This year the Working Families party of Massachusetts is endorsing a slate in the Democratic primaries on September 1st. On Friday, join them in support of the Lowell slate for state house, including my own representative, Tara Hong! #mapoli mobilize.us/s/ig5Os4

Welcome to the Party, Lowell! Featuring Lorena Betts & Tara Hong · Massachusetts Working Families Party

Ready to start building WFP in Lowell? Welcome to the Party! Join us for an evening kicking off Working Families Party in Lowell. We'll talk about how to win political power for the multiracial worki...

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Saganomics@saganomics.bsky.social · last wk.

On August 7th there is an in-person event to support the Working Families slate in the three Lowell house districts. Join 18th Middlesex State Rep. Tara Hong, me, and the candidates for the open 16th and 17th Middlesex districts then! #mapoli

When the Republicans pantomime looking fearful and faint and say “oh no, anyone but that!” they‘re not even subtly telling you exactly who they already have zeroed in to get slammed the hardest.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d ago

Leaked memo shows Republicans privately see Francesca Hong as "uniquely dangerous" in the general election & that “more moderate and establishment Democratic alternatives would likely produce lower base motivation and depressed turnout": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/will-franc...

It’s Amy Coney Barrett all over again. Collins, facing reelection, will vote no on an anti-abortion nominee who gets confirmed anyway

Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social · 23h ago

BREAKING: Susan Collins cited our report on Blanche's promise on a private call with religious activists to restrict abortion pills in announcing today she will not vote to confirm him. www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

This year the Working Families party of Massachusetts is endorsing a slate in the Democratic primaries on September 1st. On Friday, join them in support of the Lowell slate for state house, including my own representative, Tara Hong! #mapoli mobilize.us/s/ig5Os4

Welcome to the Party, Lowell! Featuring Lorena Betts & Tara Hong · Massachusetts Working Families Party

Ready to start building WFP in Lowell? Welcome to the Party! Join us for an evening kicking off Working Families Party in Lowell. We'll talk about how to win political power for the multiracial worki...

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Saganomics@saganomics.bsky.social · last wk.

On August 7th there is an in-person event to support the Working Families slate in the three Lowell house districts. Join 18th Middlesex State Rep. Tara Hong, me, and the candidates for the open 16th and 17th Middlesex districts then! #mapoli

Big primary day today with elections in KS, MI, MO, VA, and WA. If you live there, vote. If you know someone who lives there - especially Michigan - call them, and make sure they vote. November determines which party holds power. Primaries determine what kind of parties we have.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

”We have nothing to fear but fear itself” was a great, succinct description of markets as social phenomena, and this year has shown that there’s a corollary “everything is great if we all believe together that it is” to some degree as well.

Vote no on Question 8. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/04/b...

They were arrested for weed, then became cannabis entrepreneurs. What happens if the repeal ballot question passes? - The Boston Globe

A November ballot question could end recreational marijuana sales, potentially sinking dozens of businesses in the state's social equity programs.

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There is rising actual antisemitism and conspiracism surrounding the state of Israel and its place in global affairs. And the organizations that should exist to call that out are wasting all of their credibility refusing to distinguish conspiracies from accurate descriptions of Israeli war crimes.

A shocking number of people believe, with zero evidence, that Israel is behind Moroccan migrants into Spain, which is just the Great Replacement conspiracy. Meanwhile, US Jewish orgs have declared war on Mamdani for accurately describing Netanyahu as a war criminal. www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

Israel's fault? The conspiracy theory surrounding Spain's Ceuta border crossings

About 60,000 migrants crossing into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta triggered conspiracy theories from across the political spectrum: Israel and the United States unleashed them in a bid to pun...

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92 days until Election Day

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

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

A good reminder of how utterly useless any and all Republican senators are

George Pearkes@peark.es · 2d ago

*REPUBLICAN SENATORS DROP BLOCK ON TRUMP'S ATTORNEY GENERAL PICK

the telling thing isn’t what he says it’s all the praise he gets for saying it

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d ago

just woke up to the Jays are buying at the deadline and Pete Crow-Armstrong thinks Babe Ruth was made-up

"Zoning powers... should not be left unchecked, but should be subject to sensible controls & restrictions; & that the towns have misused their zoning powers in trying to prevent residential development through large lot zoning.” 📰 Boston Globe 📅 February 14, 1960

but because of media consolidation (and other factors), if it’s not happening in NY or DC, it’s not making it to national news

Justin Fox@byjustinfox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nearly 20% of US "news analysts, reporters and journalists" are in the New York and DC metro areas, up from a little over 10% a quarter century ago. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

in some cases, yes! oregon’s senators have both repeatedly pressed FEMA for details on denials of funding and oregon’s AG has been very loud and very busy about all of the different ways he’s suing the admin

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 2d ago

Are the senators, representatives, and governors of these states raising a huge outcry about this that I’m just not hearing?

this boils down to "the pandemic didn't actually happen but they still closed the applebees" which frankly i think is a trauma response by a lot of people that buy it - lot easier to be in denial that things were that bad instead of reckoning with 1.3m dead people [in this country]

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

I don't see how stuff like this doesn't backfire once it's implemented. Like, even if the median voter is mildly transphobia, annually humiliating everyone's daughter who plays sports makes a theoretical problem into an actual, widespread problem.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Because the Federal Reserve board is the only federal board or commission whose statutory terms were not invalidated by the Roberts court, another reason beyond courts that it’s important we win the Senate is control of who’s appointed to the Fed next year and beyond as well.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

DUY: Warsh “probably helped ensure that Biden appointees do not leave the board voluntarily ..” (via @weisenthal.bsky.social)

Genuinely destabilizing events being ignored because the press no longer knows real fear

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

i am begging you — including some of you who follow me that i'm seeing in the OP QTs — to actually read what senate democrats are getting out of this and to stop and think for, like, at least 90 seconds, about what *else* you think a minority party *in both chambers* can squeeze out of the majority

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

like clockwork, man, quick, put the war away before the markets come back from the weekend

Reuters@reuters.com · 3d ago

Oil tumbles as Trump cancels attack on Iran to reach nuclear deal reut.rs/3TzpU26

Join me later today!

Saganomics@saganomics.bsky.social · 6d ago

This Sunday August 2nd at 5pm, join the LDCC, Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll, and others at Lowell's Shedd Park Pavilion for the 3rd annual Lowell Summer Picnic! We'll hear from US Senate campaigns, Middlesex DA candidates, and other elected officials & campaigns! #mapoli www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

This is what I mean when I talk about the Fantasy of the Optional Pandemic, where the virus was erased from the equation and mitigation measures were always portrayed as an avoidable choice. Headlines about what actually happened are never even acknowledged.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

The inevitable result of "RELIGIOUS LIBERTY" vaccine exemptions: punishments against religions that support vaccines.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.

Capital One’s lawyers would not have signed-off on closing Trump’s account unless the money laundering evidence was very strong; it would simply be way too much of a legal/reputational risk

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/

Tomorrow! Join Lowell area Democrats for some burgers, dogs and other snacks as we look towards the state primary one month away and midterm election in just three months! #mapoli

Saganomics@saganomics.bsky.social · 6d ago

This Sunday August 2nd at 5pm, join the LDCC, Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll, and others at Lowell's Shedd Park Pavilion for the 3rd annual Lowell Summer Picnic! We'll hear from US Senate campaigns, Middlesex DA candidates, and other elected officials & campaigns! #mapoli www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...