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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you BurlingtonMA for resoundingly passing this important resolution condemning ICE. www.burlington.buzz/local-govern...

Burlington Votes Yes on Multifamily Housing and ICE Resolution, No on Conservation Bylaw Changes

New development will take 3 or more years to open and will replace two current 1970s office buildings

www.burlington.buzz

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

Introducing “Faculty on the Frontlines,” a new series from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom that documents the stories of AAUP members!

Over the next 2 weeks, we will spotlight the stories of 10 AAUP members fighting to defend academic freedom.

Check out our teaser 🔥

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 8d

Screwed me again on commute home. No attention to rebalancing. @asklyft.bsky.social @ridebluebikes.bsky.social #enshitification

nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 8d

@asklyft.bsky.social @ridebluebikes.bsky.social enshitification no open docks checked 5 different stations.

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 9d

While cowardly @bostonu.bsky.social admins order pride flags into the closet, @aaup.org is boldly winning freedom of speech for students & faculty.

www.aaup.org/news/court-r...

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

www.aaup.org

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masstimesvelocity.bsky.social @masstimesvelocity.bsky.social · 11d

Burlington MA residents: Contact your town meeting members here: tiny.cc/BurlResidents

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 12d

Petition to sign (if you reside in Burlington, MA): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Support Article 13

Burlington needs your help! We’ve pre-written this letter. With your help sending it to town meeting members we can ensure they know what’s at stake. Copy the message and use the links below to send...

docs.google.com

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 12d

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Lady Liberty stands out in Burlington, MA

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 12d

@bostonu.bsky.social administrators side with bigots. Targeted pride flags for removal, selectively. Alum MLK Jr. would be ashamed.

Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 13d

Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.

Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities

Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.

www.texastribune.org

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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 13d

Can you go a week without driving? Challenge yourself to get to know Spokane in a new way by joining local electeds and grassroots group @spokanereimagined.org in going one week without driving --- an experience created by Washingtonian and Disability Rights activist Anna Zivart:

COLUMN: Can you go a week without driving? – RANGE Media

Challenge yourself to get to know Spokane in a new way by joining local electeds and grassroots group Spokane Reimagined in going 1 week without driving.

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 13d

To @iso-ne.com, the most consequential energy transformation of our time is “behind the meter”. Our regional grid operators need to either embrace the transition or get out of the way.

Cover of Bill McKibben’s new book Here Comes the Sun, in the Auburndale Community Library, Newton, MA

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 13d

@bostonu.bsky.social gives in, by doing things like ordering pride flags into the closet.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.

www.nytimes.com

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 13d

Here’s a sign-on letter asking National Development to tell ICE that ICE is not welcomed to park on National Development lots:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

National Development Parking Sign-on Letter

National Development 2310 Washington Street Newton Lower Falls, MA 02462 Dear National Development Executive Team, We the undersigned are reaching out with concern about Immigration and Custom...

docs.google.com

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 13d

But apparently National Development makes an exception for ICE routinely parking detainee vans on its lots. Photo today.

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 13d

National Development, Newton, MA, does care about its parking on its properties on District Ave, Burlington, MA…

Sandwich board by National Development on a District Ave., Burlington, MA property stating “No Mall Parking. Violators Will Be Towed”.

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 14d

BTW that post was reported to watchlist investigators as a “racially charged comment” by a “concerned citizen”.

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 14d

Alt text: screencap from one professor watchlist entry including a post by a professor that states “Sheltering black folks from those who enclave them was against the law. Sometimes the law is wrong and the only moral recourse is to ignore it.”

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 14d

Professor watchlist hasn’t been updated in years. It’s stale. Checking it occasionally over the years, I’m disappointed to have never made it.

Still, it’s a useful resource to find some profs with values and integrity.

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Nancy S Vann @nsvann.bsky.social · 14d

We should all be alarmed by how high gas ‘delivery’ costs are no matter which state we live in.

With the rapid rise in cheaper wind and solar, the continued construction of ‘stranded assets’ to keep us locked into this expensive, climate-killing energy is unconscionable.

nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 15d

100% endorse this 350NewtonMA video about getting off gas:
youtu.be/uKfJBn-WJ60?...

Pricey Pipes

YouTube video by Ron Blau

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Perry Grossman @realperrygrossman.bsky.social · 15d

Let's get off of gas.

nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 15d

100% endorse this 350NewtonMA video about getting off gas:
youtu.be/uKfJBn-WJ60?...

Pricey Pipes

YouTube video by Ron Blau

youtu.be

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 15d

100% endorse this 350NewtonMA video about getting off gas:
youtu.be/uKfJBn-WJ60?...

Pricey Pipes

YouTube video by Ron Blau

youtu.be

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 15d

@bostonu.bsky.social gets a F- in free speech. BU ordered pride flags down to appease bigotry. Then, after it was pointed out that the Hillel House had an Israeli flag up, BU ordered that down, to cover for its selective anti-LGBTQ discrimination. BU now has put itself in an impossible situation.

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Laura Benjamin @laura.direct · 19d

Antifa seems to be a broad strokes term to try to label whoever the regime doesn’t like as a threat.

From what I understand it’s not even a group. It’s a mindset.

And a pretty short-listed mindset, at that.

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 18d

Constituent: “There are human rights abuses every day [in the Burlington, MA ICE detention center].

@moulton.house.gov: “I know, I know”.

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 18d

Wow, what an amazing antidote to [waves hands]. Solar is going exponential & tools like balcony solar are ready to go. We need to now make state legislators ok it.

Climate Action Now @climateactapp.bsky.social · 20d

– Cora Stryker from @brightsaver.bsky.social on ultra simple plug-in solar panels

– Deborah Moore from @thirdactorg.bsky.social on streamlined rooftop permitting

– Annie Wolf from @solarunitedneighbors.org on expanding solar access for homeowners and renters!

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