here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

Really enjoyed my 2025 in books— I feel like I’m back in a solid groove of regular, varied and enjoyable reading.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

I think I’d be an outstanding television meteorologist. I can laugh at my own misfortune, I like to speak with expertise, and I don’t mind being wrong or wearing a suit to work.

Deeply uninterested in hearing about what any AI has to say in response to any question, it’s like getting a parrot’s opinion but not fun because the parrot has the funny high-pitched voice and says things so quickly

Do what you love for a living, and you will never have a day off for the rest of your life.

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

ICE mass deportation agents “scattered” as Bishop-elect Pham, newly appointed by Pope Leo XIV, and other clergy visited immigration court on Friday: timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06... #WorldRefugeeDay

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

started reading Zaakir Tameez' new book Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation last night and it's a straight heater. it's everything you would want in a heavily researched, super accessible biography of one of america's all time greatest Weird Guys

John Dewey said that the only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy, and what we are suffering from today is not democracy but all the impediments and obstacles to it—and all the attacks on it.

strongly of the view that using chatgpt is scab behaviour and resisting it is a workers’ rights issue

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

Every day I wake up to the news

Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately

"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America was built on," said the Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey.

No kings.

Boston is the safest major city in the United States because we are safe for everyone. ❤️

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu struck a defiant tone in her prepared remarks for a House hearing on immigration enforcement, defending the city’s approach and criticizing the Trump administration’s push to deport undocumented immigrants. Follow live updates: trib.al/3dfcDru

In traditional European heraldry, there are colors and metals (silver/white, gold/yellow). The rule is you never put a metal on a metal, or a color on a color. It's a rule for readability reasons - you want contrast. You want to be able to read it clearly on a battlefield. That said, it's a rule.

hey yall, i’m working with some really dope people trying to bring more attention and love to public school education. with the help of the incomparable @rudyfraser.com, we created a @publicschoolgrad.bsky.social label that you can now add to your bluesky profile! woot 🙌🏾 🥳

‪Pope: "The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality."‬

Donald Trump is cutting funding for your kid's school lunch. For your local child care center. For veterans' health care. And for programs that support seniors' retirement. How does any of that make life easier or more affordable for Americans?

INBOX: @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social Ranking Member Richard @neal.house.gov condemns oligarchs' push to gain access to Americans' private information. #mapoli

These guys are bad at governing.

it is genuinely hard to overstate how much these guys hate everything that makes the united states exceptional. they have nothing but contempt for this country and its cultural and political traditions.

do your citizen science and fill out a did you feel it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Sure was!

I think we just had an earthquake in Melrose, Mass.?

Our immigration system should be about compassion and celebration, not incarceration and separation. To our immigrant friends, family members, and neighbors: Know Your Rights www.boston.gov/departments/...

@paulmmcooper.bsky.social I just finished listening to “The Mongols” episodes of @fallofcivspod.bsky.social. What a terrific and immersive history. Thanks for the knowledge and perspective.

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

2M SEIU Members 🤝 13M AFL-CIO Members SEIU just joined America’s biggest federation of labor unions, the @aflcio.org. Together, we’re taking on corporate union busters and changing the rules so every worker who wants a union can have one. Let’s do this!

My first walking story for 2025 is about the subversive fun of walking the border of a wealthy “village” within an urban area. Recruit a few friends and give it a try this winter, when the ruling class are away at their chalets and bungalows. www.mindthemoss.com/p/perambulat...

"If we are to be a synodal church, are all of us ready to hear and honestly reckon with the sacrifice being asked of women and L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics? Can our church even acknowledge the sacrifice it is asking of us?" www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...

When the nephew of Kyng Arthour left Camelot on hys quest to seeke the Green Knighte, the entyre Round Table threw hym a Gawain away partye.

It seems to me that Camo Santa must only visit Republican households

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

Analysis | The vote on tonight’s spending bill could be the first test of Elon Musk’s presidency.

As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵

BTW, SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN is a great last minute gift idea for someone who is new to comics and/or Superman.

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

🔥🔥Rep. Jim McGovern: "GOP has the slimmest majority of any party in almost a century & I want to make the American people a promise: THE DEMOCRATS WILL SHOW UP. We're not gonna let them get away with taking away people's health care & rolling back the clock and taking this country backwards." BRAVO👏

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

In just one week, sunsets start to get later again in Boston (slowly to start). Sunset on Christmas is 5 minutes later than it was today. #wbz