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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Worcester City Council is a very real and serious institution

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Points for creativity but there are easier ways to refill your water drawer

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watching council. Second speaker at the mic from DSA talked about advancing a social housing platform in a southbridge state rep race. Flagging to look into later.. Sounds interesting.

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New mac update has no option to delete the native AI it might be linux time for the ol mac mini lol

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Searched for Jose stuff on FB and these two entries were right in a row lol.. find me a funnier city than worcester massachusetts i dare you

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

watching council will throw any interesting updates in this thread but the camping ban is getting held, King already announced... mtg link www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYuT...

youtube.com

City Council 09/15/2026

YouTube video by City of Worcester

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One thing I have maintained in my six years of doing Worcester sucks is that Kate Toomey chairing public safety is about as pristine an example of above board municipal corruption as you could hope to find. No longer! (“Temporarily”)

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think it's important to note that this wasn't just the same week, the vote was a week later, and the sketchy car crash didn't become public until almost a week after that. So the whole time the council was ignoring the public, they were also hiding this OBVIOUS need for civilian oversight as well.

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Alex @saintsopossums.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Would have loved to be a fly on the wall for Kate’s conversation with her cop handlers later

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Obaa One Battle After Another

ALT: Obaa One Battle After Another

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You gotta hand it to em “WPD lets public safety chairwoman off on obvious DUI the same week the council votes against a police oversight board” would be a really good way to satirize a corrupt municipality

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Johanna @johanna508.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Remember when people screamed “lock her up” at Etel? Jfc @billshaner.bsky.social has christmas come early?

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

These outages are inevitable - either learn a skill now or get left behind forever

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The DOJ report ‘just words on paper’

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Giving special blue envelopes to autistic people to prevent “misunderstandings” with police during traffic stops seems like a tacit admission that police are a danger to the public. Maybe addressing the elephant in the room would be better than a pointless feel-good program like this.

masslive.com

New statewide program gives Mass. drivers with autism a tool for police stops

The free statewide initiative gives residents a way to share important information during traffic stops while helping officers avoid misunderstandings.

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On my way to the 8th Wonder of the World (Bass Pro Pyramid) delighting in news of the cranks eating shit in the Worcester 14th and 15th yesterday 💅

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Someone who gets it 👇 babies do in fact need money

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Im not like the other vampires in my vampire clan, and that's why you should vote for seth moulton

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Seanie D. @geohellraiser.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An excellent accounting of what we know and what we don’t know about the Solomon case.

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Definitely the most hemming and hawing I’ve done over a piece in some time but the space between the “Kurt and Karen Solomon story” and the real human tragedy of their deaths is worth careful consideration. So that’s what I tried to do here: www.worcestersucks.email/p/black-heli...

worcestersucks.email

Black Helicopters

On the manhunt, and the unseen coven engineering the tragic outcomes

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@iamashleystearns @iamashleystearns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

THIS. 👇 💯 No notes.

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Dan 🎃 @danorz.com · 28/08/2026

@billshaner.bsky.social you said this was overlong but it didn't read like it at all. it did a good job tying together a few different crappy things about our city into one nice big package of suck (complimentary, somehow). really well done. www.worcestersucks.email/p/black-heli...

worcestersucks.email

Black Helicopters

On the manhunt, and the unseen coven engineering the tragic outcomes

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly’s “Here I Am” came on the radio one time in 2023 when I was on the road with high command somewhere up in Canada and it hit me harder than I thought a song could. RIP youtu.be/RindBGXOmC4?...

