Karen Kast-McBride

Karen Kast-McBride

@bpsnightmare.bsky.social

Winchendon School Committee Chair Boston Public School alumna #parent #advocate #Organizer #Activist PITA 2 #mapoli #PublicEducation & #socialjustice #Resist

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Karen Kast-McBride reposted

The Trump administration wants to pretend none of it happened. Renee Good. Alex Pretti. All of the others. Kristi Noem is officially out at DHS today. It's our job to make sure Trump & co. are held accountable for what happened. Read here: joycevance.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Firing Kristi Noem doesn’t mean Trump should be able to get away with a case of amnesia over everything that happened in Minneapolis. Read the details, connect the dots, and remember to say their names, especially Renee Good and Alex Pretti. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

As people gather across the country this weekend to exercise their First Amendment rights, remember to stay peaceful and stay safe. Your voices matter, and they have power.

CNN@cnn.com

More than 3,100 "No Kings" demonstrations – about as many events as there are counties in the US – are expected in all fifty states, including an Alaskan city inside the Arctic Circle, fueled by a suburban groundswell of support. https://cnn.it/4uQBmVn

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

Democrats put 9 bills forward to fund TSA. Trump and Republicans blocked every bill because they want to tie TSA workers’ paychecks to billions in more unchecked funding for ICE. The answer is clear: fund TSA and not ICE.

#Winchendon & many #Rural School Districts across #Massachusetts face declining enrollment & less funding from State. Need my #EduWarriors help now more than ever, bcuz cuts every year are unsustainable. Please share! @mascschoolcomm.bsky.social #mapoli #education #schools #MAEdu #PublicEducation

Jo Comerford@jocomerford.bsky.social

In Deerfield @ Frontier Regional, students + community members sent an SOS signal to the Legislature + @massgovernor.bsky.social + LG @kimdriscollma.bsky.social . MA communities are sounding the alarm about the fiscal crisis of RURAL + DECLINING ENROLLMENT schools. www.ruralschoolsma.org

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

Setting aside the question of the president's cognitive decline, and the question of why the press corps continues to overlook it, I think we know the story that Donald Trump would tell if a Democratic president were in his shoes. The old and weak president is losing, because he’s old and weak.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

In 2020, I argued every state must count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day. Today, the RNC argued no state can. That is how far the right has descended into voter suppression. And it is why I continue to fight.

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40 minutes into SCOTUS oral arguments about whether to ban postmark deadlines for mail ballots, someone finally pointed out that it’s desirable for voters’ ballots to count

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“The Sheriff’s assertion that his deputies know how to count is admirable. The fact remains that he and his deputies are not elections officials.” Bianco’s ballot seizure is “the sort of thing that should not happen in a healthy democracy...” www.latimes.com/california/s...

latimes.comMore than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s raceBianco's unusual probe drew a sharp rebuke from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, who said it 'sets a dangerous precedent and will only sow distrust in our elections.'

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

The war in Iran is driving up fossil fuel prices and highlighting the risks of depending on oil and gasoline. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has unwound policies that would boost alternatives.

n.prWar is pushing up energy prices now. Trump's policies could hurt for years to comeThe war in Iran is driving up fossil fuel prices and highlighting the risks of depending on oil and gasoline. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has unwound policies that would boost alternatives.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

New reports reveal that the UAE royal family secretly funneled $500M to Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency venture, just days before his inauguration and months before the President agreed to sell the UAE highly advanced AI chips that many fear would end up in the hands of China. 🧵

wsj.com‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.   Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.   They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

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So the Epstein files dump 1. Protected a lot of predictors 2. Created another partisan food fight. 3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability. 4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

BREAKING: A court rejected the Trump administration's attempt to dismiss our lawsuit challenging government censorship of medical research that references the LGBTQ community. This is great news, and our work to defend scientific research will continue in court.

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With heavily-armed federal agents and National Guard troops patrolling the streets in DC, knowing our rights is critical to keeping ourselves and our communities safe. No matter what uniform they wear, police and military troops are bound by the Constitution.

aclu.orgKnow Your Rights | Encountering Law Enforcement and Military Troops in D.C. | ACLUNo matter what uniform they wear, federal agents and military troops are bound by the Constitution, including our rights to peaceful assembly and due process.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

It has been a bedrock principle since our nation's founding that America's military must not be used to police our own communities. This opinion affirms that Donald Trump's use of the Marines and California National Guard in L.A. was unlawful and unjustified.

Karen Kast-McBride reposted

Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."