Join the Boston Task Force (T4MA, Shared Spaces, BCU) for a rally before the crucial public hearing on street safety. We need to pack the room!
📅Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
📣Rally: 1:15PM
🎤Hearing: 2:00PM
📍Boston City Hall
This is very interesting in light of the city manager’s “Where We’re Starting with AI” memo on Monday night’s council meeting
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This is very interesting in light of the city manager’s “Where We’re Starting with AI” memo on Monday night’s council meeting
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I wonder if they can’t get a lease because the council just upzoned the parcel and the owner is ready to develop.
It’s Econ 101 that if you pass a strong law that requires landlords to lower rents, most landlords will lower rents. No trickle down theory needed!
yimbys will be like "you stupid leftists, don't you know 'luxury' is just a marketing term" and it's like "no, we can see, it's pretty obvious"
When roads are closed to cars, they open up for everyone else!
It might not be an adequate emergency shelter, but people shouldn’t be turned out into the cold if there’s nowhere else to go! It’s easy to list other buildings that could theoretically do the job, but south station remains the only lifeline in the absence of actualizing one of those ideas.
Cambridge is leaving X. Our policy order to take the city off the platform passed unanimously Monday night. Yesterday morning, the city posted a final farewell message—and then went dark.
Thread below on how we got here and what we do next
Good! Now, let’s get things going around social housing. How long must pro housing advocates wait for meaningful progress?
City councillor Ayah Al-Zubi calls on Monday for Cambridge to gets its municipal accounts the hell off Twitter within 60 days of enactment.
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Update: we won!
Just voted to establish a union at my workplace with UFCW!
Got out and did some shoveling with @councilloralzubi.bsky.social yesterday
While shoveling out the intersection of Hyde Park Ave and Ukraine Way, we witnessed two near crashes in just 30 minutes! Time for Boston to step up and deliver much needed safety improvements to this dangerous intersection.
This is a pretty dumb take
Good. Patrick is a jerk for doing this.
Proud to drink a pint with Somerville city officials and friends in support of the workers at Lamplighter Brewing on Broadway last night. 🍻
Somerville gang supporting lamplighter workers
Somerville gang supporting lamplighter workers
Flyer for solidarity day
✊Somerville stands strong with workers at Lamplighter! Had a blast tonight supporting their campaign to unionize with UFCW 1445 @jonlink.bsky.social @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social @jake4somerville.bsky.social
They sold the building with some kind of covenant that prevented it from being used as a restaurant or club.
Rhetorical but why not demolish entirely and build some grad student housing on top of a new academic building. There’s nothing special about those columns and slabs.
"We simply want bike lanes and bike paths that can be used when it stops snowing.
Nowhere in Boston will you find a street that becomes a dead end because of an enormous pile of snow, or intersections that become impassable because of the snow."
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What does it mean to demolish a building except for the columns and slabs?
Please join us on Sunday at either Lamplighter location for beer, snacks, and solidarity! Community support is important in this moment 🙏
Burhan and I don’t agree on everything, but I respect his willingness to listen and make space for a range of good faith perspectives as policy is made. I haven’t decided who I’m supporting in this race yet, but it’s exciting to see him throw his hat in the ring.
Albany Street was included in the list of AHO corridors, which means the city can build up to 12 floors of permanent supportive housing on top of the newly renovated shelter.
Cambridge should remain a sanctuary city for unhoused people. The renovations to this space are sorely needed, but we need to meet the needs of the residents throughout the construction timeline. The new facility should contain low threshold beds and permanent supportive housing on top!
I recently spoke in support of housing and dignity for the residents of 240 Albany as their shelter is renovated:
“Low-threshold beds are often the only way that many people can get off the street, especially those who are using drugs. The emergency beds [at 240 Albany] are a particular lifeline.”
I’m proud to stand with my colleagues as we form our union with #UFCW. Ownership has chosen not to voluntarily recognize us, so we’re heading to an election.
