Crazy to me that if you search “patriots” on this app you get discourse about whether right wing radicals can call themselves that, or updates about the the football team for the most left leaning region of the country (I’m only ever looking for one of those things)

#Boston firefighters got person from Track 1 to platform, alert and conscious. Boston EMS transported person to local hospital with a leg injury. Both #MBTA commuter rail and #Amtrak now running, but with significant delays (up to 2 hours in Amtrak's case). www.universalhub.com/2025/person-...

Someone under an @amtrak.com Acela train at BBY. All Amtrak and @mbta.com CR trains on the NEC stopped at this time while @fire.boston.gov and @police.boston.gov are investigating @universalhub.com @bostonglobe.com

ARSENAL WOMEN ARE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE! FOR A SECOND TIME!

I 100% agree that moneyed interests are the ones blocking housing. The problem is that most people assume it’s CORPORATIONS and BILLIONAIRES - when actually it’s mom and dad and grandma and grandpa, voting for the city council /1

Good morning !

“Real solutions and positive experiences with government endanger the entire right-wing project” is why it’s so important to make experiences with government on the state and local level better

it was the best of timezones, it was the worst of timezones

AOC with important process notes. None of this is set in stone. We know where dems stand, so important to lean on swing GOP seats. I know my parents will be calling Garbarino in NY-02

Does anyone know if the bike path through Draw 7 park is closed, or just the parking area? Decided to bike commute thanks to the thaw, and found a major part of the route closed, and can’t find any information @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social @universalhub.com

Waking up on Monday morning like...

“Conservatism Consists of Exactly One Proposition, to Wit: There Must Be In-Groups Whom the Law Protects but Does Not Bind, Alongside Out-Groups Whom the Law Binds but Does Not Protect.”

Elon is using his billions to smear USAID and its life-saving work. We need to use our networks to get the truth out. Please share: youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

Isn’t that the point of signing up for communism in the first place?

If you try to build transit and active transportation infrastructure: Nobody is going to use this stuff, because everyone here drives! If you try to build the dense housing that will support a transit/active transpo network: We don’t have the transportation infrastructure to support density!

This is so important. Reach out to your senators (I contacted Warren and Markey last night, but I knew they’d stand up on this one) glad to see the house Dems with more of a spine

Don’t let the angry car-brained pols from NJ and Staten Island drown out the real success congestion pricing has been. It’s success in NY will allow other cities in the US to dream

I was on a tangent and happened upon a quote either from hayao miyazaki or someone studying him about the philosophy of Princess Mononoke: “No matter how messy it gets, we have to keep living” and that is not stuck in my brain

Gotta love the very specific genre of political snark that is MA Dems being like “I will support Tr*mp and Republicans in doing (thing they will never in a million years do)” Katherine Clark has been doing it for months, and saw an op ed in that vein from Warren this morning

The hits keep on coming. We don’t even have to fight about roadway pricing to save the @mbta.bsky.social (but we absolutely still should). Luckily, our previous taxing of rich people has got it covered

The line now seems to be “individual action can’t save us, we need collective action against the fossil fuel industry”. Mark me as cynical, but if people stop prioritizing climate when prices go up a little, I hesitate to think what will happen to prices when you start shutting down oil companies

why do bad things (a full work week) happen to good people (me)

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We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”

Local news editorial boards choosing opinions to print.

like please god can we kill that Twitterpilled reply mode where anyone being happy about ANYTHING is a credulous moron who’s taken their eye off the ball who needs you personally to correct them

In this fascist era, we already have people incapable of celebrating progress or positive development and who reflexively greet any instance of it with suspicion and cynicism: fascists. Do what fascists can’t do: Celebrate progress.

As someone who works with devs of many sizes, small devs are often the most community focused, and often the ones who can be most discouraged by excessive process. Not to say they should be allowed to do w/e, but if the process is so onerous that you only attract big devs, that’s not good either

Boston is on track to record the lowest number of homicides in at least several decades. @wbur www.wbur.org/news/2024/12...

Never forget the true meaning of Christmas: we need to build more budget hotels.

ALERT: It is really cold in Boston.

Your timeline needs this Classic Brevard County Manatees logo.

Merry Christmas indeed (if you’re a fan of any other PL team or the fall of the most unfair sporting dynasty of the 21st century)

Working on some future projections this morning and thinking of the Soviet bureaucrats projecting so confidently into the 90s

Can we get this through in the next three weeks and all the money out in a month?

The sentiment we will need to fight as we get the T steady funding in the new year

All Americans should be able to speak out against their government without fear of retribution. This coalition will defend tax-exempt organizations against unprecedented government attacks on free speech, serving as a functioning check on MAGA overreach.

An unseasonably warm morning means pictures from my bike commute from Wellington to Government Center

them: why do you care so much about building abundant housing and wanting everyone to have affordable options for transportation? us:

If you have to mandate something for it to exist, it can’t be all that popular/necessary

you know what's really interesting about the cleveland browns? yeah me neither

No. 5 will take it’s rightful place in the Citi Field rafters Congrats, Cap!

At this point, Boston should just do what it wants and dare the legislature to respond. Most major cities don’t have to go begging to the state when they want to enact local policies and the entire basis of this archaic, stupid system in Massachusetts is anti-Irish xenophobia from the early 1900s.

If you widen that highway you won’t reduce emissions or congestion. What you WILL do is spend a lot of public money to induce even more cars emitting even more GHGs & pollution in the same or worse congestion with people still telling you to widen the highway. Period.

Parking Emergency.

This state senator has broken his word by refusing to honor an agreement of long effort. He sold his honor away for cash contributions from real estate and others, thus increasing your taxes by up to 17%. His email. [email protected] www.wbur.org/news/2024/12... 🧵

I love this take, we don’t necessarily need government that does more with less (we’ve been asking for that since Regan, with varying consequences), we need government that does what we expect it to do