Melanie May

Hernan Escobar was on his way to work when ICE agents sideswiped his car, shattered his window, and refused to identify themselves.
 
Like so many in Malden, I am disgusted that this systematic terror has made its way into our community. We will get answers, and we will get justice.

Hey @jtkantor.bsky.social maybe The Way We Were in honor of RR and the fact that I’m old? Go Sox!-Melanie, currently sitting in Sec 32, seat 11

I was in a dinner theater production of this in 1992 in Durham, NC. A rather shockingly talented cast and it was tons of fun. But yes, a real stinker. 😅

#copyediting
#reminder

prophecy is the noun

prophesy is the verb

You lose healthcare. They gain yachts. Keep spreading the word.

I said what I said.

they're sending in witkoff to negotiate with the iranians? well, it was nice knowing you

#copyediting

martial law

m a r t i a l

not marital

not marshal

not marshall

I do love your deep cuts.

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Apparently.

“This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly… a tragedy… what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!”

-Pope Francis

I love Boston. 💙

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NOTE: There are more people *in this frame of television* than there are transgender athletes in the State of Maine

*All* of this is theater for stupid people

He will have stories to tell which is why I fear he is never coming back.

In all the chaos, people miss this massive thing.

A very happy birthday to Peter Gammons, the man Alex Cora rightly calls "Legend."

"And all of a sudden the ball was there, like the Mystic River Bridge, suspended out in the black of the morning ... "

Poetry. Every baseball writer today is a product of how Peter did the job. Long may he run.

Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.”

It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.

It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.

No more military aid to Netanyahu.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

gotta say, i feel like kind of a jerk for paying my taxes

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident.

We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

Statement from Elias Law Group Chair Marc Elias

My advice is if your law firm can't say this, get yourself a new law firm.

"Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

“We must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.

One petit piece of good news.

BD says what I think.

This is the good stuff.

A ‘garden path sentence’ is a grammatically correct sentence that tricks the reader into misinterpreting it.

The old man the boat.
(The boat is manned by the elderly.)

The prime number the few.
(People who are exceptional are few in number.)

I used to grow alarmed seeing mounted police in DC but now I secretly hope we're being invaded by Canada.