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My father still has this sticker on his car. Couldn't be prouder. Happy
#StPatricksDay
☘ cc:
@Lawrence
@MassPoliVault
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“How can Massachusetts be ranked 29th in the nation for vaccine distribution when we are a healthcare Mecca and have the infrastructure?... This is about saving lives and I just feel that the vaccine rollout to date, frankly, has been delayed and disorganized."-
@RepPressley
NEW: Rep. Ayanna Pressley says the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in her district has been "delayed and disorganized" and calls for a targeted approach in hard-hit neighborhoods w/ community health centers in key role
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"Gaby’s sewing teacher at In Stitches in Quincy posted a tutorial with directions on how to make the masks... As she continues to sew more masks, she plans to donate them to nurses in her neighborhood who will bring them into their workplaces." -via
@katie_trojano
Meet Gaby Araica, a 10-year-old 4th grader at St. Brendan’s School in
#Dorchester
. Gaby has single-handedly sewn 24 masks and counting for health care workers in need of personal protection equipment. More to come in this week's Reporter and online at
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Lincoln:
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Dorchester:
“Lol”
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Most photographed costume in
#Dorchester
tonight is the caged Trump wandering Lower Mills begging Melania to let him out. Nope, you stay there.
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On this day in 1863, at this hour, the Union army repulsed traitor Robert E. Lee’s final assault at Gettysburg, PA, the “high water mark” of the Confederacy. 🇺🇸
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President Lincoln was assassinated on this night 153 years ago in Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC.
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"The Reporter endorses Ed Markey for re-election because he has earned it. In particular, because he has been a visionary leader on environmental justice and a trusted ally on defending immigrants from the unprecedented assault on civil liberties accelerated by the Trump regime."
Editorial: Ed Markey has earned re-election to US Senate
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Our family tradition: voting together every
#ElectionDay
. Polls close in
#MA
at 8PM - be sure to cast your
#vote
too!
#ChangeCantWait
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If you happen to see this beautiful, elegant Bostonian today in your travels, be sure to wish
@ldforry
a very happy birthday
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“I’m super exhausted,” say a smiling Ebere Ihionu, the founder and owner of Elegance African Fashions. She moved to
#Boston
from Nigeria with a dream of opening her own business. It's booming right now, in part thanks to
#BlackPanther
#Dorchester
Black Panther blockbuster fuels boom for
#Dorchester
business specializing in traditional African clothing
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Hits close to home: White dad, biracial son and black father-in-law targeted by white bigot at Fenway last night
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We brought in a guest editor this week to liven up page one of
#Dorchester
Reporter. It's going quite well.
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I went to Dorchester Court yesterday to cover a murder arraignment, something I've done several times over the years in my role as a reporter/editor. Afterwards, I decided to seek out and observe the First Session, where the presiding judge is Hon. Serge Georges. (Thread)
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Another take-away from my interview with Rep. Pressley: “One in three of my constituents get their care at community health centers. We have the infrastructure. So, yes, I would like to see [vaccination] sites that are based in Roxbury and Dorchester... that are accessible..."
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Sorry to see the Kennedy camp re-heating this tired old trope about “you just can’t get more Boston or Massachusetts” than (fill-in-the-blank with whatever Irish person/☘️symbol). It's garbage. 1/x
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John King just dropped an R when saying the word “pattern” and apologized for his Boston accent. “Excuse me, a little Boston accent coming out late at night.” Drop ‘em like they’re hot, John!
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On
#LovingDay2020
, I’m grateful to Mildred and Richard Loving for leading the charge to dismantle Jim Crow laws that criminalized interracial marriage. 53 years later, your legacy is alive with me and
@ldforry
, our family and millions more across our nation. Thank you.
