Chelsea City Councilor @robertoj.bsky.social talks about how our voter registration cutoff disenfranchises renters. No eligible voter should be turned away. #mapoli

According to @massgovernor.bsky.social Healey, the Democratic Party is all about cutting taxes. What world is she living in? This is why we fail and the GOP keeps cutting into our numbers. Meanwhile when we come up short what gets cut is programs helping low and middle income families. 😡

What’s your favorite mayoral candidate housing policy? (1) Cuomo: Everyone is required to be rent burdened (2) Kraft: I’m giving tax breaks to landlords to raise rents at 4x inflation

lol I love @warren.senate.gov

Ran my first triathlon today! 😎 🏊🏼🚴🏼🏃🏻 1:31:36

PSA for everyone going to protests

Thank you @anjalihuynh.bsky.social for covering this! Every day communities like Chelsea and Worcester are getting punched in the face and Maura Healey has done nothing to protect our residents. Is she afraid or does she just not care? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/m...

This should cost Schumer his leadership position. And his seat, but demanding a change in leadership will have to do until there’s elections.

If the Senate Democrats do this, yes, it’s a massive betrayal of their base and an unconscionable abdication of their duty. Every single one of them who’s complicit in this scheme needs to be driven out of politics forever.

I’m proud of my Congresswoman for fighting this fight. Unlike her, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Dem leadership is just rolling over and playing dead. Then they’ll wonder why voters stay home and don’t fight for them.

Saying “Trump/Elon is right about X” as an attempt at a gotcha: Credulous, not clever, implies foresight and good judgement on the part of a Nazi movement Saying “Trump/Elon is lying, they don’t care about making Government better”: Accurate, direct, focused on who our opposition is

Alongside increases in housing production (!!!), we need to invest in housing that is typically not profitable enough for the market to build. Real estate transfer fees are a way to do that, & direct economic gains to those who have been hurt most by the housing crisis massbudget.org/2025/02/12/l...

I wrote about how real estate transfer fees can be a tool for equity & help to create/preserve thousands of affordable housing units. The housing crisis has created significant wealth for some, while renters (esp. renters of color) continue to face high cost burdens. massbudget.org/2025/02/12/l...

So glad to see Chelsea City Councilor @robertoj.bsky.social taking action as well🙏🏽

We need school bus cameras to make sure kids and pedestrians are safe! This vote gives Chelsea Public Schools the permission to make it a reality. Thank you @enriquepepen.bsky.social for helping figure out the appropriate language!

in celebration of Tom Holland and Zendaya’s engagement, please enjoy this moment from 2017 when she turned into a literal 😍 emoji and we all knew it was for keeps

don draper: the pop tart, he's selfless. the sacrificial lamb; a testament to his commitment to his truth -- a greater good. pop tarts rep: i ... i still don't get it. don draper: gentlemen (takes a long drag off his cigarette) he's jesus christ.

Saturday playground fun…

I'm starting to think the Celtics might be... what's the word... oh, right, good. I think they might be good.

Everything my 4yo said during his first movie theater experience: I wanna go somewhere else I don’t wanna stay here Can I have something to eat? Maui turned into a fish When is your birthday? When is grandma’s birthday? No it’s November 29 Mamá can you draw a heart? We wish you a merry Christmas.

Behold, my daughter’s bald spot/cowlick combination

Throwing a wrench into the holiday rom com by pointing out that statistically the white guy who owns a contracting firm in a small town likely voted for Trump.

My life is full of contradictions, for example the way my white mother cuts avocados vs my Puerto Rican mil’s perfect flan

Got to be @robertoj.bsky.social’s (or Gloria’s?) plus-one at the MEJA planning retreat today. Good things coming for Massachusetts ed justice!

this website will not be complete without the classic repeat-offender Twitter discourses, so let me start: $200k a year is actually middle class in San Francisco. Also, has anyone noticed how ridiculous the cost of Doordashed Chipotle is? Also, there are too many sex scenes in movies.

It’s been just over a week since I wrote this and Governor Healey is already screwing over migrants and putting them out on the streets by reducing the length of shelter stays. I guess her post-election statement was all words, no action.

Maura Healey will stand up to Trump’s policies by making sure migrants have nowhere to go or sleep. God forbid we just tax the wealthy so we can continue to uphold our legal right to shelter! Rich people need their tax cuts. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/22/m...

funny that the new metric for a social media site's success is if it produces healthy political discourse between "sides." by that measure, years of evidence suggests that twitter failed. it accelerated fracture, radicalized people into fringe politics, and became a tool for the reactionary right

This whole thread, truly! Stop engaging with these discussions on the GOP’s terms! We’re not opposed to the conversations on what went wrong. We just need to have them on our terms instead of letting the GOP dictate what the issues are.

Do people not realize the Right wing media machine is going to say what they’re going to say irrespective of what a candidate does or says? The idea that, if Harris had answered an ACLU questionnaire differently in 2019, the GOP wouldn’t have attacked her on trans issues, is laughable.

“Many states supported Trump but Mass. was not one of them. We owe it to our residents to respond to the urgency of this moment, so let’s act locally on VP Harris’s economic platform.” Are legislative leaders serious or just pandering? #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/14/o...

“Will legislators live up to their postelection statements or will they go back to business-as-usual half measures? With some political courage, you’d be amazed at what we can accomplish.” #mappli @robertoj.bsky.social

Good morning from middle-of-the-night baby feeding. @robertoj.bsky.social’s excellent letter just landed in the Globe: mobileapp.bostonglobe.com/11142024_931...

Yup! If you just start something new you’re almost by definition always going to be grasstops.

Hey Bluesky, and hey Massachusetts 7th! It’s good to be here.

@reppressley.bsky.social in the house! 🙌🏽

This already made my transition to BlueSky worth it, tbh. Guess I’m having ice cream tomorrow…

Lol hello world?