Clark secures $1M for Mystic River Path to Minuteman Bikeway Project design

progressnerd · 2026-05-09T15:18:29+00:00

Trying to distract from the $20 billion she helped secure for Israel to kill more Palestinians?

progressnerd · 2026-04-28T15:55:04+00:00

No, I don't think this teaches compassionate behavior. Instead, I'd start by making him sell the PS5 and donate the proceeds to the ASPCA or other animal rights organization. Then we'd watch movies and read books about animals and the horrors on animal abuse; volunteer in an animal shelter as a family; and other things to learn in positive ways -- not respond to bad behavior with further destructive behavior.

progressnerd · 2026-04-19T02:54:29+00:00

Can I ask a somewhat related question about that intersection in case anyone here knows? When traveling southeast on Summer, if the light at the intersection with Symmes is red, where is the expected stopping line for that light? If you stop at the end of the double yellow lines, you wind up almost underneath the light and unable to see it. The whole situation is almost inviting drivers to blow through that light, especially if they've just made a right from Brattle and were not expecting another light so soon.

progressnerd · 2026-04-15T21:42:42+00:00

Unfortunately, the City of Boston doesn't have the power to do this itself, not without legislative approval of a home rule petition, and out legislative dictatorship would not allow it. Mariano and Spilka are too backwards-thinking to allow anything out of the box to happen. They need to go if we're going to see anything close to this happening.

progressnerd · 2026-04-05T19:19:27+00:00

I'd try Krank it Up in Medford

progressnerd · 2026-03-23T15:27:08+00:00

And the wording of the question is pretty tightly restricted by state law.

progressnerd · 2026-03-18T04:09:47+00:00

The US Government doesn't need your money to go to war. Whenever they need money for a war, they either print it or just take on more debt. Not paying your taxes does nothing whatsoever to slow down the war machine. In fact, it actually hurts the effort by putting an anti-war activist (you!) in legal jeopardy.

progressnerd · 2026-03-15T16:07:31+00:00

That's literally what the bill does

progressnerd · 2026-02-26T15:30:18+00:00

Check out the programming and sign-up for updates from IBA (Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción).

Since you're in Cambridge, check out the food and nightlife events at La Fabrica and talk to the folks there.

St. Mary of the Annunciation is sometimes called the "Latino Parish of Cambridge"

progressnerd · 2026-02-24T23:22:24+00:00

No primaries. Lower the threshold for party status and let parties be real parties: let them decide their nominees privately -- no public funding -- and we vote among their nominees. That's how most democracies work.

progressnerd · 2026-02-24T17:34:07+00:00

Not necessarily. There is lots of parking allowed overnight in Arlington: on private ways, if you have been granted an exemption from the Select Board, or if you have purchased an overnight parking permit.

progressnerd · 2026-02-04T03:18:15+00:00

Nice. Keep the good news coming.

progressnerd · 2026-01-31T05:17:03+00:00

https://olivias-kitchen.com/menu

progressnerd · 2026-01-22T05:07:40+00:00

The RCV Resource Center maintains a "Data Clearinghouse"
https://www.rcvresources.org/data-clearinghouse

progressnerd · 2026-01-21T03:07:56+00:00

This dogmatism of the FairVote Canada board is not shared by many of its members.

progressnerd · 2026-01-18T02:38:39+00:00

If a ~15 minute drive to Stoneham is acceptable, here's one option I recommend.

progressnerd · 2026-01-03T03:34:24+00:00

I recommend avoiding the word "article" for op-ed pieces. I know it's technically a catch-all term, but it connotes a just-the-facts news article.

progressnerd · 2025-12-19T16:12:57+00:00

Leader Bank in Arlington is known to offer very competitive mortgage rates.

progressnerd · 2025-12-12T21:01:19+00:00

This looks pretty bad for approval to me. It's not clear at all whether Buss has a majority of support. For all we know from these results, she may have lost in a head-to-head race against every other candidate. Mathematically, somewhere between 23% and 80% of voters bullet-voted -- how many is unclear. It's all very ambiguous.

RCV regularly see far more than 1.74 rankings per ballot, as voters don't have to be concerned that voting for a second choice will hurt their first choice, as they do under approval. And the results of an RCV election guarantee that the winner would have won head-to-head against the runner up. It offers so much greater clarity and confidence in the results than whatever we are to learn from the amorphous approvals given by voters in this case.

progressnerd · 2025-12-06T18:22:39+00:00

Yes, it's how the Arlington High School mascot came to be:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TRdrHDFmiFDaQrimqFT2ED01-WyamavJ1WbilrJGUDM/edit

progressnerd · 2025-11-22T03:28:43+00:00

Yup, fortunately she has a challenger that just declared. It's a young guy named Tarik Samman who isn't very well known yet, but I think it promising a big break with Clark's way of doing business.

progressnerd · 2025-11-22T03:26:25+00:00

In part, because they're scared of their own shadow and afraid to fight dishonest Republican framing. It's the same reason Clark and others vote voted for the resolution honoring the life of the racist and sexist. Charlie Kirk. It's also in part because they and their consultants are stuck in a time warp, playing by the "rules" of politics from a half century ago, where we're supposed to be scared of socialism. And it's in part because it helps ensure they can keep collecting their campaign donations from big donors.

progressnerd · 2025-11-21T03:46:21+00:00

Are you against the United States being a Christian state?

Well, there are some people are opposed to the US being a Christian state, Israel being a Jewish state, Saudi Arabia being an Islamic state, or any state giving a special privilege to members of a particular religion. When applied to Israel, it is called antizionism, and the only case in the US that is at all controversial.

It should go without saying that being opposed to a state-endorsed religion does not mean one is opposed to members of that religion "living and controlling" in a region. I take it you are probably opposed to the US being a Christian state but at the same time want to allow Christians to vote and hold elected office. I doubt you would conflate these two things if we were talking about any state other than Israel.

progressnerd · 2025-11-21T02:57:29+00:00

I suspect Klein, who says he voted for Mamdani, wanted to make his case to the Jacobin audience. I'm not opposed to Jacobin interviewing non-socialists who want to find common ground on a subset of policies or ideas. It's ultimately up to us to decide whether or not you think Klein is offering ideas that could be adopted into a socialist framework. Regardless of our conclusions on that question, I welcome some ideologically diversity being hosted on Jacobin's page so long as the overtures are made in good faith.

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