Paola Ferrer

Recovering attorney. Chic Cyclist. Drama Queen. Boricua 🇵🇷 in Boston. Views are my own.

[Paola Ferrer @paolaferrer]

@MBTA_CR Why are none of these alerts coming through the MBTA Alerts text messages? All the issues with Stoughton Line were not shared.

[Paola Ferrer @paolaferrer]

@MBTA_CR Why are none of these alerts coming through the MBTA Alerts text messages? All the issues with Stoughton Line were not shared.

[Paola Ferrer @paolaferrer]

@MBTA_CR Why are none of these alerts coming through the MBTA Alerts text messages? All the issues with Stoughton Line were not shared. Had to take an Uber into the city.

[Paola Ferrer @paolaferrer]

@MBTA_CR Why are none of these alerts coming through the MBTA Alerts text messages? All the issues with Stoughton Line were not shared.

[Joe Cohen @CohenSite]

This is an incredibly weird story:

CIM Group has built this 8-story apartment building on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood.

But they've only ever received entitlements for a 7-story building. And I can't find any evidence of a building permit for 8 stories either.

In a city that is incredibly strict on permitting and inspections, how was this allowed to happen?

And CIM is not some fly-by-night operation... they're a major institutional developer.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece (Link in reply)

[NBC News @NBCNews]

President Trump said Monday that he spoke to a former president about bombing Iran.

• An aide for George W. Bush says that “they haven’t been in touch."

• An aide to Bill Clinton says that whoever Trump was referring to was not Clinton.

• An Obama aide says “no recent conversations” have taken place between Barack Obama and Trump.

• A source familiar with the matter said the former president Trump was referring to was not Joe Biden.

https://t.co/LyegiuvuUk

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

This reporter refused to be shushed:

Yesterday Mariam Khan (@MKhan47) was the TV pool representative aboard Air Force One, meaning she was there on behalf of all the major networks. Khan brought up the fact that "your PAC put out a fundraising email" using photos taken at a dignified transfer of US service members killed in Kuwait. She asked: "Do you think that's an appropriate email to send?"

Trump said yes, and that he didn't see the email, then defended himself, then asked, "Who are you with?"

Trump genuinely didn't recognize Khan — it was actually her first time aboard Air Force One with him. (She reported from Capitol Hill for ten years and recently switched beats to cover the State Department, Pentagon and foreign affairs.)

When she answered Trump's question and said ABC, he said, "I don't want any more from ABC," and looked around the plane for other questioners.

But Khan was undeterred. She tried asking about the deaths of US service members. He didn't respond. She later said, "Can you explain why we’re sending 5,000 marines and sailors?" and he replied with the shush, adding, "You're a very obnoxious person."

Khan kept trying — recognizing, again, that she was there on behalf of CNN, Fox and other networks. She asked about the Pentagon investigation into the missile strike at the school in Minab, Iran. He said, "We don't know." She asked about the deaths of service members again. He ignored her.

Khan was exemplary. She was, as one ABC colleague said, "steady as can be." She was respectful and persistent. She refused to be shushed.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts.

The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump.

Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration. It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent. It's about a corrupt, out-of-control regime's effort to provoke citizens in order to justify the violence it desires to commit against them so that it can expand and retain its power.

That is fascism. It is tyranny. It is governmental criminality.

And the ultimate legal check the Framers of our Constitution provided to stop this kind of tyranny and criminality in the executive branch is impeachment and removal of the executive.

Congress needs to do its job.

Now.

Before it's too late.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency this state is exhibiting, and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination that is passing for what these f--- ICE agents are doing on our streets."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MS NOW: "I'm just getting something handed to me -- a statement from DHS -- that it will investigate the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old protester by its officers rather than the FBI. So they're gonna be investigating that which they already issued a summary about. It would seem like a closed book."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Seven democrats and every republican voted to fund this… YESTERDAY

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

In 2021, they condemned January 6 as “un-American,” “mob violence,” even “domestic terrorism.” Then they told us to “move on.” Now they’re dragging it back—not to protect democracy, but to protect Trump from history. I wrote about the hypocrisy, the rewrite, and why we can’t afford to get bored with an attempted coup. (link in reply)

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene." https://t.co/O6UB4REvJf

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Facts: California contributes $83 billion more than we receive from the federal government.

We have higher wages, lower gun deaths, and better health outcomes.

Blue states aren't failing. We're subsidizing red states.

[Paola Ferrer @paolaferrer]

@MBTATransitPD I want to send a special shout out to Officer Civello for greeting commuters at Back Bay Station. Seeing him there with a big smile makes the commute, especially on a rainy day, far less dreary. A great way to kick off the workday! @MBTA @MBTA_CR

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

I was just informed Trump is deploying another 2,000 Guard troops to L.A.

The first 2,000? Given no food or water. Only approx. 300 are deployed — the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders.

This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego.

This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.