Emily Norton

Why does Beacon Hill continue to dodge an audit? - The Boston Globe Voters demanded oversight. They aren’t getting it.

Least transparent government #mapoli

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Opinion | Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul

“I suspect the question the administration cares about is not “is this legal,” “is this a war crime,” “is this murder” or even “is this good for America,” but rather, “isn’t this violence delightful?”’

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Somalis who voted for Trump sharing their thoughts The Somali community in Minnesota is grappling with fear and uncertainty following recent comments by President Donald Trump and targeted operations by ICE agents.

“…some Somali business owners, like Mohamud, who voted for Trump, still stand by their decision.” 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Newton high school students bring plant-based meals to their cafeterias For many, high school cafeteria food is not something to be looked back upon fondly. But a group of high school students at Newton North and Newton South see potential in the daily meals that their sc...

Love this! Students stepping up to promote plant-based meals in #NewtonMA high schools.

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ICE has detained A SIX YEAR OLD

Anyone defending that… no words

That’s literally why Boston started revolting against the mother country! #America250

Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”

They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.

Think global, act local, give local!! Support CRWA to help us “cut the crap” going into the Charles

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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

I guess we can't handle the truth. Zillow stops sharing climate risk data on home listings. Back to BUYER BEWARE!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

He may have thought the things he is doing would be popular, as indeed they are with his most rabid base.

CITES members agree to stronger protection for sharks and rays The CITES World Species Conference agreed on Friday to strengthen international protection for certain species of sharks and rays, at talks in the Uzbek city of Samarkand. The measures include commerc...

some GOOD news about our planet!

"The CITES World Species Conference agreed on Friday to strengthen international protection for certain species of sharks and rays"

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“What world is Gates living in?#8221; Mann asks. “The idea that climate action must come at the expense of efforts to address human health is a provable fallacy.”

Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia's High-Tech Forces The West Papua National Liberation Army has resisted counterinsurgency in the Star Mountains for decades. Drop Site spoke with guerilla leader Lamek Taplo a week before he was killed.

“…the kids are traumatised; they live in the forest, and seek help from their parents, ‘Dad help me. Indonesia dropped the bomb on the place I lived in.’”

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Idiocracy

inside the Mad King’s court: traitors, war crimers and thieves which side are these fuckers on?

“…imagine being so corrupt that even JPMorgan wants no part of your corporate shake-down schemes.”

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So wrong

Another COP, Another Missed Opportunity to Tackle Emissions From Food “I think it's been a pretty big disappointment.”

"We did not see enough discussion about livestock or meat production in particular, or even diets in general. So I think this is a pretty big missed opportunity." Dan Jasper, Sr Policy Advisor

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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

Trump illegally murdering ppl in boats bc he’s so concerned about drug trafficking but also pardoning massive cocaine dealer. Make it make sense MAGA

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)

Me wearing winter coat and navy Charles River Watershed Association winter hat at counter with Shari owner of Fulfilled Goods, with my items on the counter-lip balm, floss, toothpaste, metal soap dispenser, plastic bin holding bulk choc pretzels

Happy #SmallBusinessSaturday from Fulfilled Goods in Newtonville!

While Ukraine purges its corruption the White House inflicts its corruption on an exponentially more criminal and world crippling scale.

Wishing everyone a great Thanksgiving! 🦃

A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

Babson student heading to Texas for Thanksgiving surprise deported to Honduras instead Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a business major at Babson, was swiftly deported in violation of a court order, her lawyer alleged.

Deporting a Babson student to a country she has not lived in since she was a child does not make America great, or safer, it just makes us cruel monsters #VoteBlueToEndTheCrueltyAndStupidity

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Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot

At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies “This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg,” said 10-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq.

“Gaza is home to the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world”

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Emptying Sewage into The Charles? - NightSide With Dan Rea | iHeart <p>A recent proposal by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) would allow sewage overflows into the Charles River by declassifying it as &ldquo;safe to swim,&rdquo; a designation that all...

I am so grateful to @wbznewsradio.bsky.social with Dan Rea for interviewing me last week about the inexplicable plan by the MWRA to dump *more* sewage in the Charles River. It was especially valuable to get a full hour, plus answer questions from callers!

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Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover

Fires are still burning in the Arctic in the winter. The climate catastrophe is here.
Spending political energy to massively increase pipeline production in Canada is not nation-building. It is planet burning.

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📌They appease Vladimir Putin and come after Mark Kelly.

Traitors. All of ‘em.