cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53794288

The early voting for the Midterms is now available in many places. You can early vote at a polling place or you can use mail-in voting.

Get organised today here: https://www.vote.org/

If you choose to vote in person, either now or on election day, be aware of your rights and course of actions: https://lemmy.world/post/53334632

Better than Treehouse or Trillium.

Equally good as Long Live Roxbury and Little Willow.

MA is lucky to have a number of high quality spots.

Vitamin Sea, Aquatic, Silvaticus, Oakholm, Greater Good, Bright Ideas... off the top of my head.

The organization, Total Woman Victory, which describes itself as “a quarterly radical feminist newsletter working to amplify the voices of women,” has put together a radical feminist conference called TORCH, that will be meeting for the first time from October 9th to the 11th. The conference will feature an array of speakers and workshops focusing on “theory-building, getting organized, consciousness-raising, and historicizing contradictions.”

Among the small group of women who run TWV is Sathi Patel, who has been the primary organizer of TORCH. Patel, who co-runs a New Afrikan feminist bookstore in Worcester, is an inflammatory figure in leftist spaces in the area, regularly posting anti-trans opinions on Twitter, calling trans women in women’s bathrooms men, worrying about trans mass-shooters, and posting “Trans fad is overrrrrrrrrrr” just days after the murder of Juniper Blessing in Seattle.

Court filings and statements from school officials suggest the child was removed from the parents’ custody following allegations of a violent incident. Yet Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, who first told their side of the story on a Fox News podcast posted Sept. 13, have sought to focus attention on the issue of parental rights.

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Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Small, “balcony solar” units hold particular appeal for renters who cannot install rooftop panels and could take portable units with them should they move.

Once it was labeled “the dirtiest harbor in America,” but decades of court-ordered cleanup have returned Boston Harbor to a premier fishing destination.

Crossposted from https://thelemmy.club/post/51703967

If you are interested in pollinator friendly gardening this looks like a great way to get started. The DCR site is also a solid resource in general for native plant recommendations.

I personally enjoy more sun in the evening. I'd be happy with permanent DST.