Fun fact: if the Mayor ever actually enforced the Vacant Property Ordinance (2019) it would require regular inspections by ISD which could identify hazardous conditions and compel the owner to repair or condemn and demolish. The law exists. Ask @mayorjakewilson.bsky.social when it will get enforced

K-e-n-j-i@kenjimallon.bsky.social · last wk.

Serious question: is Somerville going to just let New Asia collapse and put people in danger like the building next to Liberty cannabis or are they going to make the owner safely dismantle it?

"Some [centrists] vow to wage war against the rising popular tide of socialist solutions. War was never on the table for fascists, I notice. For fascists, the ideas is always to unify over shared values, come together across the aisle, find some bipartisan common ground."

Soon You Too Will Be A Commie

Accepting a bully's framing won't save you a beating. Why solidarity is the best way out.

the-reframe.com

Y'all should know that ANYONE peddling this line of shit can, in my humble opinion, fuck all the way off Vote Markey. @markey.senate.gov

Paul@pawlbologna.bsky.social · last wk.

Seth Moulton at No Labels conference: "Maybe trans rights should not be absolute." "I'm being primaried over a sentence." "The backlash proved my point."

This is the kind of content that I stay on Bluesky for, tbh

Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

It turns out the Resistance Lib/Blue MAGA fantasia was actually always the mirage, their hollow platform of performative, gormless oppositionalism is useless to most people, and Democrat voters want practical answers to the problems that affect their everyday lives. Whoda thunk it?

Ben Schwartz@benschwartz.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've now lived long enough to see the Kennedys and Nixons do the funniest political body swap comedy ever.

Again an American city is under military occupation by a federal government which denies its residents self-determination largely on the basis of anti-Black racism.

Rachel Kurzius@curiouskurz.bsky.social · 3w ago

DC Council called on state govs to withdraw Natl Guard troops by 9/1, citing waste of taxpayer $ and "militarization of civilian spaces" DOJ just attacked them. "Your politically-motivated letter is impotent theatrics not worth the paper it’s written on" www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Oh, you mean to say that it is wholly insufficient for a City Council to have to rely upon a City Attorney who works for and is beholden to the executive branch as their sole legal advisor? Hmm. I recall saying this for many years, and yet when we had the chance to address this in the Charter...

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 3w ago

I have genuine sympathy for the St. Paul City Council Members who relied on the shoddy counsel given to them. It's a tough way to learn that, in a strong mayor system, the City Attorney's office is not a neutral and impartial advisor. A good lesson that looking outside the exec branch can be helpful

This is why body cameras are so often a false or at least insufficient solution: the people who are the problem control the footage. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE will not reveal body-camera footage unless in agency’s ‘best interests’

Much-delayed devices to be deployed by end of month after immigration agents involved in deaths or serious injuries

theguardian.com

This is the mood of your electorate. Match it or lose. www.gadgetreview.com/salem-brough...

Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'.

Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents — and a guillotine — pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.

gadgetreview.com

Look, its a good article amd worth reading... but i also gotta say using this image for the Defendant icon seems indicative of a certain bias at least, if not outright prejudicial.

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

Don't sell him short: he also obliterated our international diplomatic and trade agreements, cost countless lives around the world, gutted our environmental and public health institutions, rolled back regulations and consumer protections, and extended the war in Ukraine while undermining our allies.

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 4w ago

And what did he spend the other 30% of his limited mental capacity on? 1. Cheating at golf. 2. Bilking taxpayers via tariffs. 3. The Iran War. 4. Taking bribes. 5. Using the government to self-deal. 6. Tax breaks for his pals. That's it. He's by far the worst POTUS in history.

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

Little known fact: I am also an Eagle Scout. I have complicated feelings about the history of BSA and the current SA, and literally no one has asked for my opinion about this. But it sucks, AND I understand that they are steering a big ship through some dangerous waters. The thing is...

