Remember, everyone, this isn't happening. Democrats are not campaigning against trans people. It's not happening.
When every other dept policy changes (Inclusionary Zoning, encampment policy) get an informational report to council? Why is the WPD the only dept., exempt from rules everyone else follows?
This is WILD. Any policy changes of this nature need to go through City Council & get a public hearing. Why now? Why after a high-profile elected official incident? What prompted this? Who made the decision? Did the CM approve this? Why wasn’t council consulted? Why is this acceptable for WPD
It breaks my heart that we have to beg our city’s health & human services dept to not put people experiencing homelessness’ health & well-being in harms way.
The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed.
Optiline Enterprises is subcontracting on a taxpayer funded project at 274 Franklin St. The City's Responsible Development and Wage Theft ordinances should preclude this sub from this project given their history or wage theft, retaliation, and intimidation.
Anti-homeless camping ban ordinance- a thread A note about tonight's City Council meeting and item 8. 19 A- the recommendation by the Health and Human Services Division for City Council to adopt an anti-homeless camping ban ordinace.
The Worcester Police Department says it’s opened an internal investigation into officers’ response to a crash involving City Councilor Kate Toomey. Toomey’s attorney said she did nothing wrong. https://bit.ly/4cHAR8z
Worcester police face scrutiny over response to crash involving city councilor
The Worcester Police Department says it’s opened an internal investigation into officers’ response to a crash involving City Councilor Kate Toomey. Toomey’s attorney said she did nothing wrong.
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You gotta hand it to em “WPD lets public safety chairwoman off on obvious DUI the same week the council votes against a police oversight board” would be a really good way to satirize a corrupt municipality
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
Thesis: well paid media obsession with Campus Culture Polarization/ Civility etc is just helicopter parenting by proxy. Leave college kids alone to fuck weird peers and say stupid shit and wear stuff that looks terrible on adults. This is their right!
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
Worth reminding yourselves what europe and the US fairly uncontroversially considered to be genocide then, especially when your favorites have regular meltdowns over the use of the term today
Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo agoBosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, has died, Serbian TV reports reut.rs/4qG64Pe
A month ago, Dana Bash made the exact same argument that every Democrat is putting out statements denouncing Hasan Piker for
So basically Tim Murray calls and they (most) jump. How embarrasing. Good job to Paul Matthews for holding his ground.
This Week in Worcester@thisweekinwoo.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn emergency board meeting at the WRRB saw an effort to suppress the release of its Civilian Review Board Report fail by just 1 vote in Oct. 2025.
An emergency board meeting at the WRRB saw an effort to suppress the release of its Civilian Review Board Report fail by just 1 vote in Oct. 2025.
Suppression of WRRB CRB Report Stopped by 1 Vote
An emergency board meeting at the WRRB saw an effort to suppress the release of its Civilian Review Board Report fail by just 1 vote in Oct. 2025.
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the video version of a renaissance painting
Sam Woodcock@samwoodcock.eurosky.social · 2mo agoThere is so much I going on here
Hero shit
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 2mo agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Prisciliano Trejo, aged 29 becomes the 50th person to die in #ICE custody. He was denied medical care until it was too late. His family was denied the ability to see him when he was finally sent to the hospital. This thread is one you must spend time on. We cannot ignore the atrocities!
If there were 60 cases of immigrants committing sex crimes, against children, Trump would order the mass execution of every immigrant in America. Here, 60 DHS/ICE agents committed sex crimes against children—silence. Horrifying report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
DHS Criminal Agents - 7/20/26 Update
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If you hold a piece of cardboard saying you Support Palestine Action you are arrested and charged under the Terrorism act ! Fascists doing Nazi salutes some with balaclavas and going on a racist rampage seems to be Fine with Police Scotland. Two tier policing compliments of the British Government
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning