Laura

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.

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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.

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An image of a proposed redesign for the Massachusetts flag: it is a photo collage with a huge Dunkin Donuts at the center with the Harvard "Veritas" seal on the front of the building and a huge lobster plush doll walking out the front of it. The enormous smiling head of Governor Maura Healey rises up from behind the building, with heart-shaped sunglasses pasted over her eyes. Three bros in the lower left of the photo are raising a toast in red Solo cups, and in the lower right a (possibly drunk) young white person wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses is waving a huge rainbow flag and wearing a rainbow boa. The word "MASSACHUSETTS" appears in the upper right in enormous pink-sprinkled letters in the Dunkin Donuts font.

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.

A pile of hand drawn coloring books with different themes, made by a child

The inside of the turkey book, with one page showing a handprint turkey and the other with a bird torso and head not filled in labeled “draw a turky”

The back of the book, which says “$2, thank you”

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/...

A dog laying on a balcony full of plants

If everyone can just agrees to stop using libraries on Sundays I can go home to happy little dog???

A gray dog pointing towards an old foundation full of wildflowers

A dog looking down a hillside

A dog walking toward a stand of trees

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

An office chair with a paper on it that says BROKEN - SAD

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

A screenshot saying that Vita shares 17% of her DNA with Sir Pork Chop Pissfingers

The best part of those doggie dna tests is looking at your dog’s relatives

A dog pulling toward a tree

The tree with a squirrel eating a nut perfectly posed between two trunks

The hunter and the hunted

A hand drawn poster in a child’s handwriting that says “please don’t litter” on top

A close up of the rest of the poster, that says “the animals won’t let you (and the police)” and features a drawing of a monster next to a trash can threatening someone dropping a cup

The poster with a lake full of sailboats behind it

And we both met a new local icon, this littering poster

A dog in a bench that has backs on both sides and no bench seat

Vita met a JP icon today

A tiny knitted red cardigan and pointy hat

Found these at work today, I guess a gnome must be wandering around the library in the nude

A grey dog laying on a carpet with her arm over an elephant chew you

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 website selling dog toys

Zoomed in on the cooy on the website that reads “twice the length, twice the pleasure”

A question that’s sometimes surprisingly hard to answer: is this website selling me a dog toy or a sex toy?

A note in a child’s handwriting saying “thank you for all the poop stuff”

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