What makes the discourse around this frustrating is that there are hundreds of government interventions and billions of dollars spent to try to bring urban amenities to low density rural areas and then people pretend that the situation is the opposite and rural residents are instead getting screwed

If only the Democratic super majority in the Massachusetts Legislature could actually get shit done

Does anyone know who the S Hanson here is? I need to know where to direct my ire. Also, I hate to be reminded of that stupid article. And to S Hanson and anyone else who dares question whether my Wellesley brothers belong there, I will fucking fight you.

None of the towns around here enforce their sidewalk shoveling laws - because homeowners are Us and people who walk & bike for transportation are Them - and every winter someone gets killed because if it. It's infuriating. @mass.streetsblog.org

It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.

Punxsutawney Phil predicted humanity would annihilate itself through tribalism and environmental indifference

Who's got #sneckdown photos here in Massachusetts?

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

I hope everyone is ready for Zohran’s next big mayoral test: Not Killing A Groundhog

It has happened again.

Housemate and I need to not be allowed outside together when alcohol is involved. The bartender 100% heard us agreeing that he has hands like Michelangelo’s David, and then we spent the whole walk home noting which cars we would or would not get hit by

As a follow-up from International Volunteer Day, today we're spotlighting our Communications volunteers as they answer questions you asked them! Read what they had to say at otw-news.org/26de3dc8

Save curiosity. Save learninge. Save lore. Save science. Save researche. All arounde the worlde ther ys an attack on higher educacioun. Banning bookes ys nothinge compared to sneaky defunding that doth destroye knowledge at the root. Protect higher ed. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Boston friends: this is not a real organization, yes? And it seems to be followed by accounts for similarly fake bail funds in Seattle, Chicago, and Portland, so let’s get them out of here

This thread is full of good indicators of high- vs. low-risk protests for people who are new or bad at sussing out vibes

And even different types of high-risk protests require different strategies! You got your more spontaneous protests—responses to sudden events, where emotions are high and…stuff happens and you do want to be low key. Basically the kind of thing where someone might set a car on fire. 1/2

Boston friends:

There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up

/pol/ exists because of fucking Epstein I’m done pack it up this timeline is too fucking stupid I’m Charlie at the conspiracy board

1) The Crimson has been knocking it out of the park lately 2) Fuck Gerald Chan—can we finally stop letting him wreck Harvard Square now? www.cambridgeday.com/2025/04/06/b...

We need to make life more uncomfortable for people who advertise being this craven, amoral, and unintelligent

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🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

If the police are unilaterally determining what is and is not public policy, then you live in a police state.

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

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My Basil bite is inflamed. She is small, but I had not considered that she may be venomous.

These programs save money by keeping people in their own homes instead of in hospitals, residential facilities, and assisted living. Cutting them is the definition of penny wise and pound foolish!

"The budget proposal would also create a cap for MassHealth dental benefits at $1,000." What is someone supposed to do if they need a root canal or wisdom teeth extraction? Cosmetic care isn't covered; people aren't getting dental work done for fun. Dental care is health care!

“Liam is a bright student,” said the five-year-old’s preschool teacher. “He is very kind and caring, and his classmates miss him. He comes to class every day and brightens up the classroom. All I want is for him to come home safe and sound.”

The first politician to say, “No more baby jails. No more family separation. We’re shutting down every last immigration detention facility the minute we’re in power,” and to stick to it is going to be so popular they won’t know what hit them

It’s a good thing Basil only weighs 6 pounds because she just went from “I will accept your tribute of pets” immediately to “I am going to bite into the heel of your palm and tear it off.” Fickle little princess

just limitless depravity

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

The FBI has yet to reach out to the woman who recorded the Border Patrol's murder of Alex Pretti because they are engaged in a covering up and committing crime not solving it. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos was deported to Honduras on January 11 despite being a US citizen, and now she is trapped in a country she had never known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).

Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live." That's a death threat. If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.

Snow day hotpot

He used to live outside

Chinese idiom of the day: 路見不平，拔刀相助 lit. “seeing injustice on the road, drawing one’s sword to offer assistance,” id. “to rush to the rescue”

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

There needs to be bigger punishment than this, but it’s a start

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

In about 20 seconds we see that Alex went from filming an ICE arrest, to helping a woman they shoved, then being maced, forced face down on the pavement with 6 agents on top him, shot dead, and called a domestic terrorist.

I have been thinking all day about the number of times unarmed Black people were killed by police on the pretext that their cell phone looked like a gun. And people would say “oh but you just don‘t know what the truth is.” Well here it is.

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign