@serenahollmeyer.bsky.social
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
Some damn good baseball, grateful for the extra hour tomorrow AM
November 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Some damn good baseball, grateful for the extra hour tomorrow AM
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The PTA at the Winter Hill Community School are holding an emergency fundraiser to provide free food and gift cards to families who are losing their SNAP benefit on Saturday.
If you have the capacity, please donate to help keep our neighbors from going hungry.
givebutter.com/qmnqus
If you have the capacity, please donate to help keep our neighbors from going hungry.
givebutter.com/qmnqus
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The PTA at the Winter Hill Community School are holding an emergency fundraiser to provide free food and gift cards to families who are losing their SNAP benefit on Saturday.
If you have the capacity, please donate to help keep our neighbors from going hungry.
givebutter.com/qmnqus
If you have the capacity, please donate to help keep our neighbors from going hungry.
givebutter.com/qmnqus
Tired: handing out non-perishables to kids
Wired: post a QR code that links to the donation page at your local food bank on the streets so grown-ups herding kids can donate OR ask your party guests to bring donations for the food shelf
Wired: post a QR code that links to the donation page at your local food bank on the streets so grown-ups herding kids can donate OR ask your party guests to bring donations for the food shelf
I don't know what's worse, the fact that I'm surprised by this headline or the fact that I probably shouldn't be:
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tired: handing out non-perishables to kids
Wired: post a QR code that links to the donation page at your local food bank on the streets so grown-ups herding kids can donate OR ask your party guests to bring donations for the food shelf
Wired: post a QR code that links to the donation page at your local food bank on the streets so grown-ups herding kids can donate OR ask your party guests to bring donations for the food shelf
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In MA, folks enrolled in SNAP who have active EBT cards with at least a $1 balance will still be able to access fresh produce with their cards through the Healthy Incentives Program. That funding doesn't go away Nov. 1, when SNAP does. www.mass.gov/info-details...
www.mass.gov
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In MA, folks enrolled in SNAP who have active EBT cards with at least a $1 balance will still be able to access fresh produce with their cards through the Healthy Incentives Program. That funding doesn't go away Nov. 1, when SNAP does. www.mass.gov/info-details...
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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I love that Noem, from under the bus, goes full Mariah on habeas corpus
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I love that Noem, from under the bus, goes full Mariah on habeas corpus
Celebrating
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Celebrating
I thought we got rid of international aid?
Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election.
Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs.
“America First.”
Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs.
“America First.”
Bessent Says US in Talks With Argentina Over $20 Billion Lifeline
The US plans to extend a $20 billion swap line to Argentina and is ready to buy the country’s foreign bonds, providing much-needed financial support to President Javier Milei as he tries to regain inv...
www.bloomberg.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I thought we got rid of international aid?
Only the best people
The chaos from the first day of a meeting of the federal vaccine committee appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued into a second day on Friday, as the panel reversed one decision and indefinitely postponed a vote on a hepatitis B vaccine.
CDC Vaccine Panel Postpones One Vote and Reverses Another Amid Confusion
Committee members delayed indefinitely a vote on a hepatitis B vaccine for newborns because they did not feel ready to make a decision.
nyti.ms
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Only the best people
Oh wow, we’ve got Yoo on record questioning legality of executive actions huh?
oh. Oh. OH. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Oh wow, we’ve got Yoo on record questioning legality of executive actions huh?
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Today, September 16, is Primary Election Day. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Vote-by-mail ballots must be placed in a dropbox before 6 p.m. or hand-delivered to Elections at City Hall (93 Highland Ave.) before 8 p.m.
Learn more and check your polling location at somervillema.gov/elections.
Learn more and check your polling location at somervillema.gov/elections.
September 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Today, September 16, is Primary Election Day. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Vote-by-mail ballots must be placed in a dropbox before 6 p.m. or hand-delivered to Elections at City Hall (93 Highland Ave.) before 8 p.m.
Learn more and check your polling location at somervillema.gov/elections.
Learn more and check your polling location at somervillema.gov/elections.
Only the best people, and apparently the best words.
Trump: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that?"
June 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Only the best people, and apparently the best words.
For some reason the acronym AUMF is stuck in my head, what was it again? An Unauthorized Mistaken Folly? Absolutely the Ugliest Messed-up Foolishness?
June 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
For some reason the acronym AUMF is stuck in my head, what was it again? An Unauthorized Mistaken Folly? Absolutely the Ugliest Messed-up Foolishness?
Trying to get lists of other resources so people who need them know about them and people who can support them can start/keep doing so.
this is just evil
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trying to get lists of other resources so people who need them know about them and people who can support them can start/keep doing so.
Truly disgusting. Can people please publicize other respurces so we can support them?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Truly disgusting. Can people please publicize other respurces so we can support them?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
12 months ago I didn’t mind checking on my investments and rather enjoyed reading the domestic news. Something’s changed…
June 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
12 months ago I didn’t mind checking on my investments and rather enjoyed reading the domestic news. Something’s changed…
I’ve been charged by police horses while protesting peacefully in a thick crowd-one of the more terrifying experiences of my life. Hoping everyone in LA stays safe-we are all watching thanks to people like @jeremotographs.bsky.social
Incredibly chaotic scene here in downtown Los Angeles where LAPD have just charged protesters with horses while others fire munitions.
June 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I’ve been charged by police horses while protesting peacefully in a thick crowd-one of the more terrifying experiences of my life. Hoping everyone in LA stays safe-we are all watching thanks to people like @jeremotographs.bsky.social
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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![Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6waxgers6k753hgsmh2prmv7/bafkreicwreql25fxq3hliczfe3pgz6djdjbrvwbax2d2oyevjm73tb3voy@jpeg)
Evergreen gif, adeptly deployed
May 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Evergreen gif, adeptly deployed
Retweet AND an endorsement
Jessie's running for school committee in Somerville, Ward 3! After being married to her for approximately 100 years, I'm certain she will be a wonderful addition to the committee. She is far more competent and professional than me and has worked in and around education policy for much of her career.
Jessie Ratey for Ward 3 School Committee
jessieforward3.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Retweet AND an endorsement
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Jessie's running for school committee in Somerville, Ward 3! After being married to her for approximately 100 years, I'm certain she will be a wonderful addition to the committee. She is far more competent and professional than me and has worked in and around education policy for much of her career.
Jessie Ratey for Ward 3 School Committee
jessieforward3.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jessie's running for school committee in Somerville, Ward 3! After being married to her for approximately 100 years, I'm certain she will be a wonderful addition to the committee. She is far more competent and professional than me and has worked in and around education policy for much of her career.
This was really fun to watch
May 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This was really fun to watch
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/