Also, Tahira Amatul-Wadud is running in the Dem primary for Mass 1st District against Richie Neal who is an entrenched bought-and-paid-for by big business member of the quasi-liberal establishment. Tahira is so engaged all throughout the district which is rather huge in terms of area and demographics and she’s…

Cities like Boston expose the utter fecklessness of allyship. They are populated with people with the right views, allies who are appropriately outraged at injustices, their public officers strike the right notes. And yet the inequalities are just as racially bordered as the South. A lot of progressives have unearned…

I would have thought so, but I did some Googling and the 7th district is the one most affected by the structural poverty that she talks about, and by the housing crisis.

Ok, so many comments on your observations, which were hilarious and insightful....

I am so excited to be voting for her! It’s not every day a MA lefty gets to feel like their vote is going to sway state standards.

He may be a white dude but Capuano sounds great. Wouldn’t Congress be better served if instead of running in his district, she ran in another with a less progressive Democratic congressman?

Agreed on both counts. I’ve tried to stay out of this primary just because I’d rather spend my (limited) contributions on races to unseat Republicans. It’s nothing against either of the candidates. 

I really like Capuano, but Pressley is exciting. This state is deeply segregated and it’s easy to forget that MA isn’t just a sea of white people. But I have nothing negative to say about Mike C. He is excellent. It’s sad to think that he might be a casualty to progress and the Greater Good but I think he’d take it…

Massachusetts is not good at electing women, period. Our state legislature is 75% male. I’m going to guess that the state is not great at electing people of color either, I’m just not as familiar with the numbers.

One thing I learned in life is if you can’t offer an immediate solution then its best to not say anything.

Daniel represents millions of talented people who work hard at their craft but lack the EQ to recognize opportunities or close the deal. Ego is a mofo and it has tripped up many of us more times than not. The truth of life is that you have to be quite exceptional to overcome the obstacles of our ego. I see the same…

I like Daniel, because he’s reflective of an archetype in middle class Black circles.  He’s a dude who is doing OK for himself, has somehow managed to get himself out the hood, but now thinks he’s the Greatest Thing Ever.  Commonly found in Prince George’s and Queens Counties, he’s basically Everything Brian Pumper…

There were some red flags for me during their lunch. Him making fun of her career situation was one. Him wanting her to stay was another - if she stays there, she’s basically one bad mood of his away from homelessness. It read as controlling. He seems kind of inflexible in general, as the studio session showed.

A damn good start.

Superdelegates are just a holdover from the smoke-filled room era of candidate selection. A holdover that absolutely would have prevented a hack demagogue from receiving his/her party’s nomination.

The bigger, more important reforms are the reduction in caucuses, and the new rules in caucuses that allow people to drop off ballots and leave, mail in ballots and otherwise not deal with the bullshit caucus process. I’m glad this one happened. When the reform process started, a specific group of people who supported…

Literally only donut twitter knows who Michael Aventti is. Relax. 

Not enough. There shouldn’t be any superdelegates to begin with.

In a Crucial Reform Vote, Democrats Move to Weaken the Power of Superdelegates

I’ve been worried about little MBB since Stranger Things exploded, as her parents seemed to be a tad exploitative, and the whole meme thing recently was beyond the pale.