This is so disgusting. Force feeding is torture. It's extremely painful. And these poor people are being so mistreated by ICE that they are choosing hunger strike and then being tortured. ICE is beyond redemption and must be eliminated by Congress. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed

Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation

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I appreciate the city’s transparency and the efforts of DTM but this Is so bad (I doubt they’d disagree). Our real problem is most of our council who are car brained and will sacrifice any number of people if it means keeping the status quo and helping people get across the city 30 seconds faster 😡

Huge props to the organizers and attendees at this great event for keeping the pressure up. I came in from Worcester to express solidarity with our allies in Boston during this tragic circumstance. But also, we in the rest of the state *need* Boston to lead, not fall behind. Critical.

Peter Cheung@bostonaruban.bsky.social · 2d ago

#NoMoreGhostBikes

Love to see some actual good news. 🙂

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3d ago

In happier news, it turns out that blueberries grown beneath solar panels turn out sweeter! 🫐 (via @billmckibben.bsky.social)

Big crowd forming for critical mass tonight ❤️

Who’s at critical mass tonight?

Correct. The Trump administration have behaved disgustingly on the world stage. Hard to even find words strong enough.

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · last wk.

France said: "the US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore." The US walked out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87nj3w9gxjo

Of course, the thing is while Trump says crazy shit all the time it's generally either: a) Something he won't do; b) Something he won't do/maintain if everyone yells loud enough; or c) Something he will do regardless. ... and we can't always tell which, so it's worth screaming in case it's b.

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · last wk.

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I would check: - Climate change - Political extremism - Online misinformation (Online dis/mis information and radicalization is really the skeleton key to many of these other dysfunctions)

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.

What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Or a new bike lane..

Jonathan Berk 🏠@berkie1.bsky.social · last wk.

this painting from the Salem Witch Trials looks remarkably similar to a community meeting for a new housing development…

The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it."

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Fast-moving wildfires in Spain and France, including near Bordeaux, forced over 200,000 people to evacuate or to shelter at home. Follow live updates.

It's wild to me how many people do not understand this. "Luxury housing" is not some ontologically separate category from the rest of the housing market. Nor is "affordable housing." It's all one big fluid market & when you build more, everyone moves up & frees up the bottom end.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2w ago

The idea that the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor are all in completely separate housing markets with no overlap ignores how things work in the real world. In the absence of new high end housing, wealthy people outbid the middle class for the best available existing housing and renovate it.

This is peak both sides bullshit, because bike lane opponents don't care about "creating safe streets for everyone." They care about parking and being able to speed. And they draw false equivalences between drivers and bikers that car-brained pundits like Joan Venocchi lap up eagerly. Such garbage.

The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡@thebostonlol.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another day, another 💩 anti-bike editorial, this time in the Globe @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Absolutely fact-free Joan Vennochi screed that says Vision Zero is unpossible and bikers choose their own deaths 😡 LET THEM KNOW THIS IS TRASH letter@globe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/22/o...)

OoooK… Time to turn everything off..

An OpenAI test model escaped and broke into a real company’s servers | CNN Business

OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models left a test environment with no human direction and hacked their way onto a different company’s real production systems while trying to “cheat” on a cybe...

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While imperfect and unevenly enforced, the Americans with Disabilities Act was a genuine civil rights milestone that has literally reshaped our society for the better. We should celebrate it loudly.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w ago

This month is the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and it reminds me that the ADA could not be passed today. It probably couldn’t get a vote in committee today.

The right wing echo chamber turns people utterly delusional. ^ Today’s statement of the bleeding obvious.

Patrick Ness@patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey, gay people! This straight lady knows more about us than we do ourselves! Better not disagree or she’ll sue you into silence as well.

Argentina’s team have behaved just shamefully. Thank goodness Spain ended their tournament.

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Cynical, scheming, boring and then - finally, inevitably - violent. Properly shameful operation which shouldn't be whitewashed by being called 'streetwise'.

Exactly what I thought. Utterly discordant with reality.

Marina Purkiss@marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…

Go Spain!!! 🇪🇸🇪🇸❤️❤️

Every time a violent driver hits a safety feature with their car, a human gets to live the rest of their life.

Harvey J. Miller@mobileharv.bsky.social · 2w ago

In other words they are doing their job

Vehicular cyclists get their way (left) Or Build infrastructure (right)

The @bostonglobe.com needs to retract this repulsive victim blaming opinion piece by a well known avid vehicular cyclist moron.

The preventable blind spot trap killing Boston’s cyclists - The Boston Globe

Large trucks turning right can sweep cyclists into their rear wheels in an instant. Understanding this deadly dynamic could save lives.

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Ok now we all need to hold her to the demands in the open letter. I want to believe her but actions and tangible results are needed in the very short term. Words are insufficient.

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 3w ago

As a crowd of hundreds mourned cyclist Louisa Gag, Mayor Michelle Wu addressed outrage over delayed infrastructure projects and pledged to improve street safety.

And you must risk the lives of yourself and others. And you must contribute to the destruction of the planet. And you must contribute to ruining the places you want to visit. And btw you’d probably better stop when you get old.

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 3w ago

Humans: "I would like to go get food, get to work or school, and have a little fun now and then." The society humans built: "Sure thing. That will cost you $12,000 a year and you can only do it if you're above a certain age and physically capable of operating heavy machinery."

Ok now we all need to hold her to the demands in the open letter. I want to believe her but actions and tangible results are needed in the very short term. Words are insufficient.

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 3w ago

As a crowd of hundreds mourned cyclist Louisa Gag, Mayor Michelle Wu addressed outrage over delayed infrastructure projects and pledged to improve street safety.

Wu needs to address this and take extensive and immediate action. This needs to be the defining issue of the rest of her term. The voters gave her a huge mandate to follow through on street safety infrastructure when she beat Kraft by so much.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is just brutal. “Mayor Wu’s administration had already identified the Mission Hill intersection where Louisa Gag was killed last week as a threat to public safety & had spent over a hundred thousand dollars to develop plans to make the area safer.” Then they didn’t do it. Killed by politics.

Not Paris, not Copenhagen, not Utrecht.. SOMERVILLE MA. They are doing it. And just 40 miles away Worcester MA was just named the 4th most dangerous city IN THE COUNTRY. We are not so special. It *can* be done. Our council are deliberately choosing not to do it.

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Somerville has lowered speed limits all over..., repainted and shortened crosswalks..., added new speed humps, fixed sidewalks, expanded its bike-lane network, installed new bus stops and bus lanes and stepped up ticketing for distracted driving" AND ITS WORKED www.governing.com/infrastructu...

England forever forced to lose in the most painful way possible.

Good thread on the political context surrounding the horrendous, tragic, and preventable death of Louisa Gag in Boston. It’s maddening.

Matt Lawlor@mattjlawlor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ok. Here goes: 1/20 (I think) - For context it’s important to me to remember that safer streets were integral to @wutrain.bsky.social and her council tenure and I was there through all of it. It was one of her defining policy through lines, including a series of hearings that exposed how shallow…