St Paul has a Lexington Ave and a Concord St they should go over and have a big presence over there just for funsies.

“I know, we’ll take this one American city, regarded as a hotbed of seditious sentiment, and subject it to a heavy-handed punitive crackdown. and that will cow the rest of the Americans into quiet submission and snuff out the embers of opposition at their source” the ghost of General Thomas Gage:

Someone threw a Christmas tree off the Harvard bridge on the downstream side around the 225 Smoot marker. Currently ice-bound on the river. (Didn’t have a phone during my run, so no pics.) @universalhub.com

Suda may have had missteps; the rebranding was a distraction at best. But this piece brings into full and clear light the perilous state of Philadelphia's cultural nonprofits, governed by its boomer elite class more interested in petty squabbles and power brokering than governance and expansion

Oh you enjoy having one day per week during hunting season when you don't have to worry about being shot in the woods? Maura Healey wants to take that away from you. Tell them no. www.mass.gov/forms/huntin...

My year in transport, wrapped. In 2025, I traveled 78882 miles. (Background: I've been keeping track of my transportation, by mode, distance, reason, provider, etc, since 2011.)

I want to open a Vietnamese sandwich shop in a German train station and call it Deutsche Banh.

This, for the Paul Dudley White at the BU Bridge. (Added bonus: minimal additional climb since it would just extend the grade from the Grand Junction overpass.)

This is excruciating and I can not look away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWkn...

I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

"How about marriage bootcamp?" said nobody in an equitably happy marriage wapo.st/3NjnQbg

ICE goons travel in threes: one to read, one to write, and the other to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.

Simple fix: Activate the Minnesota National Guard, arrest the entirety of the ICE, Border Patrol, and the rest of the Trump Militia.

Why are they less common Emily

When a commuter rail train arrives and the escalators are down. And this of course coincided with a 7 minute headway so we are quite full at harvard (but not crushed).

This is a favorite one shared by a friend. The outdoors are of course political for *many* reasons.

Why do they do this and then write headlines like “different sides say different things.” All the news, and a good deal of bullshit, that’s fit to print.

Guys Minnesotans are using curse words. And not H-E-double hockey sticks words. Like, real bad ones.

"abolish ice" doesn't seem so extreme anymore, does it, you preposterous, normalizing fucks

"Since the murderer is masked, I have instructed Minneapolis police to arrest any ICE officer found in the city and impound their vehicles. They will be held indefinitely until justice can be served." Come on.

friends, on this most tram of Tuesdays, let me take you on a little journey into a tale of two new tram systems here in Ontario, just 80km apart as the crow flies but a world apart in operations: the Kitchener-Waterloo ION tram, and the brand new Toronto Line 6 Finch West tram

the ramifications of building affordable housing on top of libraries is: -more affordable housing -renovated library -all at reduced cost to taxpayers (as housing rents subsidize the library renovation) it’s the most obvious win-win ever so of course these left-NIMBY weirdos oppose it

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

Republicans are very good at telling their voters what to believe. Dems say “what do our voters think?”, as consultants, and then get it wrong.

Salt dots @milesintransit.com

Cycling through the snow continues to produce beautiful images. The main routes are generally well-maintained, but even on roads that haven't been gritted, cycling is still good for now.

The arguments made by these Dallas suburbs — that they don’t get as much out of DART as they pay in — is terrible. Transit benefits the Dallas region as a whole, and axing all regional service in certain communities is very shortsighted. @yonahfreemark.com

Zero escalators at Porter this morning (escalator guys actively working at least) @universalhub.com

This is absolutely awful all around. I am also interested in this William Haney in that he seems to have very little online footprint. There is a William R Haney Sr who was active in Back Bay real estate in the '90s. backbayhouses.org/306-beacon/ backbayhouses.org/168-beacon/

My favorite evidence that congestion pricing in New York has reshaped peoples’ behavior: we can see a surge of people trying to enter the zone before the price kicks up at 5 a.m., and after it decreases at 9 p.m.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

As a liberal and a cyclist, I would be so owned if Jacoby departed Boston for the paradise of suburban Dallas. Honestly, I’m shocked he has not, considering how it is a free-market paradise.

IDK maybe because they knew about it beforehand but didn't, you know, do news stuff? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/i...

Holding stories like this is a longstanding practice and also completely antithetical to the entire purpose of journalism. RIP Gawker.

post 4 2morrow www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-...

The Cambridge side of the BU Bridge should be rebuilt with a bike/ped flyover to replace the Reid Overpass. Local topography means it doesn't introduce new climb. If we're going to build a bridge, let's prioritize people walking and biking (it would be cheaper, too). ariofsevit.com/apb/2026/01/...

Earlier this fall, I noticed something odd going on with rail service on Los Angeles's C line. So, I wrote about it, because I could not have asked for a more perfect encapsulation of how schedule design can drive service outcomes. homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...

Bush invaded Iraq and pointed at September 11 as the reason and that won enough initial support for it to be reasonably popular. Oh also we were a net oil importer then. This is just ridiculous.

Insane flex apnews.com/article/zohr...

iirc this is the same dipshit who is against end-to-end-encryption for being "undemocratic" and sees privacy as a ploy by big tech If you needed further evidence they shouldn't be listened to on any subject within 20km of security

Breakfast pie chart.

RU has been calling Zelenskyy “illegitimate” since he “canceled elections” (he didn’t, Putin’s war did); China has been also stating Taiwan is “theirs”, hence their president isn’t “legal”.. so if US/Venezuela is OK-ed by international community, this will kick off a wild phrase.

Every Senate Democrat should be asked how they feel about their unanimous confirmation of Marco Rubio. They should also be calling for Trump's impeachment.

Where are we on this?

Now to put on my Hillary the Hawk Donald the Dove t-shirt, Abandon Biden/Abandon Harris hat, and Jill Stein button and open the news…