We need a meaningful children’s rights movement in this country. There is a long history of the government - all three branches - upholding “parental rights” to the detriment of children. Particularly the right to a good education and to adequate healthcare, including vaccinations.

Hey, friends. You might remember that my kids' school PTA morphed into a mutual aid group after the Eaton Fire, & I'm writing in that capacity rn. Our community was already hard hit before the ICE escalation in LA, and now a dad was disappeared on Friday. www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-j...

The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Did not bring any money walking the dog, might die of Not Being Able To Buy The Turkey Themed Coloring Book

Terrific work as always from @pbump.com

This is an AI Tax. These services are not “free”and non-users cannot avoid their costs.

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Why be at work, why not be home with happy little dog??? Is the question my little dog believe she asks the most but in fact I am literally always asking

Big idea: an app that’s like Merlin bird ID but instead of kinds of bird it tells you by name which neighborhood dogs are barking so you can say hi back to them

How many nights should I stay in the Museum of Repressed Writers? Should I splurge on the evening brutalist architecture tour that has a warning for “strange energy and emotional gravity” or go to a town where you can wander around abandoned Soviet sanatoriums? Travel planning is my favorite hobby

I feel you, office chair

Everything in its place: the hummingbirds are on the bee balm, the squash is on the vine, the robins are bringing caterpillars to the nestlings in the honeysuckle, the crimebag is shoving her entire head into a brush pile to try to murder a chipmunk

The best part of those doggie dna tests is looking at your dog’s relatives

The hunter and the hunted

Vita met a JP icon today

Found these at work today, I guess a gnome must be wandering around the library in the nude

Crimebag at rest

"The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming 'the technology is not advanced enough for that'" is a real quote from this real article about pretend people

A question that’s sometimes surprisingly hard to answer: is this website selling me a dog toy or a sex toy?

We hosted the Poop Museum, a library program exploring the science of poop and got this iconic response

Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.

Called 311 to report a dead bunny at a park this morning and the very alarmed-sounding operator said he was transferring me to 911 and by the time I realized what was happening a police detective was asking me to describe the body

Extremely regret that I didn’t get video of my dog going in the ocean for the first time, taking a nice drink, and learning about salt water

Salem does blood donation different

Ok so this very intense guy comes up to me at the library, leans over the desk and very meaningfully says “I HAVE THE CODE” and then just stares at me as if I will obviously know how to respond

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

Yes sure it is impressive that my friend grew our dinner, but I did at least grow the decor

I want a fancy watch but instead of telling me how many steps I walked it tells me what bird I’m hearing right now

It's funny that LEO's can arrest a reputed crime boss with underlings ready to murder from one of the 5 families bold and bare faced. But bringing in Abuelita Guadalupe who sells tortillas outside of church on Sunday is just way too risky.

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

Shoutout to the leaf cutter bees for making my sweetspire all architectural, native plants are for the native pollinators!

Whoa it’s Amazon Prime Day! Yeah I’m into PRIME. P - Purchasing R - Right from I - Indie bookstores who M - Make our communities E - Even better places to live Shop indie, shop local.

Every time I see conservative fearmongering about how dangerous the NYC subway is, I feel the need to defend it. I grew up in Ohio. It’s cars that are dangerous. It’s car accidents that are terrifyingly common. I’m not being dramatic when I say the subway is one of the best parts of my life now.

Every once in a while if I’m having a rough day I sit and think about the fact that in just a few months my heat-hating little rescue dog from Alabama, who I’m almost certain is part husky, will get to see snow for the first time

Had my first library interaction where I told a parent the book their kid wanted was checked out and asked if they’d like similar recommendations and got back “oh no it’s fine, I just asked chapgpt what they would like”

If any of these are your reps, please take 5 min today and call. Scripts and numbers at 5calls.org. Kill this absolute travesty of a bill.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

I once met a man named Jacob. He was in his seventies, a small man, stooped and bent, who looked much older than he was. He was kind and gracious, and was used to people being put off by his posture and size. His story of how he ended up like that is informative. 1/

Time to find out where all these crimes and all these ears came from

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

Dentist told me my molar was so long that doing a root canal on it was like drilling for oil, so that’s fun

Working on an index to measure heat waves based on how much the candles in my third floor condo need viagra

If you need a reminder of what we're fighting for, here are a bunch of authors reading short excerpts of letters sent to them by grateful readers. Recommend having tissues handy.

Love to get home from a long day’s work to enjoy the comforts of home

This really isn’t a hard message. Obama neutralized the Iran nuclear program through the hard work of diplomacy, but Trump tore up the deal in his first term out of spite and chose war instead.