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Brookings Institution on Coronavirus and Election 2020

July 13, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

I’ve been publishing a free weekly listing of Energy (and Other) Events around Cambridge, MA for more than a decade as a listserv and a webpage (http://hubevents.blogspot.com). It covers public events in the community and in the local … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Brookings Institution, coronavirus, election-integrity, elections, voter protectrion, voting

The Most Important Jigsaw Puzzle

June 27, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

The most important jigsaw puzzle right now is how the CoV-2 spike, a 3 part structure, attaches to the human ACE2 protein through which it enters the cells of our bodies. That is the microscopic gap in our defenses. When we understand … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: AI, coronavirus, COVID-19, education, Foldit, jigsawpuzzles, music, MutualAid, pandemic, proteinfolding

Right Now: Rent and mortgage relief; take care of gig workers

April 6, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 2 Comments

Wednesday was the first of the month. Rent was due. Unemployment claims for Massachusetts were 329,000 over the last two weeks. That's ... 4.8% of the entire population of Massachusetts, and 9% of the workforce, newly out of a job, right … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: arts, charlie-baker, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, foreclosures, gig workers, Kevin Honan, Mike Connolly, mortgage relief, rent freeze, renters, unemployment-benefits

Our own Berlin Airlift: Patriots Plane defies Trump’s effective blockade

April 3, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 3 Comments

In a tale of logistical wizardry, persistence, and sheer physical endurance, Massachusetts is being whisked some 1.4 million N95 masks on the New England Patriots' plane. 300,000 some masks will go to New York. Bob Kraft is paying for some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: Bob Kraft, charlie-baker, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, N95, patriots, trump

MassDems likely to cancel convention; Markey wins convention endorsement

March 31, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 26 Comments

Well, this was pretty much inevitable: MassDems chair Gus Bickford is asking the state committee to agree that there will be no Massachusetts Democratic Convention this year; to continue with it would be unsafe and logistically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: caucus, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, ed-markey, joe-kennedy-iii, ma-sen, massdems

We’re locked in a room with a maniac.

March 24, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 2 Comments

I do not listen to the press conferences with Trump. I hear about the fallout afterwards. Perhaps it's best to ignore him, save our outrage, and give a signal boost only to correct misinformation. (Rachel Maddow had a good segment on this.) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: coronavirus, joe-biden, trump

Mutual Aid Networks

March 15, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Mutual aid networks are being formed in the neighborhoods in Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Arlington, and other communities. My Nextdoor account (https://nextdoor.com) is filling up with people offering help to others as MA goes into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: communitarianism, coronavirus, disaster, emergy, mutual aid, neighborhood, organizing, pandemic preparedness, preparedness

You knew this wasn’t right: Trump *and Baker’s MassDPH* are botching the response

March 12, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 14 Comments

I had hoped, maybe somewhere in the denial/bargaining stage of processing the coronavirus testing debacle, that at least our state officials were on top of the situation, and at least giving us reliable information. The evidence before … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: Catch-22, CDC, charlie-baker, coronavirus, COVID-19, Kafka, MassDPH, mgh, Monica Bharel, pandemic preparedness

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Man sentenced to prison for role in Massachusetts drug trafficking organization run in public … https://www.masspolicyreport.com/2022/08/14/man-sentenced-to-prison-for-role-in-massachusetts-drug-trafficking-organization-run-in-public/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter @masspolicy #MApoli #Massachusetts

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The Column: Signs of the times? – Lowell Sun https://www.masspolicyreport.com/2022/08/14/the-column-signs-of-the-times-lowell-sun/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter @masspolicy #MApoli #Massachusetts

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Arizona Speaker of the House Republican Rusty Bowers on Trumpism:

"The rule by thuggery and intimidation. They found a niche, they found a way, and it's fear. People can use fear, demagogues like to use fear as a weapon. And they weaponize everything."

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Rusty Bowers on Trumpism: "The rule by thuggery and intimidation. They found a niche, they found a way, and it's fear. People can use fear, demagogues like to use fear as a weapon. And they weaponize everything."

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So there was a tweet from Senator Warren that the #MBTA mess is on the Governor. She's not wrong, but it is incomplete. You can debate the pie slice, but you cannot exclude the Legislature on this, where the culture of kicking cans down the road, prevails. #mapoli

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JOE BIDEN, KAMALA HARRIS, THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS HAS SHOWN ZERO PASSION OR EMOTIONAL CONNECTION FOR BLACK AMERICA 🇺🇸! IT’S OLD! THEY ARE OLD!!

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