This cannot be allowed to stand.

It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people

I see the timeline is talking about Brookline. Your jokes are all great but here are a few facts that aren't making it into the conversation: -700 families use the Brookline food pantry each week -3400 people live in public housing (5% of town's population) -More than 50% households are renters

TY to @reptricia.bsky.social, @votesteveowens.bsky.social, @tommyvitolo.bsky.social, and the rest of the House Advanced IT committee for voting to advance critical data privacy protections! #mapoli

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Join us, JALSA, and PDM next Monday for a community town hall on stopping the brutal cuts that are about to hit MA next year. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #mapoli

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Recently, 53 Brookline residents started receiving monthly payments of $750 as part of a program created by the Brookline Housing Authority and Brookline Community Foundation. Read about how the program came together, and what it means to some of the recipients: brookline.news/53-brookline...

"In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Corporations need to pay a living wage!! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Federal immigration agents are making all of our communities less safe, and that's why MA needs to pass clear laws separating state and local law enforcement from ICE. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

Throughout my career as an organizer, I have watched as younger people show up to more established organizing venues only to have their ideas dismissed & their involvement rejected by older long-timers. Also: build more housing!

The AVERAGE in Norfolk County MA is around $27k PER CHILD. The last monthly check I wrote for two kids in full-time daycare worked out to $1075 PER WEEK. That is almost $56k per year and includes a sibling discount.

Brookline, through a vote at Town Meeting last night, will now join Boston and communities around the nation in recognizing Transgender Day of Remembrance.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

"Cities and towns across Massachusetts are doing just that. By passing home rule petitions for ranked choice voting, they are embracing a time-tested reform that makes our elections both more competitive and more collegial." #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/testimony-ci...

State education regulators say Brookline hasn't done enough to respond to a problem that's existed for five years: Black students in the district are disproportionately being identified as having learning disabilities. brookline.news/black-studen...

“Lots of people have had to eat without SNAP, so they’ve used their rent money and their utility money, [so] we are likely to see a wave of evictions and utility shutoffs. I think we’re going to see a lot of disruptions in people’s lives for months to come.” prospect.org/2025/11/14/s...

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Saying this & willing to get cancelled for it professionally: not everyone is special. Being good at math isn’t special. Especially when you attend a school where 96% of everyone is good at math compared to the rest of the state. Know what is special? Being a good person. That is special. Do good!

Today the Supreme Court decided they wanted Congress to remain the most hated branch of government, instead of taking the title for themselves.

Do you think they just wanted to make it to longest shutdown in history so it had to go on “his” record? And then that’s it they stopped caring? Tracks with their general performative nonsense.

The state of Brookline’s pedestrian infrastructure :/

the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election. one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters. when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror

SNAP UPDATE: I’m directing SNAP benefits to be processed today — and paid IN FULL starting tomorrow. Americans are going hungry because President Trump chose to play politics with their lives. People need to eat. We’re making sure they do.

Massachusetts is the most expensive state in which to raise kids, and while I know @massgovernor.bsky.social is trying, the MA Legislature is not doing nearly enough to help parents across the income spectrum. Housing & childcare are brutal. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/b...

sure is looking like if you ran against trans kids yesterday, you lost. Let us take this lesson, please. STOP PICKING ON TRANS KIDS

Merrick Garland: your inaction and cowardice will be remembered for generations.

It's impossible to overstate how grotesque this Halloween 2025 split screen is: Trump parties like its 1928 while here in Chicago, we endured yet another day of federal agents pummeling people, spraying chemical agents & pointing weapons at bystanders. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

One of the many reasons I hate this is that it takes advantage of the fact that people won't do the math. $4,200 is $11.50/day. For a family of four, that's 96¢ per meal.

A few quotes from last night on Flock: "Do we want to be North Korea?" "We should not be aiding and abetting the expansion of a nationwide surveillance network by what is obviously a bad actor." "We live in a scary time, and this is a scary technology that can be accessed by scary people."

Please join me in supporting the Brookline Food Pantry. When I was a Brookline paraprofessional, I relied on SNAP benefits to fill the gaps my salary left. Our neighbors need our help as the federal government waged war against them. Please don’t forget them.

Agreed! We should be empowering our cities and towns to take action to address local challenges, not hobbling them. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/m...

Trump’s goons are using chemical weapons against the public.

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

Prop 2 1/2 was bad when it was created, it's even worse now, and it should be relegated to the dustbin of history. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/m...

Maine has Same Day Registration. New Hampshire has Same Day Registration. Vermont has Same Day Registration. Maine has Same Day Registration. It's long overdue for MA to join them. #mapoli #SameDayinMA actionnetwork.org/letters/ma-n...

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

1. Yesterday, millions showed up to the No Kings Rally. Perhaps no one Rally was as full of subtext as Boston's, however. Senator Markey showed up wearing a trans pride flag. His challenger, anti-trans Dem Rep. Seth Moulton showed up to boos and jeers. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Some of the same folks lecturing us about Ed Markey being too old are about to throw their full weight behind Janet Mills.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

It was great to join my state representative, Kevin Honan, and other housing champions at the Abundant Housing MA IE PAC fundraiser! It’s simple: Massachusetts needs more housing. We need it now. Every lever must be pulled.

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

I can’t comprehend the sweetness - and heartbreak - of these long overdue reunions after so much time and so much trauma. Today will be beautiful, and hopefully the days that follow will be filled with peace, grace, and healing. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/13/w...

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...