Other than use of the term “hella,” strong agree with this

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

I was supporting Biss until now. I don’t know Megan well at all, but we worked in the same building when we were law clerks and so we met a few times. I feel terrible for her.

Never let anyone tell you politics doesn't matter. Change is unimaginable until it's inevitable.

brother you have to ask if Elon knows the first thing about the people that made American “culture” globally dominant

Elon is, of course, openly racist and that is the purpose of this tweet, but this is a good reminder that he’s also dumb as rocks. Of the things that the British Isles have contributed to the American project, “culture” is not one. Gotta thank Black, Jewish, and Italian Americans for most of that

it is so funny that it is now apparently a bedrock principle of originalism that the unitary executive applies to everything except for the Federal Reserve which is different because we said so

There are a lot of reasons why I am running for Congress. This scared-of-our-shadow nonsense in the face of a brutally repressive agency like ICE is one of them. I will unapologetically fight to abolish ICE. Candidates like me cannot do it without your help. mattortega.com

The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting. Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.

In case you weren't sure, no, Bari Weiss still hasn't cleared 60 Minutes (@60minutes.bsky.social) to air their piece on the Venezuelan men being tortured at CECOT. Instead this week, it's humanoid robots, figure skater Alysa Liu, and a Dutch improv comedy troupe.

I’m going to have no choice but to wear sweatpants on tomorrow’s flight, aren’t I

it’s been 40 years waiting for the Republican health care plan, what’s a few more decades between friends

Dinosaur eat man . . . woman inherits the earth!

one strong statistical finding which has been commented upon somewhat less than I think it should, is that young women have extremely unfavorable views of the Republican Party

In the #CambMA municipal election, voters came out stronger for the School Committee vote than in prior years. Typically turnout is only 90-92% of the Cambridge City Council turnout. This year it was 98%. Did the SC vote end up influencing the CC result? A data anomaly suggests it's possible:

For the Netroots community, for everyone who knew @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social when he was a guy posting on DailyKos and SSP as "brownsox" who loved writing about elections, today is a joyous day as he's been elected to the Cambridge School Board with the strong backing of the local teachers' union.

you Winsome, you lose some

Happy Halloween! Don’t forget to vote!!

For those voting in Cambridge's City Council elections, here's how I'd rank candidates: #1 - Burhan Azeem #2 - Marc McGovern #3 - Dana Bullister #4 - Ned Melanson #5 - Patti Nolan #6 - Sumbul Siddiqui #7 - Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler Don't rank: Simmons, Bisio, Hanratty, Hsu, Sherin, Wilson, Zusy

Incredible quotes from @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social. Been extremely impressed by him over the course of the campaign. One of the most clear eyed candidates for school committees. Both able to bring together a wide coalition from the ALA to teachers union and good sense of what moves the needle.

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

Spanberger knocked off Dave Brat in 2018 after saying in debate “I am not Nancy Pelosi…Abigail Spanberger is my name” She never voted for Pelosi for Speaker This is 4th campaign in a row GOP trying to make the connection But doesn’t look like it will work this time either

This whole thread. (Go vote, Cambridge! And please rank me No. 1 for school committee)

The point of this effort by Councillor Zusy is to kill all green multifamily inclusionary homes, which would increase Cambridge’s carbon emissions and send rents through the roof.

I think @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social saw one of those foxes on a recent trip to London, and then we saw a seal in the Thames in the middle of London last month. Too small to get a decent picture though. It's like "I swear, that little tiny blob in the water was a seal head."

Follow along for the latest housing-related ride with the Cambridge Historical Commission here, with @jfsheehan.bsky.social

We have always had corruption in America but right know the whole country is being operated like a criminal enterprise, including kickbacks to the mob boss from universities, the media, law firms and now tech companies.

Massachusetts is not perfect, but on days like today this place makes me really proud. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/07/m...

Exactly. Thinking in good/bad binary about AI is so dangerous especially while we still are getting our heads around the tech. It’s complex and complicated - and we shouldn’t be rushing to implement it in classrooms, or for that matter, to ban it — until we have a better grasp of it.

Important thread from a great advocate for housing in Cambridge

In answer to those basic questions about the process itself, not requests for personal details or anything, this is the response from the mayor, Cambridge Day reports: “There could be no answer, Simmons said, because members of the selection panel needed to respect the integrity of the process.”

And apparently there’s more to come on this story. But in the meantime I’ll note that crap like this is why @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social is running for Cambridge School Committee. And it’s why transparency, which can maybe sound generic, is one of the things he talks about most.

Went down to support @local26-unitehere.bsky.social and walk their picket line amid the rain. Aramark workers deserve a living wage! If you want to support, you can still attend and enjoy the games: just don’t buy food or drink in the park. You can bring food in (or pregame)!

To my friends & followers, from what I've read UNITE-HERE Local #26 is saying boycott concessions. They consider that to be the picket line. They are not asking you to boycott the Red Sox or Fenway Park. Go to the game. Don't buy food & drinks from scabs. Walk the line with any picketers.

Looks very similar to attacks on Black scholars. *Complaint of some sort of academic misconduct *Rufo and Times boost the story, giving it legitimacy *Complainant turns out to be a eugenicist! Congrats everyone!

A reporter teaming up with and granting anonymity to a race science guy who had hacked admissions data isn’t against the rules at the NYTimes but criticizing that reporter is. Fascinating.

The New York Times is not beating the allegations. Uncritically accepting hacked information from a white supremacist, whitewashing his academic credentials, using it to run a baseless hit piece on a Democratic politician. Must be a day ending in Y.

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

Spreading misinformation about trans people being responsible for bad things happening is a great way to reinforce transphobic feedback loops and that's exactly why the right loves doing it.

it is unfortunate that extremely dumb people elected a government that is going to ruin their lives. we tried to stop them but they refused to listen, again. only hope is the ones that survive learn something from the experience

Remember when they used to pretend they were only against "illegal immigration"?

People saying this should be a yellow card but I’m trying to figure why it’s not red

Some fans have been clear since day one on this

trump's people using ms paint to put "MS13" in typed letters on abrego garcia's knuckles is perhaps the stupidest lie they've ever attempted

I don’t think the 250th celebrations in 2026 are going to go the way Trump wants them to go. He’s Streisand Effect-ing the basics of American history.

Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky wgntv.com/evanston/nor...

During the campaign, Trump said it would be so easy to end the war in Ukraine he could do it in 24 hours and in fact would do it before being inaugurated. Three months after his inauguration, his chief diplomat now says it is so hard he may stop trying. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

Literally the first article of impeachment against Nixon and prohibited by law

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Wow it’s almost as if this was an entirely predictable outcome, you fools