David Shapiro
@dshapMENTOR
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CEO @YMCA_Boston, Fmr @MENTORNational @massmentoring Dad, Husband, Mentor. Working 2 Build Community, Stability & Opportunity 4 All. Tweets are my opinions.
Boston, MA
Joined June 2012
Let us be very clear: there are no "roving Somali gangs terrorizing people." The Trump administration is, once again, using a campaign of hatred and fear to try and divide us. It will not work.
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"...Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement." "A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself." "Rubio, whose well-known versatility of convictions is perhaps not infinite..." @GeorgeWill can bring it after all these years.
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At a time when traditional aid is retreating just as crises are multiplying, I’m seeing a quiet but profound shift among donors and investors alike. Those who are still giving are doing so with greater intention, asking their capital to go further for people and planet. Yet
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That
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There will be no simple solutions to ending this war. We understand what is happening. We understand who we are dealing with. The issue is not the difficulty of making decisions. I am capable of making them. What matters is that everything is fair and transparent. That there are
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Here's a fact check of 13 of the false claims President Trump made at his Cabinet meeting today: - He claimed he's secured more than $18 trillion in investment commitments since he returned to office. That fictional figure is nearly double the $9.6 trillion figure the White
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As usual, President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his televised Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. And, as usual, most of them had previously been debunked.
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(1/4) ICE detention has become a black box. Oversight has been gutted. Families are being separated. Pregnant and postpartum women report starving in custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, and their pleas for help going unanswered. https://t.co/jlR7u6M13s
independent.co.uk
Until last year, Congress required reports on the pregnant, postpartum or nursing women in ICE custody, including ‘detailed justification’ for their detention. This requirement no longer exists,...
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Sabrina Carpenter speaks out against the White House using her song in a pro-ICE video: "this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
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While the Trump team defends killing suspected drug dealers who have not been convicted of anything, the convicted drug trafficking former president of Honduras is released from prison by a Trump pardon. @WRashbaum @maggieNYT @Jonesieman
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Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Right before Thanksgiving, Trump secretly commuted the sentence of David Gentile—a Ponzi schemer who stole over $1 billion from his clients—freeing him from prison after just *12 days.* This is another grotesque abuse of the pardon power that should outrage all Americans.
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BREAKING: EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS. Senator Mark Kelly just completely torched Donald Trump: "When Donald Trump was driving the Taj Mahal casino into bankruptcy, I was getting shot at over Iraq and Kuwait. In 2001, after Donald Trump said that the collapse of the Twin Towers
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Trump will deport an Afghani living in the US with Temporary Protected Status if he is *accused* of stealing $1000. But he’ll set a white dude free who was *convicted* of stealing $1.6B from American citizens to go commit more crime.
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David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
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The National Guard shooter's story is not simple. He was admitted to the U.S. by the Biden administration through a hurried, temporary parole program that had a documented history of helping Afghan immigrants on the terrorism watch list. Yet, he was granted asylum here by the
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A Honduras-born student at @babson college -- set to be the first in her family to be a university graduate -- arranges to fly home to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. Then she is seized by ICE at the airport and two days later, in apparent violation of a judge's
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Any Lucia López Belloza, 19, was detained by immigration agents at the Boston airport before a flight to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. She is now in Honduras.
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The skyrocketing cost of living has left millions of people struggling to afford a place to live despite working at full-time jobs or a number of part-time jobs. Journalist @brian_goldstone, author of “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” joined PBS News
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When USAID shut down, more than 80% of its programs were canceled. In an attempt to keep the most cost-effective and life-saving projects up and running, two laid-off agency employees created a website called Project Resource Optimization to match donors with threatened programs.
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Remarkable story of high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
Lambert High School in Georgia was the only U.S. school to place in the high school top 10 at iGEM, an international synthetic biology competition. The other top teams included one from South Korea, one from Taiwan, and seven from China. https://t.co/1NfIKjbozP
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The Guardian laid out what a lot of us already knew deep down. Donald Trump did not just fail coal country, he ripped the future right out of our hands. While he was on stage promising to bring back coal, his administration was quietly dismantling the only real investment our
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Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
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