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New book by
#Dorchester
native
@Lawrence
O'Donnell is more than a retrospective on 1968 campaign. He deftly links the angst, the dread, the tumult of our current crisis w that pivotal year. It's a must-read. Editorial:
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"We need to activate our capable and talented domestic medical device and supply industry and bring the full power of the federal government to bear in responding to this crisis."-
@SenMarkey
Senator Ed Markey calls on Trump administration to use Defense Production Act to "increase private production of the personal protective equipment, medical supplies and devices, and diagnostic testing supplies we need to combat the coronavirus."
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You know what’s just as Massachusetts and Boston as the Dropkicks? New Edition! Bell Biv Devoe, Gang Starr, Guru, Bobby Brown, Edo G, Donna Summer.
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Grayson St in
#Dorchester
weathered the Grayson storm in fine fashion. We've seen far worse in these parts.
@Lawrence
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The most shocking part of last night’s debacle is how shocked people seem to be that this raging asshole went “off the rails.” What rails? He’s been dismantling them for five years. Wake tf up.
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Today,
@WriteHandMan
and I climbed to the top of the
#Dorchester
gas tank, the world's largest copyrighted work of art, designed by Sr. Corita Kent. It's being carefully repainted by union workers over the next couple of months. More to come in
@DotNews
!!
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Michelle Wu claims one of two top spots in Boston's mayoral race and will move on to general election on Nov. 2. My sources say Wu will finish in the top position.
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Stand strong,
@MayorWu
— those who are screaming at you and your family are truly undermining their ill-conceived cause. The vast majority of Bostonians are in your corner.
The protests outside my house are making me surer everyday that we’re doing the right thing.
It’s a daily reminder of how we need strong policy to address deeply-rooted misinformation & fear-mongering.
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As a footnote: I deliberately left the defendant's name out of this article, because if Judge Georges' strategy works—he doesn't need to be immortalized on a search engine as another hurdle to success. I wish him well.
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Just-in: Ruthzee Louijeune campaign tells supporters gathered in
#Dorchester
's dbar that she has secured the third spot in the at-large contest.
#bospoli
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Dorchester native
@JohnKingCNN
is just absolutely crushing this election coverage. Pride of King Street. Comes home regularly to support events like
@CodmanHealth
Men Cook fundraiser. No one does this better.
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I was pleased to discuss today's historic elevation of William Gross as
@bostonpolice
commissioner on
@RadioBoston
today. Check it out here:
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I’m not going to assign anyone to write a year in review piece this year. You’re welcome.
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This whole ”hug a Trump voter cuz they’re sad today” bullshit is the fifth-cousin, once-removed of Reconstruction, which brought us Jim Crow and all manner of atrocities, particular against Black Americans. Trump voters are owed nothing. Let them do some soul searching.
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Our mayor won a big victory on Sunday by showing this entire neighborhood just how unfazed she is by the racket and the ratchetness that besets her constantly... Boston, your mayor is a tough, determined, good-humored, and resilient. Michelle Wu is a real one.
#bospoli
Editorial: in the face of harassment, Mayor Wu showed grace, mettle at Sunday's Dorchester Day Parade
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Heart is heavy tonight. Bruce Seals, who mentored and cared for thousands of kids over the last 30 years at
@BGCDorchester
—including me,
@ldforry
and our kids— died today at age 67 from cancer. A gentleman in every sense of the word. Bruce will be so missed in
#Dorchester
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It's a
@DotNews
Thanksgiving tradition to re-print this 1986 column by Mary Casey Forry — my mom— who started the Dorchester Reporter with my dad Ed Forry. In addition to publishing the paper, she wrote a column called the Urban Gardener.
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I am a white guy. I am also the father of black children— including two black teenage boys— and the husband of a black woman. We have raised our kids to know that they are both black and white, Irish and Haitian. American. And Dorchester, for sure. 1/3
Editorial by
@BillForry
: Where do we go from here? A perspective from multicultural
#Dorchester
Photo by
@dsheehan1890
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This is the kind of bullshit people from Dorchester have been putting up for as long as I’ve been around. Racist? Yup, AF. But also just leaning on a hackneyed old trope about a “gritty” neighborhood that people like to demonize. Shame on you,
@TDBank_US
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“We are deporting Haitians to a region ravaged by a pandemic, recovering from the assassination of its president... as they recover from the earthquake... without power and clean water... It’s not only cruel and inhumane but also potentially a death sentence.” -
@AyannaPressley
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1983- The birth of The Reporter, the community newspaper in Dorchester that my parents Ed and Mary Forry started 40 years ago this week.
