Dunkel gekleidete Personen in Zivil nähern sich ihr, umringen sie auf der Straße und führen sie ab: Die Bilder der Festnahme einer türkischen Doktorandin im US-Bundesstaat Massachusetts sorgen für Empörung.#USA #Massachusetts #Hamas #Bildung

An Eastern Bluebird launches from his perch.

#photography #birds #wildlife #birdphotography #nature #masswildlife #halifax #massachusetts #wildmassachusetts #naturalmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife

“We broke up with him first. We quit Twitter in 2022 when he was only half a Nazi”

https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2025/03/rock-bands-x-account-suspended-after-singer-disses-maga-fan-at-boston-show.html

#DropkickMurphys #ShippingUpToBoston #BreakingUpWithNazis #Boston #BostonMA #Massachusetts #Punk #PunkRock

Musk's Tesla facilities in US face 'Takedown' protests

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvze9dzq8vo

" #Tesla facilities across the #US are facing protests and vandalism in response to the political role #ElonMusk... has played in the #Trump administration.

Most #TeslaTakedown protests have been peaceful, but a few have been destructive with fires intentionally set at Tesla showrooms and charging stations in #Colorado & #Massachusetts last week."

#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Musk #GOP #USPol #News #USA #USNews

Essie when She was a Kitten - Canon 85mm f1.8 on Sony a6500 using Metabones 4 adapter.
Hopkinton, MA, United States

Taken on 2016-12-10 13:03:24 with Canon 85mm F1.8 on Sony a6500 with exposure 1/200s @ f/2 @ 85mm @ 1600 ISO

Critiques welcome. Thanks for taking the time to look at my photo.

#photography #AmateurPhotography #cat #CatsOfPixelfed #Caturday #portrait #SonyAlpha #Massachusetts

A successful tri-town Repair Café

by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter

"According to the Christian Science Monitor, 'It was 15 years ago when Dutch #environmental journalist #MartinePostma was finally moved to action over all the appliances she saw being thrown away in her Amsterdam neighborhood . . .on Oct. 18, 2009, she arranged a local event where volunteers skilled in repairs would try to fix broken devices that community members brought in, free of cost.'

"Holding a local repair café can help reduce waste in a community and enable people to save money by continuing to use their household items and forgoing the purchase of new ones. A repair café is also an opportunity for people to get to know their neighbors, share a snack, and admire the #fixperts as they work. Repair cafés are now a trend being held throughout the world.

"At the #WestwoodMA Senior Center, a large group a people arrived at the #TriTownRepairCafé earlier this month before the opening time of 2:30 pm. The event was organized by the Westwood #EnvironmentalAction Committee, The Dover Recycling Committee, #SustainableMedfield, and the Medfield Transfer Station and Recycling Committee. The items people brought with them to be fixed included a blender, lamps, a coat, an air conditioner, sewing machines, a folding table, a chair, and a clock, among many others.

"After entering the Senior Center, attendees briefly waited in line and chatted until it was their turn to register for the event. After that, they were called by name to enter the repair rooms where approximately 12 volunteer repair people or 'fixperts' worked intently on the broken items at their workstations while the owners watched. There was no charge for the repair service, and the repairs were not guaranteed. Item owners were responsible for purchasing any parts needed.

"Fixpert Bob was presented with a sewing machine that needed the bobbin assembly to be put back into place after falling out. Bob was delighted at the word play of 'Bob working on a bobbin!' The owner of the 1987 Brother sewing machine wanted to avoid purchasing a new one, but she couldn’t figure out how to put the bobbin assembly pieces back together. Bob got right to work, studying a few pages from the original manual that the owner brought. One could see him thinking as he looked back and forth at the pieces of the bobbin assembly he held in his hands. Though Bob had no prior experience with sewing machines, he soon had the three pieces of the bobbin assembly put together and seated back in the machine.

"The other fixperts chatted with 'customers' while fixing their items, consulted each other on repairs, and used a variety of tools. A fun atmosphere prevailed in the room, with people showing each other what they brought to be fixes and happily announcing, 'He fixed it!' and showing their restored items to others.

"The next time you see a Repair Café being organized locally, you might want to give it a try."

Source:
https://hometownweekly.net/westwood/a-successful-tri-town-repair-cafe/
#RepairCafeMA #RepairCafes #RightToRepair #SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #Massachusetts

Fascist group on the Boston Common. Posted on Reddit 20 minutes ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/1ivqbuk/nazis_in_boston_common/

We will update as we have more info.

