My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

Media professionals know these are always calls that are made, what to report out or not. When it comes to reporting out deadly misinformation about trans people, the NYT is super committed. When it comes to reporting out the possibility that the president is a pedophile, they're unmotivated. 🤔

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...

It makes you think!

Hateful loser whose parents are paying $71k/yr brags about trying to ruin honest working people’s lives. We need to make campus social stigma real again. This is pariah-making stuff.

Listen: one time my preschooler had major bathroom accident at a playground that was down the street from a Stop & Shop where striking workers were on the picket line. If we did not cross the picket line for wipes you can make it without your mocha pumpkin-ccino whatever drink.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago. Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.

Local police “gang databases” are rife with bias and result in targeted harassment of young men by plainclothes cops. In Boston the federal/regional fusion center runs that database. It resulted in at least one student being deported in Trump 1. These databases should be defunded and destroyed.

I genuinely believe this is a huge part of the LLM worship; half of these people are functionally illiterate

Obviously not the main point, but the illiteracy shown in their emails should help illuminate how not-actually-smart so many powerful people are. Text message-esque shorthand is one thing. And typos are expected. But even with context, the level of smooth-brainedness is just embarrassing.

The last 10 years have been an elaborate experiment in reducing "imposter syndrome" levels to 0.

The President of the United States of America, clothed in immense surveillance and intelligence power, makes decisions based on a fake TV news channel.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Dynamo-powered lights seem like an extravagance because of the cost, but I've had rechargeable lights die mid-ride over the course of 20 winters. Sinewave Cycles lights are made here in New England so I'm happy to support local products that are robust and can charge a GoPro at the same time.

As someone who rides all winter long, this is a really great thread! As Travis notes, everyone is different, but this gives a great overview of areas to focus on and potential clothing options.

It’s that time of year again! Today wasn’t *below* freezing, but the windchill was real. What are your hottest ☀️🔥 tips for ❄️🥶 cold weather riding?

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

“Everyone is absolutely traumatized,” said attorney Todd Pomerleau. "This is a group of people that were working a job, showing up everyday so they can provide for their families. And a bunch of agents show up with masks over their faces,” he said.https://bit.ly/4hSuoJ5

This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is why they were in downtown Chicago today. "one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”" Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Anyone who has family in Chicago knows this, and we need to make sure everyone else does too.

It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Cortez-Masto on NPR this AM thinks caving on healthcare subsidies is *smart* politics. When premiums skyrocket “the Republicans will own that.” Cool cool. People are still going to lose health care right? But surely the same Dem messaging machine that blew this one will make some hay. Congrats!

This fall, 1,227 international students attend the University of Massachusetts, Boston. That figure is down about 17% — or about 250 students — since a year ago.

Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm

Jesse Plemons remains undefeated.

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Watched with some first-timers tonight and this movie still rocks.

Boston historian @dartadams.bsky.social recalls how a 1997 course on Hitler’s rise taught him to recognize the warning signs of fascism and how those lessons echo in today’s America. Silence and appeasement only feed oppression. www.embraceboston.org/blog/history...

THEY DO

Just wrapped up a 4+ hour “School Tour Season” open house with the Boston @integratedschools.bsky.social Chapter. Great to talk with caregivers of preschoolers – but also with those of 6th graders entering the BPS sorting machine.

It’s time for police departments to assess how complicit they want to be in what are largely reviled scenes of mayhem. You can’t preach “community policing” and abet kidnappings. Police barely skated through a seismic shift of attitudes towards law enforcement 5 years ago. Won’t make it twice.

It’s time for police departments to assess how complicit they want to be in what are largely reviled scenes of mayhem. You can’t preach “community policing” and abet kidnappings. Police barely skated through a seismic shift of attitudes towards law enforcement 5 years ago. Won’t make it twice.

I think it's time to rethink this "obligation" to protect masked federal agents who are kidnapping people The full statement from Fitchburg's mayor is here: www.facebook.com/share/p/17HV...

The Only Person Who Can Help Me Get A Bus To Yonkers Is You

First in the Dorchester Reporter— Jascha Franklin-Hodge, city’s Streets Chief, to exit Wu Cabinet as first-term ends #Boston www.dotnews.com/2025/jascha-...

like how little do you think of americans that “daily videos of masked men terrorizing children and tearing families apart” is an issue you don’t touch because you think you’re going to lose on it. that’s insane

“Shocks the conscience” is a legal term of art. In this case it’s a pretty good description of the typical reaction to these paramilitary goon squads. Shocking.

Well, friends, we lost this one. Thank you to everyone who sent in their comments and took time out of their lives to try and prevent @bostonschools.boston.gov and @mayorwu.boston.gov from doubling down on exclusion. We’re not done.