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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a great summary 'cause I ain't readin' that book Bill Galvin sent.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You aren’t doing Bayesian statistics without observations. That’s what the formula is for!

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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MA has 9 statewide ballot questions this year. Be an informed voter! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/2026ballot/

This November, Massachusetts will see *9* statewide ballot questions, a historic number. But we’ve got you covered.

✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in.

✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception.

❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers.

✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout.

❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services.

⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones.

✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built.

❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies.

✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I worked as a red shirt in the Boston Youth Cleanup Corps for two summers in the 90s. It was hard but satisfying work cleaning up vacant lots (and a paycheck for a teenager). It is great to see the city coming back to a similar program.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

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Amanda, Clover Mother 🏳️‍⚧️ @onionbug.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is beyond spectacular. Fugazi is the goat.

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fun with dialects, khed! mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

mydialect output map for me - turns out I'm heavily associated with Massachusetts, who knew? LOL

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 03/09/2026

In victory over Mike Rush, Persis Yu even won his ward www.universalhub.com/2026/victory... #Boston #Roslindale #HydePark #WestRoxbury #elections2026 H/t @mdmcclos.bsky.social

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That’s because helmets are not rated for car crashes, only for falling off a bike, so telling people a helmet will protect them when a 7000 lb auto smashes their body is just a lie. Traffic calming, smaller cars, fix blind spots, infrastructure, consequences for drivers who run over humans.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jamaica Plain folks! You may have noticed that Centre Street was recently repaved without putting in any improvements for either pedestrians or bikers. That's bc @wutrain.bsky.social cancelled the Centre Street improvements project Sign here @universalhub.com actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

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Refund the JP Centre/South Transportation Action Plan

Mayor Wu has quietly cut the funding for the Centre St./South St. redesign plan that would have helped improve the speed and efficiency of the 39 bus, the 4th highest ridership route, and the safety o...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"should cyclists wear helmets" discourse is such a good one because the arguments for both positions are totally common-sense and unassailable, everyone just digs in.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you want to know why people get touchy around the helmet discourse, this is it. Elected officials who do not know the difference between different classes of legal e-bikes and who also can't distinguish them from illegal e-motos probably shouldn't also be writing bicycle helmet laws.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tbf Mamdani was cajoled into this by a ton of ppl online who cant conceive of bike safety as not entirely up to a biker or as anything beyond a helmet flooding his comments. As I've told multiple ppl when the topic of biking on NYC streets comes up, a helmets not saving you from what cars do here

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

big change to my material conditions: I am a bike commuter now. I will be updating my transportation opinions dialectically (I am already 27% more opinionated about bike lanes and our school crossing guard comrades)

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No right on red is one of the simplest pro-human policies a city can institute.

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 19/08/2026

Court rules Boston has right to build new White Stadium www.universalhub.com/2026/court-r... #Roxbury #JamaicaPlain #FranklinPark

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DotNews @dotnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In 2023, Boston and police union leaders agreed to allow civilians to fill in as flaggers when officers are unable to cover details across the city. Three years later, the jobs remain the exclusive preserve of BPD officers, @yawumiller.bsky.social reports. www.dotnews.com/2026/08/19/t...

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Three years after deal on civilian flaggers, details remain exclusive to police officers - Dorchester Reporter

More than three years after an agreement to allow for civilian flaggers, construction details are still exclusively in the hands of Boston police officers.

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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everyone’s worried about whether or not there will be a blue wave this November. Meanwhile, I have a plan to ensure we have a permanent blue block. It all relies on rezoning Massachusetts.

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How to Steal 20 Congressional Seats From Florida

Imagine congress with 20 fewer Florida republicans and 20 more Ayanna Pressleys & Katherine Clarks. It may sound like a pipe dream, but it's actually possibl...

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"He's a ziggurat - a ziggurat of whoppers"

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Patron saint of knife-sharpeners & librarians @daisyrazor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seen in West Roxbury while waiting for the 30-minute-late Needham Line train. @universalhub.com

Graffiti saying Extend the orange line! Investing in public transit = investing in the community.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In 2014, Stephen Lynch fought against replacing a single-family home in South Boston with 8 homes over parking concerns, even though it provided 14 parking spaces. Massachusetts has a housing crisis. We need leaders fighting for housing, not politicians fighting to block it.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026

this entire issue is downstream of the fact that kids are trapped in car-dependent suburbs, unable to develop any sense of autonomy until age 16, when they're suddenly allowed to drive a 4,000 lb vehicle

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/08/2026

God this is so, so good.

