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socialist, boston dsa, tech worker, she/her 🏳️⚧️
Somerville, MA
Joined August 2013
Don't let "progressive" mayors get away with sending violent cops to beat up and arbitrarily arrest peace protesters.
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“Once you post transphobia you never post normally again” is an iron law.
Dem Rep. Seth Moulton doubles down on anti-trans stances after protests from Democrats. An increasing number of colleagues/orgs are calling his statements after he advocated throwing out trans rights. Notably, the equal rights law for trans people got more support than he did.
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Yes, the US has political prisoners.
Jessica Reznicek, an immensely strong & courageous Water Protector, was sentenced on Wednesday to 8 years in federal prison for her actions to stop #DAPL. (1/7)
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My biggest canvassing fear: ringing the second bell of a duplex after giving up on #1 and having both doors open at the same time.
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I believe the socialist movement is powered by radical love and the bonds we have with each other. The campaign we built together had plenty of both!.
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I am excited to announce that after nearly two years, I am stepping down as Co-chair of the Boston Democratic Socialists of America to run for City Council At-Large in Somerville
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What exactly is the DSA Left's beef with Uncommitted?. Dissatisfied elements of the Democratic base starting to reject lesser evilism and break away from the corporate party bosses and politicians would pretty clearly be part of how *any* future workers' party would form, right?.
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I'm sorry but if you're in @DemSocialists it's your revolutionary duty to pick up calls from random numbers because one of your comrades might be trying to organize you.
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DSA has to grapple with the reality that Trump is actually qualitatively way worse than Biden *and* that Biden is a genocidaire with no answer for workers' problems. It would be convenient to be able punt on lesser-evilism because both are exactly the same but it's not true!.
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I'm calling for a total shutdown on the word "materialist" until DSA can figure out what's going on.
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Oh my god "Stalin (external user)" just tried to join a work zoom I was on and I denied it because I thought we were getting zoom bombed by internet MLs but it turns out we just hired a guy named Stalin.
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In DSA it is good practice to cultivate grace and goodwill towards people who act really sectarian towards you, it's hard but it's the only way to break the cycle.
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CW: transphobia. I don't post much about transphobia I face on the campaign trail, but it's real. This from the Davis Square FB group is just a taste. Establishment types tell me we're done, that we're "already" among the most progressive cities in the US. We're not done yet.
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My crank take is that DSA should have service medals for doing different things so when I'm 80 I can look like a soviet general but with idk enamel pins.
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The Bernie campaign was an incredible opportunity for growth and mass politics that DSA was handed, but the @ZohranKMamdani for Mayor campaign is an incredible opportunity @nycDSA created all on its own. Hugely exciting!.
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I am deciding to reject internalized trabsphobia about somehow never being able to "make it" and re-coming out as a trans woman! Pronouns are she/her, fuck the world, etc, pic unrelated
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This indictment was written by the most fragile clowns in the world. They know they can't win Cop City so they're going to make activists suffer.
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Have to give credit to BDSA antifascist organizers who were harshly critical of Mayor Wu for her pro cop statements after straight pride in 2019. At the time I thought it was a bit sectarian, she was working with us on the GND etc but no, they knew who she was and they were right.
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In this election our democratic socialist slate has put out: a transformative vision for a green city, universal programs, and deep investments in housing. The establishment has put out: negative mailers, fearmongering robo-call campaigns, and outright lies about our program.
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I don't know how to explain that trying to share the lessons of the citywide campaign I lost while transitioning and dealing with serious anxiety and depression is not an invitation to scold me for missing your favorite endorsement questionnaire now that I'm not a public figure.
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I want us to get DSA to a point where "this person" and "they"-ing trans women you have beef with is obviously wrong and gross to everyone.
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We've tried the DSA Right and everyone was mad, we've tried the DSA Left and everyone is still mad. In 2025, it's time for the DSA Center (inexplicable Groundwork - B&R - R&R majority).
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DSA Caucus External Projects:.B&R: Rank and File Project .MUG: No Votes for Genocide.GW/SMC: Socialism Beats Fascism.R&R: Curious Friendship with the Irish.
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Honestly I get why people that have kids leave or dramatically reduce their activity in DSA. The frustrating moments are so much worse, like “why am I putting myself through the bullshit with the precious remaining 5% of what used to be my free time?”.
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Another trans socialist in @DemSocialists reporting in! Trans people should be in the movements that can win the liberation we deserve, and the corporate Democratic Party sure isn’t that!
