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Liberal congressman #BarneyFrank, who crafted the most significant reforms to the #financial system in a generation & was trailblazer for #GayRights, whose coming out in 1987 helped normalize being openly gay in public life, has died. He was 86.

#USpol #LGBTQ #MApol #Boston
https://apnews.com/article/barney-frank-congressman-democrat-gay-rights-massachusetts-2bcabf60456bc189fef2cadd393a8b76

Re: https://better.boston/users/athorn/statuses/116539002124892696

This is good news. ShotSpotter doesn't work, and functions to launder racism. Somehow the spotters are always installed in, and the "shots" are always "detected" in, certain kinds of neighborhoods, and you can probably guess which ones.

I worked in Cambridge for many years, and more than once a police officer showed up at my place of work to demand security camera footage from us because ShotSpotter had "detected" "shots" in the area. This practice is sketchy on so many levels and I hope the city council ends it.

#CambridgeMA #surveillance #privacy #ShotSpotter #MAPol #MAPoli

We’re not #agist, we’re #progressive

Senator #EdMarkey, a progressive #Massachusetts #Democrat who has served in #Congress for a half-century, defeated a much younger rival in the primary.

Markey, 80, used a fiercely progressive message & the support of many younger left-wing leaders to ward off Rep Seth Moulton, 47, a #moderate Democrat who had campaigned on a message of generational change.

#Senate #USpol #MApol
https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-senate-primary-election-markey-moulton-7968135279320c758b0fd4750d864db9?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link