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National VA Council @nationalvacouncil.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

CONTRACT UPDATE: During this morning’s hearing on NVAC’s latest Motion to Enforce the March 13 preliminary injunction, Judge DuBose indicated that she intends to GRANT our motion. The 2023 Master Agreement will remain in effect. This is another MAJOR VICTORY for our Union.

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It looks like the increased parking enforcement on Centre Street West Roxbury is having an effect! (I've noticed a lot more bike lane tickets in the last week.) It also looks like it is affecting some friends of the police. It is pretty shameful that the police union would try to minimize this.

A street view of Centre Street in West Roxbury MA. A line of cars are parked next to a parking-protected bike lane.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you want to speak up in favor of this new housing project on the Arborway rotary you can submit a comment here Boston needs a lot more housing! www.bostonplans.org/projects/dev...

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920 Centre Street | Bostonplans.org

Development Projects and Planned Development Areas (PDAs) that the Development Review division is coordinating.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

In 2025 we ("we" is mostly Europe) know how to build streetcars. Give them level boarding, smooth rails, modern cars and signal priority, and they have advantages over buses (electric, smooth, fast, narrow profile). But we don't do any of this in North America!

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Turp @turpin4prez.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My sinking feeling as a public defender in 2026 is that Americans are more obsessed with incarcerating people right now than they've been at any point in my entire career

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In West Rox, we've been trying to figure out what "block the bike lane" means when parking over the line into the buffer. A working rule that makes sense is whether both tires are on or outside the "outer" line of the buffer. In this photo, the rear car is OK, the front car should get a ticket.

Two cars are parked on Centre Street in West Roxbury MA. There is a parking-protected bike lane on the street, and the cars are parked in the designated spots. One of the cars (the one furthest away) has its tires completely in the buffer area of the bike lane.

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Robert Orthman @robertorthman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We need to stop acting like bike infra is a luxury that should be up for debate and start treating it like the public safety and public health infra it is.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Basically BlueSky has run into the facts that a) people are not very good at expected value calculations, and b) the expected utility of a bet isn't the same as the expected monetary value, and c) people may not be risk neutral anyway, and for some reason these three facts are making people angry.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2026

Something I think about a lot is how the US created a system that produces safe, clean, virtually limitless drinking water for every citizen -- a political & engineering miracle for the ages! -- & then went ahead & created a huge, polluting, pointless bottled water industry anyway.

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is possible in southwest Boston, for sure!

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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 21/07/2026

Update: Blue Cross, the title sponsor of the @ridebluebikes.bsky.social system, is offering a limited number of $10 ride credits during this week's Red Line shutdown. To redeem, use the code BLUECROSSMBTA26 in the Bluebikes app. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/20/t...

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The Red Line Is Taking Summer Break July 21-30 - Streetsblog Massachusetts

The MBTA is suspending Red Line service north of downtown Boston for 10 consecutive days starting on Tuesday, July 21.

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Kristen Halbert @khalbert.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The most frustrating thing about the @mbta.com's system for displaying bus arrivals is how it gaslights poor riders into believing the bus is on its way, and then simply restarts the clock after the window has passed. It is a system that only reminds you what SHOULD happen, not what IS happening.

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I can fault Mayor Wu for many things. Courage isn’t one of them. Her showing up took guts, and she said the right things. Let’s hold her, and all our officials, to what is said in times like these when the right path is obvious. 12/?

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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Vigil to honor Louisa Gag at Boston City Hall and Call for Urgent Street-Safety Action. Thursday July 16 at 5:30pm Attendees are encouraged to wear yellow in support of Vision Zero.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Real idea: As part of the effort to get DC and PR statehood, next Dem president should invent about State Weeks. Each of the 52 states gets its own celebration week every year. A random July week is Montana week. Tourism bonanzas. Televised lottery every year for week placement. We ain't above this.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/06/2026

Reminder that any remotely rational "MAHA" would focus on cars. Cars sicken & kill Americans far far more than f'ing "processed foods" or whatever.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

staple the snack wrappers to your union cards to demonstrate dominance

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/06/2026

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

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