"trans people should organize with communists" . No, communists should organize with trans people. If you want to win marginalized communities over to the left then you have to show up when we're in need, plain and simple. We see who is supporting us and who isn't.
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Boston is an underrated "left" chapter in terms of our electoral program. We have a Boston City Councilor, a Cambridge City Councilor, a Medford City Councilor, 4 out of 11 Somerville City Councilors, and a State Rep as a chapter about the size of one of NYC-DSA's local branches.
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Charlotte, Willie and I had a joint field campaign with essentially identical numbers of shifts, identical training, same staff etc. and got very different results. Examining why is going to be fruitful because it's about the closest you get to a controlled trial in this business.
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If you've been following the brave student movement against the genocide in Gaza, especially in Boston, please write a letter demanding the charges against the protesters get dropped! Details in the link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️.
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Accelerationism is discredited and corrosive. DSA can't stand for what kills and degrades workers. Biden is choosing to lose this election to a fascist reality tv star by putting Israel's genocide and the ultra rich before regular people. That's a shame! We shouldn't celebrate it.
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Since the text of our censure amendment is now out there, I feel like folks in other chapters should know why my coauthors and I spent the last three days persuading our local leadership to have this added to the agenda for the 23rd.
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Running for office and losing really makes you painfully aware of the tension between the need to advocate for the world we really deserve, and the messaging that will appeal to people who don't yet believe it's possible (currently a large majority).
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Reflecting on running for city council: I basically medically detransitioned from sheer stress, dealt with the realities of being a public figure e.g. a labor leader shaming me for my family background while holding up a cishet man more wealthy than I will ever be for beating me.
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We don't "this person" or "they" trans women we don't like in my DSA.
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This is apparently what I get for not wanting to be called "transgendered" by local Democratic Party leaders
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I have nothing to say about this whole depressing day on DSA twitter, except that you should always be skeptical of the old chestnut, "if you don't support my particular proposal Y, then you don't care about important issue Z".
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Super bummed to be turned down for the NEC, but I guess we must be in a pretty good place as an org if I'm still underqualified after running citywide myself, helping recruit a historic slate in Somerville, co-running an operation that knocked 75k doors, etc.
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I received a strongly worded signal message from my chapter co-chair with a screenshot of this tweet btw. This whole episode has been such a concentrated injection of burnout directly into my exhausted parent veins I am going to pare back my commitments.
Uh oh the DSA left in my chapter’s leadership is risking negatively polarizing me into becoming a groundwork member.
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Look, I get that I'm part of an ideological minority in DSA. What sucks about that is when you make big sacrifices for our on-the-ground organizing and then leaders treat you like they'd rather you didn't exist anyway because they disagree with you. It hurts!.
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When a coffee shop worker compliments your socialist feminism t-shirt from DSA con and you ask if they're a DSA member and they don't know what that is and you have now low-key bothered them during a big rush.
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Needless to say I am not excited by the British Monarchy coming to Somerville to greenwash its stolen colonial wealth.
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I am deeply angry at the proposed Ward 7 Dems bylaws which were introduced in an email from the chair as containing protections for "transgendered" people like me but actually serve to marginalize us further in a number of ways. This is unacceptable. Here are the ways:.
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Part of being a responsible DSA member on here is looking on in horror at someone's worst sectarian tweets on here one day and then RTing their good and funny tweets the next day.
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Personally I think DSA should absolutely pay a living wage to co-chairs I didn't rank highly to promote politics I don't agree with if they won a mandate from convention. That's what paid political leadership is!.
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I wrote this "one complaint", taking the risk of providing my name and address to armed cops who had just beaten my trans friends. I got a letter a month or two later saying they investigated themselves and found they had done no wrong. I wonder why nobody else bothered.
Last night at the #somervillema budget hearing the Chief of Police disingenuously claimed he had received "only one complaint" about the SPD's conduct at last year's Straight Pride Parade. This is unacceptable and I'll tell you why in this thread.
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Seeing Nazis in JP holding a banner calling people like me scum, with BPD cops standing behind them like their private security. We haven't forgotten Straight Pride, when Boston cops with their backs to the Nazis tackled peaceful trans counterprotesters. Shame on @MayorWu.
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It Happened To Me: My baby pooped in the Democratic Socialists of America onesie
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I spent my campaign's resources overwhelmingly on agitating voters against the power of real estate capital and trying to raise expectations for what our city government should be doing as much as possible. I spent almost none on trying to sell myself, and that was a mistake.
