Fun for the whole family! My mother-in-law and I are out collecting signatures in Somerville Ward 5 for Representative Erika Uyterhoeven to be on the ballot again this fall! Drizzle can't keep us away. 😇 Erika Uyterhoeven #MApoli #SomerPoli

Friend was traveling & wanted to visit - I declined because they don’t take Covid precautions. They get home & tell me “omg I’m so sick - it’s a good thing we didn’t visit as this would kill you.” I asked if they considered the other people like me they exposed on travels. A 🧵/1

Every time I hear about a new defamation lawsuit against a sexual violence survivor, it becomes clearer and clearer to me:

These men really think they deserve to be paid by the women they raped.

As if rapists haven’t already stolen enough from their victims.

At this point, I'm mostly not on formerly-known-as-Twitter, folks. I don't have a Bluesky acct. Best ways to reach me lately are Mastadon, Facebook, or text message if you know my number.

Here's the Mastadon:
mas.wrong.tools/@crystalvisits

.Speaker Mike Johnson thank you for providing an increase in SNAP so all Americans in need will be able to eat and also for supporting Universal School Lunch. You can not multiply fishes and loaves but you can support the policies to make something similar happen! Jesus will be so…

Happening today! Meet Naima Sait for Ward 5 and talk with her about running for the open seat on #Somerville city council! Help make sure we run out of cookies! 😋 #SomerPoli #MApoli

Meanwhile in Florida, a woman, unable to get an abortion due to DeSantis’ deadly anti-abortion laws had to carry to term a baby that was found to have no kidneys at 24 weeks.

I’ll say that part again, no kidneys and was forced to carry the baby for an additional 13 weeks until…

Yessssss, thank you, John Chu ! Such talent!! 💜

If you’re ever wondering why the next 40 years are sucking, remember a former game show host indicted for felony espionage appointed one third of the Supreme Court

34 percent of Harvard students are white. 43 percent of those students are either legacies, children of faculty, kin of donors or a recruited athlete. 75 percent of them would not have gotten in if not for special status (National Bureau of Economic Research).

But when in doubt,…

I hope that this is the last time I need to post my legal defense fund GFM link. I'm expecting a whopper of a final lawyer bill in the next couple of weeks, but note the words FINAL LAWYER BILL. 🎉🎉🎉

If you're able to contribute or boost, please do?
gofundme.com/f/uc4wb-help-c…

When people wonder why you need unions, remember it’s because they’re forced to fight tooth and nail to get companies to provide workers with things you might normally think of as “basic human decency”

crystalhuff.com/2023/06/13/huf…

I hope that this is the last time I need to post my legal defense fund GFM link. I'm expecting a whopper of a final lawyer bill in the next couple of weeks, but note the words FINAL LAWYER BILL. 🎉🎉🎉

If you're able to contribute or boost, please do?
gofundme.com/f/uc4wb-help-c…

FYI Democrats this is an opportunity to re-emphasize that Republicans are perfectly happy to be in league with a criminal bigot and not an opportunity for more useless “will no republicans stand up to him?” posturing

Every now and then something happens on TikTok that transcends social media and becomes a *work of art*

Seedling swap today in #Medford , near the #Somerville city line! Join us in 30 min, feel free to bring your parents! 😊 #MutualAid

look, my pals won the hugo and nebula with this incredible novella, but what really matters here is bigolas dickolas' word.

(i mean this with absolute sincerity, i am so thrilled about this)

Posting a PSA, just fyi:

crystalhuff.com/2023/04/04/yes…

Anyone know a BC lawyer willing to take a defamation case for a lower rate -- it involves speaking out on Twitter about sexual assault allegations?