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Elaine F. Almquist

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The Movement Motivator. Political consultant, trainer, and democracy coach. Abolition accomplice. Multi-modal transit and community-building enthusiast.(She/her/hers) 🌈🖤 🌹🌻 🕊✊🏼🚲🚉

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 7h

Read: Trump prevents disabled children from getting educated.

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Davis Square Neighborhood Council @davissquarenc.org · 7h

Join neighbors TONIGHT, October 13th, at 6 PM at the Cummings Center room 270 for a proactive conversation about development in Davis Square! Talk with fellow square residents and workers about what we want out of Davis Square development projects. Hosted by and only by the DSNC.

What Should Development Look Like in Davis Square?

Monday, October thirteenth, 6 P M.

177 College Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts, Tufts JCC, Room 270.

Join your neighbors for a community conversation about development, zoning, and the future of Davis Square. Learn how projects get approved, hear different perspectives without the noise, and help shape how the Davis Square Neighborhood Council represents the community in negotiations with developers.

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 10h

Wealth inequality is in direct opposition to democracy--the idea that all people are created equally. That is just simply not true if you can buy the labor of thousands of years worth of thousands of people. Musk can buy 675,761 lifetimes of minimum wage work.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 10h

Another term for Trump is and will be unconstitutional. It will be an attack on the United States--our laws and our people. We must stand up NOW.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 10h

3/3 And we honor and celebrate the strength and resilience of Native people who not only survive, who keep history and traditions alive, but who are here within us and beside us as our beloved community members exercising their rights to self-preservation and self-determination.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 10h

2/3 We mourn the natural environment that was destroyed and is still being destroyed under systems of capitalist extraction.

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 10h

1/3 On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, we reaffirm that nobody is illegal on stolen land. That all people belong to the land. We mourn the death of millions of Indigenous people and animals who were victims of the genocide of settler colonialism.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 23h

a yellow flag that says solidarity on a pink background

ALT: a yellow flag that says solidarity on a pink background

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

Rainbow tie A+

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

True, but there are others. I prefer a chorus!

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

When dictators try to silence us, we fight back louder. On Oct 18th, communities everywhere stand for dignity, equality, and freedom. #NoKings www.mass50501.org/events/20251... #GetSaltyBoston

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

"America First". This is what happens when you elect a lying liar.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

You can at least file extensions.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

SHAME SHAME SHAME

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

Does Steven Miller just play propaganda videos at him all day? Nobody can come to this conclusion by interacting with the real world.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 2d

I do not want to read AI-generated news. I've seen AI-generated content frequently provide incomplete, inaccurate, and plagiarized information. Journalists have and should keep high standards, because truth is essential to freedom, justice, and democracy.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 3d

#FreeChicago!

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 3d

"Not someone who appeals to a broader audience"

Bad Bunny: 115 million albums sold worldwide. Most-streamed artist on Spotify globally for two years. $2.6 Million tickets for his stadium tour...

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 3d

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 4d

The plausibility is what demands us to fight it wholeheartedly.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 4d

A classic. Golf claps for you.

Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 4d

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 4d

The very idea of two National Guard regiments fighting each other on American soil is anathema. We cannot be cavalier about talking about actions that bring us closer to civil war. We must prevent that with everything we have. A civil war will only benefit a dictator and weapons manufacturers.

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