The 2026 gubernatorial race is going to be so insufferable.

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

New dashboard shows exactly how much federal funding Mass. is losing out on under Trump trib.al/2stsXRv

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Trump is literally a confused fox news grandpa www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

The National Park System truly is America's best idea. The fact that Trump is out to destroy it is not the worst thing he's doing, but it's part & parcel of his administration's goal of plundering our shared national resources. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Some of us are old enough to remember the huge brouhaha over the memorial for Paul Wellstone. How times have changed...

ALPRs can still be abused given the sheer volume of data collected and the lack of transparency in who can request it. “What we actually need, if we want these laws to mean something, are robust oversight measures,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told Spectrum News 1. spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern...

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Internet of Things that want to show you ads….

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nothing could possibliy go wrong when AI intersects with high stakes testing. www.nbcboston.com/investigatio...

Sky the same cloudless blue it was 24 years ago.

Really tired of listening to right-wing politicians claim bike lanes are bougie infrastructure sought by rich white people when street calming will disproportionately benefit poor people of color who don't have cars! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/09/m...

Route 70 detour: Route 70 detoured Sunday, September 7, from 11 AM to 4 PM, due to the Cambridge Carnival. Service will terminate at Mass Ave @ Pearl St. The nearest outbound connection is Western Ave @ Green St. Updated: 2025-09-05 14:40:05 (Eastern).

This Summer, I read a lot of books about people going on road trips to US National Parks or public lands. This is the one that stuck with me, that I'm still thinking about. Required reading.

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

Way to go, Grady! Former Team Owens intern!

@jamieeldridgema.bsky.social, @votesteveowens.bsky.social, and @repjacklewis.bsky.social testifying in support of the Make Polluters Pay bill.

Congestion pricing working in NYC. gothamist.com/news/call-it...

📣 applications are open for periplus, a mentorship collective serving writers of color! 📣 if you’re looking for mentorship & more community & you’re a writer of color, you can find more info below. this will be the sixth year our collective is active docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If we're going to meet our climate goals, we need consumers to feel comfortable installing solar. They need to be confident they're not being scammed. That's why I filed H.450 with Rep. Mark Sylvia to tighten up consumer protections for solar. wgbh.org/news/local/2...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “What Trump and his allies seem to want from our museums is self-glorifying kitsch, the aesthetic lingua franca of all authoritarians,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

At least some things in this world are still good. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/m...

Data protections are not optional in our creeping techno-dystopia. We are running out of time.

We’re about to do this for the economy

great example of a common dynamic: anything that anyone vaguely left-coded on the internet says is associated with and becomes a problem for “the democratic party”

Aussies and Europeans can get rooftop solar on their homes for a third the price of Americans—and one huge reason why is our crazy local permitting system. (And Congress and the WH can’t keep us from changing this.) www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.

one of my tiktok followers made this

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

"It is easy to imagine that law enforcement officials will use their renewed access to Ring information to find people who have had abortions or track down people for immigration enforcement. "

Closure of Mt. Auburn St between Sparks & Willard is starting tomorrow! Be aware!

New mini Zine based on Elizabeth Warren's report about what Elon did in his 130 days in the government is available: convergencemag.com/articles/elo... - print and share far and wide!

You don’t need cancer research if you believe that only people who are “unhealthy” or live bad lifestyles get cancer. That’s what eugenicists like RFK jr think.

Criminal.

Forgive me if I’m not comforted by the fact a private company is keeping track of all our comings & goings. We need restrictions on what can be done with license plate reader data. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/12/m...

Limiting the use of license plate reader data needs to be part of any comprehensive data privacy measure! This is one reason why!

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did

If a bill is so bad that you have to exempt entire states from its consequences to win the votes you need—just don't pass the bill! Why do people in Washington state deserve Medicaid & SNAP cuts, but others don't? This is plain wrong, and it's just no way to legislate.

I admit I was laughing at how frustrated Trump was that no one believes that he did shit against Iran's nuclear program. "Why won't they believe me?" wails a man who lies about everything, including probably this.

The Republican Party has found its roots: throwing people off their health care and bombing the Middle East.

ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer. I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

Want to Try Bike Commuting? Try A ‘Guided Ride’ From A Better City - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/16/w...

"America’s culture of violence is driven by the right...no Democratic presidential candidate would welcome the support of violent extremist groups...Trump has. Repeatedly." Great @mjtoma.bsky.social piece on the real reasons we're sliding downward by many metrics: newrepublic.com/article/1968...

Smart analysis of the No Kings protests estimates roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across America yesterday. The anti-Trump resistance is unprecedented, and exceeds his first term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...