Today I'm peasantmaxxing. Got the volcano livestream up, im in the digital commons with the boys deciphering what the omen portends, we're all a little pissed about how they fenced it off with hedges but we're mostly just hoping we dont get conscripted
Not a great time to be taking credit for rocket technology lol. In fact probably the worst time in decades
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hiiii late posting about it but i'm starting a monthly column at Worcester Sucks (and I Love It)!! shoutout @billshaner.bsky.social for seeing the vision. it's called How Did We Get Here? you should subscribe and get it direct to your inbox just sayinggg
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That + 6 accounts on polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28. Accounts were all freshly created in Feb and had only ever placed bets on this
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⬇️⬇️⬇️. Important reporting on WPS school committee work. Here in Worcester or nationally reporting on our public bodies is increasingly important. Thanks @aislinn.bsky.social and @billshaner.bsky.social and all of other independent writers. Thank you for your work.
There's no such thing as a police officer shortage. "The police chief is complaining" is not an objective measurement.
This lede is a good example of the torqued discourse around cops and crime in local news. The "though" at the beginning of this creates an implicit causality (need more cops for less crime), but the evidence presented suggests the exact opposite
You gotta hand it to her no one licks boot quite like kate toomey
Important story from This Week In Worcester. Duffy being barred from testifying to the political nature of the charges yet he apparently helped draft the apology letter to the police that was a condition of the plea deal Gagne offered. Cartoon corruption thisweekinworcester.com/duffy-gagne-...
it's very good
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I loooove the linking function. I’m extremely frustrated with my current system for organizing reporting and drafts (just a shit ton of Google Docs) so I’m trying to be real intentional about keeping a neat library haha
yeah I'm considering getting the publish tier so I can put up a library of transcripts and links and other ephemera for subscribers. It's really cool
Getting amped for the blizzard by watching this vid I took then forgot about of a kid eating shit snowboarding across the street from the gold star Shaw’s a couple weeks ago
lord help me I'm Getting Really Into Obsidian
I’d like to thank Thomas Duffy once again for making another Worcester progressive look like a hero. Keep doing it bud
@billshaner.bsky.social reporting is stellar.
There are serious repercussions from this conviction & prosecution. Beyond the personal cost, this is about chilling community defense & police misconduct enabled by prosecutorial discretion.
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In May we reported on the abduction by ICE of an asylum seeker in Worcester. @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social, a city councilor at the time, was absurdly and unjustly convicted last week of assaulting a police officer that day in what she says was a politically motivated trial. We talked about it.
There is no rational world in which what Haxhiaj did amounts to assault. It simply highlights the ridiculous double standard when it comes to how we allow our brave warriors to brutalize us to no end while also counting the most modest or incidental resistance as a grave affront to the law.
The Northwestern DA’s office successfully convicted Etel Haxhiaj, a rapid responder to a Worcester ICE raid, of assault on a police officer. Haxhiaj declined a plea offer that would have required her to sign an apology letter. “I chose the truth,” she said. @billshaner.bsky.social reports:
Thank you immensely @andrewjmarsh.bsky.social for this powerful beautiful analysis in @billshaner.bsky.social’s Worcester Sucks. ❤️
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turning the corruption knob up to 11 in front of God and everyone to give one woman six months probation ... pretty pathetic. Are the people around him embarrassed yet?
Thomas Duffy was in the building the whole time, had conversations with Gagne outside the courtroom, walked into the courtroom with the called witnesses and stared down the jurors with them (Gagne pretended to not know who he was) and now this, in the guardian... Yet judge barred him from the stand!
Getting called a G feels good still riding that high
Major props to @billshaner.bsky.social for spending two days in court documenting the trial, the details and for also just being an outstanding G as my young son called him when Bill lent Danny a charger. We are fortunate to have Bill’s outstanding work & analysis.
Haha ya evergreen point
They showed they’re willing and able to selectively charge ppl for political purposes and the court showed us they’re active facilitators and collaborators in all of that, eroding any notion they administer a fair system or are concerned at all with justice. So who lost exactly?
On one side we have a dedicated community organizer with six months probation and on the other side we have a police dept spending two days showing us they collaborated with ICE, will do so in the future, don’t follow their own use of force policies, don’t know what de-escalation means don’t care
