"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...

The worst part of holiday-season sticker shock? This year, the higher prices are clearly self-inflicted

This times 1000 from my friend @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social - we need transparency about the barriers for women in a country that devalues caregiving. I stepped back from work for 6+ months to care for my Dad, & it did a number on my career & finances. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Profits > People for these clowns. Always. Don't believe their MAHA talking points. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...

Spoiler alert: he’s full of shit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

Like just about everyone else who has read it, Tatiana Schlossberg’s raw and powerful essay gutted me. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This happened to my cousin this week. New to the area. Needed care. Made a zillion calls, and anyone taking patients had a months-long wait. She wound up paying more to go to urgent care. We have a serious health care access problem here in MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/21/o...

Hmmmm … not sure how I feel about this. www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-...

Finally had to break out the sleeping bag coat for the first time this season. Not happy about it. 🥶

As a near-lifelong bob evangelist, this cracked me up. youtu.be/mn2yrwXsuC4?...

It’s all a grift. Who cares about the millions of Americans worried about putting food on the table or covering rent when your family can enrich itself over and over and over again? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

But wait, Tr*mp said the tariffs would be paid by other countries! It was a flawless plan, that nobody raised any concerns over. And now you’re telling me that the people paying the tariffs are actually American consumers? I am SHOCKED! 🤯😱 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/b...

Arsonist trying to put out the fire.

Gerald was a man of conviction, grace, and devotion to family. I don't have words to describe the kindness and warmth he showed me. I am grateful to have known him, and even more grateful for his service and his courage. Rest in peace and power. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Do not sleep on Leiden. Every single time someone asks me for travel recommendations when they're heading to NL, I say to take the easy, frequent, direct 20 minute train ride from Amsterdam to Leiden. Just walk around. It's stunning, and won't disappoint. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/t...

It’s a real mystery why working people are pissed off as big corporations and billionaires get windfall after windfall.

We lost my incredible Grandma - Rhoda Frid Mermell - 23 years ago today. She was the Chief Nurse of the 27th Evacuation Hospital in WWII. Celebrating and honoring her service, and the service of all veterans (including my wonderful Grandpa, Lester Mermell), this Veterans Day.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Who in their right mind thinks that the word of MAGA lemmings means a damn thing?

Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game. (Video: Marisa Schultz)

Do. Not. Cave.

This is just sick and cruel.

I can’t imagine I’m the only one who has been texting with family about postponing Thanksgiving plans because of the air travel nightmare Tr*mp has created. He doesn’t care about hungry kids, so I don’t expect he’ll care about families being together for the holiday. 🤬

Just feeling deep shame and sadness that we’re a nation being led by people who are fighting to ensure that millions of kids, seniors, veterans - and so many more - go hungry. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/m...

Talking national election results with @nbcboston.com, and kind of realizing that this coat looks like a bathrobe. 🤷‍♀️

Feeling so grateful to every Dem who put themselves out there last night. Running for office is always hard, but to do it in **this moment** is next level. And yet all of these patriots stepped up to run for everything from School Committee to Governor, to fight for all of us.

Amazing how much better the morning after Election Day is without a feeling of complete and total existential dread!

Happy Election Day to all who celebrate!

Brookline friends: a reminder that the Brookline Food Pantry is accepting donations (financial and food) if, unlike the President and his MAGA lemmings, you happen to be of the belief that all humans deserve to eat. brooklinefoodpantry.org/donate/

Perfect fall day in Taunton to hit the doors for my friend Barry’s City Council reelection campaign - don’t forget to vote Tuesday!

That feeling when you’re so proud, but also so sad they’re gone … www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/31/s...

Hot take: food for kids > marble bathrooms.

First of all, no human is illegal. Secondly, states allow people to get driver’s licenses regardless of immigration status because it makes everyone safer. When this was on the ballot in MA, law enforcement backed it because it was such a clear public safety issue.

What Tr*mp is doing to these workers - and the people who rely on them for crucial services - is unconscionable. Every single day he is choosing to let this harm happen. All while he builds his tacky ballroom and buys private jets for his team. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/m...

So thrilled for NL! Wilders is a racist, xenophobic zealot whose politics hurt people and set the country back. May this outcome be sign of things to come in the US! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

The Tr*mp shutdown motto: money for me but not for thee! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/n...

Tr*mp's priorities: Food for kids? Health insurance we can afford? Nope! Troops marching through our streets? A tacky new White House ballroom? Private jets? Yep! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

This is the path Tr*mp is choosing. He lied to voters and said he was going to make life easier and more affordable. Instead, he is ensuring that people will go hungry. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

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.

With Tr*mp about to cut off SNAP benefits for approx. 700 Brookline residents, I thought I’d share the Brookline Food Pantry donation page - w/ info on how to donate food or contribute $. The President doesn’t care about our neighbors, but we do. brooklinefoodpantry.org/food-donatio...

Remember when Rose and Esther were plotting against Lucille Ballard in Meet Me In St. Louis? Of course, calling off their plan when they realized how nice she was. Lucille was played by June Lockhart! May she rest in peace. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/25/n...

I’m extremely glad members of the military are getting paid, but this isn’t how a government functions! While Tr*mp is fantasizing about his dream ballroom & soliciting massive secret private donations 1M people in MA are bracing for hunger next week. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/n...

Maybe if some schools weren't banning The Diary of Anne Frank people would recall that she said "“Hunger is not a problem. It is an obscenity." Just when you thought this White House couldn't get any more obscene … www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/m...

Tr*mp and his lemmings could not care less about watching millions face skyrocketing health insurance costs. They have no answers, and were lying through their teeth when they promosed to make Americans' lives easier and more affordable. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Nobody who gives a shit about people would keep the $$$ faucet on for private jets for Kristi Noem, but shut them off for kids who need free lunch at school or families who need help heating their homes in the winter. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/m...

“China has penetrated networks that control infrastructure systems and has hacked telecommunications companies.” Tr*mp is making our nation vulnerable in every way. From leaving people without health insurance to gaping holes in our cybersecurity. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

We’re getting a women’s pro baseball team - this is awesome!!! www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

This is just awful news. And so terrifying. Hoping Will is able to make a full and speedy recovery. www.wcvb.com/article/form...

Remember when Gov. Patrick said “Massachusetts invented America?”

I’m incredibly grateful to have had Betsy as a friend, champion, and co-conspirator. Generations of park-goers will benefit from her advocacy, and countless younger women will remember her example and mentorship. She was a true force. Rest in peace, Betsy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/18/m...