In essence, BU says “We’re already effectively a sanctuary campus, we just can’t use that term.” “Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism” - Robin Morgan.

SO DEFINE IT. “It has no clear legal definition and may imply protections no university can guarantee,” @bostonu.bsky.social Spokesperson Colin Riley wrote. “What matters most is not the label, but the depth of the University’s commitment to its students and the resources it provides them.” 1/x

Since @plosone.org has been sitting on our ms. for 6 months with zero progress (on to a 3rd editor), this could well be the better choice for ecology.

@plosone.org on to our 3rd manuscript editor fully six months after submission, with no progress in sight. Worst experience in 30 years of peer-review. Considering cutting losses and publishing elsewhere. Ughhhh @plos.org

Cell cramming 30-40 people in the BurlingtonMA ICE facility: www.facebook.com/share/p/1JgK...?

“Pump up the numbers” - because they’re not humans, just numbers? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/13/m...

The dilemma of turning swords into ploughshares mindful that the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

ICE out of Waltham standout at Waltham District Court, an ICE trap site. @universalhub.com

@bostonglobe.com catering to the cars first crowd, choosing glass-half-empty framing & ignoring the other 50%. “In a Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll in July, half of respondents said the city’s bike lanes make it slower and less convenient to get around.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/m...

Ist climate conference ever to include circus artists?! @misibu.bsky.social @buearth.bsky.social

Editorial: Bike Lane Haters Keep On Losing - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/05/e...

SNAP benefits still being processed today at the Waltham Farmers market.

New sign, plenty of honks & thumbs up! NatDev.com please do the right thing and stop helping ICE by providing parking.

This is why small acts of support for ICE, like free ICE parking provided by National Development, of Newton Lower Falls, MA, needs to end. If you are connected with NatDev through social media or other networks, please share it with them.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

Bearing Witness at Burlington MA ICE field office still drawing hundreds. @universalhub.com

Sure, Jeff.

To save money & boost electricity resilience, don’t double down; decentralize! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/25/b...

A common, improper invocation of the supremacy clause assumes that the the executive branch holds supreme power, ignoring that the clause is about supremacy of the constitution. This effectively accepts trump as king. It’s not just abdication of responsibility; it’s affirmative support for tyranny.

Will @utaustin.bsky.social take the trump loyalty oath and stain it’s legacy for decades to come? www.kut.org/education/20...

The Burlington MA case is puzzling/weird/wrong especially in light of how Portland Oregon is aggressively pursuing ICE building code violations: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Burlington MA ICE property owner Robert W. Murray has avoided accountability for code violations occurring inside his building. Exhibit A: Town of Burlington addresses a strongly worded letter to Murray re: code violations. But Murray never replies. ICE replies on Murray’s behalf. 1/2

If this is Muskkk’s & Ezra Klein’s “abundance economy”, count me out. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/20/b...

No plans to improve on the ISO-NE track record of zero wholesale demand response? Demand response is concerted electricity conservation at peak demand and is the single most cost effective tool for grid affordability, reliability, & cleanliness.

@mass50501.bsky.social denouncing anti-facism 🙄 “…we’ve been told…these protests are…un-American & …antifa,” said Rebecca Winter, executive director of Mass 50501, one of the groups staging the Boston demonstration. “I will vehemently denounce both of those.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...

So many problems with plastic fields: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

I reported @bostonu.bsky.social to @glaad.bsky.social here: glaad.org/anti-lgbtq-e...

@bostonu.bsky.social admins practicing anticipatory obedience tried this, got shamed, & backed off - so far. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/m...

Thank you BurlingtonMA for resoundingly passing this important resolution condemning ICE. www.burlington.buzz/local-govern...

Introducing “Faculty on the Frontlines,” a new series from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom that documents the stories of AAUP members! Over the next 2 weeks, we will spotlight the stories of 10 AAUP members fighting to defend academic freedom. Check out our teaser 🔥

@asklyft.bsky.social @ridebluebikes.bsky.social enshitification no open docks checked 5 different stations.

While cowardly @bostonu.bsky.social admins order pride flags into the closet, @aaup.org is boldly winning freedom of speech for students & faculty. www.aaup.org/news/court-r...

Burlington MA residents: Contact your town meeting members here: tiny.cc/BurlResidents

@bostonu.bsky.social administrators side with bigots. Targeted pride flags for removal, selectively. Alum MLK Jr. would be ashamed.

Can you go a week without driving? Challenge yourself to get to know Spokane in a new way by joining local electeds and grassroots group @spokanereimagined.org in going one week without driving --- an experience created by Washingtonian and Disability Rights activist Anna Zivart:

To @iso-ne.com, the most consequential energy transformation of our time is “behind the meter”. Our regional grid operators need to either embrace the transition or get out of the way.

@bostonu.bsky.social gives in, by doing things like ordering pride flags into the closet. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

National Development, Newton, MA, does care about its parking on its properties on District Ave, Burlington, MA…

Professor watchlist hasn’t been updated in years. It’s stale. Checking it occasionally over the years, I’m disappointed to have never made it. Still, it’s a useful resource to find some profs with values and integrity.

We should all be alarmed by how high gas ‘delivery’ costs are no matter which state we live in. With the rapid rise in cheaper wind and solar, the continued construction of ‘stranded assets’ to keep us locked into this expensive, climate-killing energy is unconscionable.

Let's get off of gas.

100% endorse this 350NewtonMA video about getting off gas: youtu.be/uKfJBn-WJ60?...

@bostonu.bsky.social gets a F- in free speech. BU ordered pride flags down to appease bigotry. Then, after it was pointed out that the Hillel House had an Israeli flag up, BU ordered that down, to cover for its selective anti-LGBTQ discrimination. BU now has put itself in an impossible situation.

Antifa seems to be a broad strokes term to try to label whoever the regime doesn’t like as a threat. From what I understand it’s not even a group. It’s a mindset. And a pretty short-listed mindset, at that.

Constituent: “There are human rights abuses every day [in the Burlington, MA ICE detention center]. @moulton.house.gov: “I know, I know”. imgur.com/uO2GbQl

Wow, what an amazing antidote to [waves hands]. Solar is going exponential & tools like balcony solar are ready to go. We need to now make state legislators ok it.

Just truly superb coverage of @sundayofaction.bsky.social Sun Day in the NYTimes. Solar Power is People Power! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

Happy Sun Day!

@bostonu.bsky.social latest appeasement to bigotry - ordering pride flags into the closet - ignores the lesson of history. 🏳️‍🌈