Bad Bunny for president.

Working the polls is a great way to learn quickly about how elections work. It’s a twofer!

Check w your local elections officials (call town hall). Here in MA you do NOT have to live in the county or town where you work the polls. I’m a poll worker in Boston, which has many more precincts than neighboring towns, & folks from the burbs work our polls regularly. Every state is different tho

I love the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. They’ve posted this list of food resources for Boston families. Check out the rest of their initiatives (including the annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace). They do such good work!

ldbpeaceinstitute.org/food/

Discussing the Consequences of the Republican Shutdown with Bernie. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Yes. What they said.

Hahahahahahaha

@joshuanguyen03.bsky.social: King Do @ 1156 Dot Ave. (new location) has the best bahn mi in Dorchester rn. They bake their own bread. Also good boiled peanuts. I thought of you.

Pro tip: apple cider vinegar removes plantar’s warts way better than the dumb patches you get @ CVS that fall off & restick to the wrong part of yr foot 1/2way thru the day. Soak cotton pad in ACV & tape to foot @ night. Remove during day. Thx for this life update, Lan Nails, S. End, Boston!

Shame on you, CBS & Paramount. & thanks for the reminder never to watch anything you produce again.

My hollyhocks bloomed yesterday. This is an anti war post.

Timothy Snyder’s 5 things to remember about war.

#s 2 & 5 seem particularly relevant.

Take note.

Thanks for nothing, @americanair.bsky.social. I got to Logan airport at 3am to find my 5am flight to Dallas delayed by 2 hours, so I missed my connection to Oaxaca, & you didn’t rebook me until Tuesday. Now I’ll miss 2 days of a conference I paid for & have been waiting years to attend. #aafail

Thank you @harvard.edu

In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights and due process rights. PARTIES 8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.

After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States. 22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia University Buddhist Association and led it for two years. 23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to Palestine.

Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and kill his best friend in the West Bank. 27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.

…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all. 25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against 2:25-cv-00389 Document 1 Filed 04/14/25 Page 6 of 19 7 antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who:
–has green card
–was Columbia Buddhist club president
–saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier
–said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Hey #AWP25, I’m signing copies of FIGURING @bullcitypress.com (T304) Friday, 3/28, 10-11 w pressmate @aeheelee.bsky.social & copies of FLUTTER, KICK @redhenpress.bsky.social (345) on Sat, 3/30, 12-1. Come say hello!

#AWP25 this is happening in a couple of hours. Come thu! #bravingthebody

Dear Secretary Rubio,

Hi, Tufts professor here. As someone who was on campus during the time in question, your claims about what Rumeysa Ozturk did bear no resemblance to reality. So did you just revoke her visa because she co-authored an anodyne op-ed that never mentioned Hamas?

Sincerely,

DWD

This is appalling.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/14/m...

“Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett joked to hundreds of people about sending explosive devices to dissenting event attendees at a talk at the Harvard Business School on Thursday, according to six people present at the discussion.”

Well it was nice while it lasted, I guess?

Boston Globe headline reading “Audacious Gaza idea has officials scrambling” S

Woke up worried about my son’s friend who has seen ICE agents at the T station near her house & is now afraid to go to school. Then listened to devastated Swedish officials describe the worst shooting in Swedish history @ a school that offers language classes to immigrants. & now this. “Audacious”??

So much for the 1st Amendment.

Anyone else feel like he’s begun flailing in a toddler hate spiral now? (Apologies to toddlers everywhere.)
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Worth a try?

unpossible!

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

Totally outrageous but sadly not shocking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.

These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.

We are in a climate emergency.

Thinking of my @redhenpress.bsky.social family today and all of my friends in LA.