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An emotion-packed speech from Mayor Walsh. He shouts out Dot’s Eoin Cannon - his speechwriter- who “wrote every single one of my State of the Cities” - great job, Eoin.
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Last week's holiday party "scandal" was manufactured by the pathetic and increasingly power-bereft white grievance lobby in Boston. And they should be ashamed.
Editorial — Holiday party "scandal" was actually much ado about nothing.
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“I’m excited, man. This is gonna cut down my commute so much.” - Mattapan resident Keon Jones, whose commute into South Station has been more than cut in half thanks to the new Blue Hill Avenue station, which he can walk to
Mattapan's new Fairmount line station at Blue Hill Avenue greeted warmly by passengers, who are excited to cut down their commute time
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Proud of my father
@forry_ed
, left, who will be honored by the New England Press and Newspaper Association next week with the Bob Wallack Award in recognition of his life's work: community journalism. Well-deserved! Photo (2008):
@BillBrettBoston
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🔊🔊HUGE
@DotNews
personnel news as we welcome back our longtime editor and ace
#bospoli
#mapoli
reporter
@gintautasd
as Managing Editor effective 6/14. Gin’s passion for covering
#Dorchester
and
#Boston
is what makes a newsroom like ours tick. Can’t wait!
📢📢📢
As the saying goes, some personal news:
Friday is my last day at
@BosBizJournal
.
I'm sad to leave a great newsroom, but thrilled to be rejoining
@DotNews
as managing editor and returning to cover Boston's largest neighborhood.
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Breaking:
@DotNews
unilaterally declares that
@TheIceCreamsmit
in
#Dorchester
is the greatest ice cream place in the friggin universe
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Gondolas, huh? Can't get the damn Fairmount-Indigo Line a test-run for rapid service and they want a gondola.
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Editorial: A tale of two Dorchesters, two Bostons. This week brought us face-to-face with the city we aspire to be AND the ugly side that persists, try though we may to leave it behind.
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My
@DotNews
editorial last week was about a
#Dorchester
neighbor, Mike Mackan (left), who was in grave condition, on a ventilator and in a coma with COVID-19. The prognosis was poor.
I'm working tonight in the newsroom.
The phone rings.
I pick it up.
"Billy, it's Michael."
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Here’s the scene at dbar in
#Dorchester
, where Ruthzee Louijeune supporters are celebrating what appears to be a strong re-election result
#bospoli
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Oh, hellllllllll no... Try coming for our Vietnamese neighbors in
#Dorchester
. Watch what happens, fool.
Exclusive: The Trump administration has decided that Vietnamese migrants who arrived before the establishment of diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Vietnam are subject to standard immigration law—meaning they are all eligible for deportation.
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So,
@MassGovernor
wants to send an anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ Trumpist to replace
@SenWarren
? Got it. This is now a race.
#mapoli
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Thank you
@BansheeBoston
! I had no idea how badly I needed a freshly poured Guinness in a jar with this chicken curry. So happy you re-opened.
#Dorchester
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Celebrating
@ldforry
bday at
@AshmontGrill
w the Forry Four. It’s also All Saints Day. Coincidence? I doubt it :)
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It reinforces a hackneyed image of our Commonwealth as a place where the Irish dominate in business/labor/politics/culture, as though that’s still a thing to aspire to. Every other group here is just as legitimate and just “as Massachusetts” as the Irish, as amazing as we are ;)
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This should put him over the top in
#Boston
;)
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John Forry, right, met Rep. John Lewis when he was a bit younger, thanks to his mom
@ldforry
. Today he woke up to the news and said simply: “He’s the GOAT.” Spot-on. So happy he and his brother had the chance to meet him.
