TIL about Operation MIlkweed operationmilkweed.org which is a clearinghouse of links for GoFundMe's for Massachusetts families harmed by ICE, and other organizations helping those families.

Here go the democrats negotiating against themselves again. Shut it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Here are the seven Democrats who voted for ICE funding: •Davis (NC-01) •Cuellar (TX-28) •Gillen (NY-04) •Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) •Gonzalez (TX-34) •Golden (ME-02) •Suozzi (NY-03) Wouldn’t it be nice to see them all challenged? But alas…. See 🧵

Organizing is 10% doing the thing and 90% trying to make it as simple and accessible for other people to do the thing

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

True story, last week my mom, who is gf, was in an ER for about 8 hours with no food that she could eat. Eventually someone found her a banana. When I got there late in the evening, I brought her a meal from home, but otherwise she might have gotten nothing until morning.

Completely agree with this. Roberts Court decisions should not stand as precedent, if we can get to a point where we are healing the damage of these years.

Trump’s plan is that the entire world uses Chinese EVs while America’s auto industry sells gas powered cars literally only to Americans

We agreed to meet at noon.

Between the pardons for other drug traffickers and the obvious collusion between DOJ and a political agenda, you'd think there would be a vindictive prosecution case. Just thinking about the recent Abrego Garcia case. Or hey maybe it'll be a good old fascist show trial.

This is a beautiful wish.

I vaguely knew that American political parties don't have much control over who adopts their label, but TIL that "party discipline" is not just not practiced, it's illegal in our electoral system..

Another huge blinding neon sign of how Not Normal politics is right now. The very mention of a politician cutting a single penny of funding to homeless vets would've been a major scandal at any time between WWII and 2016. Today? Billions of dollars? Just part of the scenery.

This shows Democrats should contest every race, in all 50 states. Concede nothing. Gerrymandering wins again,. tonight, but the day will come when districts like this will be tinder for the fire. bsky.app/profile/tani...

I see we have reached the "collective punishment" page of the Nazi playbook. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

It's not just the ones who folded. Schumer has been signaling all week that a capitulation was going to be a-ok, not holding the caucus together. His no vote is no figleaf.

There is a petition to sign and not much time - deadline is Nov 19.

That seems about right to me.

Taking a moment to honor the aunts by courtesy and by blood in my life, most of them gone now. They've been my guides when I needed them.

I don't get it. Why isn't Dem leadership using the ballroom as a symbol of lawless destruction and connecting that to the SNAP benefits cuts next week?

A reminder to Massachusetts voters, next Saturday Oct 25 is the close of voter registration before election day. You can check your registration status and register online at www.sec.state.ma.us/ovr/ See you at the voting booth showing "this is what democracy looks like" all over again.

My list isn't exactly this but it's similar. It's not sustainable.

It's outrageous to say "America should have no kings and no tyrants." I'm going to go be outrageous, see you there!

That plane wasn't a bribe or anything.

Every city Trump is targeting is an economic hub upon which this country depends to survive. That's where the money they're spending on ICE comes from They are depending on us to keep handing them sacks of cash while meekly submitting to authoritarian rule, and we can simply not

I'm deeply disappointed in Rep. Katherine Clark's decision to vote yes to support the bill memorializing Charlie Kirk. It is offensive to all who have been attacked by Kirk's anti-Semitism and bigotry. She, along with Jeffries displayed a lack of leadership when we need to resist MAGA lies.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Massachusetts passes laws with glacial speed, and, for a solidly Blue state, has been curiously unresponsive to some of the avenues for change. This film highlights the legislative structures that are making that status stay quo. www.shadowsdoc.com - watch the trailer, support the film.

You're inside my head, right?

If ever there were a day that needed a bit of whimsy here you go.

SOS! The crew on 'Handala' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Chris Smalls is a citizen of the U.S. Tag the U.S. Department of State NOW: X: @StateDept and @SecRubio FB: @U.S. Department of State Instagram: @statedept @secrubio

The point that if Planned Parenthood can be cut off of funding so can anyone else is one I haven't seen spelled out often enough.

Great turn out for No Kings in Melrose.

Technology is not destiny. This whole thread is important.

The application of law, absent justice, mercy, or common sense....

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

I try to be cynical but it's just too hard to keep up ...

That's the "state's rights unless it inconveniences our donors" interpretation of the Constitution.

@bluedroplet.bsky.social sent the following message to Governor Healey in response to the kidnapping by ICE in Worcester, and the disgraceful response by the police. I sent my own copy and urge everyone to do the same.

Which people are disenfranchised by the SAVE Act? Even if you have the documents, if you update your voting registration, you need to show the documents in person. So - anyone who works during election office hours, anyone who is far from an election office, disabled people, non-drivers ... ANYONE.

Seen in Somerville.

This is what Democracy looks like. indyweek.com/news/how-one...

On the way home on the Green Line, the group of singers leading "If I Had a Hammer" and "We Shall Overcome", just the right finish.

AND ALSO: this rule strips ACA protection from DACA recipients, shortens the enrollment period by 30 days, removes some of the consumer guardrails around automatic re-enrollment, and seems to make more people have to do income verification. with less time to do it in. So stand with EVERYONE.

If thats not proof of the old lyric 'money cant buy you love' l dont know what is. Congrat to Susan Crawford and the people of Wisconsin.

If you have the resources and time to go to Open Secrets and find out how much money a PAC actually sent to candidates (in one case it was $0) you are not the mark they are looking for.

Norwegian Wood. The tune is a complete earworm for me but who doesn't love the story of "She gave me a place to stay but wouldn't sleep with me so I burned down her apartment".

This is exactly where I think we're at.