Shane Woolley

Punchlist 1: First Church in Boston The first entry of the Punchlist series is, fittingly, the First Church in Boston.

Visited a brutalist church in Boston and wrote about it on my blog: whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/p...

🎉 Objection overruled 🎉 Guess these people will have to take their "Palestine doesn't exist actually" argument directly to the voters

At the elections board hearing this morning, the lawyer for the group that brought these anti-democratic objections argued that the ballot question's premise of Israeli occupation of Palestinian land was "fake" because, and I'm quoting her rhetorical question here, "What is Palestine?"

Can't wait to see Bonehead at MetLife Stadium on August 31

Me 6 years old: Wise One, teach me the Sacred Truths that I may survive this infernal plane and understand its awful beauty

My grandma: There used to be this song on the TV that went "Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joys got nuts. Mounds don't"

Me: I will never forget it

Very good question, open to suggestions but whoever it is must be the villain

James Bond Muppets movie, Kermit playing James Bond obv

Two Mass. military vets in Congress break from Democratic consensus of outrage over Trump’s Iran strike - The Boston Globe Representatives Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton struck a different tone on President Trump's Iran strikes than many of their Democratic colleagues.

Soon enough someone's gonna successfully challenge Moulton, but who's gonna step up to unseat Auchincloss, one of the Democrats' most conservative, warmongering hacks?

He only beat progressive rival @jessemermell.bsky.social by 1.4% in 2020. It can be done. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/n...

Once YIMBYs start flipping to support rent control I’ll buy it

Here’s to hoping!

ZOHRAN

US deportations under Biden surpass Trump's 2019 record - BBC News President Biden had pledged to pause deportations, but ended up expanding it following a surge in border crossings.

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Providence has so many good buildings

Thank you President Trump for opening the streets of Our Nation’s Capital to pedestrians and cyclists! NUMTOT stands with you 🫡

The problem these people have with fare free transit is that they are not poor, have never been poor, and therefore simply don't see "making people less poor" as a valid policy goal. You can argue various other points with them around the edges but that will always be the fundamental disconnect

“New York, Hatherley argues, has been in the grips of a hidebound dogma for roughly the past sixty years.”

Samuel Stein reviews Owen Hatherley's “Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects,” out from repeaterbooks.bsky.social‬, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/mod...xe

First time checking out the new grand hall at South Station. Not bad, but if they keep the old hall as shuttered and dark as it’s been since they started building this thing, it’s lipstick on a pig

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Barely any mainstream coverage of this. Worcester cops help Trump’s gestapo rip a woman away from brave neighbors and her weeping 16 year old daughter, abduct her without a warrant, and it’s not even up on the main page of the @bostonglobe.com. Nothing at all from @wbur.org or @wgbh.org

Teele Square resident Michael Murray plans run for Somerville councilor to see the ‘Pit’ developed - Cambridge Day The “Teele Square Pit” has been an unwanted landmark in West Somerville for more than 13 years. As a candidate for Ward 7 city councilor, Michael Murray intends to see the site developed.

Thinking about moving back to ward 7 to run against this guy. #SaveThePitInTeele www.cambridgeday.com/2025/05/05/t...

Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!

a tesla cybertruck parallel parked two feet into the road

how an asshole parks (another view)

Ugliest, most visually obstructive vehicle on the road and this guy couldn’t be bothered to park it within a two feet of the curb

Come see my band at Porchfest somervilleartscouncil.org/view/porchfe...

As someone whose unpopular unknown band is playing Porchfest, I wholeheartedly agree

This year’s Porchfest is being run on the premise that Guster could materialize on any porch with an army of 3,000 sweating millennials at any moment

Good Night New England! - Sunset from Boston Harbor!

Boosy looks like a real chiller

Totally, and one of the best ways to do that is by interconnecting them to each other and the big cities with fast reliable regional rail. Then along those rail lines, building a ton of housing

The Search for New Pie: The Politics of Abundance, and its Alternative This past month two liberal luminaries broke hot onto the podcast scene with a book that lays out a new agenda they hope will take Democrats back to the halls of power: Abundance. It’s the name of …

Wrote too much about the YIMBY book everyone's talking about over on my blog whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/t...