We need a meaningful children’s rights movement in this country. There is a long history of the government - all three branches - upholding “parental rights” to the detriment of children.
Particularly the right to a good education and to adequate healthcare, including vaccinations.
Hey, friends. You might remember that my kids' school PTA morphed into a mutual aid group after the Eaton Fire, & I'm writing in that capacity rn. Our community was already hard hit before the ICE escalation in LA, and now a dad was disappeared on Friday.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-j...
The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
Did not bring any money walking the dog, might die of Not Being Able To Buy The Turkey Themed Coloring Book
Terrific work as always from @pbump.com
Getting an email from a hotel that just says “the road is out, you must hike to the hotel. Please contact us 24 hours in advance if you would like to hire a horse for your luggage” is a dream I didn’t even know I had
This is an AI Tax. These services are not “free”and non-users cannot avoid their costs.
Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...
never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
If everyone can just agrees to stop using libraries on Sundays I can go home to happy little dog???
Why be at work, why not be home with happy little dog??? Is the question my little dog believe she asks the most but in fact I am literally always asking
Big idea: an app that’s like Merlin bird ID but instead of kinds of bird it tells you by name which neighborhood dogs are barking so you can say hi back to them
The traveling part is great! But the tinkering and researching and imagining and longing for the travel??? Unmatched, underrated
How many nights should I stay in the Museum of Repressed Writers? Should I splurge on the evening brutalist architecture tour that has a warning for “strange energy and emotional gravity” or go to a town where you can wander around abandoned Soviet sanatoriums? Travel planning is my favorite hobby
I feel you, office chair
Everything in its place: the hummingbirds are on the bee balm, the squash is on the vine, the robins are bringing caterpillars to the nestlings in the honeysuckle, the crimebag is shoving her entire head into a brush pile to try to murder a chipmunk
The best part of those doggie dna tests is looking at your dog’s relatives
The hunter and the hunted
And we both met a new local icon, this littering poster
Vita met a JP icon today
Found these at work today, I guess a gnome must be wandering around the library in the nude
Crimebag at rest
"The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming 'the technology is not advanced enough for that'" is a real quote from this real article about pretend people
A question that’s sometimes surprisingly hard to answer: is this website selling me a dog toy or a sex toy?
We hosted the Poop Museum, a library program exploring the science of poop and got this iconic response
Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.
Hahaha
HOP HOP HOP
Responding “oh no, dead bunny like hop hop hop” was maybe not my finest moment