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Honestly only the way for me to continue to be useful to the socialist movement is to take a hiatus from twitter and any organizing that doesn't happen within Somerville, Massachusetts for at least six months, so that is what I am going to do. Hit me up on Signal or BDSA slack.
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Marxism in the US has this disease where people think they're doing good analysis because they write in a stilted bizarre style that reads like Russian-language dunk threads from the 1930s in poor translation, because that's exactly what it's emulating.
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One thing that should give socialist electoral organizers hope: every cycle our movement gets stronger, smarter, bigger. The establishment, even with it's massive institutional advantages, is more or less fixed in place.
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Happy #TransDayOfVisibility! I want to share a story about why visibility matters to me even though it's just one part LGBTQ liberation. 🧵
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Part of why I'm so excited to be running on a slate is to make the point that politics is mostly about large groups of people fighting to be heard, have their needs met and concerns addressed. It's not mostly about job interviews for individuals or complex public policy questions.
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Being maced by a Nazi days after losing my election and refecting that I just live in a different reality than many people in our community. I will never give up the task of persuading people in our community that we deserve better, but it's hard to imagine ever doing this again.
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Apropos of nothing, in case anyone is getting calls, please don't speak to the capitalist press about disputes happening in your DSA chapter if it's not part of the chapter's collective strategy. I would love to wake up and learn that this has not happened!.
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SOCIALISTS plan SOMERVILLE TAKEOVER: That's right, it's time for a Somerville that works for working people, not just the wealthy and well-connected.
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Announcing my resignation from DSA Evan Caucus, I am Eve S now.
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Thinking today about how a cis man in my chapter was recently confidently explaining that gender confirming care for trans kids is a medical decision that's up to their parents and doctor as if parents and doctors can be trusted to make remotely neutral decisions about this.
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Lawn signs are now available! Complete your rose garden of Somerville for All signs, or just show your neighbors you support a city that puts people before profit!. DM me with your address or sign up here:
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Uh oh the DSA left in my chapter’s leadership is risking negatively polarizing me into becoming a groundwork member.
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Here is me getting super gay married to my partner—my happiest memory from this last year and a half that I've spent recovering from being Too Visible
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One of the better things about the label "democratic socialist" is that so-called progressives who don't work for real change are unwilling to use it.
If you are not co-sponsoring single payer and Election Day Registration, I really don't see how you can call yourself a progressive.
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My fellow @Boston_DSA member @erika4rep is an inspiration. She ran on shaking up the pro-business boys club on Beacon Hill and bringing the movement to the House. I'm glad she's holding leadership's feet to the fire with these crucial transparency changes
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I am excited to announce #SomervilleForAll, an at-large slate for City Council consisting of myself, Willie Burnley, and Charlotte Kelly! We bring the fighting, movement approach Somerville needs to provide housing, transit, and infrastructure for ALL.
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Quietly seeding copies of "A Quick & Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns" in Little Free Libraries all over Somerville
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Just had a voter on Cherry St offer me a caffeinated seltzer and two clementines to power me through the rest of the canvassing day. Someone who understands the real needs of movement politics!
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When MA legislation introduced by a Democrat is the top post on /r/cyberpunk for being so evil #mapoli
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It only took five years, but I finally transitioned enough that the cute gay cashier at the grocery store stopped flirting me. it's the little milestones 💪🏳️⚧️.
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So proud to be endorsed by national DSA! We're going to beat the developer class and build a Somerville that works for ALL.
🌹 🌹 🌹 NEW ENDORSEMENT ALERT 🌹 🌹 🌹. DSA is proud to support @Boston_DSA’s slate for Somerville City Council. Preliminary elections take place on September 14. Chip in below, and help us win our first socialist majority on a US city council!👇.
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This is an unbelievable betrayal by Rachael Rollins honestly. A movement got her elected, a movement to fight the criminalization of poverty and the unjust and racist system of cash bail. Moves like this are unworthy of that movement.
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Look, this isn't rocket science. @JustinKlekota should apologize for calling trans people "transgendered", for sending transphobic draft bylaw language to the Ward 7 Democratic Party, and for blocking all the trans people who tried to engage with him instead of rethinking it.
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I will be one of the first non-binary city councilors in the country and I'm excited to campaign for trans liberation. But this campaign is about all of us, and the movement we can build together. If you can, please chip in for printing and movement staff.
