Also, new podcast just dropped! #MApol #accessibility https://andrewqmr.substack.com/p/remote-access-to-public-meetings?fbclid=IwAR0NMGHtSjuaIstgPy9sQPr6K9t9CtZ9At_7d5p1ugfdSeV-_YMNaClH-28#details

There's a plane flying over Boston with a banner advertising someone's crank website about "secret courts". They seem really worked up about Rachel Rollins and Hayden. MAGA/sovereign citizen vibes.

#Boston #mapol

#USPol #RFKjr #MAPol #CApol

Here's the Politico editorial by his family members denouncing his obsession with vaccine trutherism. I suppose Polio and Small Pox were scared out of existence by Big Pharma, then?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/08/robert-kennedy-jr-measles-vaccines-226798/

Annnnnd, here's an article about his cross-continental press conference. I mean, campaign launch. Note how the people they interviewed about it responded. Those who were skeptical, said so. Those who showed up to support him were decked out in sloganeering bullshit, the kind of conspiracy theorist energy that has lobotomized our politics already. The lady with the cheap "Question Everything" shirt breathlessly babbling about something she clearly doesn't understand.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-2024-announcement/index.html

#USPol #CAPol #MAPol

Robert Kennedy Jr, "environmental activist" and COVID Truther, AKA Blue MAGA, has joined Life Coach Marianne Williamson in launching a pre-doomed vanity candidacy for attention.

Love the optics of flying the 3200 miles from Los Angeles to Boston to have a press conference/party as someone who insists on being referred to as an environmental activist.

His "campaign" merch has the slogan "healing the divide," but the story I read about his announcement included him speaking about how he isn't mad at his family for refusing to support his book sales candidacy. Also, how exactly DO we heal the divide?

By insisting that vaccines = Hitler, DUH!

Dear RFK Jr, your father was a good man, you are a grifter breaking his good name into pieces and exchanging them for notoriety.

The US does not need a Blue MAGA, it needs people willing to call antivaxxers what they are...ignorant and/or dishonest.

ATTN: Reply Guys: How was smallpox eliminated here if vaccines don't work?

#USPol #MAPol

Fun fact. In 2022, after losing my partner and my less than thrilling career, I paid 96% of my income into rent.

At this point, the American Dream is not slipping into debt before we die.

#MartyWalsh got elected mayor of #BostonMA.
Shortly after, he said fuck off to Boston when given the opportunity to climb the ladder to DC as Biden's Secretary of Labor.
Now he's saying fuck off to the rest of the country when presented with the opportunity to grow his income by becoming ED of the #NHLPA.
What an asshole.
At least maybe now #Biden can nominate a woman or someone from the #BIPOC community to be the new Sec. of Labor.
https://whdh.com/news/nhlpa-names-labor-secretary-marty-walsh-executive-director/
#USPol #MAPol #BosPoli #politics

A reminder as legislative sessions get underway: Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts and Maryland are blue trifecta states with anti-gay sex laws. Perfect opportunity to repeal in 2023. #uspol #mipol #MAPoli #MAPol #mdpolitics #MNpolitics #mnpol #lgbt #mnleg #maleg #mdleg #mileg

@elizschafer I see it! Using #BrooklineTownMeeting or #mapol will help, since hashtags are pretty effective on Mastodon. @leebier is here and a number of other local folks.

@mpjgregoire @eloquence Resurrecting this thread because it turned up in a search for #mapol on my server! Anyway, Brookline (my hometown) passed RCV by 79%, and we're part of a movement to implement RCV for municipal elections. So the effort marches on!

@onekade But (eg) you can search for #mapol on https://mastodon.social/search and get a pretty wide swath. That said, some folks have the opinion that these single "big" mastodon servers are more a bug rather than a feature, and that we should be aspiring to smaller closer communities.

30+ years ago, leader of Mass. #childwelfare caseworker union said: "Maybe we're just too damn intrusive." They still are - tearing apart families at rate more than 60% above national average & 2-3x rate in CT. https://www.nccprblog.org/2022/11/maybe-were-just-too-damn-intrusive.html #MAleg #MAgov #MApol #childabuse #fostercare

The Deep Rot of the #Massachusetts Democratic Party

MA ranks 31st in affordable housing and 47th for income inequality… as of 2017, the average net worth of a Black family in Greater Boston was $8.

“If you are a wealthy, educated, socially liberal person, you align with the Democratic Party in most places… This is the kind of person that defines the voice of The Boston Globe editorial board.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/161406/charlie-baker-massachusetts-democratic-party-failure

#Democrats #DemocraticParty #mapol

@eloquence Seems like the kind of change that should start at the municipal level -- use a ranked ballot to pick the mayor of Boston! -- then, once voters are comfortable with it, extend to other elections.

#ElectoralReform
#mapol

@eloquence OTOH, Massachussetts rejected it by 55% https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/11/04/massachusetts-election-2020-ballot-question-2-results/

#ElectoralReform
#mapol