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Frontrunners Boston @frontrunnersboston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey Frontrunners! Tomorrow is our weekly Wednesday Jamaica Plain run! Meet outside of the Stony Brook Orange Line station near the Blue Bikes at 6:30 PM. 🍂🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #JamaicaPlain #Boston #Run #Frontrunners #OrangeLine
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Secession anticipator @intolerablesit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hmm so it turns out you were actually canceling it. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/m...
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Boston, T scrap plans to extend region’s first-ever center-running bus lane on Columbus Avenue - The Boston Globe
The Wu administration and the T altered the latest design for Columbus Avenue to instead include side-running bus lanes in both directions between Jackson Square and Ruggles.
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Christopher Friend @friendchristoph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
mayor wu’s efforts here to move a (proposed) center running bus lane to the curb stand in sharp contrast to mamdani’s bus efforts in nyc, which are 1) outcome-oriented, focused on faster bus speeds 2) are all about creating center running bus lanes www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/m...
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: The House is going home again—this time to avoid a vote on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s impeachment.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/09/2026
Early voting is a crucial tool for stopping election sabotage. Join your local No Kings event on October 17 to promote unprecedented early voting in the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/09/2026
Leah Greenberg: For the first three No Kings Days, we delivered a powerful message that we were not going to fold in the face of authoritarianism. And now we are taking on a new challenge together. We are turning our protest power into voting power.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept. (Gift Article)
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.
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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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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ugh: A new Massachusetts poll has a 51-32 lead for a ballot initiative to adopt the top-two “primary” system. This system has been a wreck in California. The majority party frequently risks getting shut out of general elections, so party organizations often pick favorites in primaries to avoid that
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All but two Mass. ballot questions likely to pass in November, poll finds
Nine statewide ballot questions will face all Massachusetts voters this November, and a new poll finds that all but two are likely to pass.
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Los Angeles’ housing crisis has gone on far too long. Rents have skyrocketed, homes are overcrowded, and working families are being pushed out of the city every single day. We have a moral imperative to build, and to build now.
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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ok this is some wild shit, I was trying to look up the #BostonSafetySurge program on the city Vision Zero web page and IT'S LOCKED DOWN BEHIND A SIGN IN Why is the @streets.boston.gov scrubbing street safety programs like they are the Trump Admin going after DEI? www.boston.gov/transportati...
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farterchild.bsky.social @farterchild.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The key is the blame ultimately lies with Mayor Wu.
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matthewdezii.bsky.social @matthewdezii.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My friend is dead. A driver, through neglect, recklessness or malice, has killed Louisa. I’m beside myself with grief and filled with righteous anger at a city that has stalled and slow-walked safety improvements for all road users. Louisa should be here with us.
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Tech 4 Housing @tech4housing.org · 08/07/2026
Our racist, exclusionary housing policies are also anti-trans.
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Justin S. @jsaif.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Remember when Councillor Zusy claims to support Just-A-Start and this project on Mass Ave that she supports Doug Brown’s zoning petition that would have a huge negative impact on this and all other proposals under the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay!
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Scaling back housing a block from a major rail station is a terrible idea. We need so much more housing, particularly near transit. This continual pressure to scale back housing is a key reason why we have such a deep housing shortage.
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Wedge-shaped 24th St. housing project goes down to 6 stories, loses 15 units
Proposed housing project at 24th and Capp streets in the Mission got smaller after conversations with neighborhood groups.
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Brandon Stanaway @bstanaway.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
@mayorwu.boston.gov and @streets.boston.gov putting a moratorium on the safety of cyclists in Allston-Brighton (across the City). I've never seen a candidate win by such a wide margin and then adopt the policy of their challenger. The Mayor's land-use and transportation policies are disappointing.
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xxxtine @allston.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Hey @mayorwu.boston.gov this isn’t what you said on @wgbh.org’s BPR a couple of months ago. What do you mean a moratorium on the safety of cyclists @streets.boston.gov? Does Allston-Brighton not deserve the same protection as World Cup tourists downtown? This is upsetting.
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Boston Haitian @bostonhaitian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A 4:30 p.m. gathering in front of the Massachusetts State House on Haiti TPS decision is planned, per IFSI, a Mattapan-based Haitian organization
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Scott @scottsthoughts.better.boston.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
The “we shouldn’t have a bus lane down blue hill ave we should extend the orange line instead” is an insultingly disingenuous argument. The #Boston city councilors who proposed it (and presented it with a flippantly inaccurate AI generated map of the T) should be ashamed. Let’s not do anything […]
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doctoroctothorpe.bsky.social @doctoroctothorpe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This weekend I did a 133 mile/214 km #bike ride from Boston to Provincetown at the end of Cape Cod. Here's my write up: playingintrafficcommuting.blogspot.com/2026/06/clic... #cycling #bicycle #Boston #CapeCod #Provincetown
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Click click click kerchunk 2026 Outriders
Typical View from The Cape Cod Rail Trail Outriders! One day from Boston to Provincetown. Including the bike ride to the start it's about ...
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Frontrunners Boston @frontrunnersboston.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
EDIT: Meet at 6:30 PM at Mozart Park (corner of Centre and Mozart Streets) for a special edition Wednesday run! This run is hosted by Great Day (co-organizer of the June 5 Pride Run), who has partnered with Pioneer Run Crew. The event will feature drag performances and light bites. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚇🪻 #Pride
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Seattle permitted just 4,000 homes in 2025, a third of its 2018–21 pace. With 35+ stalled projects totaling 6,700 homes unable to pencil, the city's affordable housing coalition is backing an 80% temporary cut to inclusionary fees to restart the pipeline. www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-to-sav...
