"To lose her on a morning commute at an intersection the city has explicitly documented as dangerous for years is just an unmitigated tragedy, a systemic failure." Deaths like Louisa's occur because our leaders prioritize the convenience of drivers over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.

Walking to the train after leaving work and hearing a military rock band(?) covering Fortunate Son... I'm confused. Have they heard this song before?

If you want to do something climate-friendly with your parking lot, don't cover it in solar panels, *get rid of the parking lot*.

Kids enjoying some afternoon bluegrass with Yonder Mountain String Band at the front of the Northlands festival crowd. #bluegrass #musicfestival #livemusic #newhampshire

Great listen for kids on a Juneteenth road trip. Juneteenth history weaved into a fun kid-led detective story. Highly recommend. @wgbh.org

We see this over and over - create an environment where people can build a lot of housing, quickly, and watch the power shift toward renters. Landlords raise rent when renters don't have other options. Let's legalize a lot more homes throughout the Boston-metro so people aren't forced to move away!

Thank you to our Safe Routes to School taskforce members & friends and to especially the Brookline Police bike unit for your assistance with the Pierce bike bus this morning! We had about 20 kids and a dozen adults join a ride from the library to Pierce @ OLS and everyone had a great time! 🚲

Fantatic vote to approve this major rezoning on Boylston Street in Chestnut Hill. Final vote of 216-20-6. Lots of net new tax growth, lots of commercial space, hotel, and lots of new homes. Great work by so many involved.

Excited to continue supporting @thecrashcourse.bsky.social with my 5th Crash Course Coin! Whether you get a coin or not, pick a series and watch. They've got some phenomenal series.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live (only 10 is hard!) Phish Radiohead Arcade Fire The Flaming Lips Les Claypool (Primus, Frog Brigade, many more) Kraftwerk The String Cheese Incident Del McCoury Band The Allman Brothers Band Muse

Frustrating to see Atlanta not take the steps necessary to allow communities to grow & densify in an organic way w/missing middle housing in residential neighborhoods. Atlanta can continue to thrive if it can stay (relatively) affordable and accessible. There's still time to make the plan better.

Thank you, Brookline - we did it! We protected what makes Brookline Brookline. Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign, including the dozens of volunteers who spent countless hours knocking doors, calling neighbors, hosting lawn signs, writing emails, creating graphs, and more.

Excellent article on e-bike regulation from the Globe. Easily could have been hyperbolic and blaming but it isn’t. Also leads off with @crschmidt.net! https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/08/metro/e-bike-regulations-massachusetts/

Turnout boosted by the override, national progressive momentum and good old-fashioned campaigning combined for a good day for Brookline’s left wing on Tuesday. brookline.news/younger-cand...

Great news for Brookline! brookline.news/voters-overw...

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Polls are open in Brookline! Vote YES on 1, Zimmerman and Buono for Select Board, and Town Meeting candidates who are pro-housing, pro-schools, and pro-climate. See our full endorsements list here. Invite your friends and neighbors to come out and vote too!

A condo in a building where all my friends also live and that has one of those sweet central courtyards where everyone can hang out is not too much to ask in this life, is all I am saying!

Great thread, as usual, from @dieworkwear.bsky.social.

Fantastic explainer on why policies to legalize more housing of all types, in all neighborhoods, is vital to making housing, and life in general, more affordable. @justineunderhill.bsky.social does a great job explaining the theory, research, and responses to common critiques.

Brookline and other municipalities could plan for steady new growth that offsets Prop 2.5 via zoning reform but choose not to do so.

First game of the season. Cold night, but I'm getting used to April at Fenway. Red Sox vs. Brewers.

Great Brookline Village multifamily building. This should be legal to build, at baseline, anywhere within a 10 min walk of a transit stop or high capacity bus stop. 12 homes on 6k sq ft, 84 homes per acre. It's good climate policy, affordability policy, transit policy, public health policy, & more.

