We’re still celebrating St. Paddy's in Methuen following the 1st St. Patrick’s Day parade! ☘️ #mapoli

No kings. Just community.

#NoKingsDay #mapoli #ChooseHope

So now we're stuck with an imperfect approach to critical issue, and, I hope, an understanding that if it fails the legislature will take all the wrong lessons from it. It needs to pass, because this is literally the best we're getting and the only way we're getting it. 4/4 #mapoli

The problem is, we've tried for years to do this the "right" way and the legislature has flatly refused to move on it, despite the intendifying housing crisis. The lack of urgency from our electeds, except around things they can score cheap virtue signal points for, forced our hands. 3/4 #mapoli

Ballot initiatives are a nuclear option and, in my opinion, the worst possible way to pass legislation. Why? They lack nuance. Someone who wants rent control but hates this proposal can't lobby to change specific provisions. We have a binary choice: "this specific language or nothing". 2/4 #mapoli

Tangential to this point, it is also a "must pass", so some people who don't support all of it will vote because of the consequencesof failure. Namely, the legislature saying "see, people don't actually want rent control. Sitting on our hands was the correct choice. 1/4 #mapoli

www.mass.gov/doc/wioa-state-plan-modi... and 24 others were updated on March 28, 2026.

See all updates: github.com/JonGerhardson/massgovupd... #mapoli

Kate Fox of MOTT is our guest today on OTR with @sharmantv.bsky.social and Erika Tarantal. Amy Carnevale and I discuss ICE in airports and courthouses, MA GOP in legislature, DA Kevin Hayden and Boston police, Trump vote by mail and more. Join us us 11 AM @wcvb5.bsky.social #mapoli #bospoli #wcvb

May the spirit of #PalmSunday bring peace, hope & joy to your hearts. #mapoli

Halifax School Committee Rejects Leaner Budget, Votes for Full ‘Level Service’ Amid Override Fears HALIFAX - March 23, 2026 - In a decisive stand for educational stability, the Halifax School Committee voted Monday night to approve a $8,157,387 “level service” budget for Fiscal Year 2027.

Halifax School Committee Rejects Leaner Budget, Votes for Full ‘Level Service’ Amid Override Fears #mapoli #southshore

Hingham Schools Eye Business Curriculum Expansion as Class Size Concerns Mount HINGHAM - March 23, 2026 - The Hingham School Committee moved to modernize its high school offerings Monday night, reviewing a comprehensive plan to expand the “small but mighty” Business Department while simultaneously grappling with data that places Hingham as an outlier in elementary class sizes.

Hingham Schools Eye Business Curriculum Expansion as Class Size Concerns Mount #mapoli #southshore

Duxbury Voters Back Incumbents and Ballot Measures in Annual Town Election DUXBURY, MA — Duxbury residents went to the polls Saturday to decide the future of the town’s leadership and its financial priorities, ultimately returning two incumbents to the Selectboard and approving both a $1.89 million operating override and a school feasibility study.

Duxbury Voters Back Incumbents and Ballot Measures in Annual Town Election #mapoli #southshore

South Shore News...letter: Deficits, Delays, and Departures Marshfield's Budget Crisis Deepens as the South Shore Braces for Override Season

South Shore News...letter: Deficits, Delays, and Departures #mapoli #southshore

My favorite part of No Kings Boston was when "The People's Emcee" Rahsaan Hall said we need to fight for voting rights in Massachusetts by passing Same Day Voter Registration... and over 180K people cheered! #SDRinMA #NoKings #MApoli

Arlington override
YES 9,666
No 3,775
#ArlingtonMA #mapoli

Wow. 800 showed up in the little city of #Easthampton #MA to say #NoKings. We talked about our progressive values and immigration, housing, climate, war, Palestine, fascism. We sang, we shared poetry. We came together to fight for our democracy. @edc01027.bsky.social @arliek.bsky.social #mapoli

Catch my interview with Keller at Large on @wbztv.bsky.social on Sunday at 8:30am #mapoli

No Kings Northampton today! 5500-7000 protesters in a giant human ❌
#mapoli

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'Jewish' Federation commits antisemitic blood libel, and demands #Northampton equate Judaism with Genocide

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No Kings in Norwell, Mass. 200 people strong!

#nokings #mapoli @manmet80.bsky.social

NO KINGS Northampton today!

5500-7000 people!

#mapoli

Excited to be in Wareham for #NoKings! The energy from the Cape, South Shore, the Islands, South Coast, and beyond is a powerful force that will change our country this November. Huge thanks to all the volunteers who made today possible! 🙌 #WeThePeople #MA09 #MAPoli

Last stop: Needham #NoKings rally! #solidarity #dayofdemocracy #mapoli

Thrilled to introduce @massltgovernor.bsky.social at Concord’s #NoKings, and to hear Rufus Gifford and the incomparable former Governor Deval Patrick. #mapoli

"Jack Cusack has fought to keep MBTA intrusion into our hometown at a minimum, and his fight continues on our behalf as Alewife station nears completion."
Arlington Advocate, September 9, 1982 (page 7)
#ArlingtonMA #mapoli

Next stop: Medfield #NoKings rally! #solidarity #dayofdemocracy #mapoli

Next stop: Millis #NoKings rally! (Well, at least the very tail end of it!) #dayofdemocracy #mapoli #solidarity

Thanks to everyone at a #NoKings rally today. You are showing the world how united we are in these United States of America. #mapoli @mass50501.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social

Next stop: Young Dems of MA convention!
Bonus: bumping into my friend and fellow sister in service @ajcampbellma.bsky.social
#dayofdemocracy #nokings #mapoli #solidarity

Lexington Public Schools to cut scores of teachers and other staffers - The Boston Globe Like many districts, Lexington is grappling with a budget crisis that is prompting drastic measures: cutting about 65 teachers, classroom aides, and other staffers and issuing non-renewal letters to a...

Utter incoherence from the @bostonglobe.com reporter here. First he says Lexington is firing teachers due to declining enrollment, and then he says Lexington is worried that all the new housing will bring in new students. Some NIMBY logic here. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/27/m...