Travis
@travtufts.bsky.social
Bostonian by choice | BPS parent | Public Ed enthusiast | Bike rider | Occasional organizer | Personal Chef to three | Broadcast editor & colorist Exclusion ≠ Excellence https://letterboxd.com/travtufts
Mayor Michelle Wu has joined more than 100 mayors and local government leaders nationwide in signing a letter calling for Congress to extend protected status for Haitians until early 2029 after the Trump administration terminated it.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, more than 100 city leaders urge Congress to extend TPS for Haitians - The Boston Globe
Massachusetts had the third-highest population of Haitian nationals of any state in 2024.
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Thank you @masslive.bsky.social and Will Katcher for covering this important story about the 40 bus. This was a very personal project for me and the residents of Georgetowne. www.masslive.com/boston/2026/...
'A lifeline': Why changes to an MBTA bus route are so important for this Boston neighborhood
Changes to a key MBTA bus route have eased commutes for residents of this Boston neighborhood.
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Social workers do incredibly vital work but we don't pay them enough to pay back their student loans so we'll solve this by taking away their student loans
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
There are no trans women in the WNBA. There are no trans women NCAA basketball players. Hell, who knows if there are even any trans girls playing HS basketball.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 19h agoDid we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?
My kid is in a rare dual-track vocational + college prep program in high school. Teaching trades is important and good. Steering kids to trades while underfunding public education in order to reify a caste system that benefits the rich and powerful is not. Guess which one Linda McMahon is doing.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24h agoIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24h agoIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
I don’t pretend to know how this state senate primary is going to go, but I do get the feeling that Mike Rush is not winning Wu’s home precinct. She won 7:1 against Kraft last year in 18-10! Signs don’t vote, but the lefty Roslindale base isn’t behind an anti-choice “Blue Dog” Dem in 2026.
Travis@travtufts.bsky.social · last wk.This just popped up in my feed and it’s giving such “Bill Linnehan for City Council President” vibes. She really is ideologically confounding in so many ways.
This is the same tactic police departments will use as cities and towns ban Flock cameras. Cite a single crime and claim they’re handcuffed by the loss of surveillance technology, despite little evidence to show that tech would have prevented it.
gbhnews@gbhnews.bsky.social · 24h agoCity Council voted 6-3 Monday to temporarily reinstate ShotSpotter while planning to create a panel of residents to consider whether the city should continue using the technology. https://bit.ly/4fPV8cN
“Many of the Haitians outfitted with ankle monitors in recent days have ongoing asylum claims and no final order of deportation, their attorneys said.” These neighbors “had been and are complying with the law,” said attorney Carolyn Marks. #AbuseofPowerWatch
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · yesterday📍𝐎𝐇𝐈𝐎 Around 50 Haitian immigrants who were under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) were called in for ICE check-in and were conditionally released with ankle monitors after the Trump administration ended TPS for Haitians on July 27th. #AbuseofPowerWatch
further reflections: the use of ongoing protests outside ICE facilities is pretty straightforward: interactions like this serve to disturb & defamiliarize the ICE agent's own sense of normalcy at a time when ICE's goal is familiarizing the public to the violence they want to normalize for us all.
Bill Madden@maddenifico.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is New Jersey. The ridiculousness of these cosplaying ICE Nazis is off the charts.
The level of courage, sacrifice, and moral rectitude that the Bridges family summoned is stunning. I mention it often when talking to white parents about sending their 5yo to an integrating, global-majority school. No amount of culture shock discomfort can compare to what the Bridges family faced.
Mychal Threets@mychal3ts.bsky.social · yesterdayWe rightfully talk about Ruby Bridges being the first Black child to integrate an all-white school in the South at 6-years-old. But we don’t talk nearly enough about Lucille Bridges, her mom ✨
We rightfully talk about Ruby Bridges being the first Black child to integrate an all-white school in the South at 6-years-old. But we don’t talk nearly enough about Lucille Bridges, her mom ✨
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
A less heralded feature of Google Gemini: legitimizing obvious phishing emails by parroting the scam into simple bullet points. Thanks for your complete absence of critical “thinking”, Google!
(Never forget that we DID have a proven policy to increase diversity at exam schools but scrapped most of it because a handful of parents got really upset.)
Boston Public Schools@bostonschools.boston.gov · 2d ago@bostonschools.boston.gov is excited to celebrate the second annual Exam School Initiative (ESI) Summer Program Student Showcase! The Exam School Initiative (ESI) is an equity initiative to increase diversity in our three exam schools. This summer, 200-plus students participated in ESI programming.
Because people in this country are so accustomed to excessive punishment and surveillance, they did not detect just how many immigrants were receiving ankle monitors ("Alternatives to Detention."). The $$ means ICE has an unlimited supply. www.wyso.org/news/2026-07...
DHS summoning some Haitians to check-ins, using ankle monitors to track them
The Department of Homeland Security has notified Haitians who previously had TPS status to report to their office in Blue Ash, Ohio, for a ‘check-in."
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People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
I haven't stopped thinking about this @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social essay since I read it earlier this week. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...
Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math
Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.
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whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
The phrase “acoustic bike”. Sorry, but my English and Music backgrounds forbid it.
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
And my heart kinda breaks listening to the beaming kid be like "this is the kind of thing that used to take YEARS" like yeah spending years getting good at art or music is the REWARD. It's rewarding to spend your time this way. You're teaching these kids that something fun is a waste of time
Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d agoI wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
We all had fun with Ed’s “ride-along” meat bust in Chinatown, but he also thinks the relatively meager BPD residency requirements are too much. He wants an occupying force of guys from Canton to subdue the insurgent population of this city. The national guard is part of the same program.
Boston Herald@bostonherald.com · last wk.Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn will move to propose measures related to waiving Boston Police Department residency requirements and allowing retired officers to take shifts as the department faces staffing challenges.
NEW— City and MBTA officials will convene a new round of public meetings in September about an "updated" $135M plan to modernize Blue Hill Avenue. It's the latest in a string of policy moves aimed a jump-starting the Mayor Michelle Wu's Streets Cabinet. www.dotnews.com/2026/07/31/f...
Fresh round of public meetings on 'updated' Blue Hill Avenue project set for September - Dorchester Reporter
City and MBTA officials will convene a new round of public meetings in September about a $135M plan to modernize Blue Hill Avenue.
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Following sharp criticism over the death of a city cyclist, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is replacing her interim chief of streets with a respected bicycle advocate. The mayor's office also announced dates for new neighborhood meetings on a controversial center bus lane plan for Blue Hill Avenue
After cyclist's death, Wu shakes up 'Streets Cabinet' leadership
The mayor's office also announced dates for new neighborhood meetings on a controversial center bus lane plan for Blue Hill Avenue
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