I wrote and released this song, 'New American Dream,' about the senseless Iraq War, in early 2005 after GW Bush’s reelection. It is, unfortunately, unbelievably, inexplicably, still timely. Sigh.

The way things are going right now, I’ll be sending this zine from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social as our family holiday card and everyone’s gonna be getting “Separation of Church and Hate” by @johnfugelsang.bsky.social for Christmas.

Beyond the fact that most AI is trained on the stolen intellectual property of millions of writers, journalists, photographers, and artists, the data centers that power AI are devouring our finite landscapes, water, and electricity at an unthinkable, unsustainable scale.

But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities are not fully accounting for or prepared to meet. @jongorey.bsky.social explores their challenges and possible solutions: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.

"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning

Wonder why there’s microplastic in our brains? On the beautiful banks of the Neponset, I counted 212 bottle caps in our @neprwa.bsky.social cleanup this morning—not even counting fragments and water bottles. Mass. needs to pass a 21st century bottle bill and/or a producer responsibility law.

Happy #FellowsFriday! Today we're profiling Fernando E. Lloveras San Miguel, executive director of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico and the 2020 recipient of the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award and Fellowship (now known as the Kingsbury Browne Distinguished Practitioner program).

This essay I wrote for @bostonglobe.com (in print next Sunday, Sept. 7) is adapted from my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, out Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social. Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

A quote from the article, and a quote from Socrates via Shakespeare: "The portrait that emerges... is of a young man who is ... unapologetically confident in his intellectual prowess." "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." Anyway, what a f*cking a*hole

Urban green space filters and cools the air, absorbs stormwater, and improves health. But it also increases property values, which can pose a risk to longtime residents without thoughtful anti-displacement approaches. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...

Alt-weeklies “gave voice to and helped shape a way of thinking about cities: messy, thrilling, sad, funny, queer, glorious, pompous, comically crooked and endlessly fascinating.”

"Short of burning a cross in front of the Lincoln Monument, there is little that the White House could do to more clearly signal its unapologetic racist nature... The more goading and horrific the racism of our government becomes, the more urgent the need to speak and act against it."

Today's @hcrichardson.bsky.social is a bookmark-it, all-time great chronology & overview of movement conservatism and our path from deregulation and racism to Trump fascism. It will make you want to go flip a car, but still, it's an excellent read: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-...

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

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Trying to re-liquify the honey with hot water and this honey bear hot tub situation has me dying 😂

Made this cool record player stand over the weekend, and it was mercifully simple to do!

Yes, this. Unless you’re planning to sell the place, you don’t generally do major renovations on a house you will be leaving in just a couple of years… which makes me very worried that he has no intention of leaving

Love this. I’ve been using @ecosiasearch.bsky.social for a while *specifically for its environmental impact* and yet recently they introduced an idiotic beta AI search summary. Thankfully you can disable it, but this is the kind of thing I want to see more of.

A recent convening explored the land policy solutions that can help address tangled titles and other heirs property challenges. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates for the latest issue of Land Lines: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...

I enjoy cooking on the grill but not the macho charade associated with it. Like why are all grill spatulas 4 feet long? I’m not roasting dinosaur legs over a bonfire, I’m literally just flipping turkey burgers 9 inches away. This thing is UNWIELDY

This is very bad. Millions of Americans will be impacted by Congress defunding public media, and especially by the decision to claw back already appropriated funding. But despite the challenges we face, we are still here, and are committed as ever to our mission and to you.

In 5 mos. Trump and his GOP toadies have: - burned food meant for starving children - declared war on science & research - reversed what little climate action we’ve taken - killed funding for PBS and NPR 😿 …all to pay for - mass kidnappings by a secret masked police force - more 💰 for billionaires

Roughly one in every three Facebook users is now a man aged 18-34 ...which would explain so much about Facebook, or young men, or both.

Josh Kraft’s pandering plan will make Boston’s streets less safe & less fairly shared among all residents. He’s stoking division rather than finding a solution that works for everyone. Kraft: uninformed & unfit for #bospoli and #mapoli

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” grist.org/biking/one-m...

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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

The Democratic majorities of the 1960s delivered the "Great Society" programs. They also delivered the Civil Rights Acts and the Voting Rights Act. And white voters abandoned Democrats like they'd flipped a switch. Sixty straight years voting Republican. It's not "economic anxiety" and never was.

GOP budget bill in a nutshell: "we have to kick millions of people off health insurance and close hospitals and reproductive health clinics so we can give $150 billion to the secret police to terrorize non-white people and cut taxes for richest Americans"

"America is about to fund and build a huge secret police force that will, I promise you, be used to attack, imprison and exile the president’s enemies, of all sorts... Getting through the period of American history that is now descending upon us will require all of us to practice radical empathy."

or a moderate size country I guess

“Are you willing to be killed for your government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed and your child hit by shrapnel and your elderly parents lose access to medicine because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair for you, it is unfair for anyone, anywhere.”

More middle fingers than you’d like to see (3-4 dozen over 3 hrs, including a double birdie from the guy in the Hummer) but they paled in comparison to the *thousands* of waves and honks in solidarity with #NoKings Milton. Felt good to see all these friends of democracy on Boston’s South Shore.

Look for us on the East Milton overpass above I-93 today. #nokings

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

An excellent 1-2 punch in the timeline, courtesy of @jesseduquette.bsky.social and @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met… the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID. Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring. America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.

Check out @jongorey.bsky.social's StoryMap to learn how individuals and municipalities are creating and protecting habitat at the local level: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...

I made a StoryMap about native plants, Miyawaki forests, and how a homegrown conservation effort is creating crucial wildlife habitat for our threatened birds and insects. TL;DR: Birds and butterflies need native flowers, shrubs, and trees to survive — BUT…

Important message spotted in Harvard Square today after commencement - congrats to the Harvard class of 2025!

Federal support for conservation is waning, to put it mildly. But by planting the native flowers, shrubs, and trees that are so crucial to our birds and butterflies in your yard, you (yes, YOU!) can help create as much valuable new wildlife habitat as exists in most of our National Parks combined:

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In Harvard Square even the sidewalk trash is poetic metaphor

These headlines related to U.S. military aviation have all appeared in the last 11 days. There is a major problem at the Defense Department.

Malevolent idiocy.

The same day she's getting endorsed by David Ortiz, Mayor Wu throws a heater of a statement at challenger Josh Kraft