Dan Kennedy@dankennedy.net · last mo.

I’m an Eagle scout and the father of an Eagle scout. This is a shameful act of giving in to a bully and failing to stand by your young members. apnews.com/article/scou...

The thing that gets me is when entitled tech bros wander up on stuff that people spend their literal whole careers carefully building and are like "bruh, probably nobody smart has ever looked at this before. I vibe coded an app. Donezo." bsky.app/profile/some...

Chris Dwan (he/him)@somershade.bsky.social · last mo.

The wholesale assault on truth itself … on reliable information … it is deliberate. The goal is to keep us weak and confused. Fight that by reading books. Paper ones if you can get them. Gather with smart friends and talk about serious stuff. Laugh too for sure, but exercise your mind. 5/?

The state police finally got back to me about my request from March and said "wow, that's a lot of data, we're working on it real hard and maybe next month we'll give you another update." In case anybody wanted a real world example of public records requests for video held by the police.

Emma Landis is the woman who was shot, and here is her gofundme. The gofundme contains a narrative about what happened: the woman was engaged in peaceful protest, spoke to an agent, and he shot her in the foot. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...

Donate to Support Emma Landis After Aurora ICE Shooting, organized by drew hegedus

My best friend has always stood up for what’s right, and yesterday was no e… drew hegedus needs your support for Support Emma Landis After Aurora ICE Shooting

gofundme.com

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

AP has the details on David Brouillette, the ICE agent who murdered Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine this week—a long trail of wild violence against women that got him kicked out of a Maine police force, but made him a prime hiring target for ICE. apnews.com/article/ice-...

AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...

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Oh FFS

Chris Dwan (he/him)@somershade.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Mayor has called a meeting of the city council, Monday, July 27 at 6:30pm, to continue his full court press to (a) accept a state grant to buy body worn cameras (b) get the surveillance technology impact report approved so (c) he can give the cops a raise. There will be a public hearing. 1/?

Really captures Massachusetts politics

I'm feeling a bit like an organized transnational threat, but these kids ain't gonna put themselves to bed

Readers: if this meant something to you, please know that I survive or don't on my freelance income, and my tip jar is open on venmo magdalene-visaggio every dollar helps

Writing a gay romance about landscapers from neighboring golf courses Call it Seeded Rivalry

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

im writing a gay arctic exploration romance novel but its set in 1907 im 30,000 words in call it unheated rivalry

ICE killed a person they weren't even looking for AGAIN. Second time in the past week.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.

Shotspotter employee falsified evidence at the request of police But of course that would never happen here right? Right?

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3y ago

ShotSpotter can “misclassify fireworks or sounds from cars as gunshots, and that company employees can alter evidence; during a 2016 police shooting trial in Rochester, a ShotSpotter employee admitted to reclassifying sound from a helicopter to a bullet at the request of police.”

*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, takes a deep breath* so do we have ANY idea how many living US Senators there are right now?

The council is in executive session, apparently being told -exactly- how much money we're going to lose by tapping out on 90 Washington right now. Keep using it to store snow until interest rates come down, says me. Don't give in to the sunk cost fallacy. 42/?

ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.

So… Cheyenne, WY won't take data center wastewater anymore after Meta/FB's "Fill and Flush" process (how they test data center cooling systems) was responsible for polluting their whole community's wastewater reclamation system with Cupriavidus gilardii bacteria: cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/02/c...

Agreeing to pay the attorneys fees does not inspire confidence in the subsequent assertion that there’s no reason for you to pay the attorneys fees

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The feds just made it official: They won't fight a bid by members of the "Broadview 6" for attorneys' fees. They do "not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees." They also say there should be no discovery. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/dc/d1/e34a37...

Tomorrow is a big day in Chicago! It's the groundbreaking ceremony & celebration of the historic Chicago Torture Justice Memorial. The Memorial is the first state sponsored monument in the nation to commemorate law enforcement violence.