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 ❤️

“If you’re not a democratic socialist, you’re not paying attention” - Max Page of @massteacher.bsky.social at the MassBudget conference this morning 🙌 🌹

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.

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

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” 😅😅

I don’t often express excitement about living in the furthest corner of Orient Heights, but tonight I get to hear The Pogues play Suffolk Downs from my porch 🎶

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.

In a civilized country, school shootings, like student lunch debt and medical bankruptcy, would not be a thing.

“Public housing’s deterioration isn’t solely due to policy; it was also due to ideology. A bipartisan consensus emerged that only the private sector could be trusted to provide housing, even for the poorest. Public housing was treated as a failed experiment—one unworthy of repair or reinvention.”

I know the 3rd season of Severance is gonna drop soon because the cast and directors are doing all their media hits, let’s gooooo

This is so shameful

“This kristallnacht is just Hitler trying to grab some headlines and make you look away from the rising cost of beer all over Germany” - how Democrats sound

Re LRS, lots of research has shown that there is no 'middle' in American politics. The median voter weakly holds incoherent political opinions. Making a clear, credible case is more important than the specific content of the case in such an electoral landscape.

Ads on TV: Mayor race, weight loss meds, cars Ads on HBO: Mayor race, weight loss meds, cars Ads on YouTube: 30min infomercial for a $9.99 wallet that can block radiation & get run over by a car. The narrator is upset about political correctness. If you don’t hit “skip” you watch the whole thing

I say this because "can I find someone in the field saying dumb shit online" is the level of evidence that many of these people consider sufficient for making these claims, and you can discredit literally any professional discipline, anywhere, with that criteria.

the things about this isn't that it's totally untrue, examples of this phenomenon do exist. but this criticism is just totally disconnected to the actual prevalence of it and it's ability to impact the real world. it's a subset of "democrats are held accountable for what random people online say"

Unions do more than just improve wages and benefits. They build stronger communities and strengthen democracy. A new report from @epi.org shows that where unions thrive, communities thrive. Imagine what we could achieve if more people had a voice at work. www.epi.org/publication/...

For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views. Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.

Abolish ICE

This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.

We love a candidate who makes public transit the framing of his campaign messaging. Literally. Look at how this video opens up.

I love New York

People forget that “with all due respect” might be ZERO THEY MIGHT BE DUE ZERO RESPECT

The Final Destination movies are so dumb, but Tony Todd’s farewell in Bloodlines is just 😭

Life is a group project. And in cities, the group is bigger. Some of us don't just handle that, we love it.

What’s your favorite mayoral candidate housing policy? (1) Cuomo: Everyone is required to be rent burdened (2) Kraft: I’m giving tax breaks to landlords to raise rents at 4x inflation

New research is showing that modern rent stabilization policies work and they do not meaningfully harm new development. This is a common sense policy rooted in basic fairness. We cannot have a dignified housing system if landlords can rent gouge everyone. bloustein.rutgers.edu/some-studies...

crisis has a way of exposing some people and giving others a chance to rise to the occasion and in no instance can I think of a more compelling example than this woman and the Governor of Michigan

Happy tax free weekend to those who celebrate!* *people with disposable income buying things they were going to buy anyway

Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent is wild bc it shows how people’s brains are pickled into thinking everyone should spend half their money on rent. $2300 is still not cheap and it is a good thing, actually, when policies allow someone to remain in their community and eventually earn more $.

Mamdani has Cuomo out here campaigning about how he’s proud that he proposed raising new revenue to address people’s needs, instead of cutting it. This is how a strong left movement can change the conversation about what we all deserve. Love to see it 🥹

For decades, broker fees have burdened Massachusetts renters with excessive upfront costs in an increasingly expensive rental market. This month, a new broker fee law went into effect to ensure renters aren't left footing the bill for someone they never hired. Here’s what renters should know.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/b...

It’s funny that New Hampshire must have like 700 seats reserved at the NCSL summit because they have a state rep for every 3,500 residents