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Abundant Housing Massachusetts @abundanthousingma.org · 01/10/2026

We’re hiring canvassers across MA! Talk with voters about Question 7 & Legalize Starter Homes. 🗳️ Short-term, hourly positions through Nov. 3 📍 Massachusetts 📋 Applications accepted on a rolling basis Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If she's really for actual real googling stuff beyond the AI summary I would take that as a huge win.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“It’s kind of damning that it has taken Massachusetts this long because it really is a policy that the Legislature should have passed,” Cohn said, noting that MA and RI are the only New England states that have not implemented same-day voter registration. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

boston.com

Question 4 could allow Mass. voters to register on Election Day. Here’s what to know.

Supporters say Question 4 would expand voting access, while opponents argue same-day registration jeopardizes election integrity.

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Chris Oates @chrisoates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why are we framing a gas tax suspension as "relief", rather than a choice with trade-offs? Not sure, but there's a long history of talking about relief from taxes, starting with Richard Nixon in 1969 through George W. Bush in 2001.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

See also: No one uses the bike lane. Emissions from people commuting by car to Cambridge aren't Cambridge emissions. Not our ledger, not our problem. What housing crisis? Everyone in my social circle is fine.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Underdeveloped object permanence. If people don't live where I can see them, they stop existing, and that's good. If it's 50 trees being cut from a forest Elsewhere in the state rather than 1 tree on my city block, that's a climate win because I didn't ever personally witness tree removal.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"in the midst of a reelection campaign" - she's an incumbent Democrat in the bluest state running in what is likely a blue wave year. What is there to be afraid of? The embarrassment of winning by merely a large margin, rather than an extremely large margin?

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I also see no reason to take their word for it that the previous units were "modestly priced." In Cambridge, MA? Are the modestly priced apartments in the room with us right now?

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I bet you could crowdsource the money to print and mail it. I'd contribute. More than anything though we need to bring this energy to next year's council election. They're super angry, don't mind lying, and have both money and time to burn. Gonna be tough to hold onto a pro-housing majority.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This one makes sense if you consider what they want is control. One has parking, the other doesn't, and they didn't get to personally decide either one! And they couldn't have 3-5 yelly community meetings about it over the course of a year until the developer gave up.

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Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler @votejivan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Have you been asked to pay a broker’s fee to rent an apartment this year—after Massachusetts banned forced broker’s fees in 2025? I unfortunately have. Report it! ⬇️ forms.gle/DND8TfeoLbVQ...

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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 03/09/2026

Update: @cambbikesafety.bsky.social notes that Rose is the 5th person to be killed walking or biking along Memorial Drive since 2014. They've set up an online petition calling on @massdcr.bsky.social, which controls Memorial Drive, “to make major, permanent safety improvements now.”

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That's a bummer even if it wouldn't have changed who won.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This isn't an anti-Erika post. She won the race she ran in, just as her competitors were trying to do. It's just that this race was unusual in that it gave voters a genuine choice among several viable competing policy visions and theories of change, only for FPTP to flatten that somewhat.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think this is true and that it's classy of Burhan to say it publicly. But I also think this is a race that would have benefited from RCV. Two things are true here: 1) Erika won fair and square, and 2) a majority of voters preferred another candidate. RCV would resolve that disconnect.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sometimes that "how dare you" attitude spills over to supporters. The strength of incumbency in this state gives people the idea that a challenger is only appropriate if the incumbent has been involved in a scandal, and otherwise it's unfair. I don't love it.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't think I've ever met an elected who doesn't take the mere existence of a challenger incredibly personally. I wonder how specific that is to MA.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Reminder: If you have a mail ballot, put it in a dropbox now instead of sending it through the mail. It's too close to Primary Day to guarantee it arrives on time. Mail ballots need to be received by 8 pm on Tuesday.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NYC, famously not even a little bit weird. Totally lacking personality.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Going through our wedding photos and removing images of minors before we share more widely - normal, responsible. Having to constantly remind myself all my little cousins in their 20s aren't actually minors - devastating. 😱

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This race in particular would be so much better with ranked choice.

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Mary Shannon @maryshannonthomas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I early voted today! I love that I can do early voting for a primary... Voting is still critical no matter what you hear, and primaries are where you can make a tangible difference. Get out there and cast those ballots!! Downside; I didn't get a sticker, so enjoy some flowers instead.

