Yvonne Abraham

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during the war. “Consider that for a moment. A whole classroom of children killed, every day for nearly two years."

Are you kidding me? Aren’t they supposed to be smart over there?

Trump Escalates Attacks on Mamdani

Hi, this is FASCISM.
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Trump toured Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades. Here’s what to know. - The Boston Globe The site can currently house 3,000 people in dormitories corralled by chain-link fences and topped with barbed wire, and state officials say it can be expanded to ultimately house 5,000.

Hi, this is a CONCENTRATION CAMP.
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Paramount to pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ interview - The Boston Globe Paramount told media outlets the money will go to President Trump’s future presidential library, not to the president himself.

Hi, this is a BRIBE:
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Also such a community guy, on and off!

Please not JRUE!!!

Opinion | The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism

M. Gessen, brilliant as always:

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As questions linger, family and school grieve for Boston 5-year-old killed in April bus crash - The Boston Globe There have been few answers in the nearly two months since a Boston Public Schools bus struck and killed Lens Joseph on April 28.

This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social

Former Stoughton police officer charged with killing Sandra Birchmore did not father her unborn baby, DNA shows - The Boston Globe Matthew Farwell is accused of killing Birchmore to prevent her from implicating him in her rape when she was a teen.

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Ex-Stoughton deputy police chief in Sandra Birchmore case faces secret hearing over alleged misconduct - The Boston Globe A retired Superior Court judge closed the hearing, citing that there is “no reasonable method” for holding any part of the hearing in public “without a substantial risk of disclosing confidential evid...

Open it up.

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Maybe you figure Harvard doesn’t need your help, that a school as rich and storied as that one will be fine.

It won’t. And if the extremists who run the country get away with doing this to Harvard, they can destroy any school, kicking crucial pillars out from under our democracy.

The model for the administration’s attacks on Harvard can be found 4,000 miles away, in Hungary, where authoritarian prime minister and GOP demigod Victor Orbán knew that seizing absolute power meant destroying the universities.

Trump and his people are lying when they say their attacks on Harvard are about protecting Jewish students. Their real goals are to break independent academic inquiry, stifle dissent, demonstrate their power, and remake Harvard into a place that reflects their white Christian nationalist ideals.

Trump won’t stop attacking Harvard. We need to treat it like an emergency. - The Boston Globe The sooner we recognize what is actually happening here, the more hope we have of stopping this lawless regime and its authoritarian power grab.

The Trump administration wants to destroy Harvard.

The sooner we recognize what is actually happening here, the more hope we have of stopping this lawless regime and its authoritarian power grab.

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Woot! Thank you!!

GENERAL COMMENTARY PORTFOLIO, DIV 3

Three columns or essays by the same writer on any human interest or specialty topic.

🥇 1st Place: @yabraham.bsky.social
🥈 2nd Place: @laurayuen.bsky.social
🥉 3rd Place: @jaymichaelson.bsky.social
🏅 Honorable Mention:
@gustavoarellano.bsky.social

Thank you! So honored to have this work recognized. It was a joy to work with Laura, and an honor to tell Sandra's story.

But by then, the billionaires’ pockets will be even fatter.

Sucks to be a pleb!

The thing is, the medical needs of those kicked off MassHealth won’t go away. They’ll get dealt with in emergency rooms already at their breaking points. And they’ll put the squeeze on struggling health centers, hospitals and, ultimately, state budgets.

About a quarter of all recipients here are children, and 30 percent have disabilities or are over 65.

Republicans are using a problem that barely exists to kick millions out of the system, and proposing a so-called solution that doesn’t work anyway.

Republicans want to introduce Medicaid work requirements that will finally get the freeloaders off their butts. Let’s take a closer look at these miscreants, shall we? Of the 2 million people who get MassHealth to cover their medical care, 76 percent are in families that are already working ...

Even after people at the bottom of the ladder get hosed, those tax cuts are projected to swell the national debt by trillions over the next decade.

Hey, it’s all for a noble cause: Remaking the country into a GOP utopia, where the rich get more handouts, and the poor have only themselves to blame.

With the big, ugly bill, the rich get richer and everybody else pays - The Boston Globe The Republican dilemma: Should their cuts to Medicaid be downright evil, or just unspeakably cruel?

This House budget is an immoral document.

Is anyone surprised? Jesus Christ.

“If people can tolerate cruelty to transgender people, they can tolerate a wide range of cruelty against other individuals,” said GLAD Law attorney Jennifer Levi. “You are transformed by living in a country that ...endorses destroying the lives of people putting their lives on the line for you.”

State-sponsored cruelty towards trans people — or any minority — bleeds outwards, affecting other groups as well. It also hardens Americans’ capacity to tolerate more cruelty. And no one can avoid the harm caused by all of that.

The ‘nightmare’ at the Liberty Hotel shows that state-sponsored cruelty to trans people was never going to stop there - The Boston Globe The Trump administration's crusade against trans people is a cruel test of American tolerance.

Today I wrote about the administration's crusade against trans people and how very many people are harmed by it, including those who think it has nothing to do with them.

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Inside Steward Health Care: A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

Read through all of our reporting on the Steward Health Care crisis in Massachusetts and beyond.

Yay!!!