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Hey.... you’re a fucking asshole.
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......
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This Washington Post unsolved murder mapping project is stunning.
@WesleyLowery
in the mix, naturally. Boston-specific map with loads of
#Dorchester
detail here:
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"As we do the hard work of undoing generations of systemic racism, we must keep transportation and infrastructure front of mind so that we can finally affirm the right of all to live and move safely, accessibly, and affordably in community."-
@AyannaPressley
in
@DotNews
op-ed
New commentary in the Reporter:
@AyannaPressley
on why "transit justice is racial justice, a reality we can no longer ignore."
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“My way of thinking has kind of changed. I thought we all lived here. I never second guessed if I wanted to bring my bike there, or worrying about where to park.”- NeNe Judge, who was target of an Aug. 3 tirade by a man later arrested for disorderly conduct
Woman targeted by man in hate-filled tirade in
#Dorchester
this month plans rally, bike ride against racism this weekend
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Am I calling the Kennedy camp straight-up racist? NO. But, this white-Irish-centric frame is gawd-awful and it’s got to be challenged. It’s great to celebrate one’s roots. But to frame it as though it is or should be the dominant culture here is some real backwards thinking.
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You're right,
@dbernstein
How is a proven
#Boston
political force like
@AyannaPressley
deemed an outsider? She's one of us.
I strongly disagree with the interpretation in this piece, and suggest that its author re-examine his assumptions about who actually lives in the Massachusetts 7th district.
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Excited to launch our re-branded Irish publication: Boston Irish. Watch for it at local pubs, stores, hotels in and around the city starting today. ☘️
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Just left the “Quin” on Comm Ave which claims to be inclusive spot etc. But when I asked the DJ to put on hip hop I was told: we ain’t allowed to play hip hop here. In Boston. Smdh. The more the things change….this is why Boston has the rep we do.
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A
#Dorchester
Reporter holiday tradition: The 1986 Thanksgiving column by our co-founder (my mother) Mary Casey Forry, shown here in a classic pic from '88
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It's important to note: Gov. Baker's order does not stop restaurants from doing take-out. In fact, the governor specifically said places that don't do take-out now can start doing that on Tuesday. Let's be sure to patronize all of our
#Dorchester
spots.
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This is how you Dot Day. This four-layer rainbow tank replica cake was created by the very talented John Gee (shown) and his sister Isabella for our
#DotDay19
bash. It hurt my soul, but I was forced to cut it into slices hours after this photo was taken. So good.
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Every year we republish my mother (and
@DotNews
co-founder) Mary Casey Forry’s 1986 Urban Gardener column “Thanksgiving Day Schedule.” Enjoy!
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Memorial Day in
#Dorchester
kicked off with a parade of veterans, police and fire bagpipe groups, scouts and the Kenny School Band, along with political figures, including
@MassGovernor
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"We are in a Democratic majority and I think we need to be bold and we need to be aspirational and we need to be consistent with what our closing arguments were to the American people and come out the gates strong.”-
@AyannaPressley
tells
@JennDotSmith
Congresswoman-elect
@AyannaPressley
talks to the
#Dorchester
Reporter about her first week in Washington, D.C., staffing up, weighing the Speaker decision and her plans for a celebration back in the district.
#mapoli
#bospoli
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Just-in: Dot Reporter's
@JennDotSmith
has first in-depth interview w/
@AyannaPressley
. The future Congresswoman explains why Monday— election eve— was one of the low points of the campaign for her. Tune into 90.9FM
@WBUR
's All Things Considered today for more.
#mapoli
#bospoli
In the first sit-down interview since her historic victory,
@AyannaPressley
talks to the Reporter's
@JennDotSmith
about the campaign's high and lows and how she views her 18-point win as a "mandate for hope" Jenny Edwards Ber photo
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Whoever wrote this trash endorsement for the Herald should’ve signed it. Spare the good reporters/people who work for the paper the indignity of readers/sources thinking they’re down with it.
