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Working to change local politics in Cambridge, MA: letschangecambridge.us Written by Itamar Turner-Trauring, all opinions are my own and do not represent those of any organizations I am part of #CambMA #CambridgeMA

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 17h
median Cambridge homeowner politics
Picture of a wooden fence outside a single-family home.  On one side of the fence is a "Black Lives Matter" sign, somewhat deface by spraypaint.  On the other side of the fence is a "Pause the Upzoning" campaign sign.
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Sam Greenberg @samjgreenberg.com · 29/09/2026
The WSJ is complaining that rents are low in Portland due to an “oversupply of new housing.” 😈 www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 29/09/2026
Cambridge 4 Palestine is having a rally at Cambridge City Hall tonight at 5:30PM. Speakers include @councilloralzubi.bsky.social @votejivan.bsky.social @electerika.bsky.social @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social and Rabbi Greg Hersh.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 29/09/2026
If you listen to people at City Council speaking against the multi-family zoning, you would think that displacement started last year... Reality is you could ban building new buildings tomorrow and displacement would continue, we know that because that's exactly what happened in my neighborhood.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 29/09/2026
@misctakes.com that was you speaking, right?
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 28/09/2026
Luisa de Paula Santos shows up to call for reduction to homeowner exemption on property taxes 😍
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 28/09/2026
Shout out to @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social and @lauraclawson.bsky.social for speaking in support of CPSD paraprofessionals.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 28/09/2026
TIL that when someone buys a $2 million house and turns it into apartments that cost a lot less than that it's gentrification. Gotta love old rich people.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 28/09/2026
10/10 www.reddit.com/r/boston/com...
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From the boston community on Reddit: Tremendous Storrowing on Memorial Dr this morning
Explore this post and more from the boston community
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Darren Buck @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is so clever
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mass folks, take a moment to ask Healey to NOT cut the gas tax!! Spend that money on transit, an e-bike subsidy, quick build bike and pedestrian projects! www.mass.gov/info-details...
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Community Pedal Power @communitypedalpower.org · 26/09/2026
RAIN DATE! RAIN DATE! RAIN DATE! We know you’ve got cargo-curious neighbors, friends, and colleagues. Invite them to our last Test Drive of the year! Register ahead of time at www.familybikeride.org/testdrive
Event Flyer
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 26/09/2026
'In at least one statement to the press, Lander referred to the Sept. 1 election as a “date chosen to disenfranchise renters across the district”...' Exactly.
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You know what Boston & MA elected officials could do to protect us from storms worsened by burning fossil fuels? Help us stop burning fossil fuels! Instead they’re ripping out bike lanes & trying to cut the gas tax @kateselig.bsky.social @nikigriswold.bsky.social
bostonglobe.com
Monster nor’easters are growing stronger thanks to climate change. Boston is ‘fundamentally’ unprotected. - The Boston Globe
Boston has a $10 billion plan to combat coastal flooding, but in the meantime, some say the city is a sitting duck.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 24/09/2026
Every time I get boomer-scamming PAC fundraising messages ("You won't BELIEVE what Trump is doing to ActBlue! Even Rachel Maddow... blah blah blah") I now click the "delete and mark spam", in the hopes a few less people will be scammed.
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CargoB @ridecargob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This summer, CargoB riders removed 4,800 Car Miles from the congested streets of Boston, moving camp drop-offs, picnics, and grocery runs, to the bike path! As a thank you, we’re giving you 30% off your next ride with code “Fall30”
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Darren Buck @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cantabrigian user of Nextdoor giving us a glimpse into their weird ecofascist fantasies
A Nextdoor post with a pic of a cartoon teller, surrounded by stumps, wielding a chainsaw and cutting down a building, with four more behind. Captioned: What #environmentalists like me dream about: badass #trees that find their own way to fight back.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 24/09/2026
This is the same set of choices I came up with independently—
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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Compare and contrast: $79M to build a bike and pedestrian bridge vs $120M for a gas tax cut mass.streetsblog.org/2026/09/23/m... mass.streetsblog.org/2026/09/23/i...
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MassDOT Board Approves $79 Million Contract to Start Building Mystic River Bike and Pedestrian Bridge - Streetsblog Massachusetts
MassDOT expects the construction project to last about three years.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you missed last night's @progressivemass.bsky.social ballot question info session, you can check it out here: youtu.be/PeoSul621uE.
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Progressive Mass 2026 Ballot Question Info Session
YouTube video by Progressive Massachusetts
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 23/09/2026
Vote NO on 3! (Top 2 primaries)
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 22/09/2026
So glad we elected a tax-cutting moderate Republican for governor.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another cop accused of tracking his ex with Flock, former Methuen police chief sentenced for fraud, and more—here are the media reports of alleged law enforcement misconduct in #Massachusetts that I’ve tracked during the last week.
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Mass law enforcement misconduct news, Sept. 14-20
Another cop accused of tracking his ex with Flock, former Methuen police chief sentenced for fraud, and more
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 22/09/2026
This was the case for me! So I got a booster. And then years later forgot about the above, got the test again, and hey my immunity is now much higher. It works! (If you're young you had multiple vax rounds and it's less likely, but I was vaccinated in 1980s and also moved countries as a child.)
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 22/09/2026
Pro tip: If you're scheduling a rally on short notice, check the weather in advance!
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Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler @votejivan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A little drizzle couldn’t stop the appreciation for the Broadway Safety Improvement work! Safer streets are worth celebrating 🎉
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 19/09/2026
Dutch boomers: Stop the child murder! American boomers: Making streets safer is just like killing people! See for this affidavit by John Hanratty, City Council candidate, as part of a lawsuit to remove all bike lanes in Cambridge.
"In my opinion, the City Council has enabled the small, well-organized biker lobby to run over the neighborhoods' will. The rollout goes from neighborhood to neighborhood, giving little time to organize and react. The biker community is well organized and has a dedicated crew that floats with the implementation. It's like seasoned mercenaries attacking unsuspecting villages as they cross the countryside. These mercernaries are not from the neighborhood, and some are not from Cambridge. yet, they overwhelm local communities repeatedly with the same team."
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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 18/09/2026
IfNotNow Movement is bringing together Jews from across the country for a national call and our first-ever virtual fundraiser to help elect @abdulelsayed.bsky.social to the US Senate! innmvmt.org/jewsforabdulcall
Jews for Shared Safety
A National Call & Fundraiser to support Abdul El-Sayed