A picture of white gladiolas, a brilliant orange zinnia and a delightfully orange sunflower in a vase on a white counter.

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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The US has 6x the bicycle fatality rate as the Netherlands! When people are safe, they ride bikes. Cambridge and Somerville invested heavily in bike and pedestrian safety and we've seen huge growth in biking.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A lower residential tax rate means a higher purchase price. A higher purchase price means a larger down payment required to secure good financing. That favors people with lots of liquid wealth over people who merely make middle class incomes.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Low residential property taxes starve municipalities of needed funds, as Burhan says. They're also a driver of widening economic inequality.

blog.landeconomics.org

Low property taxes freeze the youth out of the economy

A new paper shows low property taxes are locking young families out of homeownership.

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 17/08/2026

Eagerly waiting for a US city to please experiment with these. So much friendlier to sidewalk users (particularly those who use wheelchairs) than the stupid ramped cords.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don't think this is a reason not to do it, but I bet the conspiracy theories would be wild. Why don't I know anyone who's won?! This is just a wealth transfer from salt-of-the earth working class drivers to the tech bro bike lobby! I bet the winners are all friends of the city manager!

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Is it candidate-aligned, and if so, which candidate? Or just a general primary voting PSA?

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Jesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 08/08/2026

Really anyone with a nice falsetto. This is for a "voting in September" PSA, so good cause. And yeah we're not gonna do AI so it's finding someone who can sing or it doesn't happen.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's tax free weekend in Mass! So books et al will be 6.25% off all weekend! So if you've been waiting for an opportunity to say...buy out our run of Dalkey Archive Essentials...or, have Josh pick out 10 weird books for you, this is the weekend to do it!!!!

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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Over the last decade, Austin rents went up 93%. It was one of the worst rent spikes of any major American city. Then Austin changed its rules.

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 02/08/2026

Burhan is looking for “answers, suggestions, introductions or anything else send us an email to: vijetaandburhan.cancertreatment@gmail.com “ for his father-in-law’s brain tumor metastasized from an unknown primary tumor. Bluesky — you were born for this!

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

He had me at the predictability slide

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Cynthia Graber @cagraber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For the locals: after going to a group debate at SHS and considering all the candidates, all of whom basically share my general values, this is truly the level of knowledge, detail, savvy, and nerdery that I want in my state senator. @burhanazeem.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/CambridgeM...

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From the CambridgeMA community on Reddit: “What’s That About?” Cambridge Vice Mayor & Candidate for State Senate Burhan Azeem: Full Interview

Explore this post and more from the CambridgeMA community

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There's always room for improvement, but Cambridge is actually pretty good about making city data publicly accessible online. They even offer classes on how to navigate the various datasets. Pushing invention and speculation over actual data is a choice, and a bad one.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Could the city site be more user friendly? Better on mobile? Sure. But they don't make stuff up and call it fact, so I'm gonna go with that one.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you follow their "sources" it's self-reference all the way down, no independent facts or data. Their dev tracker is a mix of misinterpreted city data, AI slop, and crowdsourced speculation. The city tracks this stuff itself for anyone who cares about actual data:

cambridgema.gov

Development Log - CDD - City of Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Development Log, published quarterly, tracks larger-scale residential and commercial development projects.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Housing first works 🤷‍♀️

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Having the time and energy to make a salad first thing in the morning may be the least adult thing I've ever heard

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I am jotting things down in my little notebook. It is “game over” for my haters.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Constraining housing growth is exactly how you get rising homelessness too. Building a lot more housing is necessary (though not sufficient) to end homelessness. homelessnesshousingproblem.com

homelessnesshousingproblem.com

Homelessness is a Housing Problem

Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern (UC Press, early 2022)

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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We have sanctuary cities, but for whom? States like Massachusetts, California, and New York offer essential protections for marginalized people. You can't be a sanctuary for vulnerable people if you don't build the housing they need and can afford.

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Jess Sheehan @jfsheehan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So now of course they're mad and don't feel listened to. This petition wasted time and resources, confused people, and directed at least some unrelated anger towards the Council, the MZO, and the AHO. It had virtually no chance of being adopted but still caused plenty of issues.

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