A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation

Diritti umani, la denuncia di Amnesty: “Dopo 3 anni di governo Meloni sono in caduta libera” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/12/17/news/amnesty_rapporto_diritti_italia_governo_meloni-425045350/?rss

Federal tax prosecutions have fallen to their lowest level in decades — dropping 27% the past year. This comes after Trump made deep cuts to the IRS. DOJ agents were reportedly also told not to prioritize tax prosecutions. Tax cheats must be thrilled.

@theintercept.com: Demand an investigation into the costs of Trump's troop deployments. Trump’s military occupation of U.S. cities has already cost the American public $473 million, according to an expert estimate provided exclusively to The Intercept. actionnetwork.org/letters/troo...

Congestion pricing in NYC has worked and has become popular. Cities like Boston should follow. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/o...

Just pure unadulterated evil

@fairmediawatch.bsky.social: The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up. fair.org/home/press-r...

@cityofsomerville.bsky.social @benforward3.bsky.social The "redesign" and repaving of Somerville Ave @ Central St: an ode to asphalt and concrete, what a missed opportunity! There was plenty of room to add a row of trees that would have transformed the nature of that desolate stretch of street.

Millions are set to lose food assistance even after the shutdown ends. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” delivers the largest SNAP cuts in history, with new work rules that could push 2.4 million people off benefits. @reyannaj.bsky.social reports on what’s at stake.

@350ma.bsky.social: actionnetwork.org/letters/ma-h...

@jvp.bsky.social: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib introduced a resolution in Congress that recognizes the Israeli government’s genocide against Palestinians and calls for accountability. She has already been joined by 20 of her colleagues. ✍️ Write to your member of Congress: jvpa.tools/lhkTCY

The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL

A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.

www.bendthearc.us/reject_adl_m... @jvp.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social

Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations. Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it. F the patriarchy.

“Delegates to the climate conference in Brazil must accelerate commitments to rapidly developing a low-carbon economy. There is no Planet B.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Excellent resource from @progressivemass.bsky.social to find out where your MA legislators stand as we move toward the mid-terms. scorecard.progressivemass.com

"MA has a higher GDP than Sweden. We can meet the needs of all of our residents. We just need the political will to do so."

Winter is coming, yet a $4 billion program that helps nearly 6 million low-income households with their energy bills is on hold due to the government shutdown. “Pipes will freeze, people will die” if the shutdown continues, said one expert.

VOTE YES on 3 to divest Somerville tax dollars out of companies complicit in the ongoing occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine. This includes divesting from surveillance technology and weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ma... @jvp.bsky.social @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social

NEVER FORGET: In July 2025, the GOP passed the BBB with $75B in additional, multi-year funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). BUT the GOP Congress will NOT negotiate to EXTEND ACA Subsidies for 20M+ Americans for $32B. #GOPPriorities

Muslim British Journalist Sami Hamdi has been abducted by ICE. He was already in the U.S. legally on a visa, but was abducted while attempting to fly from San Francisco to Florida on a domestic flight. Laura Loomer is taking credit for getting him abducted due to his criticism of Israel and the US.

Is Boston as creative? @mayorwu.boston.gov @indivisible.org @jonathancohn.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

24 million Americans are about to see their health insurance premiums double. 40 million Americans are about to see their SNAP benefits expire. But I'm glad to her he's fully focused on his ugly-ass gold ballroom.

@indivisible.org: Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.

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www.bostonreview.net/articles/the... @bostonreview.bsky.social: «[A]chieving broadly shared abundance [..] calls for a serious revival of New Deal politics, not a doubling down on the ethos of neoliberalism—however appealingly rebranded.»

“Now that it’s done, it’s safe to be uncomfortable with it.”

jacobin.com/2025/08/mamd... @jacobinmag.bsky.social: «It is a true “Which side are you on?” moment in New York, and increasingly national, politics. If Democratic leaders do not get over their fear of Mamdani, they will show themselves not just to be enemies of policies ...

jacobin.com/2025/08/isra... Two months into the war, @jacobinmag.bsky.social warned that, based on the mountain of horrific facts, figures, and testimony coming out of it, what we were seeing in Gaza was “not ‘just another terrible war’ but something altogether different.”

actionnetwork.org/letters/anti... @jvpcjournal.bsky.social @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social Before Thurs Aug 7 at 1PM, CALL AND EMAIL YOUR REPS TO tell them an unelected commission should not be voting to force a "Don't Say Palestine" Rule on our K-12 Schools.

"In recent months, as judges serve as bulwarks against his administration’s lawless actions, the president has lashed out, leading his supporters to inundate them with threats." newrepublic.com/post/198678/...

www.btselem.org/publications... "The recognition that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, & the deep concern that it may expand to other areas where Palestinians live under Israeli rule, demand urgent & unequivocal action from Israeli society & the international community."

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

"I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation, and it's man-made, and that's very clear" www.reuters.com/business/hea...

@actionnetwork.bsky.social: The herbicide atrazine must be banned immediately. It’s far too toxic to continue to be used in the United States. It's so dangerous that it has been banned in more than 60 other countries. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ma...

🧪 The EPA is eliminating its scientific research arm and firing hundreds of scientists. This move, enabled by a Supreme Court ruling, dismantles the office providing independent research for environmental policies. #Climate

jacobin.com/2025/07/elon... @jacobinmag.bsky.social: «To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Musk wants to take this strategy national.»

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp: