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organizer of people & things, attorney & ???, parent/spouse, fan of joy & jazz 🏳️‍🌈 she/her #UU | #YIMBY @dotgrow.bsky.social | #BLM | 🌊

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Nov 17

#Dorchester

who's here??? I've got about 100 more slots available to add folks ...

go.bsky.app/LocbEbK

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · 1d

tattoo guy in rural Maine: Ok, no Nazi stuff. You're looking for more subtle. I got you!

Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · 16d

It is my understanding that there *is* a law and prior guidance on this has been absolutely clear:
bsky.app/profile/sbag...

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · 28d

If you get to Upham's Corner (Fairmount commuter rail line has a stop), Singh's Roti (Trinidadian) or Comfort Kitchen (James Beard nominated fusion) are at opposite ends of the spectrum, but both worthy favorites.

Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · 28d

Dorchester redline 🚆: Ba Le (banh mi), Ghost Pepper Taco+Tequila Bar, Raymundo Taqueria (papusas!!), Shanti (Indian), dBar(new american, plus 🏳️‍🌈 nightclub) (all near the Savin Hill stop); Pho Le or Pho Hoa (Fields Corner station); Tavolo for outstanding Italian & the best FOH staff around (Ashmont)

Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Sep 5

Meticulous attention to safety, hazards, organization issues. It is not a common phrase, but used on work sites for something like "we've got some civilians coming through here and we need to be extra to keep them safe."

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · Sep 4

Healey: Massachusetts insurers have to cover the cost of all vaccines approved by the state, no matter what the brainworm in chief says. This includes MassHealth and GIC.

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Sep 4

well, that was an unbudgeted purchase ... :)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 3

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

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Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · Aug 30

Increasingly I go to meetings and just say some version of “everyone here is the exception, not the rule, including me, most people don’t care one way or the other”, and this is why.

Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s cool though, an overwhelming old and white crowd at a town hall held in a majority minority school hated the plan so they think they are “representing the community”

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Everybody Gets Pie @everybodygetspie.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today we’re launching our new podcast: Everybody Gets Pie 🥧 - conversations about making America abundant again: housing, energy, childcare, innovation & more.

Ep. 1: The landmark CEQA reform in California with @scottwiener.bsky.social‬ & @buffywicks.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEMG...

The Law That Stopped California with Sen Scott Wiener & Asm Buffy Wick (EP 1)

YouTube video by Everybody Gets Pie

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Aug 12

Preach

Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Aug 12

Insufficient parking iirc. Also maybe wanted a “prettier” (ie, more expensive materials) facade. At least one person felt it wasn’t fair for the owner to “have a windfall”.

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Aug 12

St Marks was upset Greater Ashmont [I] filed a letter in support, asked for it to be stricken from the ZBA record, said we shouldn’t be allowed to comment. :|

It is small enough it just had to go to ZBA not BPDA.

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Aug 12

80-88 Welles? It was permitted for reconstruction after fire ~2019. Just changed hands in June so no longer the original owner redeveloping. It went before Ashmont Hill and St Mark’s civic back when. On my phone so this is the easiest info I can offer:

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Aug 8

[this appears to be ai generated to illustrate this partisan account's criticism of his announcement to build the $200M ballroom -- www.instagram.com/p/DND7-1kuV-... ]

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Jul 13

I think about this constantly

Tweet from user Jason C:
“I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.”

Quote from user Max Dubler:

“That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.

True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties”

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Jul 10

✨ We Need More Yes ✨

Robert Orthman @robertorthman.bsky.social · Jul 10

I’ve helped co-moderate two City Council forums the past two nights. My general takeaway is that I’m at the point where I can’t support candidates, even ones I like personally, whose first instinct is No. As in No to new housing, No to bus lanes, etc. We have enough No in our city. We need more Yes.

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Jun 30

He is also the Senior Portfolio Manager for Eventide Investments.

www.eventideinvestments.com/specialized-...

Eventide employees work hard for the sake of others.

We are a team with deep domain and industry expertise, bound together by a common conviction that business exists to create value for others.

www.eventideinvestments.com

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Jun 30

He's the Founder/Trustee/current President of Sattler College & spoke at 2025 MFI Reclaiming Education Conference. Sattler College was a sponsor of the conference and sponsored the 2024 MFI Annual Fundraising Banquet.

fightwhitesupremacyne.org/massachusett...

sattler.edu/blog/team/fi...

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Marc Hurwitz @marchurboston.bsky.social · Jun 19

News -- Chilacates is planning to open yet another location, with this one being in Dorchester. bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/06/chil...

#restaurant #dorchester #boston

Chilacates Plans to Open in Dorchester

A growing local group of Mexican restaurants is expanding further into the area, with a new one being planned for a Boston neighborhood. Acc...

bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · Jun 20

#Dorchester #Missing

Boston Police Department @police.boston.gov · Jun 20

BPD Missing Person Alert: 13-Year-Old Brianna Joseph, of Dorchester

Learn More At: police.boston.gov/2025/06/19/b...

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1692 salem witch trials of mana 🎃 @plushie.gay · May 26

pride is next week

pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan.

do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.

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Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social · May 17

At the risk of sounding corny, hope really is a practice. I’m as much of a cynical depresso as the next person. The reason why I find doomerism so toxic is that it forecloses the possibility of a better future. The devils want us to fall into despair.

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Jenn @dorchesteresq.bsky.social · May 15

I was married there in 2003! Gorgeous photos on the rocks and the hall was all twinkly.

We have a little miniature of it as an ornament for our Christmas tree. 🥰

For others seeing this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tow...

The Towers (Narragansett, Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

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