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Brendan

The Globe is touting charter schools again, presumably because #Boston charter schools are still in trouble. Lottery was held on March 6, yet Academy of the Pacific Rim, Roxbury Prep, and Neighborhood House are still accepting applications. Remember this when the ed privatizers pull out the "but our waiting lists!" canard. #MAEdu #MAPoli #BosPoli

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From MAAP MA:

On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 10AM the City Council’s Committee on Public Health, Homelessness, and Recovery will host a hearing to discuss the reinstatement and funding of the Community Syringe Service Program.

We are using this hearing as an opportunity to call on the Council to reinstate their shuttered evidence-based programs and services, expand their investment in evidence-based solutions rooted in people’s self-identified needs, and divest from policies and practices that criminalize poor and unhoused community members. Join us!

Email the Boston City Council by Tuesday April 1 at 10AM to demand support and invest in evidence-based and root-cause solutions rooted in people’s self-identified needs, and divest from policies and practices that criminalize poor and unhoused community members!

tinyurl.com/BostonCC0422

Google DocsTAKE ACTION! DEMAND BOSTON CITY COUNCIL SUPPORT EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND CALL ON THE CITY TO END TO CARCERAL PRACTICES & POLICIES!While the City of Boston leadership makes claims they want to solve the “humanitarian crisis” of homelessness and public substance use, they continue to work with their policing and business partners to enact policies and practices that research and people’s lived experience proves to be ineffective by criminalizing the basic survival of unhoused community members and poor people who use drugs. Mayor Wu’s Camping Ban Ordinance, her new “Addiction First” policy, and the creation of a central booking process double down on the City of Boston’s coercive efforts to disappear unhoused and poor people from Boston’s streets. In addition to resisting implementation and investment in evidence-based solutions, Mayor Wu and City Leadership have divested from their own proven public-health strategies and services including: ending the successful Community Syringe Redemption Program (CSRP), shuttered the Boston Public Health Commission’s (BPHC) multi-million dollar Engagement Center, and removed BPHC’s outreach teams ability to distribute infection-reducing and life-saving harm reduction supplies. To be clear, the administration’s cruel, counterproductive, and potentially deadly policies and practices are not rooted in public health, nor public safety and are exacerbating the crisis and conditions unhoused community members and poor people who use drugs are fighting to survive, and the side effects our broader community observes and experiences. These tactics may create some illusion of resolution to the interconnected crisis of homelessness and public substance use but hide a sinister truth - poverty and people cannot be “swept” away. The Boston City Council has explicitly co-signed some of these carceral policies, including the Camping Ban Ordinance, and enabled others - choosing to focus their efforts on creating a “feeling of safety” and comfort among housed Bostonians and increased commerce for businesses instead of meaningful solutions that support the survival of unhoused community members and poor people who use drugs. On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 10AM the City Council’s Committee on Public Health, Homelessness, and Recovery will host a hearing to discuss the reinstatement and funding of the Community Syringe Service Program. We are using this hearing as an opportunity to call on the Council to reinstate their shuttered evidence-based programs and services, expand their investment in evidence-based solutions rooted in people’s self-identified needs, and divest from policies and practices that criminalize poor and unhoused community members. Join us! Email the Boston City Council by Tuesday April 1 at 10AM to demand support and invest in evidence-based and root-cause solutions rooted in people’s self-identified needs, and divest from policies and practices that criminalize poor and unhoused community members! This form provides information to help guide you through the process of emailing testimony to the Boston City Council ahead of the Tuesday April 1st hearing. Want to learn more? STOP SUFFOLK REGIONAL LOCKUP! Toolkit: https://tinyurl.com/StopSuffolkRegionalLockUp STOP WU'S CAMPAIGN OF CRIMINALIZATION! Toolkit: https://www.maapma.org/stopthesweepsboston Contact Us! Email Us! janhavi@massbailfund.org, jasmin@massbailfund.org, churd@maapma.org Learn More about us! massbailfund.org I maapma.org
#bospoli#mapoli#HarmReduction
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ts 🚉

I’m curious to know if there’s a place we can go to find out what are the new, trending, and consistent hashtags being used here?

Some you might want to follow/use while we’re on the topic:

#bloomscrolling 🌸
#BosPoli ☘️
#caturday 🐈‍⬛
#introduction 👋
#MAPoli 🦞
#music 🎙️
#STFUFriday 🙊
#tea 🫖
#thickTrunkTuesday 🌳
#transportation 🚲
#USPol 🗽

But yeah one of the things I’m confused about here is whether I’m seeing stats from the *entire* fediverse or is my view limited by the server I’m part of

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Jonathan Kamens

Yet another generationally rich, entitled white man who doesn't know how to sit down and wait his fucking turn while a woman from an underrepresented group shows him how it's done.
I would say, "I'm sure Josh Kraft is a nice guy," if it weren't for the fact that if he feels compelled to run against Wu then he's clearly not.
#politics #MAPoli #BosPoli #JoshKraft #MichelleWu #Boston #BostonMA
whdh.com/news/josh-kraft-creat

Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News · Josh Kraft creates Boston mayoral run campaign account - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7NewsJosh Kraft took a big step towards running for mayor of Boston on Monday, opening an account with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/josh-kraft-creates-boston-mayoral-run-campaign-account/">Read More</a>
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kmbrlynn

This morning the FBI raided the law offices of Joseph Molina Flynn, Municipal Court judge for Central Falls, #RhodeIsland. Molina Flynn, an immigration lawyer who became a U.S. citizen in 2014, has resigned. #USPoli #BosPoli #PVD #immigration

Boston Globe article by Amanda Milkovitz and Edward Fitzpatrick:
bostonglobe.com/2025/01/23/met

The Boston Globe · FBI searches Providence office of immigration lawyer Joseph Molina FlynnBy Amanda Milkovits, Edward Fitzpatrick
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Jonathan Kamens

We've had one incident so far today. Around 8am, a guy came into the voting area wearing an "I'm voting for the felon" t-shirt. He was told this is not permitted and asked to cover or change his shirt. He insisted he wasn't required to because it didn't have a candidate name (not correct, identifiable slogans also not allowed).
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#pollWorkerLife #Boston #Massachusetts #voting #election2024 #politics #USPol #MAPoli #BosPoli

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Jonathan Kamens

#BosPoli #PSA's (please :boostRequest: if you have #Boston folks in your feed):
1) We still need poll-workers for the November election. See boston.gov/departments/electio. ngl it's likely to be a crazy busy election and we'll need all the help we can get. No experience necessary, and it's a paid gig.
2) I am once again begging you not do do write-in protest / joke votes. No one will ever see them except the poor poll-workers who have to stay late at the polls counting them. Be kind.
#voting #elections

Boston.gov · How to Apply to Become a Poll WorkerInterested in working at the polls on Election day? You can apply to become a poll worker online.
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