"For everyone interested in or actively refusing to pay taxes for war, NWTRCC offers information, referral, support, resources, and connection to an international network of conscientious objectors to war taxes."

sending my wife and nephew off to the EcoTarium while I have to stay home and attend a government training on Teams. this is hateful, to me, specifically.

the ADHD strategy is: it's in downloads if it's expendable. it's been dragged to documents if I can't live without it. if it's anywhere else, it's dead to me.

Maura Healey said that the people her Department of Correction is turning over to ICE have all “done something pretty bad,” but the DOC ignored my records request for data about them. And her office doesn’t appear to even have the data, because it directed me to DOC. #Massachusetts #mapoli

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that's five thousand rent checks.

Eid begins tomorrow. Please join me in giving Sama'a and her family at least one normal day of celebration. chuffed.org/project/157569

seven women free, plus another two that happened to be released at the same time who got cash support and resource kits! donate to your local bail fund, the George Floyd Uprising donations are just now starting to run out and they could use a boost: www.massbailfund.org/donate

Wow! @jodicello.bsky.social of #RapidResponseChoir put together some sheet music for my new song "Come Thru Us" Keep spreading this one around! evangreer.bandcamp.com/track/come-t...

They're right.

new englanders rn: wow! 70⁰!!! In March!!!! We're so lucky!!! It's beautiful out!!!! Go outside!!!! everyone you know on wellbutrin: please, no, it's too early for this, I'm dying

I have an extremely active 6yo today and the EcoTarium is CLOSED. Ideas for outside areas that have melted enough to walk/play on between here and Leominster? Messy or muddy is great (how else does one maintain the title of Fun Aunt)

I maintain that the answer is a 4-6 hour workday, not choosing savings vs standard time. we all should get daylight before and after work or school.

I should be in Atlantic time and feeling normal but instead I'm in whatever kind of bonkers time nightmare we needlessly endure for a couple weeks every six months.

Police officers are generally the highest paid local employees. If they are so out of control that we need cameras watching them 24/7 for our safety, then they should take pay cuts to fund them instead of demanding more money that could be spent on services that actually benefit communities.

MA voters, please use this tool to write your state legislators demanding stronger protections for sex workers' rights and safety actionnetwork.org/letters/bloc...

doc was out sick today, appt rescheduled to..... March 27th. I've already waited two weeks. for a sick visit. a great functional country we have here.

hiiii late posting about it but i'm starting a monthly column at Worcester Sucks (and I Love It)!! shoutout @billshaner.bsky.social for seeing the vision. it's called How Did We Get Here? you should subscribe and get it direct to your inbox just sayinggg www.worcestersucks.email/p/how-did-we...

We need to stop w/ this excuse. Imperialist and colonial racist maniacs don’t need Epstein files an excuse to implement a white supremacist agenda.

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.

clown car city, truly 😂

looking forward to trash and recycling sitting out on the street for two days bc we STILL don't have a citywide notification system (and we don't update the city website at all if there's a delay, apparently?)

that's 50,000 rent checks

Underground art has always been where the best work is done, and it will become doubly important now.

anyone know a physical therapist with hypermobility expertise in central mass (my shoulder has become my enemy)

the only thing worse than being on the roads in this weather is being on the roads as a pedestrian in this weather. oh my god people slow down.

There are over 400,000 internal refugees within the US, having to flee their home states because of harassment and targeted attacks *by their governments* - to say nothing of the social/community harassment and attacks, or the people who don't have the means to flee.

Former #Worcester city councilor Etel Haxhiaj will appeal her conviction for assaulting a police officer who was assisting an ICE abduction of a mother with a valid asylum claim. Haxhiaj was convicted of assault for touching Shauna McGuirk when the officer violently yanked Haxhiaj by her shoulders.

im gonna be a LOT crankier about the unibank plane this summer huh

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imagine if all the money poured into medical AI was used to fund residencies instead. you could see an actual doctor instead of Googling what that weird symptom might be.

I think this is my first visit to a Dr office during a COVID wave (since like, 2021?) where they're requiring masks. Imagine public health measures in health settings. Wild.

In May we reported on the abduction by ICE of an asylum seeker in Worcester. @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social, a city councilor at the time, was absurdly and unjustly convicted last week of assaulting a police officer that day in what she says was a politically motivated trial. We talked about it.

this sucks. I'm so tired.

They showed they’re willing and able to selectively charge ppl for political purposes and the court showed us they’re active facilitators and collaborators in all of that, eroding any notion they administer a fair system or are concerned at all with justice. So who lost exactly?

Come hang out tomorrow with a bunch of cool degenerates as we raise money for queer community support!

going from yesterday (very bad) to holding a baby for an hour while he slept on me today (very good) is some serious emotional whiplash

"We will not give up on our immigrant neighbors. We will not give in to fear. We will always choose love."

This is an absolutely ludicrous outcome. The burden of proof was absolutely not met. And it's exactly the kind of dangerous signal of impunity that they were hoping to send.

Not a single police officer was assaulted on Eureka St Meanwhile, the police collaborated with fascist scum to abduct people and used a child as bait to do so And now we've got this precedent that only aids in collaborator 'peacekeeping'

hey chat, is it a positive or negative contribution to community to try to keep a family safe during a fucking kidnapping that our city's PD assisted? is that a positive or negative contribution to community. I can't tell. Can anyone tell?

I'm at #Worcester District Court for the second day of @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social's trial. Haxhiaj says she will be taking the stand in her own defense today.

This is in Burlington, Massachusetts

Also, thank you Worcester Indivisible for organizing! @maddow.bsky.social I hope you will follow this case. You amplified it back in May 8, 2025.

Thank you @billshaner.bsky.social for your reporting on this. Prosecuting mothers protecting mothers isn't justice. Read the full article here: theshoestring.org/2026/02/03/n... Trials begin next Tues, Feb 10th at the Worcester District Court, Room 23, 8:30 am.