Hey I'm Mitch, some guy with an engineering degree, a construction job, a lot of cats and an old house full of fix up projects. In my spare time, organizer for Lowell, MA area causes, candidates and the city Democratic committee.
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 OllsteinBREAKING: 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...
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.
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 GlobeA November ballot question could end recreational marijuana sales, potentially sinking dozens of businesses in the state's social equity programs.www.bostonglobe.com
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 crossingsAbout 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...www.haaretz.com
A good reminder of how utterly useless any and all Republican senators are
George Pearkes*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
Razzballjust 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
bsky.appJustin FoxNearly 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 CarrollAre 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 BossletRFK 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 BranstetterAn 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
Genuinely destabilizing events being ignored because the press no longer knows real fear
Secretary of Defense RockStill 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
GOLIKEHELLMACHINEstripping 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
ReutersOil tumbles as Trump cancels attack on Iran to reach nuclear deal reut.rs/3TzpU26
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 GoodallThere 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?