Is it really an "exhibition" game if it's closed to the public? #UMassWBB 🧐

This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.

NYT, a year ago today.

Boston knows

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

And I'll repeat: fuck off Bernie. Vermont, you can do much better. I wish you/we didn't have to wait until 2030 to get rid of him.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

So if my national government has become a business, I can boycott it like any other business by withholding my taxes (i.e., choosing not to purchase their services and goods), and instead patronizing my state government (i.e., paying taxes for the public good), right?

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

In other news, I know I’m the target audience for a women’s baseball league but the truth is I find baseball insanely boring and I can’t understand why that sport is not all-genders to begin with.

The fetish for a straight white guy veteran he-man who espouses left of center positions is the flip side of the reluctance to vote for women and people of color. That’s clear, isn’t it? It’s almost like what you really want is white supremacist patriarchy lite.

"Pressed further about Platner’s comments about sexual assault, Sanders defensively shot back, 'Have you served four tours of duty?'" Just fuck off Bernie.

I have achieved equilibrium.

Guys, I don’t mean to sound like this but there is a felon down the street making AI videos of himself as a king shitting on Americans and the American flag and he is literally tearing down the White House as we speak

Art.

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Amazing sign being held by a small child

Mayor Michelle Wu at the protest today: “What scares them about Boston is that we are the America they say is impossible.”

My Rep spoke in Northampton today and brought me to tears. He’s the real deal — a genuine believer in and fighter for democracy. Thank you!

Lego Movie 3 trailer just dropped

#GoUMass I concur. I think UMass is gonna shake up this conference.

Which of those groups get the Soros payments for protesting, tho? I'm so confused.

It's officially omg-my-fingers-are-blocks-of-ice-when-are-they-gonna-turn-on-the-damn-heat-in-my-building season here at UMass. Funny, cuz a week ago it was why-is-it-so-hot-in-October season. Time flies.

August 2026. Massive heatwaves kill 1000s of Americans, mostly low-income and elderly, because as a society we decided it was more important to be able to create pervy deepfake videos of the girl next door than to power air conditioners.

Senate is back in session today. 1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown. You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

This is ridiculous when they’re not even saying why they’re granting a stay

OPINION: Sooner or later, enough people will learn how democracy in Massachusetts is a lie. When they do, leadership’s iron grip will crack, not because those in power wanted to change, but because voters finally forced them to.

I underestimated how many people are comfortable lying about nearly everything.

Of course he did

WNBA champion lesbian mom wholesomeness ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Twice!! Go Mercury crowd!

Cathy Engelbert gettin booed by the crowd - wow

A’ja Wilson is just too good. Next year maybe she should be her own team. 🐐🏀

Aces were on the way to winning this clean and then the refs got involved. It’s a damn shame.

Unsolicited kick pic

Look, I'm just sayin, someday we'll get those Soros checks, and we'll have to decide what to do with all our dirty protest pay. Plan ahead.

I'm still mad it's pronounced an-TEE-fuh instead of AN-ti-fah. As in anti-fa(scist)

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

I would really like AT to get her championship but the Aces are just plain playing better and that makes me sad

Amherst

It's so repugnant to think of this fire as having been intentionally set that I'm open to a PG&E-involved conspiracy theory as an alternative.

As late as I may be to this particular party, people who know me will not be surprised to learn that I'm digging Nation of Language generally, and this neosynthpop (yes that's what I'm calling it) cover of Androgynous in particular. @billchilds.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Zb...

The uncensored version of this book revealed Jeffrey Epstein's long relationship with Melania, his introduction of Melania to Trump, and Trump (and then Epstein) having intercourse with Melania in the back of a limo. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.