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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

Oh. Wow, silicone valley does know how yo moderate content.

Such transparently BS reasons given. They are trying to criminalize dissent from legally present international students, and they will move to criminalize all dissent from US citizens next. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/n...

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

When it came out, I felt The Force Awakens cut world-building corners to repeat A New Hope, but 10 years on, its depiction of a world where embittered fanboys lean into totalitarianism and extremely recent history has been forgotten (if not repressed) seems prescient. My bad, JJ Abrams.

To a former game show host, how embarrassing.

Outageous. No integrity.

The four law firms that it was announced are now Trump collaborators -- Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, and A&O Shearman Sterling -- ALSO agreed today to "Disavow DEI" as part of a settlement with EEOC. Why would any new associate join such a place? Why would any partner stay?

At this point I just hope future presidents keep this up. If they're going to be eunuchs, they can't be choosy about their emperors.

Free speech is dying.

It's unfortunate that so many in the media played (or got played) into claiming that the threats were from the Left. It's amazing how shouting down public speakers could even be remotely compared to - defunding entire schools unless they bend to Trump's will. Seems much worse.

I appreciate the Elisabeth Bumiller article Eric linked from last month. It is worth asking why the New York Times isn’t reporting on this every day.

My mother died in 1992. There were four children. Our family collected survivor benefits. "… a child can receive up to half of the parent’s full retirement or disability benefits. If a child receives survivors benefits, they can get up to 75% of the deceased parent’s basic Social Security benefit."

It's pretty amazing that this quote from the White House press secretary could just as easily come from a sharp Trump critic: "Big Law continues to bend the knee to President Trump." They are just unabashedly speedrunning authoritarianism. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

You can really see why one does not normally make reality game show hosts President.

NSF just slashed its graduate research fellowships by 51%. This prestigious program has trained & nurtured at least 42 scientists who went on to become Nobel laureates. We're destroying it, at exactly the time we claim to worry about our "sputnik moment" with China bsky.app/profile/davi...

I’m calling for a complete and total shutdown on Gen X until we figure out what the hell is going on