Somerville is sending out a call for an artist to make Know Your Rights information bold and visible across the city. $4,000 stipend, deadline April 21. Artists with immigrant backgrounds especially encouraged to apply.
somervillema.gov/KYRartists
🎨 major public art opportunity alert!
help us get a great mural in the heart of union square! Somerville is accepting proposals for art on the electrical station across from the Green Line station - spread the word!
somervilleartscouncil.org/public-art/c...
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups.
This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social!
App deadline is March 15!
A good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Great piece by councilor and candidate Matt McLaughlin about the terrible problems with how ICE is prosecuting their mission on US soil. Very much worth a read.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/31/o...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Instead of doomscrolling your social media feed, scroll through this stunning visualization of the state of government support for science and research. You’re going to want to see the end, which provides a glimmer of hope for our futures.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
Honestly, it is always an honor to talk with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on her show Amicus. She is so perceptive, brilliant, and curious all at once.
Here we are trying to g to make sense of another year, and ringing alarms early for the upcoming year.
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One of my fave articles of the year came out just this week.
This is a great episode!
Share far and wide!
Someone can 'love America, love Israel, and love Jesus' and not love Jewish people. I think many conservative white Jews think they are in the club, but they are not. I wish more of them realized.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
One of the main things about not strongly & immediately opposing fascism is that normalizing it creates a permission structure for antisemites (racists, xenophobes, misogynists, etc.) to say & do the things they’ve always thought but were once too embarrassed to say & do in public. And here we are.
Hey Somerville! If you haven't voted early or by mail, your last chance to do so is TUESDAY.
Please go out and do democracy while we still have it.
I've been thinking a lot about state power recently, and wanted to share a few of those thoughts. 1/?
We know times are tough and money is tight right now. Please check out these local resources for food assistance if you find yourself in need. Solidarity, not charity.
Reach out to MAMAS if you need further assistance through our hotline: (339) 545-1315 or email us at: askyourmamas@gmail.com.
I'm grateful for the endorsement of Senator @edmarkey.bsky.social in this race & to know that as Somerville's next mayor I will have the federal support necessary to best serve our community. This colloboration will be critical to defend our rights, fully fund our schools, & improve city services.
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
Shutdown Assistance Map - Resources for Furloughed/Excepted Federal Workers - MyFEDBenefits myfedbenefitshelp.com/shutdown-ass...
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.
Marching with SCLT
♥️ Not even a nor’easter can stop us!
Another incredible, intergenerational HONK! parade, marching for affordable housing with the Somerville Community Land Trust.
This is the way
This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...
In the HBS window sits a stack of 12 books with one larger picture book leaning against it. The picture book is "Sofia Valdez, Future Prez" by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts (Illustrator). The stack of books are, from the top down: - "Melissa" by Alex Gino - "The Poet X" by Elizabeth Acevedo - "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison - "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood - "Ace of Spades" by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo - "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson - "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult - "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" Jesse Andrews - "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess - "Flamer" by Mike Curato - "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe
This year we observe banned books week from October 5th-11th to draw attention to the harmful rise of book censorship across the country. Pictured here are just some of the challenged titles of the thousands being removed from schools and libraries in the US. Read banned books!
