With @benjiwheeler.bsky.social at his victory party in East Somerville last night. I got to know Ben over the course of the campaign — and people who’ve known him for years kept telling me he’s the real deal! I was proud to endorse him and am excited to work with him on social housing and more! 🎉

Somerville residents have a right to know how public investments are allocated, and I've been working to provide transparency. I'm grateful to our Finance & Treasury Depts for providing this list of holdings in our OPEB ("Other Post-Employment Benefits"), run through an ESG screen. 1/

New research on the causes of irregular bus arrival times: "The most significant contributors to the variability of headways are variability in schedules and dispatching at terminals." Bus operator experience matters, too. doi.org/10.3390/smar...

Somerville YIMBY’s 2025 election endorsements are here! We’re pleased to endorse these candidates: @willieburnleyjr.bsky.social @scottistvan.com @benjiwheeler.bsky.social @wilfredmbah.bsky.social Jon Link @benforward3.bsky.social Naima Sait Emily Hardt Read on: somervilleyimby.org/elections/20...

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

Who are the police and national guard supposed to be protecting? It seems like the rule of law is under constant assault—by our own government—and that the path to peace is a return to lawfulness by our authorities.

Thrilled to announce that my film "Confessions of a Jumbotron Addict", directed by Mickey Duzyj, is the Short of the Week on shortoftheweek.com ! It's 9 minutes of bliss -- I promise it's worth checking it out!! www.shortoftheweek.com/2025/06/02/c...

game time

This is horrifying and very, very illegal. The federal government is a criminal enterprise now.

Decency and basic rights are more than vibes, but still -- folks -- the vibes are shifting. We should be clear about that.

I have been regularly stolen from by guys who dress like the dude on the left but never in my life by someone who dressed like the guy on the right

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

Being asked to send our money to states that continue to elect leaders who deny help to our states is totally intolerable. Something has to give.

We’re going to have a masque, an incredible masque, a masque of death, even, if you can believe it. They say “oh you can’t do it you can’t do it in the castle” but we are going to do it I can tell you, we are doing it with so many colors but mainly red, red the most beautiful red you’ve ever seen

I think the 2020 Harper's open letter on "justice and open debate" really holds up. A huge danger was always that tools of excluding speech would be seized by the powerful and used against the powerless harpers.org/a-letter-on-...

Good morning. Cory Booker has now been speaking on the Senate floor for 12 hours straight. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

If this happened in the U.S., fully 75% of the pundit class would be calling it the death of American democracy. Meanwhile, Musk is buying votes in Wisconsin, Mike Johnson is casually floating the elimination of district courts, and Trump insists he’s not joking about a third term.

A frequent point by Michael Marshall (need to see if he’s on here) is that at flat earth cons there are widely varying mutually exclusive models of the Earth (hollow, flat, curvy) that cannot possibly be true together but the important thing is that They are wrong about the Round Earth

Partisan bias is so out of control. Just learned that 100% of college students say they wouldn't date someone who is actively deporting them without due process

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Horrific. Unconstitutional.

One less obvious way that Gawker foreshadowed this moment was by showing how people and institutions crack when they're under malicious, pervasive, and unreasonable assault—you can see Columbia University following Nick down the path of trying to bargain and to rationalize having been made a target

I’m not sure these people should ever be deprogrammed out of the Trump cult. Their shame and remorse would be too much for them to bear.

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Much reporting and discussion about Trump's unconstitutional cuts is misstating an important fact. It's not only violating the powers of Congress to throw out their appropriations -- these have almost all **been signed into law by the President** as well! abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...

This is a really good piece, in which @sarahjeong.bsky.social explains here reasoning with the piece, the issues at stake, the journalistic process – and says she made a mistake and takes accountability for it. Stuff like *this* is how outlets win and retain trust. More of this, plz.

We don't need to live in a country of "expensive" and "affordable" states. We didn't use to live in such a country. But getting back to a healthier place is going to require meaningful policy change, mainly in Democratic-run states. mnolangray.substack.com/p/the-invent...

God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch

These are (among) the stories that need to be told, by the people who are experiencing them, in ways that their families and communities can understand. If the sound is these attacks on science is silence… then clawing back what we’ve lost will be even harder, possibly impossible.

Utterly unconscionable – though hardly surprising – for the New York Times to print such vile fabrications, completely untethered from empirical reality, and to keep platforming a man who would spread such extremist propaganda as one of their most prominent columnists.

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

Gutted to see the Woodrow Wilson Center included in this. It has been a crucial institution in the production, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge about the history of the U.S. and the world. Its Cold War archives are a priceless teaching and research tool. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...

arguments over who would get blamed for a shutdown are insane. the median voter has no idea this is happening. the median voter knows one fact about politics and it’s that Donald Trump is the President

these are the names of young Black men who were "found dead" after the Ferguson uprising following the murder of Michael Brown in 2014. Edward Crawford Jr. is in the famous image below. his death was ruled a suicide. our gov't is not new to silencing activists. the least we can do is remember them.

So many podcasts that interview company founders are like > "How did Gramma Soap Suds come to be?" "Well, I picked the scents because my grandmother loved them" > "Was launch day at Home Depot a thrill?" "SUCH a thrill."

Most absolutely basic, basement-level rule of law has just five (5) votes on the Roberts Court. Do not be comforted by this. It suggests there are 4 votes for fascist dictatorship on the court

@fchwpo.bsky.social JB, I want to invite you to a trivia night in Somerville this Tues Mar 11 (no game that night! Perfect timing!) hosted by two HUGE fans, me and my brother... This is me (in my #7 "LIBERATION" jersey!) last week, I promise you'll love the trivia (hard but satisfying!)

Really preposterous that we ever have debates about D messaging

Oh. My. Freaking. God. Democrats, don't you understand that allowing scum like Cuomo to enrich their cronies, while spouting vaguely progressive-sounding bull****, is what got us into this mess?

If you won't even keep Andrew Cuomo out of the paint, you'll never begin to get Trump out of the paint

I know this is not the point but... it's "FEN-tuh-nil", people, not "FEN-tuh-nahl". I know there's ethanol, and methanol, but it's not pronounced like those

I feel shocked and hurt when I see this flyer that protesters at Barnard/Columbia passed out while disrupting a class about modern Israel. I think it's crucial to distinguish between opposition to a Zionism that oppresses Palestinians, and opposition to Jewish people...

This. This is the phrase we need to spread.

Wow -- I didn't realize the gender gap in college was getting so large. Like 28% more women are getting a bachelor's than men!?!? What's going on with men, how do we improve this?

Didn’t see til tonight that at one point in Oval today, Zelenskyy invited Vance to come to Ukraine, and Vance was just such a hack. Mocked the idea of going to Ukraine and said he has seen propaganda tours. Really ugly stuff.

In addition to all the ways that White House meeting was a disgrace... Zelensky made an excellent point, which Trump and Vance didn't even attempt to engage with: Ukraine already negotiated a ceasefire with Russia, UNDER TRUMP, and Russia violated it and killed 148,000 people