Jahunger is so good 🥵

Thanks to Sen. @JulianCyr.bsky.social for calling out the need for new housing revenue in #MA in a recent @CWBeacon.bsky.social article. Meeting our state's housing needs requires ongoing investment from new sources. Read MassBudget's report for further analysis: buff.ly/fcwyiKL

3.5 hours until NYC remains the greatest city in the world but by a larger margin

Rewatching The Town and freaking out bc the big car chase scene ends next to the Mirabella Pool

It is an emergency that huge numbers of homes will be either worthless or significantly devalued in the coming years/decades because of environmental destruction, and there is no plan for working people in those places

Let’s go! Everywhere! It makes no sense that cars get to use public space for free but people can’t use public services for free. (No, you’re not already paying for your parking space with taxes) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

Winter really makes it clear just how little our cities care about anyone not traveling in a car. People use bike paths and sidewalks year-round!

“Watertown and Lowell, for instance, have conflicting ideas of how a separate ADU structure should be connected to a house . . . . Even those small differences mean the permitting process for ADUs remains complicated and drawn out.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/b...

It must be rough to be the only rep at the call center assigned to taking calls about The Substance. All day you have to talk to people who can’t deal with their own mortality and decisions, and everyone else just gets to do credit card points stuff. Tough

Just watched The Substance. Wow, wow

A majority of Massachusetts residents were not old enough to vote in 1994, 31 years ago, when rent control was banned. And those residents are disproportionately impacted by a system that places virtually no limits on rent gouging. It’s time for them to also have a say in how they’re treated

When is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social going to film a video on the Cyclone???

Let’s go!!! Housing is a basic need. Any equitable response to the housing crisis has to prioritize protecting people from abusive practices like rent gouging. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/b...

The Trump administration continues to find new ways to raise costs on all of us. It’s time we have a City Hall that works relentlessly to ease the burden. We will deliver on fast and free buses, universal childcare and a rent freeze because New Yorkers need the relief.

Wicked is too long as a movie. I said what I said!

Driving in traffic is a dull and unpleasant chore and the only way Americans can escape having to do it all the time is by moving to one of three very expensive cities. This is bad and we should fix it.

We need state and national leaders, but right now we mostly just have legislators and administrators. People who see themselves as holding a narrow job and just responding to circumstances to get by.

Americans want lawmakers to address the need for better public services in the face of absurd wealth inequality. "If Congress isn’t listening to the people, it sure would be refreshing if lawmakers in New York and other states would do so." www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...

“In comment overheard in Oslo cafe, Mamdani “finally” sounded normal. Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday. Europeans recognize his vision about free transit and universal childcare. We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return”

Gotham City is NYC under Eric Adams and Metropolis is NYC under Zohran Mamdani. Read theory everyone!!

Sold-out crowd for @thewaroncars.bsky.social in Seattle tonight, with more than one shoutout to New York’s mayor-elect: “This is a man who got people to talk about buses. That is a superhero thing to do.”

Mamdani’s victory speech is so amazing 😭 “Politics is no longer something that is done to us, but something that we do” OMG 😭

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

It’s real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹

Good morning everyone! Happy Zohran Mamdani Eve

National Guard deployment in DC is costing $1 million/day www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p... They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people

Zohran wins the primary and a month later Titan Foods finally reopens in NYC. Wow! Already delivering 👏

*waves pom poms for Cambridge* www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/13/b...

Boston can’t force the Fed to lower interest rates, but we should pursue an approach similar to what Cambridge has done: increase capacity across the whole city (not just small areas) and combine that with policies that protect affordable housing developments from getting targeted by stupid lawsuits

We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

It was so nice of Cedar Point to name their best rollercoaster after the train station in East Boston ❤️

Just collected my first 2 signatures for rent control in MA because everyone deserves a stable home 🫶🏡

A feature I want to have in email: I give a certain adress or domain a "budget" of the number of times it can email me per month before everything further is automatically sent to spam. Ideally, (I have the option to make) the domain or address aware of this automatically.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Remember the West Wing episode after Bartlett was shot and CJ listed *all the other people* shot that day and closed with “lest anybody think a gun would have prevented these crimes, let’s remember that the President was shot while surrounded by the best armed bodyguards known to man.”

What are we doing 😭

Zohran should do a video where he talks about policy for 90 seconds while riding the Coney Island Cyclone and says that being able to afford living in NYC shouldn’t feel like a rollercoaster

I was pleased to speak on Beacon Hill this morning in support of the Transfer Fee for affordable housing. Been doing this since 2018, and during just this time period the price of a house in Somerville has DOUBLED. Long past time to create a lasting revenue stream for affordable housing. #LOHA

Completely obsessed with Kings Island rebranding their Italian Job ride so that the theme is just the city of Cincinnati. “Have you ever watched an insane car chase in a movie and thought, I’d love to do that at 40 mph in Cincinnati” 😅😅

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

Always crazy to be reminded that it went from 70 to 28 during Reagan and that alone explains so so much about the trajectory of our economy since

Once again, marginal tax rates are too low & pose an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy

Modern Seinfeld plot: Jerry dumps his gf bc she gives verbal driving directions when Google Maps exists. “I don’t think I can be with someone who does this. You know how many marriages have ended over directions? We’ve solved this problem as a society and I for one will NOT go back!!!”

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion

“Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically.” But that does not mean there is nothing that can be done. There is hope and that hope lies with the states. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-research...

You don’t need to have children by your 30s to be accomplished. You don’t need to own a house by your 30s to be accomplished. You need to have a graduate degree and a series of stickers from different microbreweries decorating your laptop by your 30s to be accomplished.