Melanie O’Malley (she/her)

Emilia's 40th Birthday Fundraiser By Sisters Unchained Inc

My dear friend Emilia is raising money for Sister's Unchained for her birthday. She's halfway to her goal and every gift goes a long way! givebutter.com/emilias40th

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.

Zohran Mamdani's proposals for NYC build off city's progressive foundation: Experts While some critics decry Zohran Mamdani's vision for New York City as far-fetched, experts noted that they build off progressive foundations laid by past policies.

"Mamdani's proposals, such as freezing the rent for some New York tenants, free buses and free child care, are not only feasible but also build off the foundations of previous New York City laws, political analysts told ABC News."

Racial and gender oppression, and the intersections of the two, are at the most basic about who gets opportunities and resources (social & otherwise) and who does not. In other words, so-called social issues ARE economic issues.

Just heard Sy Montgomery on @wgbh.org and will definitely buy The True and Lucky Life of a Turtle for my son from our local bookshop anunlikelystory.indiecommerce.com/book/9780063...

Very proud of how many questionnaires we have collected!

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

We’re in a health care crisis.

Hospitals and clinics will close from Trump’s cuts.

15 million people will lose their health care.

Now Trump’s CDC layoffs are making it even WORSE by gutting our ability to stop emerging health threats.

Democrats are fighting to stop this.

A graphic that reads: Trump & Republicans' healthcare crisis will devastate the MA-07. Here's how: 35,512 people will lose health coverage because of Republican cuts to Medicaid in the Big Ugly Law and their plot to gut the Affordable Care Act. 29,000 people will see their health care costs rise if Republicans let critical tax credits expire.

The healthcare crisis Trump and Republicans have created will be devastating for families in the #MA7.

Here's how:

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

A good reminder that Big Tech is a handmaiden to fascism. www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Burlington Town Meeting votes to condemn ICE center Effort seeks access to inspect the facility and enforce zoning compliance.

There's an ICE office that's become a detention center right next to the Burlington Mall. Burlington's town government wants to "investigate and take corrective action." https://bit.ly/46X0jDj

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Protect our Care Town Hall Thursday, October 9 St. James's Episcopal Church Cambridge Raise Up Mass

WHEN: This Thursday! 6:30 pm
WHERE: St. James's Episcopal Church in Cambridge

Join us for a town hall focused on the impact of looming cuts and what we can do here in MA to fight back.

RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

It's not in teaching our young sons to recognize their feelings that we can teach them to do better and different (conservative men are VERY in touch with their feelings). It is in teaching them that women and more marginalized groups are not responsible for those feelings.

"There is not bigger set of snowflakes than Republicans in power" –Roxane Gay

Don’t believe the gun lobby’s hype: There is no research to support the idea that women’s gun ownership increases their safety. In fact, studies show the opposite—that women living in households with a firearm are at greater risk of homicide.

Learn more: everytownresearch.org/domestic-violence

Advocates, lawmakers urge Gov. Maura Healey to halt $360 million rebuild of women’s prison in Framingham - The Boston Globe The project is an expensive misstep that ignores what inmates inside the state’s only women’s prison actually say they need, it said.

Over 80 advocacy orgs have voiced their opposition to the $360 million proposal to build a new women's prison in MA. Instead of new construction, we need investment in community-based alternatives that have proven track records of improving public safety. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/12/m...

The Trump Administration Wants Pregnant Women to Suffer When ableism meets misogyny: Tylenol edition.

The cruelty is the point katemanne.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Access to abortion
Medicaid coverage
Tylenol

All things that extremists are taking away from pregnant people.

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women "This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’ New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023

"If all of the planned new extraction takes place, the world will produce more than double the quantity of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with holding global temperature rises to 1.5C above preindustrial levels." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pentagon Steps Up Media Restrictions, Now Requiring Approval Before Reporting Even Unclassified Info The Pentagon is stepping up restrictions on the media by requiring journalists to sign a pledge not to report on information that has not been authorized for release.

They want everything to be state media.

www.huffpost.com/entry/pentag...

Malden woman pleads for return of husband taken by ICE on way to work - The Boston Globe The alleged details of the arrest come amid an ongoing surge of immigration enforcement.

"This week, her fear came true: Her husband, Edgar Hernan Elias Escobar, called her to say that masked federal agents had rammed their car into his to stop it as he went to work, smashed the window, and pointed a stun gun at his head."

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/m...

Anyway Me Too was a women’s free speech movement.

Hey media, @jimmykimmel.com’s comments were about MAGA and TRUMP. Be honest in your headlines

It honestly makes me wonder to what extent white men like Klein actually disagree with the substance of those “worst moments.” Like, they don’t believe in the equality of women or men of color either but they prefer to be nice about it.

Researchers at @umasschan.bsky.social were finding cures to childhood cancer — then Trump brought that work to a halt.

That’s who Trump’s hurting. Little kids with cancer.

A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

“The organization is subsidized by a roster of billionaire donors…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...