September 30, 2026, 8-9pm ET

Register for link: innmvmt.org/jewsforabdulcall
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 14/09/2026
Joke's on him, I _applied_ to have my Israeli citizenship stripped more than a year ago and it still hasn't happened, so even if he gets any traction the paperwork will just get stuck in a pile somewhere. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“One New Bedford police officer searched the license plate of her ex-girlfriend more than 650 times in Flock. She then ran the plate of her ex’s new romantic partner more than 200 times this summer, tagging the searches as a ‘traffic infraction.’” #Massachusetts
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New Bedford police internal affairs reports detail Flock misuse - The New Bedford Light
One officer searched her ex-girlfriend’s license plate more than 650 times. Another officer ran his girlfriend’s plate nearly 70 times.
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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When it comes to ballot questions, follow the money. The funding for Question 3 isn’t coming from democracy advocates. It’s coming from private equity execs and venture capitalists who bankroll education privatization, conservative Dems, and Republicans across the country. #NoOn3
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 13/09/2026
Phil Eng shouldn't have a job anymore...
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 11/09/2026
My experience with Novavax was that I still got side-effects, but delayed by a couple of days, so it made planning ahead more annoying than mRNA 🤷 Regardless, get vaccinated, it's still way better than getting sick (or getting Long COVID, or giving the disease to someone more vulnerable than you).
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 10/09/2026
Shout out the Governor and Legislature for setting the primary to September 1st. According to the Senate press release on the subject, it was "the optimal date for voter participation", and the resulting voter suppression of Boston-area renters probably did help Sen. Brownsberger win.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wow, it's totally worth giving police tools to stalk women if they can also use them to solve big cases like this.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 10/09/2026
Apparently David Morales has sidewalk snow removal on his platform for Providence Mayor. Would be nice to see a local example after we keep being told it's impossible (though in practice I'm doubtful it'll happen).
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 09/09/2026
Note the implication in the poster that anyone who uses the bus and wants it to go faster is weakening the community. There's a very influential segment of car drivers who have a hard time believing that non-drivers are human.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/09/2026
my latest: Massachusetts is one of the safest states for trans people—but multiple hospitals preemptively ended youth trans care over Trump admin threats to cut fed funding. on Wed, trans activists took their HRT at a govt office and refused to leave without a commitment to fight those hospitals.
theguardian.com
Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it
Activists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook office
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Amber Ying 應 緣 @amberying.com · 08/09/2026
HEY BOSTON Sept 14 is Sex Worker Pride Day! This will be the first march celebrating the day in Boston!
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Family Bike Ride @familybikeride.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Save the date for Sept 27th, get your cargo bike research done! Speak to owners of cargo bikes who live in your community and are volunteering their time to help you make the best decision for your family. info/register: www.familybikeride.org/testdrive
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you're in MA, you can also sign on and pressure your legislators to pass the expanded People's PROTECT Act which would prohibit law enforcement information sharing with ICE (ban all 287(G) contracts!), expand virtual court access, and improve the U/T visa certification process for survivors.
lucemass.org
The People's Protect Act Platform — LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA
LUCE is amplifying this policy platform, signed and authored by immigrant organizations and faith groups.
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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 06/09/2026
I am going to have side effects from the COVID vaccine, as I always do. But I'm going to get vaccinated anyway, because one weekend day of feeling crappy is a small price to pay for keeping other people safe (and reducing my chances of getting sick is pretty nice too).
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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We could never shut down a street to traffic no one would go there!
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Robert G. Logan @rloganw9.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"The Coalition for Healthy Democracy, led by Harvard University professor Danielle Allen, drew a large chunk of its money from private equity executives..." Makes me wonder how "healthy" this is for democracy. #MApoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/05/m...
bostonglobe.com
Campaigns behind record-tying slate of ballot questions have raised $10m this year, with more to come - The Boston Globe
The millions raised so far this year are only a fraction of the cash interested parties plan to put behind the slate of questions.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New ballot question reports are in, and it couldn’t be more clear: Question 3 (jungle primaries / all-party primaries / top two) is an effort by billionaires to rig our election system in their favor.
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BlackJew 🏳️‍⚧️ @blackjew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The yes on 3 Jungle Primaries are about to bombard Massachusetts with ads. This is a reminder, if you think billionaire hedge fund managers and AI bros gave $3million to encourage more people to run for office and help make your life better, you may be the most gullible person alive. #mapoli
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CourtWatchMA @courtwatchma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What continues to happen day in and day out at South Bay is unconscionable. The continuing use of force by officers involved in a killing! The regular irregular brutality. #mapoli Read more about what @plsma.bsky.social has documented via @masslive.bsky.social: www.masslive.com/boston/2026/...
masslive.com
Officers tied to Shacoby Kenny death still working with prisoners at Boston jail, advocates say
Since Kenny’s death, his mother and other political leaders have called for the officers involved to be suspended while the investigation is pending.
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