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@RonDurk @Ruthzee @Gigi4District1 I appreciate your personal bravery and your advocacy for survivors!

It's not easy to share but it's important. Thank you @Ruthzee & @Gigi4District1 for centering survivors like me! Proud to work to ensure Boston is the compassionate place we need it to be.

@byjoelanderson Joel, this is shocking. Your work at Slate has been incredible. This is such a loss, and I am sorry for such a shortsighted decision.

Hey folks, I was one of 4 people laid off by Slate & today will be my last day. Obviously, I’ll be looking for work. Hit me at joelanderson12@gmail.com. Apologies in advance if it takes a while to respond; I just now tested positive for covid and I’m gassed. Thx for the support!

@DHTheWeatherNut I am so sorry for your loss and I am so glad you took the time you needed.

LONG FORM POST AND PERSONAL NEWS: I feel the need to start off this report by letting you know that the reason for my recent break in reporting was due to my father dying suddenly a little over a week ago. I had to travel to the South to attend his funeral services. While I'm not going to expound on what happened, suffice it to say it's been a rough time for me personally, and with the mostly fair weather that lined up for this past Friday through Sunday, I took the chance to take a break and focus on being there for my Dad. Charlie was a great man who taught me the value of hard work and showing up, and he was proud of and appreciated my weather reporting work. I will miss him dearly, but life and the weather always moves on, and so today's report follows. As far as the next 7 days in general, it's looking increasingly humid throughout, and also very warm to perhaps hot at times by late week into the weekend. In addition, with the exception of a couple of isolated days (at the moment, those looks like Tuesday and Thursday) we will have unsettled conditions due to increased humidity along with a couple of waves to help produce periods of showers and thunderstorms, with heavy rain possible, especially on Wednesday. Speaking of waves, we've had an upper level low back in off of the ocean overnight and into southern New England - you don't see that often in the Summer! Periods of showers continue to "retrograde" from east to west today into parts of the greater WMass region, with especially heavier and steadier rains to the south of the Pike. A thunderstorm or two is possible today as well. Patchy fog will lift as temps rise into the mid to upper 70s for highs under mostly cloudy skies. As our storm slowly lifts north tonight and then northeast tomorrow, rain showers will become more isolated as they diminish in coverage with lows falling into the mid to upper 60s. However, humidity will increase and be drawn northward into our region behind our departing low on Tuesday. This will produce some patchy fog tomorrow morning, and highs will rise into the mid 80s with isolated showers or a thunderstorm possible. Lows will only dip to near 70º tomorrow night as another upper low tracks east from the Great Lakes and brings more energy into our region moving into Wednesday. At this point, if there is any day that could be a washout for some, it would be Wednesday. As this upper low swings through the region, it will act on high humidity and warm temps in the low 80s to produce showers, downpours and thunderstorms at times in our region. Some folks get more, some get less, but at this point it looks like a wet day. After that system pulls through Wednesday night (lows near 70º with scattered showers expected), we may get a drier period Thursday into the start of Friday with temperatures coming UP behind that mid-week system. Highs could reach the mid 80s to low 90s on Thursday and Friday with very humid air moving into the region, so we can't rule out an isolated shower or thunderstorm. By the weekend, very warm temps in the 85-90º range should continue, and more energy moving into the region by later weekend could bring more shower and thunderstorm chances all weekend long. I am back in the saddle and will update you all week long as the days pass by, and provide updates when I think they'll be helpful. Thanks for being the best audience ever, I appreciate so very much. Have a great day!

“Roe is precedent and will never be overturned,” said many, many men to me when I said that the election of Trump would result in the fall of Roe.

I emailed the Trump campaign to ask what he meant. No response. Every media outlet should be pushing on this until some sort of explanation is offered. In the meantime, as Jay says, the comments themselves should be big news everywhere.

can't stop, won't stop

@jdesmondharris Ugh, brutal question. We always erred on the side of waking up so that they get a full night sleep.

If your two-year-old has a fever and is still napping at 5:00 (shit it's now 5:07) do you wake them up to save bedtime or is this a "let a sick baby sleep" occasion? help

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@lisakashinsky @politico Congratulations, Lisa! So happy for you!

Some personal news: June 7 is my last day authoring Massachusetts Playbook! I’m taking on an expanded role on @politico’s politics team as a national political reporter covering the presidential election/Biden and Trump’s campaigns. Add me to your lists! lkashinsky@politico.com

@DHTheWeatherNut Thank you!

@rhartholder weather.gov/aly/25th_Anniv…

Today is the 29 year anniversary of the F4 Great Barrington Tornado that moved through south county on 5/29/95, killing 3 people at Eagleton School before tracking into Monterey and lifting in North Sandisfield. No Severe T-Storm Watches or Tornado Watches were issued for GB...

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Maya Angelou

@DHTheWeatherNut What's your read on a plowable event for southern Berkshire County?

The northwestern hilltowns of western Franklin and western Hampshire County are also now under a Winter Storm Watch for a plowable, accumulating wet snowfall Wednesday morning into Thursday night... easterley wind gusts may produce outages, with gusts 25-40mph, and up to 50mph

@DHTheWeatherNut Super helpful. Thank you!

@rhartholder It's not going to be dry in the dry slot, just less intense, more showery, and in the form of a mix, sometimes rain, and could have sleet and/or snow mixed in at times... it's hard to know, but generally Noon to 6pm, then should turn back to light/moderate snow thru overnight

Moderate to heavy snow through late morning in much of the WMass region before a dry slot moves in for early this afternoon… coating to an inch or so possible in the valley, and 1-3” or so in the high terrain…

Thank a pro-choice activist in Ohio today. They worked their asses off for this

The guy who the GOP (finally) chose as Speaker? He's BAD news for abortion & human rights. Mike Johnson: ❌Voted for a national abortion ban ❌Introduced a federal version of FL's "Don't Say Gay" law ❌Opposed a bill to federally recognize same-sex marriage

Connecticut & Massachusetts Attorneys General continue to lead the charge for reproductive freedom! Thank you @AGWilliamTong & @MassAGO for standing up for science, truth, and justice and calling on SCOTUS to reverse the 5th Circuit's ruling to limit mifepristone access.

@MilesPerHoward I can't DM you but I'd love an invite! Thank you!

Jessie Rossman is a brilliant legal mind, an extraordinary strategist, and an even better human being. I am so excited that she is stepping into this important role — it’s a huge win for the Commonwealth.