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16 Oct 2024
This will make the platform much more difficult to use for women, who will now have no way to mitigate the surveillance and harassment of hostile, abusive men.
16 Oct 2024
Soon we’ll be launching a change to how the block function works.
If your posts are set to public, accounts you have blocked will be able to view them, but they will not be able to engage (like, reply, repost, etc.).
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3 Oct 2024
The argument that the 13th Amendment prohibits forced pregnancy has long been made by Black feminist legal scholars. This week, it made a cameo in the judicial order that overturned Georgia’s ban.
2 Oct 2024
So important to recognize forced pregnancy as forced, involuntary servitude. I argue that it violates the 13th Amendment. Here's part of the order signed by Judge Robert C.I. McBurney recognizing it's "eerily reminiscent" history to slavery in the GA Court order:
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1 Oct 2024
I’m so honored to be among the remarkable 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellows and grateful for the spotlight I hope this award will shine on Black women’s visions & struggles for reproductive & family justice. #MacFellow 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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2 Aug 2024
Whether or not Tim Walz is VP pick — he’s modeled a liberal alternative, to moderate DNC politics-about-policy.
Walz says — ‘You don't win elections to bank political capital; you win elections to burn political capital and improve lives.’
This is opposite of 1990s Clinton DLC.
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26 Jul 2024
RT @RevEverett: Whole lot of magical think pieces about what could have been of #Boston2024. Meanwhile, we’re saying “there’s no room at th…
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22 Jul 2024
40,000 people on the Win With Black Women call after Biden steps aside and endorsed VP Harris for the nomination. Wild.
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18 Jul 2024
Hope they are rolling this out as BRAP summer
18 Jul 2024
The City of Boston has announced The Boston Rodent Action Plan, a coordinated, multi-agency initiative to combat the rodent population in the city.
Several city agencies will combine resources and coordinate with property owners, and public to help reduce rodent infestation.
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5 Jul 2024
This, from @onesarahjones: “he is the president, not my relative or my friend, and it isn’t my job as a voter, let alone a journalist, to coddle him” nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
A Socialist’s Case for Kamala Harris
She’s not a lefty, but I think she’s our best option.
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11 Jun 2024
Massachusetts House leaders unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would free doctors, hospital officials, and others from requirements to report suspected neglect to child welfare officials solely because a baby is born exposed to drugs. bostonglobe.com/2024/06/11/m… via @BostonGlobe
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6 Jun 2024
Unreal how much car culture degrades US quality of life
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5 Jun 2024
Every Boston resident lives within a ten-minute walk of a public park since 2018, the second major city in the United States, following San Francisco, to hit the milestone of ensuring all residents have a park within a 10-minute walk of home.
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9 Apr 2024
Same day voter registration is one of the key reasons Maine leads the nation in voter participation.
8 Apr 2024
If you're looking for eclipse glasses right now you understand why same day voter registration is important
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7 Apr 2024
This would get you from Boston to New York in an hour. 🚄
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5 Apr 2024
Today I'm launching Close, an interactive map that shows walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly neighborhoods across every block in the United States. Try it out: close.city/
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3 Oct 2023
The ACLU of Massachusetts is thrilled to announce the selection of Jessie Rossman as Legal Director. After over a decade of serving the ACLU, Rossman’s extraordinary body of legal work has made her a fantastic fit for this crucial leadership role.
ALT Jessie Rossman has shown a fierce dedication to the advancement of civil rights and civil liberties. Through expertise in constitutional law and litigation, Rossman’s leadership brings an inspiring new chapter for the ACLU of Massachusetts.
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31 May 2023
Public health *is* public safety.
30 May 2023
I’m sick of being told their isn’t enough money for SNAP & TANF when the GOP wants to send the Pentagon more than they asked for.
Here’s a budget idea: redefine national security to be more than bullets & bombs & give every American what they need to live safely & securely.
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30 May 2023
No one makes a come back like Boston. And no one blows it quite like Boston.
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9 May 2023
Love a good #mapoli #mepolitics cross over event! Great to hear Maine SOS and Deputy SOS tout the success of Maine’s same day voter registration law.
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