🎃 Curious what do with your pumpkins after Halloween? Don’t trash them, smash them! In partnership with Garbage to Garden, Mothers Out Front, and South Street Youth Center, join us this Saturday, November 1, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at English High School. More info: www.boston.gov/calendar/202...

@thebugle.bsky.social Another example of sport conquering all?

Agreed! We should be empowering our cities and towns to take action to address local challenges, not hobbling them. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/m...

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

Just a periodic reminder that #CityofBoston cannot afford to lose a single square inch of its better and safer walking, cycling, and transit infrastructure. We actually need to install much, much more of it as fast as humanly possible.

Bluesky is real life. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Biked home from Open Streets on Blue Hill Av in Mattapan via Cummins Highway & the road reconstruction includes the sidewalk level bike lane 😍. This is world class micromobility infrastructure! @jfh01.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social @bikeboston.bsky.social @mattapan.boston.gov

Mayor Michelle Wu at the protest today: “What scares them about Boston is that we are the America they say is impossible.”

Stop by one of our free vaccine clinics open now through mid-December. Check the schedule and find which vaccines are available at boston.gov/vaccineclinics. #Boston #PublicHealth

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

What a perfect formulation: “This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead.

The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025

Prop 2 1/2 is terrible policy. It was bad back when it passed during the peak of anti-tax fervor, and it's even worse now. It's an assault on basic city services. Glad to see Michelle Wu call it out. massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/in-front-o...

Just a periodic reminder that #Boston can’t afford to lose a single square inch of our better and safer walking, cycling, and transit infrastructure. We actually need much, much more of it as fast as it can be installed.

We basically know what's coming and why. Might as well start planning messaging and concrete responses now. 'Racism tanked the economy. It has materially hurt you. We need immigrants. People who say otherwise can't be trusted and can never be allowed into power again. Period.'

Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."

I want to see massive upzoning of San Francisco's affluent low density neighborhoods and commercial corridors. I don't care about neighborhood preservation generally. I do care about further displacement of working class communities. 1/2

Parents writing indignant letters about an elitist and exclusionary public school goes back hundreds of years, and I’m in good company. bsky.app/profile/trav...

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

this idea sucks shit

It is gerrymandered but it’s true that no amount of redrawing would favor republicans. Currently it’s just gerrymandered by class and homeowner status which is a separate and different problem.

we are going to win www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...

I am going to make a thread of places in Louisville that TikTok shows me and I need to go

Can anyone in Boston give me an update on this

If you are a resident of Boston, there is a municipal election on September 9th. I URGE YOU NOT TO VOTE FOR WILL ONUOHA. He does not support cycling, bike lanes, or alternative transportation. He wants to just push Mass & Cass residents aside. I received this message from his campaign. #boston

put street trees everywhere you can in a neighborhood, make curb cuts so that their roots can absorb storm water from the street, grow native plants around their base, check back in five years and count how many welfare and health measures have improved

When people riding bikes can treat a stop sign as a yield it allows them to "mitigate risk to their advantage", increase visibility to drivers & reduce exposure. And not only are there safety benefits, but also for health, environment, & congestion relief. www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.... #OttBike

But more importantly, the school-based points work to effectively reduce the private-to-exam school pipeline that was gamed for decades, with many schools inflating grades to get near 100% admission rates (and advertising that to prospective families). Without that check, we’ll return to that era.

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

This is great. I especially like the advice of not engaging with bad-faith arguments. Activating latent support is always going to be a better use of our time as advocates than trying to convince the "no way, no how" folks.

"The truth is, biking every day makes my life better." www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

When Rodney Dangerfield did panel on the tonight show he didn’t say “well I actually have this chunk about the lack of respect I get from my wife”

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Im so tired

Related: no rightwing person for the rest of our living lives is allowed to play victim on any topic. The immediate answer is “you guys created an unprecedented police state as soon as you had the controls in your hands.”

The centrist Dem solution is to ignore trans people and immigrants and focus on complaining about pocketbook issues, but that is clearly not working, and is morally wrong. A major q I feel like isn’t discussed enough is… how do you fight the electorate’s opinion being divorced from reality?

The Monkey Prince Angada delivers Rama’s message to Ravana, by Manaku, 1725, 📸 by @StephChambers76

why does it matter that the right-wing media ecosystem is so much better funded when current affairs can simply defeat them with good ideas?

If you're angry about Republican gerrymandering, you should ask your representatives if they support, after new referendums, admitting DC and the territories as states — giving them democratic representation and Democrats both additional House seats and new Senators.

Common pattern when interpreting public input: In a neighborhood of 10K+ people. 3 people complain about a bike lane = Most residents are against the bike lane 50 people say they want the bike lane = Cyclists are loud, they don't represent everyone 😐

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

Anyway, for me, the vision is something like this: America should be a society that works to fulfill the promise of democracy — we should have the agency to live at our own direction. Not as victims of circumstance or under the thumb of the wealthy and powerful. Our lives are our own.

Editorial: It’s a sad reality that almost no community welcomes a homeless shelter, and Boston is no different.

my brother if you are struggling to get laid in 2025 and you think you'd do better in a world where women are even more aggressively shamed for expressing their sexuality and also don't have access to birth control i don't know what to tell you.

I went on Pod Save the World with Tommy Vietor to discuss liberals' sudden shift on Gaza and how to balance moral accountability with welcoming latecomers to the cause.

This is the number one reason a bunch of rich assholes scrounged around to find a candidate to run against Mayor Wu, and have been funding Kraft's campaign ever since. They don't have any particular gripe with the mayor beyond "She doesn't treat us like the special boys we know ourselves to be."

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

This is a great hidden find in Roslindale! Go to one of their open houses when you have a chance!