Theodore

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Nothing like IRL launch energy @wesleyfinck.org 😄

Morrissey Blvd. floods multiple times a year. It's a symptom of a statewide problem. The Dorchester parkway, one of Boston’s starkest examples of climate impacts, is inundated multiple times a year.

“The 2030s are going to be a tough time for Boston.” apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/metr... @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social — and @cehumphries.bsky.social — on "sunny-day flooding" in Boston and ongoing failures to address it. #WhenTheFloodsCome

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Pressure Cooker @ Lou's Nov 07, 2025 - Cambridge, MA

I'm looking forward to seeing Pressure Cooker tonight https://www.bandsintown.com/e/107506435-pressure-cooker-at-lou's?came_from=209

Chatted with an OG Internet guy at the @atproto.boston meetup today.

Asked him about the last time he saw so much community excitement and engagement for a protocol.

He said http and html.

Same here! Last night introduced me to some of the thinking behind AT Proto, which I really appreciated.

ATProto Boston Meetup! · Luma The first of its kind! Gather ye ATProto tinkerers, wonderers, and enthusiasts for a night of community and beer. Hosted by tynanpurdy.com and myself (ATProto…

I went to a great meet up last night focused on #atproto and its overlaps with #activitypub  I learned a lot and came away appreciating its take on content ownership, identity management, and moderation @tynanpurdy.com @avni321.bsky.social @codewiz.org @eagraf.dev
@internet-in-a-box.bsky.social

The first @atproto.boston meetup is tonight.

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists Mike Phipps reports on an important meeting highlighting a global offensive against one of our key democratic freedoms. Sunday 2nd November was the UN-designated International Day to End Impunity f…

SOS - Save our journalists! labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/04/i...

The choice is clear as day: Trump and Musk for Cuomo vs. our campaign for change.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014.

This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. *Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous.*

#resist

Time to make my Twitter wind-down official… I’ve been running my own Mastodon instance for a few years, and that’s the best place to find me going forward: @theodore@daedal.io

I’m attending Fair Share Amendment 2022’s event, “Councilor Bok + Ward 10 Democratic Committee GOTV Fair Share Canvass - Saturday, November 5” – sign up now to join me!

I’m attending Fair Share Amendment 2022’s event, “GOTV Mission Hill Fair Share Canvass, Saturday, October 29” – sign up now to join me!

I mailed in my MA ballot this past Sunday. Voted all blue and Yes on all 6 ballot questions. I'm just waiting on the state ballot tracker to show that it's been accepted #mapoli #Election2022

I took action with Fair Share Amendment 2022. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up:

Now that the MA legislature has advanced the Fair Share Amendment to the 2022 ballot - the campaign to #PassFairShare is officially underway! As a #FairShareVoter I just made a contribution to the campaign. If you're able to, please chip in here:

Sign the Petition Release the Keybase back-end as Free and Open Source Software

Zoom Video Communications, Inc.: Release the Keybase back-end as FOSS - Sign the Petition! via @Change

Sign on to @CoriBush's bill now to hold GOP members of Congress accountable for inciting terror through their attempts to overturn this election.

Waking up to a continuing nightmare. It's hard to see any positive outcome from this failure to decisively defeat a fascist party and president. I have no intention of giving up, but this is a major setback. #Elections2020

I was excited to mail my MA Democratic Primary ballot yesterday with votes for @EdMarkey, @RepPressley, and @SamPierce2020 (first Suffolk MA Senate seat). We’re less than 3 weeks from primary day (9/1)!

Sign the Petition Joe Kennedy III Must Drop Out

Joe Kennedy III Must Drop Out - Sign the Petition! via @Change

Sign the Petition Rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Rep John Lewis

Governor of Alabama : Rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Rep John Lewis - Sign the Petition! via @Change

We need #FreeSpeech now more than ever. Sign the petition to demand Congress reject the dangerous EARN IT Act and protect your digital rights!

SC Department of Natural Resources: Investigate the death of Elijah Weatherspoon - Sign the Petition! via @Change

Verifying myself: I am theodore on Keybase.io. VZFFnS2mhu-5tot0wCjO5kN2Nd5iKnpkkH1w /

Not surprising: Nationalists and Populists in Serbia and Macedonia Celebrate Trump’s Victory · Global Voices

A horrible week keeps getting worse: Leonard Cohen, Epic and Enigmatic Songwriter, Is Dead at 82, via @nytimes