Ruth Zakarin
CEO of the MA Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. Knitter, cat lady, grey hair evangelist. Oh, and I box. #COYS. Opinions strong, plentiful, and my own.
Check out my essays at: https://dot-connecting.ghost.io
- Book burning is an act of violence. It is an attempt to erase history and ideas, and it also an attempt to erase the people centered in that history and those ideas.
- Yep. It costs you absolutely nothing to leave trans people be and let them live their lives.
- I am in gun violence prevention work and it makes me sick to my stomach to see ICE agents toting semiautomatic weapons through neighborhoods that were peaceful before they arrived.
- Immigrants leave their countries to flee violence perpetrated with U.S. made guns. Come to the U.S. only to be violently abducted by thugs carrying U.S. made guns. It’s all violence. Perpetrated with U.S. made guns.
- Trump 2.0 made me so worried that he would again separate families at the southern border. I was right about the fear, and wrong about the location. He’s separating families and abducting people — everywhere. Including right here in Massachusetts.
- A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
- Today in the bluest of the blue Massachusetts, a mother and baby ripped apart. We did this to enslaved through the buying and selling of human beings. We did this to indigenous people through boarding schools. And now we are doing it again. Do not say this isn’t who we are. It is.
- 🧵Update: In Worcester, MA, ICE dragged a mother away from her baby & family—without identifying themselves or showing a warrant. She’s now in San Antonio. The community tried to stop them. They were met with force. Read it. Share it. Never forget it tinyurl.com/No-warrant @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
- People are scared to call a doctor when they are sick. They are scared to call for help when they are unsafe. One must ask of themselves, is this the world I want? A world built on fear? We have to vastly outnumber the people who would say yes. #MomSky
- Across the U.S., doctors are increasingly concerned that people with serious medical conditions are avoiding medical care out of fear of being apprehended by immigration officials. “The tragic message to these people is: Be a shadow and hope that you do not die,” one said. nyti.ms/4d4Wu1s
- Reposted by Ruth ZakarinCarney: Canada says no Trump: never say never Shockingly, a president who doesn’t believe in consent for women also doesn’t take no for an answer from a whole damn country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/06/n...