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Here I Am

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Massachusetts is the tommy brady of performative dem shit

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Mad at society & culture for making me assume well into my adult life that Pynchon books are stuffy and difficult and thus 'not for me' when they are in fact hilarious, batshit, by a degenerate for the benefit of degenerates. Better than any of the beats by a mile

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It was employees of a rehab center that found Karen Solomon dead in nearby woods, at a location police had a line on last Wednesday. There was a gun "nearby" and Saucier only said she died of a self inflicted gunshot wound when asked. Oi

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sad to report that Raj has crossed over from “funny chamber of commerce goon” to “evil chamber of commerce goon”

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A nice thing to say after the eight months he’s had to count the votes lol Worcester’s form of government isnt plan e it’s the Spider-Mans pointing meme

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Really good edition right here from @aislinn.bsky.social on the nuances and pitfalls of a school redistricting process, particularly the background hum of property value and how one school committee member is being sorta obvious about it. Was a treat to edit and stoked to share it!

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Given what happened today CRB discussion is held by the mayor for another meeting and the CRB Coalition has called off public comment. For the best I think.

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Back from a much needed 100 percent no phone camping trip did I miss anything good over the weekend?

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good idea Kate that way he can explain why he lied

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Alex understood the assignment lol Cmon ppl keep these raj moments coming

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If he wasn't saying this, it would be some nonsense that while it works elsewhere it can't possibly work in Worcester. The same line he and the rest of the centrist-leaning-conservative council majority always offer for why we can't possibly make progress.

spectrumnews1.com

Mayor Petty: "I haven't seen where the civilian review boards really work."

Justice Department investigation over, no civilian review board...Mayor Petty spoke with Spectrum News on recent developments with Worcester Police.

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For a primary election primer I’m wrapping up today, I want to put together a compendium, The Best of “Raj,” so if you have any weird AI art / lit from esteemed West Boylston Selectman Barur Rajeshkumar in your junk mail or camera roll do send it in replies or dm or bill shaner at Substack dot com

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Etel Haxhiaj (ha-jee-eye) @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

He said the same thing about: Rent control, crisis pregnancy centers harming folks, specialized stretch code, and opting-in to fire sprinklers. Why are you in office still?

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Alex @saintsopossums.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Incredibly blackpilling how WPD coming back with “we put in writing that officers can’t rape women while they’re on duty” is being treated as a substantive reform, and not a thing that immediately gets the chief fired, because what do you mean that wasn’t already a rule?

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In my last post I spent considerable time breaking down the manager’s smarmy line that the DOJ didn’t “sustain any of the findings” lo and behold it was a lie. Nice pull from Sam Turken here

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Id pay a solid 20 bucks to shove this guy into a locker

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Did my best to break down the way the city manager tried to turn the tides on the review board debate with his weird little 4:52 p.m. on a Friday press release about the DOJ investigation we all knew was functionally dead since trump’s term started www.worcestersucks.email/p/for-immedi...

worcestersucks.email

"For Immediate Release"

The city manager tries to put a lid on the DOJ's WPD investigation with a Friday news dump

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The same day the DOJ allegedly "informed" the city that it had dropped the investigation into WPD, the Trump admin rolled out a new website named I shit you not "Fraud.Gov." Lol. Reality laps satire yet again

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Tim O’Neil @oneilt32.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Of course the city would spin this as a result of all the “positive steps” the police have taken when in reality there has been zero accountability or corrective steps taken. www.worcesterma.gov/announcement...

worcesterma.gov

U.S. Department of Justice Closes Investigation into Worcester Police Department | City of Worcester

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Shark tank idea: cat toy company where you can order “just the box”

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This cello was my best and only friend in middle school lol. Now I only pick it up once every few years, but when I do I unlock some new way of thinking about it. This time: running it thru synth fx, approaching it more like an oscillator than a standalone instrument

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

exhibit a bsky.app/profile/bill...

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Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Jaw-droppingly stupid sentence in today's massterlist profile of Jim McGovern lol

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saguarosally.bsky.social @saguarosally.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One more thing, don't forget the MLO meeting about charter change on Monday, August 17 at 5 PM. This one is really important because we need two out of three votes to get any discussion of charter change out of committee. And yes, that's two nights in a row.

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