#BostonMA #Massachusetts #FuckNazis #Fascists

Tomorrow, Boston Common at 11AM:

https://events.pol-rev.com/events/687b1117-cbbb-4a4e-9941-f865cfc1ca52

NO KINGS ON PRESIDENTS DAY

#BostonMA #Massachusetts #Antifascism #StopTheCoup #50501movement

From @lynnunitedma on Instagram:

RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Tuesday, February 11

Lynn, MA

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Start: District Court (580 Essex St)
End: Lynn City Hall

DEFEND OUR COMMUNITY!
DEFEND DEMOCRACY!
ICE OUT OF LYNN!

Sponsors: ARC, Comité Comunitario Guatemalteco, ECCO, Highlands Coalition, Lynn United for Change, Neighbor to Neighbor, New Lynn Coalition, North Shore Labor Council, Solidarity Rising, United Nations CDC (list in formation).

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvx_KoR0LU/

#LynnMA #Massachusetts #ImmigrantRights #FuckICE #Antifascism

Emerson #Students, Staff, And #Faculty Face Restrictive New Policies Born From #Gaza #Protests. The Emerson College administration put rules in place in response to last year’s #campus unrest that some community members say violate their #FirstAmendment rights. https://horizonmass.news/2025/01/23/emerson-students-staff-and-faculty-face-restrictive-new-policies-born-from-gaza-protests/ #freespeech #civilliberties #Boston #Massachusetts

Good graffiti, seen today in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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#WalthamMA #massachusetts #graffiti #america

Editorial: What #Journalism Is Not. Fox News “embedding” with ICE agents in Boston was an affront to our nation’s core democratic values. From HorizonMass' @jasonpramas.mastodon.social. https://horizonmass.news/2025/01/23/editorial-what-journalism-is-not/ #Boston #Massachusetts #analysis #criticism

Hi, I'm a #Massachusetts person poking around on the internet and writing a mystery novel in my spare time. #introduction Interests include #writing #illustration #cozymystery #mysterywriter #southcoastma #nativeplants #puppetry #magic #historicalreenacting

New to me, but around for the past 20 years(!): Doug Holder's blog: 'Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene'

https://dougholder.blogspot.com/2024/12/what-no-massachusetts-state-poet.html
#boston #Massachusetts #SmallPress #Poetry #poets #blog

Help #Support BINJ’s #Internship Program: “Training the next generation of reporters is not just a mandate, it’s an honor.” Editorial by @jasonpramas.mastodon.social. https://horizonmass.news/2024/12/12/help-support-binjs-internship-program/ #journalism #students #fundraiser #reporting #donate #Massachusetts

[video] US festival of #Thanksgiving, a #DayOfMourning for the #Wampanoag people

By: Fraser Jackson, France24
11/23/2023

"This Thursday marks Thanksgiving in the United States, a festival so deeply rooted in American tradition that it's more widely celebrated than Christmas. Thanksgiving commemorates the convivial sharing of a meal between the first English pilgrims to land on the shores of present-day Massachusetts in 1620 and the Wampanoag tribe, the local inhabitants. That's the story taught in school, but for the #NativeAmericans, Thanksgiving is in fact a day of mourning. Our correspondents Fanny Allard and Fraser Jackson report."

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20231123-us-festival-of-thanksgiving-a-day-of-mourning-for-the-wampanoag-people

#Truth #Massachusetts #Colonization #NativeAmericanHistory

A civilization that outlaws psychedelics is like ugly people outlawing mirrors.

https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_4,_Legalization_and_Regulation_of_Psychedelic_Substances_Initiative_(2024)

#Massachusetts #psychedelics #mentalhealth

In rural #Massachusetts are such unmanned kiosks. No one is watching. There are just goods for sale and a money pot to make change. For a brief moment, you get the feeling that you're no longer living in the future.

I very, very much prefer this reality; I'm exhausted.

#capitalism #NewEngland

Dies ist Conway, #Massachusetts. Obwohl sie weniger als 2.000 Einwohner hat, verfügt sie über diese Bibliothek:

#library #NewEngland

At the bottom of these images is an adult crib. Consumption (tuberculosis) was a common illness in the 18th and 19th centuries, resulting in 25% of all deaths. There was no treatment. It could take months for patients to die or recover (50%), during which time they remained an active part of the social life of the family in such cribs. This also gave them the opportunity to transmit the disease.

#historical #NewEngland #Massachusetts #19thcentury #18thcentury #histodon #vaccinessavelives

View of the fertile farmland in the Connecticut River Valley, from the summit of Mt. Holyoke in Hadley, MA, looking west at Northampton.