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Baker was a virtual lock for re-election until this moment. The gov doesn't need to back Sen Warren. But a vote for Diehl - Trump's minion in chief in Mass- is a deal breaker, even for voters who genuinely like CB. He needs to re-think this.
.
@Joan_Vennochi
is not here for
@CharlieBakerMA
’s endorsement of Trump-loving
@RepGeoffDiehl
. She is right!!
#mapoli
Feeling queasy about Charlie Baker’s endorsement of Trump-loving Geoff Diehl
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In the hours after the April 15, 2013 bombings,
#Dorchester
grieved for our neighbors in ways public and private. One silent, but poignant tribute in Peabody Square stood out and inspired this column:
#OneBostonDay
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Yup, she's her mother's child.
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John Henry should skip it too. Show some solidarity with your manager and players of color on the Red Sox. Not to mention the journalists — many of whom you employ— who this president trashes and threatens routinely.
#Cancel
Red Sox manager Alex Cora will skip White House visit because of Trump administration’s poor treatment of his native Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria struck in 2017. via
@BostonGlobe
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Thanks to
@GeorgeEDeveney
and Ryann Deveney and their family for repping
@DotNews
readers w/ a great question about city schools in tonight’s
#BosMayorDebate
on
@NBC10Boston
#bospoli
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🚨This is BIG...The Martin Richard Dorchester Field House would blend the missions of Dot's finest youth-oriented organizations AND serve the students from the McCormack/Dever schools next door, club members, and neighborhood people of all ages. It's a game-changer.
Two prominent
#Dorchester
institutions— Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester and Martin Richard Foundation— have teamed up to propose a $30m indoor athletic facility named for Martin Richard on land owned by Boston Public Schools on Mt. Vernon Street
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Good for Mayor Wu for calling them out. Hayden camp should disavow these clowns.
@Danny__McDonald
Let’s not pretend this is just a “trio of women”—it’s the same small group of antivaxxers who banged pots & yelled outside my house for months. They continue to harass people, disrupt public meetings, & support Kevin Hayden.
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My late mother Mary Casey Forry, who co-founded
@DotNews
, wrote this column some years ago and we re-publish it each year. I’ve heard from a few people today that it’s brought them a sense of normalcy and a few laughs. 😊🍗
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Don’t care who you’re with for Mayor, this was a big gulp, deep breath, something’s in my eye moment for this city. Congrats, Madame Mayor
@Kim_Janey
#bospoli
Chief Justice Budd has officially sworn in in
@MayorKimJaney
as Boston’s first female and first Black mayor.
@DotNews
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Also: the Irish strangle-hold on organized labor and the political class in the last century might be a point of pride to some. But let’s consider the flip side of that dominance. It meant the exclusion and/or diminishment of many others from their ranks and leadership.
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It’s August 4th... Happy birthday to two great Americans: My father
@forry_ed
and
@BarackObama
#HappyBirthdayMrPresident
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Hey,
@bostonherald
, when your columnist writes that an Irish guy from Savin Hill is "about as
#Boston
as it gets"— you know that's racist AF, right? Might want to brush up on your demographics— Boston's still majority people of color
Hey,
@marty_walsh
, it's time to be Boston true: Yawkey’s influence undeniable, argues Joe Fitzgerald
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BTW, if you’re living here in Boston and don’t know any of those names, you’re doin’ it wrong.
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A
#Dorchester
kitchen, moments ago. Daughter, 11, is going to birthday party at a
#Boston
restaurant.
[Daughter, roller-skating into kitchen.]
Her: "Dad, I have to bring my vax card."
Me: "Yeah, or just take a photo of it on your phone."
Her: "K."
[Roller-blades off.]
Scene.
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Much more to say about this later. But, that was an excellent State of the City by
@marty_walsh
- made better in part because it wasn’t interrupted 70 times for applause lines. It was a tough speech to get through without those natural pauses, too. Well done.
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