Top 5 books out of 29 I read this year #booksky #top5: - Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy - Not My Father’s Son by @alancumming.bsky.social - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab - Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

The worst thing about our system is that it will probably take years for these confessions to lead to consequences (if any)

I guess I’m just gonna keep sharing this paper: “The difference between the weakest & strongest woman, the shortest and tallest man, are much larger than the differences between the average woman and man” Let kids play! www.jstor.org/stable/26927...

Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.

Getting to the end of a conference as an introvert truly feels like completing a marathon (ok I’ve never run a marathon).

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

At the beginning of the shutdown Dems were losing the messaging on whose fault it was but the fact that the Trump administration was suing to not fund snap was getting through. It was working.

Election Day! Which in my small city means seeing if the right wingers who have been losing their minds over the current progressive city council have actually organized around backlash and misinformation as much as they think they have. Here’s hoping it’s all just facebook noise #medford #mapoli

I was always an Election Day voter prior to Covid but that time period really taught me that you never know what can happen on one day. So now I’m an early voter and while the waiting is hard it still feels great! #vote

One of my fav bands came up on my shuffle and I wondered if they were touring so I looked it up and they played in my area LAST NIGHT! Hope people enjoyed Of Monsters and Men.

It’s important to remember that community care doesn’t have to come in the form of $100s in donations or dropping off pallets of food. Sometimes it’s picking up an extra rotisserie chicken for a neighbor, or doing a grocery pick up for an elder, or helping someone with laundry or childcare.

If you want fewer people fed by SNAP then you should advocate for a higher minimum wage

A reminder in response to the food crisis about to hit with the loss of SNAP that the best thing to support food banks is a cash donation. They can buy food in bulk in a way to stretch the money.

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

“Constant cutting of good science is eventually just gonna erode all of the progress that we made in terms of disease treatments and interventions and public health,” Dr. Irene Yang, a registered nurse and health researcher, said. (Published August) www.thexylom.com/post/atlanta...

We wouldn’t have to primary Markey if he didn’t run and got behind a progressive candidate which is what both he and Warren should both be doing. We need examples of aging leadership actually leading in a next generation #mapoli

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work. And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023 www.lucemass.org

Guys we need to bring pink gin to the US. It’s a big thing in Ireland and it’s delightful #tgif

Bought and then immediately returned steaks at Wegmans that rang up (correctly!) at $75/lb. Obviously didn’t notice until my total bill was almost double my usual. What are steakhouses charging these days? $400?

I highly respect @edmarkey.bsky.social as my senator but he should not run for another 6 year term at 79 yrs old. #mapoli www.boston.com/news/politic...

The world is bleak so I’ve been watching dark crime dramas: Dept Q on Netflix Untamed on Netflix Smoke on AppleTV Excited to try Task on HBO next. #tvsky

It is truly the lesson that Democrats refuse to learn no matter how many times it fails. What made the biggest impact - when Stacey Abrams mobilized the base and invested in get out the vote in GA and almost won. Fight the voter suppression and we can get the numbers.

Yes! My god, the whole reason they are engaging in nation-wide gerrymandering is because they know they don't have the numbers!

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

I woke up still angry about this. Living in a blue city, I don't know many MAGAs, but I do know a lot of Craigs. Craig probably thinks of himself as liberal. But as soon as he feels a minor discomfort, he weaponizes it against vulnerable people. Craig is afraid, but CRAIG IS THE DANGER.

One of my favorite books

The failure of the United States government to do what it needs to do regarding climate change is one of the most undemocratic and possibly consequential things to ever happen in human history

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

Here's a great community resource for Massachusetts. #massachusetts #hotline #trackingice #immigrants #communitysupport #neighborhoodwatch #communityresponse #justiceforimmigrants www.lucemass.org

17 books in 6 months. Top 3 recs are: - Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See - Not My Father’s Son by @alancumming.bsky.social - When Women Were Dragons by @kellybarnhill.bsky.social Based on these let me know if you have recs for my next 6 months! #booksky

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

once again I must tap my own sign

Heading to my college reunion in a couple weeks and just realized that this will be this first one I’ve been to in a while where I don’t actually know what most of my classmates have been up to via social media.

The end of this school year is really trying to give me scheduling and logistics induced panic attacks #momsky

iPhone- hey it’s a holiday, do you want to turn off your regularly scheduled weekday alarm? Me- sure! Me - hey the holiday is almost over do you want to remind me to reset my alarm? iPhone - what alarm? Me- my weekday recurring alarm iPhone-you turned it off. You obviously don’t want it.

Just caught up on Day of the Jackal on #peacock and really liked it. Glad it’s getting a second season. Next I’m going to try Long Bright River.

STUDY: “When a state made cuts to Medicaid, depriving people of access to health insurance, the crime rate increased… cuts to Medicaid hurt public safety.” Don’t tell us you care about crime then slash Medicaid by $1 Trillion, underfund education, etc. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

Saying Democrats don’t have an age problem is like pretending Republicans don’t have a diversity problem. Can we please live in some reality?

CVS only locking up name brands not the cvs version seems a little more money grab than anti-theft to me.

Annoyed to announce that the streamers have won. No longer mooching on any family-shared logins. Pretty much own all except prime because FJB.

Glad someone is saying this

Press release from LUCE: 📢HEY GOVERNOR HEALEY! ICE is targeting MA with unprecedented violence. But we haven’t heard anything from you. We are calling on you to show courage! Protect your constituents: immigrants, refugees, and ALL of us across the […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Celebrate Mother’s Day by letting people choose whether or not to be mothers.

"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.

The fact that Thomas remains on the court when proven to take bribes and with his wife financing J6 while he made rulings on it without recusal, remains one of the biggest canaries in the coal mine of our loss of checks and balances.

One thing about using Harvard as a test case is that if they are able to win points vs the richest, most politically and judicially connected university in the country, then the rest of higher ed will fall like dominoes.