#mountHolyokeSummitHouse #ConnecticutRiverValley #farmland #hadley #Northampton #Massachusetts

How Much Does the Millionaire Tax Improve Tax Fairness? How Does Massachusetts Compare Now to Other States? - Mass. Budget and Policy Center

https://massbudget.org/2024/01/09/fsa-tax-fairness-other-states/

> Together, the millionaire surtax and the progressive elements of the 2023 tax package help make Massachusetts one of the least regressive states, tax-wise, in the US. Low- and middle-income households typically pay a smaller share of income toward taxes in Massachusetts than in most other states.
#massachusetts #taxFairness

To fall is to be drawn to that which is beneath you. To fall is a condition, not an event.

#SaltIslandDiaries #historicalfiction #bookstodon #victoriana #Massachusetts #feminism

#SilentSunday #Photography #Massachusetts

#Christmas used to be illegal in #Massachusetts. Just sayin'.

"…nearly 47% of #Massachusetts residents 25 years or older have at least a bachelor’s degree — the highest rate among the states and second only to Washington, D.C."

"…community college is now free for millions [of] State residents 25 and older — and without a prior postsecondary degree"

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/08/24/healey-massachusetts-massreconnect-higher-education-cost-free-students

#education

Automakers spent $26.5 M to defeat Massachusetts' "Right to Repair" law. Nevertheless, MA citizens overwhelmingly voted for it in 2020.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/02/metro/amid-auto-industry-battle-question-1-is-most-expensive-ballot-initiative-massachusetts-history

The US government then told #automakers not to comply.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/06/15/right-to-repair-federal-officials-automakers-not-to-comply-massachusetts-law

It now appears that that MA shall, in fact, enforce its law.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/08/23/feds-mass-ag-agree-on-path-forward-for-right-to-repair-law/

#Massachusetts has made America less 'great,' once again. 😈

The textile factory girls of early 19th century #Massachusetts made a phenomenon of themselves during their own time by functionally converting the town of Lowell into a sprawling college campus for the working class.

Anyone who feels trapped in a brain-dead job ought to check out these factory workers.

Some articles about them are here: https://earlywithdrawal.net/victoriana/index.php/articles

#19thcentury #history #industrial #feminism #bookstodon #midjourney
@histodons

Loom and Spindle – Victoriana

At a time when people increasingly feel disempowered and without outlook, the "mill girls of Lowell" offer an inspiring story of human triumph in face of withering conditions.

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2064-d799-cfb1-993552020832

#capitalism #unions #industrial #feminism #midjourney #history #19thcentury #NewEngland #Massachusetts
@histodons

#stem #engineering #cool #Massachusetts

Become a certified pirate at MIT after completing Archery, Fencing, Pistol (Air Pistol or Rifle) and Sailing. Parrot, ship's wheel attached to belt optional

https://physicaleducationandwellness.mit.edu/about/pirate-certificate/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Dear #Massachusetts vacationers:

We see you going into #restaurant bathrooms to have #sex. You’re not being sneaky.

Love/hate,
#Maine

"…Christopher Hood appeared in Boston Municipal Court after brawling with a counter-protester outside a drag story hour…"

"'Any reference to the defendant as a leader of a National Socialist Club 131 is overly prejudicial,' said Judge Maureen Flaherty."

"Flaherty ordered a 'not guilty' verdict after ruling that prosecutors did not provide enough evidence for the jury to make a fair decision on the charge without speculation or guesswork."

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2023/08/06/new-england-neo-nazi-group-bigger-scarier-military-veterans

#massachusetts #nazi #maga

First US Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might Be Coming - Slashdot

> #Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling of location data drawn from consumers' mobile devices in the state, in what would be a first-in-the-nation effort to rein in a billion-dollar industry.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/07/10/2021206/first-us-ban-on-sale-of-cellphone-location-data-might-be-coming #privacy

Massachusetts trolls Texas & Florida by putting up #Pride billboards in their states.

Massachusetts was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2003.

#Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is the first out #lesbian Governor in the country.

There are food sites open throughout #Massachusetts, providing free breakfast and lunch all summer to anyone 18yo or younger. This is intended to replace the free food provided to students at public schools during the school year. No registration or ID is required. See https://ProjectBread.org/SummerEats for more information.
#PSA #hunger #Boston #BostonMA #FreeFood

#Midjourney made it possible for me to have finally the oddly-cropped 1500x500 mastodon #banner I needed.

Better or worse than the #photo on which it was based? The photo has the lantern.

#SaltIsland #Massachusetts

Fantastic news this- #Cambridge, #Massachusetts' $500 monthly #Covid-originating #BasicIncome experiment will continue, and even expand
Wonderful
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/02/business/cambridges-covid-experiment-giving-poor-families-500-month-will-continue-grow/ #UBI