Mary Katherine Morn

Mayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, Mayor Michelle Wu testified before the U.S. House Oversight Committee in Washington, D.C., alongside mayors from Denver, Chicago, and New York. The hearing, convened by th...

Read Mayor Wu’s opening statement in English, Cabo Verde Creole, Haitian Creole, Chinese, Spanish, and Vietnamese at boston.gov/opening-statement.

Global Gender Gap 2024: What needs to happen to reach gender parity? It will take 134 years to reach gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2024. Here’s what you need to know.

Happy (?!) International Women's Day tomorrow. The World Economic Forum is reporting that at our current rate of progress, the gender gap will be closed! In 2158.

www.weforum.org/stories/2024...

Just rumors, so I left it unsaid. Many are spreading lies, of course.

$40m could save 2m children under 5 who will die from drinking dirty water. 60 of those will die during the SuperBowl halftime alone.

Or..those two million are the under five population of the state of Texas.

One of my colleagues who leads an INGO that receives USAID funding shared this, when learning that $40 million was spent on a superbowl advertisement to discredit the life saving mission of USAID:

USAID.
The lies are egregious.

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of...household, neighborhood and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

-Wendell Berry

“It’s on every cis person in this country to fiercely have trans people’s backs in every macro and micro way, now and always.”

“May their memories not just be a blessing but also a call to action “

Ukraine: Grim milestone of 1,000 days since Russia launched full-scale armed attack Today marks the grim milestone of 1,000 days since the Russian Federation launched its full-scale armed attack on Ukraine. Our Office has verified that at least 12,162 civilians have been killed since...

One thousand days.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...

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Tell your Representative to Vote NO on H.R. 9495 to Stop Trump From Attacking Dissenting Organizations

Tomorrow’s assignment: Protect non profs from next prez

#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistTrump

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So grateful for your voice

Opinion | This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s Return Liberal democracy offers moral constraints without problem-solving. Populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.

In which I consider Trump's blueprint for destruction This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s Return www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Oh I’m loving Bluesky now!

How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.

Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations).

Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.

I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.

UUSC is proud to join 120 other organizations and the ACLU in protesting federal overreach and protecting much needed civil society.