We have to address the rampant running of red lights in order to make our communities safer. Anywhere that has pedestrian walk signals needs red light cameras to protect pedestrians, bikers, and other cars. I easily see 10+ cars run lights every time I bike in to work. Many quite egregiously.

Just listened to an amazing, contemplative, unexpected story of curiosity, memory, wonder, and bugs. Lots of layers, lots to think about, and a rare break from *everything* that doesn't feel frivolous. Listen to the original on @signalhillfm.bsky.social, and thank you @annierosenthal.bsky.social.

Raising parking ticket fees is important to try to actually change behavior. Impeding snow removal should be a costly choice. Overstaying a parking meter undermines parking space mgmt. Overnight parking is rampant, but at $25 per violation w/spotty enforcement, it's cheaper than renting a spot.

Wow. @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social

Sports are awesome. Great story. 🧵

it's fun to see that our neighbors in south brookline simultaneously oppose new construction AND paying for town and school services. nice! I propose that you can pick at most one :) preferably neither! [[from the 2023 override vote]]

As we in #Brookline begin the discussion over this override, this is the shape of the debate:

@drkath.bsky.social: "Brookline needs more housing, and the project at 26 Pleasant St. is a great way to accomplish this: It will add 103 apartments including 15 income-restricted affordable units"

"This actually makes the politics of getting people to accept more housing incredibly difficult because it is an awful political slogan to say, 'Let's build more housing so price increases aren't as high as they would've been if we hadn't built as much housing" Can confirm, good god can I confirm

Check out Luc Schuster's piece in @cwbeacon.bsky.social making the case that while the MBTA Communities law was a meaningful first step, Massachusetts will need stronger, more focused policies to truly align housing growth with transit and solve the housing crisis.

Glad to see automated traffic enforcement being taken seriously by the state. Seems like Sen Brownsberger has included some reasonable safeguards. The reality is that I see at least 1, if not 2 or 3, cars run reds at nearly every intersection during my commutes. This needs to be enforced at scale.

Just listened to an amazing, contemplative, unexpected story of curiosity, memory, wonder, and bugs. Lots of layers, lots to think about, and a rare break from *everything* that doesn't feel frivolous. Listen to the original on @signalhillfm.bsky.social, and thank you @annierosenthal.bsky.social.

A story of promising, yet modest, zoning reform in Newton, MA. Examples at a small scale like this are great opportunities to expand the policy to other communities. People love neighborhood villages; we can seed more if we can build housing at this scale in new places. @amydain.bsky.social

A really nice break from reality for a couple hours. #JazzMandolinProject

A really nice break from reality for a couple hours. #JazzMandolinProject

Really excited the Olympics are happening. Find a way to watch an event or two. So many great stories, so much phenomenal talent. Watching people be amazing is fun.

Phenomenal performance.

People want places to congregate & want walkable neighborhoods. We should absolutely make it easy to build cafe's in residential areas. It can add so much to a neighborhood, bring folks together, & boost tax revenue to the community. We need to get way more comfortable mixing uses in our places.

Good way to wrap up Martin Luther King Jr Day in 2026.

As long as it is illegal under zoning to build homes on small, affordable lots, it will practically be illegal to build starter homes in many American neighborhoods. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/10/o...

Glad this kind of story is getting covered. If you bought a home 15, 20, 30 years ago, it's really hard to wrap your head around housing unaffordability. How many people who bought in 1995 or 2010 could afford the same home today? It's a real problem that we need to throw all sorts of solutions at.

Great mix of data and anecdotal experience in this piece. This is how you do it --> www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

---> www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

Very positive news on the impact of the Columbus Street bus lanes, despite the @bostonglobe.com excessively negative framing. Glad to see @mbta.com working towards expanding programs like this and adding automated enforcement.

cool project in minneapolis taking an old kmart lot, restoring the street grid, and developing the site into parks and mixed use/mixed income housing lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)