Sarah Griffin

Lots of people in Worcester don’t vote. Some groups are trying to change that. Residents say they don’t expect their votes to prompt real change. Others say they don’t have enough information to cast a ballot.

Worcester is full of potential voters who don’t cast ballots. Turnout in the city routinely ranks among the lowest in Massachusetts.

Civic organizations are knocking on doors to change that: https://bit.ly/43pCEdE

To the kids with disabilities deprived of a teacher's aide—Trump thinks it's not a problem.

To the parents fighting for their kid to be treated equally in the classroom—Trump thinks it's not a problem.

To the teachers in need of resources—Trump thinks it's not a problem.

On a personal and perhaps petty level I understand wanting to “dunk” on these people for voting for him and this, but the reality is, this is just another group of struggling Americans we need to support to unify our fight against this regime.

The Future of the Care Economy: Public Investment in Families and Workers - Roosevelt Institute The US is facing a care crisis. Our care research is charting a better path forward: a federal investment strategy centered on the core belief that we all have a common interest in investing in care f...

Childcare—left to the free market for decades—is a failure.

The tools to lower childcare costs and improve quality are available if we use them. It starts with investing public dollars in care:
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

trying (once again) to make the transition to Bluesky permanently — not so much so I can lib out (though don’t tempt me with a good time), but more so to scream into the void without having to see an ICE ad immediately after

eternal rule of history is misogynistic men conspire to prevent women from hanging out at all costs

The work’s not done yet! Elated to share that we are 83% of the way to my goal of $26k towards my new van. I would appreciate your help in spreading the word! If you have the means please consider donating today. Every dollar matters. Thank you!

The work’s not done yet! Elated to share that we are 83% of the way to my goal of $26k towards my new van. I would appreciate your help in spreading the word!

If you have the means please consider donating today. Every dollar matters. Thank you!

🔗: gofund.me/bbf4f7d2

Snap benefits, healthcare, utilities. Gonna hurt millions. Red and blue.

Speaking of SNAP:

SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

Finally some honesty.

I guess it's called the Magna Carta. I heard that and I said wow. But we're not going to have it anymore and we'll have something much better. And I think our royal subjects will be very happy

A reminder for this Transgender Day of Visibility:

Trans people have always existed, and we always will. 

No president, politician, or court can change that.

Must read from one of our incredible @bostonschools.boston.gov educators ⬇️

Thank you @jenniferdines.bsky.social for your courage, care & determination to fight for all of our families 🙏

A stack of books, which are (from top to bottom): Bury Your Gays, Don't Let The Forest In, Hell Followed With Us, Woodworking, Iron Widow, Cemetery Boys, So This Is Ever After, and Nimona.

To celebrate #TransDayOfVisibility, I bring you a selection of my favorite books by trans and nonbinary authors. Details in the thread below!

State education board addresses timeouts, seclusion in schools There's been growing national attention on so-called timeout rooms in recent years, as families of students with disabilities have raised alarms about inappropriate use of the secluded rooms to punish...

There's been growing national attention on so-called timeout rooms in recent years, as families of students with disabilities have raised alarms about inappropriate use of the secluded rooms to punish their children and keep them out of class for long periods.

Free tickets drop for Boston kids as performance arts venues join city program Mayor Wu is announcing that families will have access to free performances at seven of the city’s performing arts institutions including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Ballet and the Huntin...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will announce at tonight's State of the City address that she'll be expanding her arts program, Boston Family Days, to include free performances at seven of the city's performing arts institutions:

Newly arrive astronauts: awwww, dolphins! That's incredible. I just wish we could know what they're saying!

Dolphins: GO BACK GO BACK IT'S NOT SAFE HERE THIS PLANET IS CURSED RETURN TO THE STARS DEAR HUMAN IT'S YOUR ONLY HOPE

YouTube video by Tad Stoermer Andrew Jackson Isn’t a Patriot to Celebrate—He’s America’s Founding Father of Authoritarianism

Andrew Jackson Isn’t a Patriot to Celebrate—He’s America’s Founding Father of Authoritarianism
youtu.be/DOrBlwS0-bY

The Limits of Kindness in an Algorithmic Age Working in a middle school, every day I see the same posters: “Be Kind.” “Choose Empathy.” “Everyone Belongs.” They’re everywhere - on classroom doors, hallway bulletin boards, sometimes handwritten o...

The walls say "be kind" but the boys are quoting Andrew Tate. My experience working in a middle school and why now more than ever "be kind" is no longer enough. Students need to be taught systems and how to critically think: sarahkgriffin.substack.com/p/the-limits...

1) Tim Walz

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This is why I'm skeptical of any examination of "male loneliness" that doesn't put profit pressures and hustle culture at the root of the problem.

They do not. 77 million of them voted for hatred & cruelty.

WSJ Article They share an office with one big desk and one telephone. They often eat three meals a day together, and take all their meetings as a pair. Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane, lifelong friends, built Garnett Station, a private-equity firm that is drawing high-profile investors and a portfolio of regional restaurants that recently surpassed $1 billion in annual sales. 🔗Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4bsMH4o

The celebration of "hardcore" work culture is keeping us from gender equality.

If men can only be "successful" by working so much they're eating every meal at the office, then they have incentive to avoid any care work that might pull them away. Which means pushing all the care onto women instead.

In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.

The Pentagon flagged a photo of the Enola Gay in its DEI purge…
apnews.com/article/dei-...

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...