Maduro really knows how to play the game

We simply must do popularism by embracing socialism

🗣️FREEDOM LOOKS GOOD ON BLACK PEOPLE. Thank you Black America for relentlessly fighting for Black humanity and being the blueprint for liberation in the modern era. #blacksky

My dad's response to a letter: "As to your questions-for relaxation I build model airplanes and read. I can't dance the length of a small closet, but I like music. My pet peeves are Senator McCarthy and the Ku Klux Klan. My favorite people are Eleanor Roosevelt and Jackie Robinson." Rod Serling

You know you've reached the second half of your thirties when you're having trouble sleeping because you get to use your new chainsaw in the morning. Regardless of actually having children, Dad Mode will not be stopped.

Counterpoint: the only thing this set of people want to get rid of more than academic research is serious teaching.

no one, absolutely no one, will be won from R to D by Democrats willing to hand it to Trump. those are literally just Republicans.

I must once again say it: If you want to live in a shitty state that has shitty public services and low/no income taxes, there is a large menu of options for you to choose from. Do not try to turn Massachusetts into one of those states. Goodbye

Sharon said I should do a Groundnut scheme thread So, in the spirit of Mr. @garius.bsky.social of this parish, I shall embark on a short history of THE TANGANYIKA GROUNDNUT SCHEME, or the time the Attlee government tried to turn the worst land in east Africa in the world's largest peanut farm.

'32 FDR was Hoover backlash+booze. He could've slept for half that campaign and still won. And if he had done incremental mewling bullshit, the GOP status quo would've had a real shot in '36. Instead, he went apeshit with his majorities and became the closest thing to an elected god we've ever had.

The state’s highest court ruled a question that would cut the state income tax in Massachusetts cannot proceed to the November ballot.

Every poll of drivers prior to the implementation of congestion pricing will show a majority against it. Once it's implemented, it's majority popular and a huge win And if @wutrain.bsky.social wanted to reduce traffic in Boston she would build busways & bikeways www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/17/m...

>why are they bombing us Childish delusions. Childish delusions. Childish delusions. None of you are free of childish delusions.

Shooooooooooooooooigu!!! SHOOOOOOOOOOIGU!! ten thousand generations of tuvan horse archers are calling to you!!!

updating my analysis

A notable finding: Almost two-thirds of the pedestrian deaths in 2025 occurred in “environmental justice” neighborhoods where there are higher concentrations of non-white or lower-income households.

Yeah, funny how every Mass municipality should be "allowed" to choose not to build housing, but gawd forbid Boston tells you to use the T.

More crucial evidence the right-wing/rich-white-dude-sponsored argument that high taxes are driving people out of Massachusetts is false, despite media uptake. It's the cost of housing, food, energy, and childcare! No one leaves because they might one day pay the millionaire's tax. No one. #mapoli

Probably the most frustrating thing about living in Boston is how the millions of people who don't live here (or pay taxes here) act as if Boston exists solely for their pleasure, while actual residents are an afterthought.

woof those sideburns are kind of gnarly man you look like you just got cursed by a witch to turn into Martin Van Buren and it's beginning

The one that always gets me is how the consumer economy vanished, in ways even the Depression never managed. Years of full-page ads that were all essentially: "Once we kill the [unprintable slur]s, we're going to have so much stuff to sell you."

it’s not true. it didn’t happen. we made it up. it’s a total fabrication.

It would be really interesting to see if you could "find" any of the water that was being lost in transit in historical groundwater data.

Avocados and their derivatives are gross.

Regular reminder that @streets.boston.gov can’t afford to lose a single square inch of our better walking, biking, and transit infrastructure. We actually need to install much, much more of it as fast as humanly possible.

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

You can say the most vile shit imaginable about the places that produce most of the nation’s GDP where most Americans live but the second you so much as breathe disdain for massively subsidized flyover exurbs You Have Done A No Growth, How Dare You.

My most chauvinistic opinion is that America is the best food nation overall. Some other countries can be better in specific aspects but overall it’s clearly the US and it’s not particularly close tbh.

wtf

1. This is an insane law. Who drafted this? I just want to talk... 2. I'm kind of shocked that this hasn't already been used to nuke construction literally everywhere. It's not hard to find ten cranks.

A definitive class analysis of the modern far right:

Greater Boston if Taxachusetts was real and we stopped hating new and/or fun things:

A lot of people are watching the World Cup tonight. I'm watching the dew point forecast.

It’s crazy how many American adults on here haven’t figured out that the gun industry is selling a fantasy of empowerment in the same way that people who sell truck nuts are

I know I'm biased, but it's insane to me that in 2026 there are still huge swaths of the Boston suburbs that think it's not embarrassing (or even kind of creepy) to not have sidewalks.

"LLMs are actually a form of critical fabulation" You bolt awake. It is the 5th century BCE, and you are in a crowd watching Herodutus introduce his new 'Histories'. Your hand curls around a stone. The future must not be allowed to pass.

I think if you do this shit as a historian you should have to turn all of your credentials and go wander the desert.

Sometimes it really feels like we're a few discoveries away from learning that all major deities are technically real, but only because they're actually just fungi.

Inching me closer to finally snapping and calming streets myself.* *In SimCity, officer.

I have a few legitimate concerns: 1. Do we have enough simple forms in every language used by people coming here? 2. Are the rooms for people to fill out the forms big enough to get everyone moving quickly? 3. A few big rooms for paperwork or a ton of small ones?

While there may be some good segments in Ken Burns's Civil War documentary, the whole project is undermined by Burns's decision to center Shelby Foote--the walking, talking embodiment of the Dunning School--as the Voice of the South (not unlike white liberals whi were enamored by Hillbilly Elegy).

I'm not sharing that NYT op-ed about child care for a couple of reasons, but the most basic is that it takes as gospel a narrative that has been decried as obvious bullshit since at least the 1990s. WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS WORKED! It's just that post 1970, they've been working in more visible fields!

Nearly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army. Another 19,000 in the Navy. Black soldiers accounted for roughly 10% of Union military deaths. A large portion of each were formerly enslaved. I imagine they gave a damn about slavery.

To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

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Conspiracists: Prions of the Body Politic.

lmao popular front baby