🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

It's not clear how many troops would be involved or where they'd come from. DoD spokesperson said: "We stand ready to mobilize U.S. military personnel in support of DHS operations in Portland at the President’s direction. The Department will provide information and updates as they become available."

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

For the true fall foliage freaks, I wrote about one of the coolest trails you will ever walk...a passageway through the tree canopy itself, with exhibits that allow you to see the leaves through the eyes of creatures that live among them, above the ground. www.mindthemoss.com/p/a-proper-c...

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

"Neither Trump nor the MAGA right wants to discuss or deliberate; it wants to dominate. American politics is no longer a fight over policy; it is a fight over the character of the nation itself," writes @jamellebouie.net. Exactly. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

I did housing organizing for many years and there were extensive debates about whether or not to center rent control as a key demand. I don’t think rent control is the gold standard for tenant organizing, but it’s incredibly useful for establishing enough stability to unionize.

This would be an opportune time for liberals and leftists to take the mantle of "free speech" back from the Intellectual Dark Web people.

Brief reprieve from the world being on fire. A new book project adventure has begun and this one is for the hardcore New England freaks. Coming in 2027.

I think Trump and Vance are overestimating the wider public's appetite for foaming-at-the-mouth grievance. People who aren't terminally online and angry get weary of this shit.

"Oliver and his writers have built a worldview around the core belief that our government should make sure peoples’ basic needs are met, their rights protected, and their innate value as human beings reaffirmed." I wrote a short piece about an inspiring show. www.vulture.com/article/john...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

My dear friend Stephanie's 26-year-old son, Jaden, was recently shot and killed in Atlanta. He leaves behind a fiancee and 4-year-old daughter—"his whole world," as Stephanie put it. Stephanie has created a fundraiser to help cover rent and bills as they face the unimaginable. Any amount helps.

While prestige journalists fell over themselves to report instances of left-wing cancel culture in the 2010s, the Right is currently firing university professors for their speech—and unlike the left, they’re using government informers to do so. From @ryanlcooper.com:

I wrote about how websites like this one are cooking our brains and contributing to the current political crisis…and how the outdoors can be an escape hatch, wherever you live. www.mindthemoss.com/p/touch-grass

The last 36 hours of eulogizing and whitewashing is like nothing I’ve seen in my lifetime. And I’ve seen some bad shit.

from Corey Robin on FB:

I wrote about how websites like this one are cooking our brains and contributing to the current political crisis…and how the outdoors can be an escape hatch, wherever you live. www.mindthemoss.com/p/touch-grass

Massachusetts flags should not be lowered for Charlie Kirk. He was not an elected representative of the people. He was racist, sexist, homophobic, and did not support Massachusetts values of equal justice and freedom. #mapoli www.masslive.com/news/2025/09...

Reporters on the scene for @dotnews.bsky.social confirm there's a huge police presence— including officers with large assault-style rifles— focused around the dorm area, campus center. Chaotic scene, but no evidence of shots fired/victims etc. Hundreds of college students streaming from the area

The way in which the poisonous substance of Charlie Kirk’s work is being completely glossed over by pundits like Ezra Klein really demonstrates how mainstream media pundits often live in a different world than most of us; where the consequences of bad politics are an abstraction.

I’m really starting to believe that we would all benefit from a massive and prolonged Internet outage. These websites have cooked our brains and brought out the absolute worst in us.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

Enough.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

I encourage everyone to look out for their safety and practice good internet hygiene, of course. But some of the scolding posts I've read suggest we can change the awful aftermath of a fateful event by just holding our tongues and being quiet little mice, and that isn't my experience.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies. No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

"My contribution is about a certain trail across Boston." 🔥 Miles's work with others on the Walking City Trail has been extraordinary, so much of it understated, flying below the radar. www.bostontrails.org

So…I’m in a book with Edward Abbey and Hunter S. Thompson, and I’m going to try and process that between now and the book release date in January. The first Mountain Gazette anthology is coming! And my contribution is about a certain trail across Boston. mountaingazette.com/products/pri...

😹 look at this fuckin guy lol

Just thinking about all of the time and resources that Josh Kraft consumed these last few months, so that he could indulge himself publicly. This is what happens when people have too much money; when a country allows people to become billionaires

I wrote about rent control because too often, politicians and even housing advocates misunderstand what rent control does. It’s meant to *immediately* prevent displacements. Millions of renters can’t wait for supply side perks to materialize. They need help now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/07/o...

been thinking about how the outcomes of Following The Rules™ have steadily degraded over my lifetime, quickly enough that you can actually watch them get worse from one year to the next

I wrote about rent control because too often, politicians and even housing advocates misunderstand what rent control does. It’s meant to *immediately* prevent displacements. Millions of renters can’t wait for supply side perks to materialize. They need help now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/07/o...

For @bostonglobe.com, I wrote about why rent control is an essential part of the solution to the housing crisis. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/07/o...

Not just the US, but ever city.

For @bostonglobe.com, I wrote about why rent control is an essential part of the solution to the housing crisis. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/07/o...

I'm looking for sources for a travel story about what to do when you're staying at a hotel and there's dog barking late at night. Either from a nearby room or an adjacent property. Has this ever happened to you? Want to talk about it? If yes, leave a comment below and we'll get the DMs going!

Developer of proposed American Legion Highway apartment complex stripped of all affordable units, public open space tells residents it's all their fault www.universalhub.com/2025/develop... #Boston #Roslindale #HydePark #housing

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

South Station is owned by the Commonwealth (MassDOT) and policed by the BPD, MBTA PD, and Amtrak PD. What possible legal pretext could there be for the US military to seize it??

And a Storrowing will still happen. Kinda drives home how silly it is that our approach to road safety is just repeatedly pleading with drivers to slow down and not hit people.

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Somehow, @bostonglobe.com allowed me to write about mini golf courses and what makes a world class golfscape. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/l...