my one block of JP has mandatory street cleaning, it’s residential only, no streets parallel or perpendicular require it, this happened bc one neighbor abused their relationship with City Hall. Why does @wutrain continue to support this?
Good time to remind everyone that 11 members of the Boston City Council voted YES to accept federal grants to expand the surveillance network that federal agents are using to attack our community.
They gave them the tools to do this.
(Liz/Julia voted abstain/pres)
#bospoli
Call to action from Dever school families:
Rally to Keep Dever Together! Show Up & Speak Out!
BPS wants to close Dever - Let's show them we're united!
Before the community meeting, let's gather in front of Dever to show our strength, stand together, and demand BPS listens!
Mapping Police Violence reports that police have killed more than 1,000 people so far in 2024, on pace to break records for deadly police violence nationwide. https://t.co/0VQVssR82S
Boston Globe Media acknowledges that one of our employees, Matt Nelson, has the same name as the individual who self-immolated this week in Boston in front of the Israeli consulate. This is an unfortunate coincidence that has led to misinformation and online speculation. Any comments, suggestions, or implications about our employee in regard to involvement in this situation are untrue and unfounded.
@maslenbode@Amtrak next month they’ll hire McKinsey to do a 6 month study about why ridership is down… six months and $900K later McKinsey will share a power point with fun graphics 💩explaining it’s because the trains are full of shit.
Every month, there’s been a White House planted story (or several) about how Biden & his admin are wagging a finger at Israel.
These are just the articles written since Oct ‘23 for the NYT, by chief White House correspondent Peter Baker.
shoutout to the @MBTA officials at kenmore who when i left my wallet on the green line immediately radioed and got it off the train and to an official at park st where i could retrieve it! and shoutout to the operators who searched the train car! @carmensunion589
The scary "book on terrorism" NYPD is using as evidence of criminal intent is an Oxford Press textbook from International Affairs U6387, a course taught this semester at Columbia by Michael E. O’Hanlon, director of research in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution
a desperate activist tells Malcolm X that the situation is hopeless as there are too many powerful interests and too few to oppose them. Malcolm's response is as important today as it was then: "Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are."