Brenda✨(She/ her/ ella)

You can pretend to care but you can't pretend to show up.

In Massachusetts, the gender wage gap varies widely:

• Asian women: 85¢

• White women: 80¢

• Native women: 62¢

• Black women: 58¢

• Latina women: 50¢

(for every $1 earned by white, non-Hispanic men)

Check the pay gap in your field below.

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a brick on top of a white museum pedestal with a placard reading: Brick thrown by Marsha P. Johnson at the Stonewall Riots USA, approx. 1960s Brick Unknown

Happy Pride y’all 🧱

Gerry Connolly was campaigning against anti-LGBTQ discrimination in a time when most of his colleagues felt it was too risky based on polling. He didn't back down from that fight in what was then a swing district. His loved ones are in my thoughts today. Rest in peace, Sir.

Formal warning.

This is not a safe space to bash Gerry Connolly.

I'm heartbroken for him, his family, and all his friends and colleagues today.

We knew Gerry as a pugnacious fighter for his constituents, for good government, and for a range of causes around the world. He was warm, witty, and loyal. Above all, Gerry was beloved by his family, friends, and staff. I send my condolences to them and especially to Smitty, Caitlin, their family.

I’m saddened to hear about the passing of Congressman Gerry Connolly. Rep. Connolly was a son of Boston, lifelong Red Sox fan, and a leader who carried the values of our city with him always. My heart goes out to his family, his friends, and all those whose lives he touched.

Oh my god. Watching this in horror as these poor men beg for someone to know where they are. Who they are. Jesus Christ. America, what have you done. Please, please wake up.

That's directly contrary to Acting DHS General Counsel Joseph Mazzara's sworn April 15 declaration.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return

"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

We are seeing on a national scale what the Government gets away with: missing deadlines, failing to comply with orders, and most importantly, VIOLATING people's rights and depriving them of freedom. These things also happen regularly in criminal courts locally and that has made all this possible.

“Then you can tell the public that everyday in status updates.”

The public is waiting and listening. We will not rest until Kilmar is brought home!

BRING KILMAR HOME

Sunsets this year will remain after 7:15PM starting this week until September.

🗞️ Story here: The IRS is letting immigration officials obtain confidential tax data for deportation targets

Judge McFadden, a Trump appointee, is also on the Immigrant Registry case. He’s expected to issue a decision on the preliminary injunction by Friday, when the registration system is set to take effect.

Urgent: The Harvard board flew to Cambridge weekend presumably to decide if they’ll capitulate to Trump. Working on a full-throated response.

Anyone willing to help connect with / organize Harvard faculty, students or others interested in an impromptu demonstration this Saturday?

So too do we all agree with the per curiam's command that the Fifth Amendment requires the Government to af-ford plaintiffs "notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act,... within reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs." Ante, at 3. That means, of course, that the Gov-ernment cannot usher any detainees, including plaintiffs, onto planes in a shroud of secrecy, as it did on March 15, 2025. Nor can the Government "immediately resume" re-moving individuals without notice upon vacatur of the TRO, as it promised the D. C. Circuit it would do. See 2025 WL 914682, 13 (Millett, J., concurring) (referencing oral argu-ment before that court). To the extent the Government re-moves even one individual without affording him notice and meaningful opportunity to file and pursue habeas relief, it does so in direct contravention of an edict by the United States Supreme Court.

IMPORTANT: Sotomayor, in the dissent, emphasizes that all 9 justices believe that the Trump administration cannot do what it wants to do: shove people onto a plane with NO due process.

They openly told the DC Circuit they were going to do that if they won. On that issue, they lost.

Hands Off Protest Boston!

April 5, 2025 Boston Common

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

Hands off our healthcare!
Hands off our public education!
Hands off our jobs!
Hands off my 401k!
Hands off my neighbor who has committed no crime!
Hands off those Congressional seats that we are coming for in 2026!

These words will be etched into history.

Quite a whiplash.

If that wasn't enough, he did it with eloquence, grace, and POWER. He refused to hate Thurman— instead reading from the voices of people across the aisle whose livelihoods have been impacted by this administration.

If that's not a big middle finger, idk what is. Nearly 25 hours & counting.

He did it. @booker.senate.gov— a black man— broke the record, previously held by Strom Thurmond’s racist filibuster to oppose the Civil Rights Act, for the longest time retaining the Senate floor.

He made history. And he’s STILL going.✊🏽

Disruption is all they seem to understand—so that’s exactly what they’re getting. For 14 hours, @booker.senate.gov has been on the Senate floor, speaking truth within the rules. This cannot be business as usual when our democracy’s on the line. Thank you, senator.

Demand that others follow suit in measures that match the urgency of the moment we’re in.
This may not be everything, but it is the 1st step in the right direction. It’s what we’ve been demanding of our Dem leadership, what we voted them in for— action. And when that fails… civic disruption.

Sen. Cory Booker has been speaking on the floor for over 15 hours now, highlighting just how imminent of a crisis our country is in. If you haven’t already, please call & FLOOD the lines with support for him. Play it & keep it going in the background, even if you aren’t watching it (views matter!)

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.