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VW numbers. Follow closely now that we’ve gotten an EV (in addition to the cargo bike)

Senator Murphy also lays out a clear set of codified demands that Dems can stand for. Among them:

*no more using budget to punish enemies
*no more using FCC to censor critics
*restrictions on ICE lawlessness in interior
*clear ban on troops in cities

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A lineup of cargo bikes, each with pink milk crates on the front labeled "Community Pedal Power".

Celebrating two years of the E-Bike Lending Library!

In the past two years, the E-Bike Lending Library has grown from 4 bikes in a backyard to 40 bikes serving hundreds of riders across Greater Boston. We've completed more than 1000 loans... and we have an ambitious plan to complete even more. 🧵

At first blush, I thought this video was pretty funny. Hee hee … the clever cyclist outran the incompetent cops … like a Saturday morning cartoon!

Then, unbidden, my brain started to see all the various things that are so crushingly wrong and depressing in this scene.

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A black metal gate at an entrance to a park is swung open into the sidewalk adjacent the park

A black metal gate stands shut in front of an ada accessible ramp.

Hey @cityofsomerville.bsky.social whats up with these gates that appeared at the new Ken Kelly park? The one blocking the ramp seems to make the park completely inaccessible to wheel chair users, and they block a good portion of the sidewalk when open.

Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

Pic of sandwich and announcement of Winter Hill School fundraiser at Daddy Jones Bar, 525 Medford St Somerville. Tonight, Sept 24, starting 5 PM!

Tonight would be a good night to eat Daddy Jones instead of cook. If you’re in #Somerville. Come eat delicious food and support the Winter Hill School.

We're pleased that @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social Editorial Board is urging Harvard students to vote for pro-bike safety City Council candidates—and cites our slate of endorsed candidates.

Yesterday Cambridge was bursting from the seams with cargo bike joy!

Thank you to all the neighbors who were out today trying to keep each other safe. Let's find this man and get him free. @massgovernor.bsky.social , @katjanaballantyne.bsky.social , I want every resource working on finding him - and the 4 other people detained earlier today - and getting them home.

This morning at 11am, corner of Hathorn and Broadway in Somerville MA. 3 ICE vehicles idling on nearby corners. I was following two ICE cars that were cruising around the neighborhood.

This person was just walking down the sidewalk when two ICE vehicles stopped and officers jumped out to stop him.

I think this is right. Wouldn’t underestimate just general “anti-establishment” sentiment either. Ballantyne trotted out major MA Dem endorsers, and we either did not give a shit or it pissed us off more.

@jake4somerville.bsky.social and @willieburnleyjr.bsky.social advance to the finals. Ballantyne is out.

@wilfredmbah.bsky.social with a solid lead for at-large. Thomas, Iaccarno, Klekota, and Spicer are out.

Nobody knew how that was going to turn out, folks. Don't let anybody tell you they did.

Have heard that that Jake Wilson and Willie Burnley Jr are top 2 votegetters for mayor. Don’t know about city council or school committee.

“Charlie Kirk was a bad person but even bad people don’t deserve to be murdered” is all they have to say. It’s not hard.

Someone else’s message. I’m reposting from the Cargo Bikes FB group.

Screen grab of Somerville city council at large Holly Simione opposing more bike lanes in Somerville and suggesting cyclists pay fees to register their bikes

For #somerville #somerpoli

City Council At-Large candidate Holly Simione suggests stopping building new protected bike lanes and thinks cyclists should pay a fee to register their bikes.

A graphic that reads: Free Xóchitl.

Catalina "Xóchitl" Santiago is a farmworker, DACA recipient, & beloved community organizer who helped undocumented immigrants get drivers licenses in Massachusetts.

She was unlawfully detained while boarding a flight for work & is being targeted for deportation.

The MA housing menu is broken—too few affordable options, too many zoning restrictions.

The YIMBY Bill is the recipe for change. 🏡 Hearing Sept 17.

🍴 Sign the letter
🍴 Submit testimony
🍴 Share + spread the word

Learn more at:
www.abundanthousingma.org/takeactonyim...

Couple biking over an arched bridge in a beautiful wooded setting on the Neponset Greenway in Boston, both on ebikes with the first person on a traditional 2 wheel ebike and the second person on a 3 wheeled recumbent

This is the story of a Boston couple who both got ebike vouchers which enabled Dr Leonard to bike independently on a recumbent electric trike after a back injury left him housebound

This is #BikeJoy to the heavens. Grateful to @wutrain.bsky.social #EbikeRevolution

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Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

I don’t know if the greater danger is that they ignore the results or that they put too much stock in the results (like all city surveys)

I want the school rebuilt at its current site too and it was obvious to anyone that eating into green space in a city that has little of it would be unpopular.

Do you think the State Fair is awesome for providing secure bike parking *and* that it could be even better with MORE bike parking next year?

Send them an email!

Guestservices@mnstatefair.org

Holy fucking shit I saw him outside of Cafe Beatrice yesterday afternoon and we talked for a moment and he said if I’m free I should stop by CX Summer Nights and of course I wasn’t free but damn!!!!

Oh man. How long might supplies last, are there pints.

Truth be told I found it lower stress in Netherlands outside of Amsterdam. Like even the burbs had separated cycle tracks or slow roads for the most part. But infra in Amsterdam was of course amazing. Never been to Stockholm or Copenhagen or the new Paris

Better than Amsterdam??

Needs a bike lane to be a true hellscape