As wildfires blaze in California, we're reminded of the incarcerated people who are deployed to fight them – an extremely dangerous job that pays just dollars per day.

In case you missed it, Rosie’s Place was featured on WCVB’s Chronicle last night.
 
🎥: WCVB-TV Boston wcvb.com/article/leadin…

Jennifer Rubin has resigned from the Washington Post and she’s launching a publication with Norm Eisen.

Great reporting, Jean Trounstine⚖️ @spoutible & @bluesky! #mapoli #cjreform

Massachusetts is about to have first transgender judge ever! Andrew Cohen

For those of you in #Illinois, for #MLKDay I recommend Rebecca Ginsburg--also livestream available

BREAKING: President Biden has commuted the life sentence of Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier, allowing him to serve the rest of his sentence on house arrest. Despite pleas from supporters, the White House refused to issue a full pardon.

At long last, some good news. Biden commutes sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier—one of the longest serving political prisoners in the U.S. apnews.com/article/leonar…

Donald Trump plans to try and end birthright citizenship via executive order. He can't. The 14th Amendment is very clear on this, as is Supreme Court precedent. Watch & share my explainer:

THIS AP HAS GONE TO HELL. Anyone else notice in "For You" the nazi progaganda, MAGA bullshit, what on earth...oh well at least we can observe destruction of the former twitter full blast

Birthright citizenship is a right spelled out in the Constitution. The President can’t take that away by executive order. We intend to make that clear. We will be reviewing this flood of executive orders and stand ready to defend the law and protect the people of Massachusetts.

She literally put herself in harms way to deliver this message.

Adagio for Strings by the great American composer Samuel Barber 🇺🇸 The music on my mind this week as I look towards the USA from the west coast of Ireland

Just horrendous. But what did we expect? We all need to be FIGHTERS FOR REAL JUSTICE

I think Elon's NAZI salute was the end for me on Twitter. I never called it X. But it is time to bluesky it 100%. Find me there at JusticeWithJean @trounstinej.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/trouns…