DOT canceled many projects involving bike lanes, traffic calming, sidewalk extension, etc. this year because they are "car-hostile". The feds have said they will not fund projects that take space from or reduces the speed of cars.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

like what the fuuuuck

Cambridge MA can put another example on the vision board for our nine holes of publicly-owned opportunity.

With the barest majority (218-213, right?), the caucus discipline cracking, and that dumb rule allowing anyone to call for a vote on Speaker at any time… Dems should pledge votes for a GOP candidate who will assert independence from Trump. Massie on the extreme end, or one among the ‘moderates’

"How about marriage bootcamp?" said nobody in an equitably happy marriage wapo.st/3NjnQbg

Trump Pulls U.S. Out Of House Hunters International https://theonion.com/trump-pulls-u-s-out-of-house-hunters-international/

Hey Somervillians tell me more about this Matt McLaughlin… because focusing on affordability but having ‘Dennis Carlone’ on his CV is worrisome

Two years of 3-2 committee votes with Patty Nolan as the swing 🫠

guys I found ‘the groups’

Tip o’ the hat to all the people, the 2022 old heads, who slowly and imperfectly and resolutely made sure there were new online networks for us to pivot to. It’s a success story in collective action that is still being written.

Your daily prompt to drink water, breath slowly, touch grass, tell someone that you love them, and call your congressional rep.

Brianne Nadeau has always been by far my favorite DC Councilmember, and her absence will be felt

I’m a dual citizen, only American because my mom is, and registered me as an American born abroad. It’s been an unrecognized privilege that - til now - I’ve never had to worry that I’m not 100% sure which box that old piece of paper giving me citizenship is buried in, or that it could be revoked.

Camberville riders got the memo about door-zone bikelanes

I blame ‘the groups’ and their bike trails

I’m sorry it needs to be phrased in the form of a question

Please redistrict me to Ayanna, little baby gerrrymandering Jesus

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Solve the Cambridge affordable-housing and golf-course-parking crises in one easy step

Jo-Anna Krupa - apparently a @cambridgemass.bsky.social employee - says in a public meeting that Huron Ave bike lanes could lead her to cut subsidized access to our *public* golf course. www.cambridgeday.com/2026/01/07/b...

Evan's almost-win scared the legislature enough to implement some transparency, like public committee votes. The result: a bill rolling back MA climate action stalled out, despite the support of the House Speaker, because publicly voting for it was embarrassing. A win would be even more impactful!

This is the video.

Increase Arlington’s population by 1% in one easy step! Love to see these huge ArlVa site plans. Wish the transpo network plans could catch up.

GF: any ideas for traffic calming on the street outside my workplace? Me:

DC Statehood Now www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Variable message sign for $600 in rozzie. Become ungovernable. www.facebook.com/share/1Bu3ox...

Drifting the cargobike on the school run on this sheet-ice morning is parenting 22-year-old-me would endorse

Tim Walz, comms director for Walz 2028

LFG

Mount those PV panels on 18-holes worth of multifamily housing community and then let’s talk

Geely gonna drink tesla’s milkshake #TeslaTakedown www.thedrive.com/news/the-chi...

Sen Creem (Newton Highlands) introduced a bill (S. 2246) directing MASSDOT to set driving mileage reduction targets for Massachusetts! www.bostonherald.com/2026/01/05/b...

I really need to know who the one user is who understood the assignment and saved this post

First day back to the office

My neighbor/friend Kate has a new YA novel out today, and there’s a book launch at @portersqbooks.bsky.social this Friday! Would love to see you there and/or pick up a copy from them! open.substack.com/pub/goodenou...

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

The only thing about bluesky I’d like to moan about rn is that I can’t see who saves my posts. That would be interesting to me.

One of the new @cambridgemass.bsky.social EV recycling trucks serviced my street today, and it is SILENT. What a shared win for climate AND quality of life!

24 hour return to National Landing (tm) just made me angry, a nostalgia of the sort I didn’t need

none of that beef soap in this Marriott

Went to visit my alma mater St Mary’s College of MD, who built a bunch of new buildings since I attended, and broke my heart by including these cursed bike racks. Nine year old for scale.

The revolution will be tacky af www.facebook.com/share/1DMgUM...

We also solved peak period city congestion with remote white collar work, and then just said “nah, Jamie Dimon hates this.” We keep finding new ways to solve this problem, and then finding new ways to say “nah.”

My kid was in a daycare in Arlington VA, located amidst a bunch of hotels where these folks were staying on January 6th, 2021. It was pretty terrifying then, and seeing that feeling go national is fucking depressing.

Climate change spares my childhood memories for another year

$1.4T company doesn’t sell stuff anymore

having a grilled-cheesy holiday

<winces in $17B Chesapeake Bay Bridge>

Mother in law pro tip