“Our story was screened 5 times cleared by CBS attorneys & Standards & Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note. “It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”

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Boston Mayor Wu •2023 campaigned on protected bike lanes •2024 did it •2025 reported data shows ➕results 🚴🏼‍♀️Western AV /Allston & Brighton ⬆️200+ more bikes—51% rise in average per-day bike traffic 🚴🏿Milk Street/downtown ⬆️~200 more bikes new single-direction bike lane vs old Share 🚴🏿🚗auto lanes 1/2

Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bostonians-wanted-more-bike-lanes-now-they-have-them-and-traffic-is-down/ #goodnews

"Tiffany Cogell, executive director of the Boston Cyclist’s Union, told Mass Street Blog that the new bike lanes are “reducing crashes, improving predictability, and expanding mobility options without increasing congestion.” “Protected bike infrastructure works,” she said. "

There's an impeachment resolution against this guy in the House but it's not being talked about very much because "This lunatic is trying to kill your children" isn't a compelling enough political message I guess

I keep saying: This country/dominant culture hates children. Absolutely hates them. Regards them as property far more than (vulnerable, in need of guidance and conscientious, respectful protection) full human beings

I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1

If it isn't completely obvious... TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN. TRANS MEN ARE MEN. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. Do not tell me that my friends and adopted family do not have the right to exist. I will fight you.

reminder:

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

If they want to keep getting work, they can review (=rewrite) the AI slop, for 1/3 of their normal rate (which was already low to begin with) Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

Today, AG Letitia James of New York responded to the Trump administration's new rule attempting to ban trans youth care in hospitals nationwide. "I will not let the administration come for you." Read the latest from our writer, S. Baum here. www.erininthemorning.com/p/i-will-not...

We can do even more.

I find this very alarming. AI is being used in explicitly prohibited ways. No doubt this will soon be the norm. The consequences of this will be dramatic. Over the holidays, the publishers and the whole of academic community are doing nothing else but working on a solution to this, right? RIGHT?!

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Trump and Republicans claim they want to "protect children." But they've rolled back child labor laws and environmental protections, blocked gun safety reform, and spread lies about vaccines that save children from deadly diseases. Hello?

Article in the Times today. JKR has set her pre action attack team on a school supporting trans youth. A father is threatening to sue for allowing trans children to use the loo they‘ve always used. “I don’t wish trans people any ill”, he says, after casting them as voyeurs and sexual predators.

JK Rowling is destroying children's lives. Stop buying her shit, watching her shows, playing her games. You're funding her hate campaign. Move on.

PSA: I will also block you if you post AI generated images in my mentions. They're not funny. They're not clever. Just sad.

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

This. Also, NCAR doesn't just work on climate! They research weather, atmospheric chemistry and pollutioj, the sun and space weather. They developed the technology for lidar, a technology widely used in surveying, archaeology, forestry, seismology, laser guidance systems, and even self-driving cars.

Very important thread.

Hey, a reminder that eugenics is the modus operandi of this regime. You wanna let your Senators know what you think of this. ASAP. 202-224-3121.

“More than 40 people gathered Monday in the cold outside the Suffolk County House of Correction to call for a full investigation into the recent death of a man awaiting trial and the closure of the eight-building jail on Bradston Street.”

Trump has pardoned 17 drug dealers and nearly 1600 people who attacked Congress on January 6, 2021.

I am losing my mind DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

they keep emphasizing that these are on "known narcotrafficking routes" and like, those are just route-routes. there are not special ocean highways for drugs.

"You have to use AI." ...why?

@baldwin.senate.gov, WTF???

#ICE thugs beat legal resident into a concussion, were about to drive her to a cell, only stopped when #Chelsea PD arrived and suggested they check her ID www.universalhub.com/2025/ice-thu...

Holland Street, Somerville, in Davis Square. #MA_M95844 Somerville Department of Public Works again. Well, at least that means DPW is already there to put that flex post back, right? 🤪

my name is cow and wen its nite and when a star is shiyning brite and three wise men give me the nod i walk up close I lik the God

“We have loans, a business, employees,” she said. “How do we leave all this? How do we uproot children who grew up here?” “This is not just a policy change,” said Porez Luxama, president of Life of Hope, a Brooklyn nonprofit that assists Haitian immigrants. “It is an earthquake in people’s lives.”

If you give someone "Automatic Noodle" as a gift consider also promising to take them out for noodles after they finish reading the book. I assure you, they will need it.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

The James Carvilles of the world are going to try to covince Dems that abolishing ICE is a radical fringe position and they must not listen

Sometimes I wonder about how the White folks process still having their jobs. I've been reading a lot about McCarthyism, which has my brain primed to think about the people who stay once people politically repress their colleague out of a job. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

The reason we're in this fucking mess is the GOP are the only ones actively trying to shift public opinion for the past 30 years, while Carville-brain Dems just follow whatever it is at the moment.

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.