I am so grateful to share a community with this incredibly fierce warrior woman. The MAGAts in our city will feel no shame, but I hope the fence sitters, and those, like the mayor, who decided doing the right thing was too costly, feel at least a shred of embarrassment at how empty of values you are

My fellow Worcesterites, Holy Cross University has allowed an ICE agent, Ryan Vasquez, to attend their upcoming career day in a recruiting capacity. Tell their president what you think of this. Holy Cross President: Vincent Rougeau [email protected] [email protected] 508 793 2525

💗Thank YOU to all who donated! 🎆After the election, I will join forces with a few D5 residents and the WFD Union to support families in need. ❓Reach out if you have questions or concerns. If I do not have the answer, I will find or direct you to the right person. [email protected].

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Week without driving is happening again in Worcester! Sep 29 - Oct 5. No minimum! Try one trip, one day, maybe the whole week not using your car and share the experience with friends, social media, or elected officials. Please sign up if you can! walkbikeworcester.org/week-without...

Infant mortality in the USA

IT glitches and mistakes can clearly have devastating ripple effects: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...

BREAKING: The New York Times reports that FEMA failed to answer two-thirds of the calls to its disaster assistance line in the days following devastating floods in Texas, after firing hundreds of call center contractors on July 5.

ICE killed a farm worker in Camarillo yesterday

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you

🧵⬇️ below are some ways that you can let city leadership know what you think of their choices this week

This #MothersDay, we protect mothers and daughters. We protest those who abduct our family and friends and neighbors. We protest those who assist in their abduction. #HandsOff #Worcester #Mothers #NoMoreStolenNeighbors #50501protest

Really appreciate @motherjones.com getting this story i did for hell world in front of more people! Thank you! @lukeoneil47.bsky.social We’re gunna need as many eyes as possible on Worcester rn... police unions are playing victim and the rhetoric is getting feral

But bravery is contagious. There are people who think "maybe I should do something" who will look left and will look right, and if they don't see people doing things, they'll sit back down. Make sure that they see people doing things.

I take back what I said earlier People aren't "going" to die People *are* dying What is it going to take for enough to be enough

“This is setting us back decades,” Huang said. “Everyone should be extremely concerned about what’s going on.” www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

Always donate towards staffing. It ain’t glamorous, but nothing runs without it.

"Siri, define, 'Hoist by your own petard.' " 🤣🤣🤣

A federal judge ordered the CDC to restore some pages that the Trump admin deleted. The pages were restored today, but they removed terms like transgender and nonbinary, and pinned this discriminatory note to the top of the pages.

Tapping the sign wearily

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

CALLING LGBTQ+ ALLIES IN WORCESTER for Council Action tomorrow (2/04) 🌈✊ We are asking allies to come out to speak at public comment (6:30pm) & consider attending our Allyship in Action workshop with SURJ (6p). Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you have a smidge of power and you catch yourself thinking: Maybe we'll be safe if we: - tone this justice program a bit - take that 'decolonization' reference off the website - nix that grant for decarbonization... know that you are playing your part in Trump's game perfectly. 1/2

I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"

Come serving legislative body for our 2nd Queers & Community Rally where we’re centering queer joy, civics education, and art as collective power building. 📍 Where: Worcester City Hall 📅 When: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 🕔 Time: 5:00 PM Rally | 6:00 PM City Council Chambers

If people want to write their senators this site has info on how much economic impact NIH has in each state: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

What in the actual living fucking forking fuck

yeah candy mero-carlson's statement is craven ugly and malicious but on the other hand we're a 150 new voters away from never thinking about her ever again

Councilor Etel Haxhiaj Statement on Hateful Transphobic Language Against Councilor Thu Nguyen I need to address the violent and hateful language Councilor Mero-Carlson has used in public against Councilor Nguyen, which they and I became aware of last week

We should not attempt to legitimize using massive amounts of water and power that we don’t have to commit widespread plagiarism and unauthorized use of intellectual property in education. It is not in line with what we say we are about in education.

Incredible things are happening with Worcester students asked to nominate names for a new snowplow

Also restocked “The Ask” stickers - thanks for the patience everyone.

With this much coughing, it seems people mistook "going to a children's museum" with "hospital" or "staying home when sick" Stay safe out there, friends.

In case you thought they might have been listening @robarge.bsky.social

Around 9:30am, I was almost hit in the newly painted crosswalk on Shrewsbury St, right next to the new 25MPH lawn signs and between the flashing yellow lights. The driver got angry at me for... checks notes... waiting then walking in the designated spot?? The utter disregard for life is staggering.

Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."

Attacking vaccines has always been absurd behavior. But coming for the POLIO VACCINE is batshit.

I am so fucking sad rn. Redemption has been our favorite brewery in Worcester from the day they opened. 😔💜

FIFTEEN. CHILDREN. A. DAY. If this was anything else we’d have bipartisan legislation immediately to ban the things doing it. (Oh, except guns obv. Guns and SUVs, sacrificing children for your feels)