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I want you to be one of the first to hear this from me:

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  SHARED FOR EDUCATION AND INFORMATION THAT DEMONSTRATES WHAT  PEOPLE CAN ACCOMPLISH WHEN THEY GET INVOLVED, ORGAIZE  AND SPEAK  OUT!  IMPRESSIVE WIN! I want you to be one of the first to hear it from me: This week the independent Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents on one-year leases and, for the first time in the history of New York City, on two-year leases, too. For more than two million New Yorkers in rent-stabilized homes, the rent will not go up. Let that sink in for a second, because I'm still sitting with it myself. This is the relief that working people across our city deserve. It's a single mom in the Bronx who can breathe a little easier next month. It's a retired teacher in Queens who isn't lying awake doing the math. It’s relief that working people can feel in their own homes, in their own bank accounts, starting now. And, I need you to know that this was your victory. It belongs to every New Yorker who testified and organized to show up at...
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I want you to know about this disinformation

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  Four years ago this week, the Trump-stacked Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The anti-choice movement had spent decades working toward that moment. But taking away the constitutional right to abortion was never the end of the story — it was the beginning. Since then, abortion bans have swept across the country. Tens of millions of people have lost access to care. Patients have died after being denied an abortion. Anti-choice extremists have targeted medication abortion, threatened contraception, and looked for new ways to put politicians between patients and their doctors. Now they're at it again. On Mother's Day, the Trump administration quietly launched a website called Moms dot gov (I’m not linking here so people don’t accidentally go to this misleading and horrific website) — presenting it as a “resource” to support the health and well-being of new and expecting mothers. What they didn't advertise is what the site is actually for: Directing pregnant women and the...
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Trump’s green slime disaster suffers humiliating new blow

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  Trump’s green slime disaster suffers humiliating new blow Oopsie hazy. The company that worked on previous renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during the Obama administration turned down a request to supply its products for the makeover demanded by Donald Trump because it deemed the project "unfeasible." New Jersey-based Sika USA declined the Trump regime's offer because it believed completing the project by Donald's July 4 deadline was not possible and warned that painting the pool’s bottom blue would create additional problems. America's vainglorious grifter-in-chief then turned to Rhino Linings , a company primarily known for truck bed liners, and the, uh, mess is history. Take Action: Prosecute Pete Hegseth for the massacre of Somali children! VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump’s bluff gets called in ongoing pool debacle More than a decade into our long, national, and occasionally comical nightmare, it is still somehow newsworthy that the most powerfu...
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Honoring America’s promise by reading Frederick Douglass

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  ADVERTISEMENT Sponsored by The Boston Foundation The Best of CommonWealth Beacon OPINION A flyer for the series of recitations across the state of Douglass's famous speech "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" Honoring America's promise by reading Frederick Douglass   June 28, 2026 By Brian Boyles During the years of preparation for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I’ve known one thing for certain: on July 4, 2026, I will read Frederick Douglass somewhere in Massachusetts. This is the 18 th year in which Mass Humanities has sponsored readings of Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” This year, fittingly, 76 communities signed on to read the speech. While each event is different, most take the form of a shared recitation of the speech, with one person reading a passage, then handing over the microphone for a neighbor to read the next. ADVERTISEMENT The address is a searing critique that begins with praise...
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