "]
[OP said, "Interesting reflections from India Walton, the democratic socialist who won the Buffalo mayor primary in 2021 but lost in the general to the establishment mayor hellgatenyc.com/india-walton... "]
![[interviewer] What should Mamdani be thinking about as he pivots into a general election.
[India Walton] One mistake that I think I made, an unforced error, was trying to be friendly with the people who I knew were trying to take me out. Instead of staying true to my message and my base, I moderated. I started changing my message to placate who I thought would have been a traditional, moderate, Democratic base. I'm not even talking about voters. It was the party that I was trying to get acceptance from.
I think that his messaging is fantastic. I think that for him, the race til November needs to be staying on message—we can't start to water it down because we think it's going to attract a more moderate Democrat. It's not. They hate you; they're not going to stop hating you because you tweak your message to sound less radical. And what's so radical anyway about wanting people to have a place to live, food to eat and childcare for your children?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2tosb4qcnpwvgcgitksoitq/bafkreihrws4i5itljm53hmdifg33flppodpxxaphhb4uunbmzhkxhqj4vm@jpeg)
June 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
reposting with alt text
[OP said, "Interesting reflections from India Walton, the democratic socialist who won the Buffalo mayor primary in 2021 but lost in the general to the establishment mayor hellgatenyc.com/india-walton... "]
[OP said, "Interesting reflections from India Walton, the democratic socialist who won the Buffalo mayor primary in 2021 but lost in the general to the establishment mayor hellgatenyc.com/india-walton... "]
