...It's been good when you had our back, but now, in #COVID times, it's America First. So get out of our way! President Donald, or his staff, or whoever, ordered 3M to stop shipping masks to Canada and Latin America, and hijacked a … [Read more...]
Our own Berlin Airlift: Patriots Plane defies Trump’s effective blockade
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...]
Open Sourcing Solutions to COVID19: Mutual Aid, Citizen Scientists, Makers, Gardeners, Artists…..
"You could say that civil society is what unimpaired mutual aid creates; or that civil society is the condition and mutual aid the activity that produces it.” - Rebecca Solnit, from A Paradise Built in Hell [my notes at … [Read more...]
Baker’s Human Sacrifices: Wealth Over Health
It seems every Baker COVID-19 update has me on the edge of my seat these days: will he or won’t he shut down non-essential construction? Here's today's news from Tim Logan of The Boston Globe... Looks good, right? Hmmmm... how does Baker … [Read more...]
MassDems likely to cancel convention; Markey wins convention endorsement
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...]
Remove the Means Testing and Bailout Ordinary Americans
Cut checks into the hands of people now. Bailout small and medium businesses with one string attached: keep payroll going. It’s asinine that neither of these provisions were included in the last stimulus. We will need a second round and it … [Read more...]
MA Democrats: Cancel May Convention, Scrap 15% Rule and Let Common Sense Prevail
The Massachusetts Democratic State Committee will be meeting next week to decide what actions to take regarding the State Nominating Convention scheduled to convene in Lowell's Tsongas Center in late May. Given the current worsening medical … [Read more...]
Report from Taiwan: Friends Return to the USA to Compare and Contrast
My friends and former co-workers, Marc and Sally, love to travel the world and this year spent some of February and March in Taiwan. This is their account of the response of Taiwan to COVID19, the letter they sent to friends after they … [Read more...]
Hacking COVID19: Open Source Global Brainstorms and Mutual Aid
MIT COVID19 Challenge - Beat the Pandemic Friday, April 3 at 6:00pm - Sunday, April 5 Online RSVP at https://covid19challenge.mit.edu We invite you to attend the MIT COVID-19 Challenge event, Beat the Pandemic, a series of virtual … [Read more...]
Warren’s Moment This Week Was Our Moment
All along, we have been able to see how blessed we are in Massachusetts to have a United States senator like Elizabeth Warren. But this week, she out did herself. With a two TRILLION dollar rescue package looming, earlier in the week it … [Read more...]
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