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Op-Ed: To Save Mandatory Housing Affordability, We Have to Recalibrate It
Nonprofit housing leader Patience Malaba makes the case that a temporary, two-year recalibration of Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability program is critical to unfreeze the stalled-out housing…
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 23/06/2026
Build. More. Housing.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Their names were Daphy Michel (age 31), and Nurul Amin Shah Alam (age 56). Daphy was a vulnerable adult suffering from untreated severe mental health issues, and Nurul was nearly blind — but ICE and CBP dumped both of them in the brutal cold, where they froze to DEATH.
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Death of Haitian immigrant in Pittsburgh days after she was released from ICE custody ruled a homicide
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday ruled a Haitian woman’s hypothermia death in March a homicide, pointing to the circumstances...
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danaloulun.bsky.social @danaloulun.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Frontrunners Boston @frontrunnersboston.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This Saturday June 6, we will meet for the run in the Public Garden at 9 AM - ONE HOUR EARLIER THAN USUAL, so folks have time to get ready before the Boston Pride Parade, which starts at 11 AM. We will watch the parade near the NE corner of Boylston & Arlington St (Public Garden side). #BostonPride
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Frontrunners Boston @frontrunnersboston.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hey Frontrunners! Happy Pride! Tomorrow is our weekly Wednesday Jamaica Plain run! Meet outside of the Stony Brook Orange Line station near the Blue Bikes at 6:30 PM. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚇 #JamaicaPlain #Frontrunners #Boston #Run
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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Most of our district, including the triple deckers everyone loves, was technically illegal to build. That's not an accident. It's the result of decades of rules that quietly banned the cheapest housing we ever built. Cambridge changed it last year. Every city in Massachusetts can too.
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CommonWealth Beacon @cwbeacon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
HOUSING: Driscoll offers support for YIMBY legislation
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Driscoll offers support for YIMBY legislation
Bay Staters “need to remember that zoning and zoning laws are provided to municipalities from the state,” said Rep. Andy Vargas. So, he said, “if we're not building housing, it's time for the state...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/05/2026
Black text on white page that reads: 

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns | Will Bunch
The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Alabama primary is *one week from tomorrow*. Remember when the Supreme Court said that they couldn't redress a wrong before because it was too close to the election? Just such a sham.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Safety cameras save lives. The data is clear and overwhelming.
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farterchild.bsky.social @farterchild.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Is it the least homophobic metro area on the East Coast? Yes. Does it fluoridate its water? Also, yes.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Marblehead (where I grew up) deserves the attention it’s getting from this extremely cool dude but it is unfortunately not alone in “meeting” 3A requirements in a way where no housing will actually be built. If you’re in MA, channel this moment’s energy into changing the law. #Chowder #Nomar
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/04/2026
It’s extra important for your Members of Congress to hear from you right now. The GOP is trying to give ICE and Border Patrol up to $140 billion more to fund Trump’s concentration camps and militarized deployments to US cities. Urge your representative to vote NO on the reconciliation legislation.
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Demand Your Representative Stop Bankrolling ICE Brutality
Email your representative and urge them to vote NO on the reconciliation budget resolution that will shovel more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/04/2026
The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM
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ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job
Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.
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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
HUGE WIN FOR DATA PRIVACY: Virginia has banned the sale of personal location data. Our state lawmakers should do the same. The Mass. Consumer Data Privacy Act (H.4746) can protect us all from this dangerous practice. therecord.media/virginia-ena...
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Virginia enacts ban on precise geolocation data sales as momentum for similar prohibitions builds
The legislation bars the sale of geolocation within a 1,750 foot radius, a buffer large enough to keep data brokers from pinpointing where consumers live, work, worship, shop and otherwise travel.
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Payton Chung @westnorth.com · 05/04/2026
When a 1-unit house is replaced with ONE larger house, the new house is ~3X pricier. When replaced by 5+ houses, each new house will be (on avg) cheaper than the original house. www.aei.org/research-pro... Change is part of the deal. Will we choose greater physical change, or greater price change?
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TITLE: Conversion Properties: Median Price Change  between the Unit Replaced and the Median of the New Units Built: by Total # of Units After. 
NOTE: A conversion is defined as the act of tearing down a an existing single-family detached structure and replacing it with a new structure of varying unit totals. Data pertain to over 3,000 conversions identified in Seattle, which resulted in about 12,000 new units from the mid-1990s onward.
Source: AEI Housing Center, www.AEI.org/housing
The price change for 1 unit replacing 1 unit is 200%, for 2 units is ~50%, for 3 units ~15%, for 4 units nil. For 5+ units the price change is negative.
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Enrique J. Pepén @enriquepepen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Boston Must Build a More Affordable Future, Now substack.com/@enriquepepe...
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Boston Must Build a More Affordable Future, Now
Yesterday, in my role as Chair of the Boston City Council’s Housing Committee, I convened a hearing on one of the most urgent issues facing our city: the rising cost of housing and the growing gap bet...
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farterchild.bsky.social @farterchild.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I wish Boston had a mayor with this attitude.
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farterchild.bsky.social @farterchild.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Bae caught me slippin meme
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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Delivery drivers are unloading in the Washington St bike lane 😬. People who bike in Boston deserve better. This kind of malpractice is not an inconvenience, it's endangerment @mayorwu.boston.gov @streets.boston.gov @mohammedmissouri.bsky.social @lizbreadon.bsky.social @edflynnforboston.bsky.social
Delivery driver parked in bidirectional bike lane totally blocking passageDriver unloading kegs of beer while parked in bike lane
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