Returning some attention where it’s due today: remembering Setti Warren, who was committed to public service and made a lot of lives better here in MA. You can donate to the Newton Food Pantry or Soldier On in his memory, links in the obituary here: www.magnifuneralhome.com/settiwarren

turned this off because I want to see your posts that reflect appropriate attitudes toward war criminals

LUCE has set up a GoFundMe for the families of the Allston carwash workers abducted by masked men claiming to work for the government www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

sharing a couple ways local folks can keep the “hell yeah we are building stuff!” momentum in the next few weeks: 1) @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social is holding a free store on 11/22 at the East Somerville Community School and there are LOTS of volunteer opps starting now: forms.gle/aPEaRKZ4u6nb...

the vet’s notes about Rosa say “Ms Hands will throw hands” preeeeettty sure that’s a note about the cat

ICE has been seizing people in Allston. Boston area folks, spread the word about the LUCE hotline to report ICE sightings. And here's stickers you can print and put up anywhere:

that’s certainly a way to spell “Zohran Mamdani’s campaign builds community among young voters harmed by decades of scarcity-based policy choices”

this is the result of extremely committed work from the Somerville for Palestine folks. proud of my neighbors.

Clearly Dick Cheney was a load bearing shitbag and the timeline is self correcting

All this and Dick Cheney died this morning!

I'm just really proud of NYC for following our lead and electing a mayor who is good, as opposed to bad

There we go! Someone finally looked at their phone lol

our Palestine solidarity question is looking pretty good s3.amazonaws.com/somervillema...

people sometimes ask me “how do you spend a whole hour in the bookstore” and every time I’ve taken folks to one of these I’ve had to drag them out of the store to let the team close.

we deserve this from a timeline that gave us a Gatsby-themed party on the day SNAP benefits expired

Dick Cheney is my formative political rage. My radioactive spider bite. My first adult experience with political rage.

one good reason to keep a handwritten journal is you could use today to write down “DICK CHENEY IS DEAD” in your favorite pen

slightly bummed to have voted by mail already, I bet the vibes in the Somerville polling places are immaculate on this very good day for democracy

Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead

in case anyone on this website is too young to have had fully formed political rage while Cheney was VP, a concise summary of why we are Like This

May Dick Cheney have felt every weight and worry of the world he crafted as he left it behind

New Yorkers, I have faith that not one of you is going to miss today’s chance to give Cheney’s legacy a swift kick in the ass. go make us proud.

can confirm

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

I was going to go for a run but how could I miss that much of this morning’s bluesky

A good omen.

happy election day, everyone!!!

I aspire to Sisko (I can live with it dot gif) but unfortunately I am Odo

I’ll just be here thinking about the acumen it takes to show this much tangible change in the span of a year of *running* for office.

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

the model teen vogue set for taking young people and their political engagement seriously was, I assume, powerful enough to be terrifying to investors in the status quo.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

yoooo look what came in the mail! @suchmayer.bsky.social can’t wait to dive into this!

“Giving restricted short-term funds is so archaic and embarrassing that any foundation still doing that should just have all its staff and board members wear codpieces and powdered wigs.” frankly inspirational that @nonprofitaf.bsky.social was able to get this (and much more) into a Wiley book

I’m saddened to hear about Setti Warren. Massachusetts lost a light today. Setti was a true public servant. I’m thinking of him and his family.

the A Lot of it all caught up with me a bit today so I picked up some queer futures. it’s still A Lot but maybe there’s a different kind we can make if we keep going.

good leaves update

I went to bed at like 9:30 last night and am now experiencing the baseball game in reverse interspersed with DS9 references, good work everyone

it is very important to me that you click through to the thread

a neat thing I got to see today is that people are super, super mobilized for their communities right now. there’s an opportunity to make some lasting change if we can give it the attention it needs.

this afternoon! come say hi and help your neighbors keep warm. I’ll be there to gather cash contributions for the community pool too!

Since I'm doing this thread, I'm going to hype my pick! Sea, Poison might be the weirdest book. But as absurd as Beilin's story of brain lasers, stuffed leopards. polyamory, pop culture references, art monsters, & art failures, is the book really more absurd than the American healthcare system?

there is some kind of weird manipulation of spacetime happening to get the Amount of Plot that goes on into something this short and this Fosse-paced

Reposting for the morning crowd. If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.

this afternoon! come say hi and help your neighbors keep warm. I’ll be there to gather cash contributions for the community pool too!

yesssss (this was one @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social picked out for me awhile ago and that more people should definitely pick up)

a friend whose org runs a local food bank was describing the grant proposal they have to write to access the funds the state is “working with funding partners to unlock” and if you need me I’ll be over here being EXTREMELY CALM ABOUT IT and NOT YELLING AT ANYONE

what do we think it would take to dismantle the idea that your landlord needs his check before you’re allowed to taste joy

Hundreds of Somerville families are set to be impacted by the SNAP shutdown. Every school in Somerville has put together a fundraiser in record time and are collecting grocery store gift cards and money to buy more gift cards. If you’re able to help, please pick up a couple gift cards...