Cynthia Stillinger

The bioswale at the bottom of my street.

Ride and Walk For Your Life Join us on the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims to Ride and Walk for Our Lives. In 2024, our Ride for Your Life bike ride and rally drew over 400 people to Boston Common on the World…

🌼 Sunday 11/16 is World Day of Remembrance 🌼

RSVP for the rally at the State House: secure.everyaction.com/ZJiKM4trHk2Y...

Apply for help with your community event in honor of victims of traffic violence & their families: www.massbike.org/2025_world_d...

#WDoR2025 #SafeSpeedsSaveLives

Stop the Republican Shutdown YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries

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YouTube video by Rep. Auchincloss Jake Auchincloss on Republican cuts to Medicaid

Kicking millions of Americans off Medicaid does not save money for the U.S. health system. It just transfers costs onto families who need at-home care or who get insurance through their employer.

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“Fascism Works If Everybody Is Afraid”: One Democratic Congressman’s Antidote to Trumpism Illinois representative Sean Casten tells VF that town halls are at the core of democracy because people “deserve to have their voices heard,” and explains how historic progress takes collective effor...

On the importance of townhalls, constant civic engagement and the need for all of us to choose to be "tall poppies" right now and stand up to Trump. Other than not being offered a high-fashion photo shoot, I had a lot of fun talking to the folks at Vanity Fair. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...

Your occasional reminder that executive orders are not laws, and the Republican members of Congress could stop this carnage today.

This is helpful framing. Privilege is not simply a question of who's got it harder.

No suggestions, just sincere appreciation for a good typo.

I keep referring to the "Republican Administration" rather than saying "Trump" or "Trump and Musk" because it would take four (4) congressional Republicans voting with the Democrats, to call the question of whether we even have a government anymore.

Just four (4).

Tough news from the UK. There's a Trans Day of Visibility March here in Boston this Saturday (Apr 19th) from 1 – 3:30 PM at Harambe Park in Dorchester.

Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.

History Lessons Matter, Even in Preschool - Early Learning Nation When people hear that I work in a preschool, they can easily picture me pretending to drink tea, pinky up from a plastic cup, the wobbly wooden block

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Quoted text: As we thumb through the book I Am Ruby Bridges, the children always want to examine the illustration of 6-year-old Ruby walking into her school past a crowd of screaming white grown-ups holding pro-segregation signs. They ask about why the adults are so angry. They want to know how Ruby felt being the only kid there at that moment. And I ask them, "What would you do if you were there with her?" Their answers are thoughtful, powerful, and sometimes a little wild. Among my favorites is the child who said, "I’d give all the kids hammers, even the babies, and we’d hammer down that school and build a new one for everybody.” I love that even the babies are empowered in this re-imagining. And this young child perfectly demonstrated the real key takeaway from all of my history lessons: there are no lone heroes. It takes an organized community and some powerful leaders to make change.

From "History Lessons Matter, Even in Preschool," my sister's piece in Early Learning Nation.

They are trying…and making headway toward their goal every day…to squeeze every last breath out of the lungs of democracy. At that point, they plan to stomp on the lifeless corpse. You already know that, but sometimes it helps to see it in print. If we let it slip away…it’s gone forever.

The GOP's plan is to hurt our most vulnerable populations in order to give tax breaks to billionaires.

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

I also just need to tell everyone again about our 80s & 90s hip hop night in Cambridge on April 14 because I think it's going to be fun & it would be sad if no one showed up to listen to the playlist we made (Please RSVP!) www.portersquarebooks.com/event/themed...

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Been struggling this week with the feelings this brings up. The hope boosted by WI election results and Senator Booker's filibuster is accompanied by deep rage and sorrow that so many white voters, including my fellow GenX women, chose immiseration. Nobody was tricked into voting for this.

Unfun memories of 1990s Moscow: enfants terribles Taibbi and Ames.

Side view of a skipper butterfly on a variegated dogwood leaf

Big thanks to the Massachusetts Pollinator Network (MAPN) for their outreach and advocacy, and for creating so many opportunities for people to connect and share ideas and experiences.

MAPN website just got a glow up - check it out!
masspollinatornetwork.org

"Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back" = a lie. We must fight these fascists and that includes rejecting their lies.

[Waves from afar] I just picked up a hardcover copy at Porter Square Books yesterday.

Other monikers include the inevitable Shelly (12) and Sheldon (6), as well as the baffling Shish Kebob. And because this is the Boston area, there are Gronk, Brady, Big Papi, and Dunkin.” 4/4

There have also been Squirtle (25), Yertle, and Gamera, as well as hatchlings named after each of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, including 6 Michelangelos. 3/4

“Since 2009, some 22,000 students in eastern Massachusetts have helped raise more than 1,700 turtle hatchlings. […] Over the years, students have named the turtles in their care Bubbles (25 of them), Bubble (4 of them), Bubba (2), and Captain Bubbles. 2/4

Recommended reading, aptly self-described as “a fun read with serious purpose”: Northern Woodlands magazine, published quarterly by the Center for Northern Woodlands Education.

From “A Lesson in Turtles,” by Madeline Bodin (Spring 2025 issue): 1/4

General strike time.