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The reason this is a bad take IMO is that most people I know who do co-ops aren't doing it as their main strategic organizing direction, they just want a place to work that isn't dehumanizing.
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The @MBTA needs to stop honoring these requests to trap protesters in dangerous situations, surrounded by tear gas and racist police. @carmensunion589, you could play an important role in this movement!.
Orange Line: At the request of the police, Trains are bypassing Chinatown until further notice. Alternative service: Haymarket or Tufts Medical.
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So proud of my fellow Jews in DSA, on the left, and in Boston standing up against the genocide in Gaza, many putting their bodies on the line to do so. Not in our name!.
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2024. OUT: vague notions of electoral "accountability". IN: running core DSA members in close partnerships, supported by vibrant socialist in office committees!.
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having a refreshingly rare "blackpilled on DSA" day between calls for r&r members expulsions on the forums and unrelated depressing ignorance about trans people in the org.
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✨ SOLIDARITY ✨ to the workers who make the best, queerest coffee shops in Somerville what they are. The community has your back! There's power in a union.
We are Diesel/Bloc/Forge UNITED. Today, we are announcing our intent to organize a union of our workers across three Somerville coffee shops/bakeries. Ours will be the third independent coffee shop union in Massachusetts. #MACoffeeUnion
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I am so, so, so excited for spring, my porch, more baking. Campaigns are tough, you have to make room for yourself and what you love too
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I'm dying, this is too good.
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Shout out to all the tenant organizers, mutual aid organizers, antifascists, labor activists, ecosocialists, and others in @Boston_DSA who have helped out with our campaign because they let themselves do a bit of electoral work here and there as a treat.
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A good principle in DSA is to try to meet sectarian, mean, or unreasonable attacks from others with kindness and non-reactivity, maintain a dispassionate political judgment about what strategies are good, and be willing to change your mind in the face of new information.
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So proud of the work @DSAWorkingMass journalists did last night documenting the shameful police attacks on Emerson students protesting genocide. Working Mass is a collaboration of MA @DemSocialists chapters and they put their bodies on the line to show the world what happened.
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I don't know. I'm just really proud to be a DSA member today. If you're not yet, join and get plugged into to this essential work:
If you're trans, we want you to know that you are loved. You are worth defending. Socialists believe an injury to one is an injury to all — that means we're in this together. With nearly 100k members, 150+ chapters, and 200+ elected officials, DSA is ready to fight for you 🏳️⚧️🌹.
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I can't say it enough: this election is going to be close and we need all hands on deck for the final stretch. Our socialist allies in the prelims had margins of just 30 votes! The establishment is ramping up pressure every way they know how. Sign up for a shift or donate today!.
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Oh my god this rules. It's @DemSocialists solidarity, it's @UAW solidarity, and organizers from as far as @nycDSA and @DSA_Maine will be there to strike a blow for MA workers!. Let's take back our power from the antiworker, anti-climate corporate Dem cabal running Beacon Hill!
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Just a reminder to Somerville's entrenched political class that renters do pay property taxes.
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Very disappointed that perhaps our most prominent BDSA member, State Rep @MikeConnollyMA has endorsed Kevin Honan, Bob DeLeo's housing committee chair, over Democratic Socialist @JordanMeehan in Allston-Brighton.
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My one day off from campaigning was Friday, a day that I work for my full-time job as a data scientist. Tomorrow will be my first real Day Off in six months.
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All out for @EvanforCambridg!! Just six days left and I *will* complete my @Boston_DSA ten-shift Rose Card before polls close!. If I can do it with a ten-month old at home, you can do it too—get out on those doors!
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Every progressive-minded person in Somerville should hold @JoeCurtatone personally responsible for the beatings, arbitrary arrests, and indiscriminate pepper spraying his officers did to LGBTQ people and allies who dared to protest white supremacy and hate in Boston today.
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You sent your cops to crush trans people who were peacefully protesting these same people downtown, two years ago.
This embodies the sick culture of enablement around violence and entitlement that mints Kyle Rittenhouses and Brock Turners. They should not get to do unto others without consequence.
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I was called a "Jewish maggot" by the far right for speaking up about police brutality, I have seen the face of antisemitism in our own community. Standing with Palestinians struggle to exist and be free is the farthest thing from hate, it is solidarity and love #SaveSheikhJarrah.
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