Welcome to Boston Josefine!

I was so focused on avoiding SA triggers around the Epstein Files, I was fully off my guard when I found out Brand New is launching a reunion this year. Really? Jesse releases a vague apology, the band keeps their heads down for a couple years, and we're expected to joyfully welcome them back? GFY

I am genuinely concerned about the dramatic increase legal gambling and what that's going to mean for increasingly desperate working class people over the next few years. Kalshi and Draft Kings about to destroy some families

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Full Bad Bunny speech

Lovely how every time there's a big Epstein file dump we all feel like we have to relive all our teen girl sexual harassment/abuse trauma publicly because we've culturally memoryholed the horrors of 1970's-2000's "jailbait" shit

Between fighting fascism, doing my normal job, and sleeping, I still watch TV to cut down on the stress headaches. What am I watching? @vicmmic.bsky.social. Vic as Hugie on Gladlands, Vic as the host of VIP, Vic as Sheryl on PONIES. Cheers and thank you to Vic for their work in these trying times.

This federal regime is arresting journalists while they let murderers walk free. The resistance isn’t coming from our political institutions. It is coming from communities, organizing together. You can help me bring those tools to Washington. I will use them to #AbolishICE: bethfordemocracy.com

I truly do not know how to get my boss to understand that if I am not the one sending, I 👏 can 👏not 👏 make👏 other 👏 people 👏 cc 👏 you 👏 on 👏 emails 👏

I keep misreading "Grok" as "Gronk" and it has lead to several misunderstandings.

Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.

one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces

"Please get the truth out about our son." Right now, Alex Pretti's parents have no way to hold the thugs who killed him accountable. That's why we have to do more than stop funding DHS and ICE—we need to abolish qualified immunity and secure justice for these families.

Treat yourself to an art break amid all the horrors. This season includes numbers about feminism, self-assurance, living far from home, America, and fighting God. onstagedanceco.com/performance....

I have two of the least disappointing Senators in Congress but I still call them both regularly to tell them how I want them to vote and to be meaner to other senators for me. Maybe they'll do it maybe they won't, but chances are better when you ask.

I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.

Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

The Malden Warming Center is normally open from 7pm-7:30am, but in anticipation of the coming storm they are planning on letting guests stay throughout the day this weekend. Considering donating to help cover extra operational costs? Volunteer shifts are all covered. givebutter.com/MWC25-26

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

"I go to sleep every night knowing I am making way more of a difference in the world than I ever would have as a human-rights lawyer."

I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values. Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +

One thing I feel like we don't warn people new to getting involved about is that at a certain point, there is another news story that makes you feel "I have to do something" - but you will already be doing everything you reasonably can. And you either sit with that feeling or get unreasonable.

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

We’re hosting free flu and COVID-19 vaccine clinics this month. No appointment is necessary, just stop in and get vaccinated. 1/10, 10am - 2pm: Josephine A. Fiorentino Community Center in Brighton 1/14, 3pm - 7pm: BCYF Hyde Park 1/15, 3 - 7pm: BCYF Perkins in Dorchester boston.gov/vaccine-clinics

In a few years someone is going to ask me why tried to learn Portuguese and I'll have to answer honestly that it came from supporting @bostonlegacyfc.com 😂

I called Senator Cassidy before this confirmation came to him in committee. I begged him to uphold his oaths as a doctor, as a Christian, as a representative for Americans and especially American children, to do what he knew was right and refuse to confirm RFK. I'm fairly sure he wasn't listening.

I'm leaving for France in a week and I suspect my husband might start texting me pictures of the dog 5x a day to remind me that I have to come back.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

I am going through old files from my phone, and found among the dozens of snapshots of B, a picture of the front and back of my old boss's corporate card, and this photo of Alyssa Naher, which I did not take.

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

"We're just wondering where the kids are," he said, sounding for all the world like he was ready to lead said kids into his windowless van

As some who's had the chance to see a run through of this show...you're gonna want to catch the Season 29 performance on Jan 17th. 2pm or 7pm. PERFORMANCE - Onstage share.google/kzBTYqzZeiQ6...

Friend in Westchester NY is trying to place a very friendly cat that hangs out in their yard. The cat is good with other cats. Please spread the word. They’ll have to go to aspca if it gets much colder (yes they built a temp shelter plz read the screenshot). #adoptdontshop #Westchester #PeekskillNY

I know it's not January yet but I want the @nwslsoccer.com schedule SO BAD.

Fun reminder that in 2022, MA approved a second income tax bracket: an additional 4% on income over $1mil* Since then, highways and public transit have improved and Community College is now free to residents. The wealthy have not left. Tax the rich. *The statewide income tax rate is 5%

As I understand it, this is 90% of the men on Hinge

I had been wondering what Simu Liu was up to and a few days later a trailer for The Copenhagen Test appeared. I'm midway through the first episode and this is a STRONG start.

OMG it’s a bus full of cuties

An expert panel without a single Black voice on it? I knew y'all thought we weren't smart. I didn't think you'd be so blatant. I didn't even see CAF representation despite having CAF players listed. Before you get mad at me for pointing it out, look within.

At some point you must conclude that the NWSL Board of Governors do not watch soccer

I woke up and everything's still on fire but also @bostonlegacyfc.com has signed my girl Ella Stevens so I'm just gonna keep focusing on living for the 2026 season.

We've been hearing all year that there's no place in sports for trans kids...does that make them exempt from Trump's Hunger Games?

Seth is planning to run against Ed Markey and knows he has to pretend to care about trans kids to get the LGBTQ vote in MA But post 2024 election, he blamed the loss on including trans rights in the platform. Earlier 2025, he argued that trans kids don't belong in sports. He helped this happen.

Trans kids are going to die, and they want them to. We have to not want them to die more.

they're doing hunger games

I am running to be the first openly nonbinary member of Congress: bethfordemocracy.com Because we are more than pawns in some sick political game. This is my life, my faith and my community. I know that together we can build a better world.

It's giving "oh, honey" I stopped believing that we could fight the dangerousness of the right by fighting bots on Twitter long before this platform existed.