Why does every book get a 3.9 on Goodreads.

"she asked for it"

Today, my town has a "Gas Leaks Safari". 🙏🏽 "The Town of Arlington's Gas Leaks Task Force will lead a two-hour tour of National Grid's gas leaks in town. We will field test the company's gas leak repairs and we will demonstrate that more action is urgently needed." www.arlingtonma.gov/Home/Compone...

"As data and information is getting purposefully disappeared from the internet... archiving becomes increasingly necessary, or else, the public cannot bear witness to itself." conversationalist.org/2026/04/10/g...

On Guerrilla Archives in the Disinformation Age

How the archival work of librarians and other activists helps preserve more than just history.

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"Minnesota governor Tim Walz commented: 'Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.'” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

June 20, 2026

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a metaphor for the Trump presidency.

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"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses

The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first

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Very glad to see this. Thank you @massgovernor.bsky.social and team. www.wwlp.com/news/massach...

Massachusetts joins global conservation network IUCN

The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced that Massachusetts is now an official member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a global network of more than 1,400 governments and …

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One of my students is at the TPUGA event with JD Vance and Erica Kirk. They say it is only 1/8 full! 😂

For those who hope this war will save Iranians from an oppressive regime... it might sicken and kill them instead.

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 5mo ago

America and Israel are in essence waging chemical war in Iran, filling the air above its metropolis with toxic smoke after lighting its oil storage depots on fire. How is anyone supposed to "rise up" when they can't breathe? open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Denying climate change and it's causes is no different than denying gravity. It is an argument made by idiots. It does not change the laws of nature, but when used to change the laws of the country, people will die. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

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There are 8.3 billion people in the world. Let this sink in: "In the 12 months to April [2025], 91 people became billionaires through inheritance" www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds

The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.

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Everytime I think I couldn't love her more, she proves me wrong. Muy linda, Mayor Wu.

And if you don’t think that was explicitly political you were maybe not watching things like… the sugar cane fields? Electric poles? The men grinding on each other? The little boy? The americas shout out? What moooore do you want?

Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR

trump almost certainly trying to figure out if he can deport people back to puerto rico right now lol

I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.

It doesn’t seem like Epstein is a hoax after all.

I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis. I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

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Actually, since we're well before the Nuremberg/accountability phase, this is important information. Sure, she's deflecting blame... but intentionally or not she's also reminding everyone that this is coming from the top. That firing Bovino and possibly her will not change the fascist reality.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So basically Albert Speer’s defense at Nuremberg.

I am thrilled that @mprnews.org is doing a live call-in. But the rightwing guy who was just on made me feel physically ill. ICE is saving abandoned children, people confronting ICE are to blame for their own hurt, MPR is telling lies, etc. I forgot to breathe. Such hate and gaslighting.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Naomi Kritzer@naomikritzer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.

Ha! Well, that was fast.

Rekha Murthy@rekha6.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Get this guy a rage room and maybe he'll leave us alone.

Get this guy a rage room and maybe he'll leave us alone.

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

DHS is using explosives on people’s homes??? “Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.