@andreaedowns.bsky.social
Vice chair of public safety & transportation committee of Newton city council. Director of the wastewater advisory committee to the @MWRA. ❤️ natural world
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It is basic criminology that if a punishment is to deter crime it must be relatively likely you get caught and it must happen reasonably soon after the crime is committed, traffic cameras do both. People hate them because they work lol.
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It is basic criminology that if a punishment is to deter crime it must be relatively likely you get caught and it must happen reasonably soon after the crime is committed, traffic cameras do both. People hate them because they work lol.
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always a delight to chat with Doug! This time about the private equity-ization of the Penagon.
fresh audio product:
• Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy
• Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
• Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy
• Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
December 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
always a delight to chat with Doug! This time about the private equity-ization of the Penagon.
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Really enjoyed this discussion between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social. Something Paul said that I want to highlight: negativity bias affects both right and left. I discuss this in my book as well. Some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Live with Heather Cox Richardson
A recording from Paul Krugman and Heather Cox Richardson's live video
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Really enjoyed this discussion between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social. Something Paul said that I want to highlight: negativity bias affects both right and left. I discuss this in my book as well. Some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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fresh audio product:
• Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy
• Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
• Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy
• Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
fresh audio product:
• Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy
• Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
• Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy
• Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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As the oil industry's toxic fracking water crisis grows, Texas has a potential solution: issue permits to allow companies to pump treated wastewater into the state's rivers
Toxic Water From Texas Oil Production Is Set to Be Treated and Pumped into Rivers
State environmental regulators are evaluating applications from four companies to release treated Permian Basin wastewater into the Pecos River
bloom.bg
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As the oil industry's toxic fracking water crisis grows, Texas has a potential solution: issue permits to allow companies to pump treated wastewater into the state's rivers
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On Lawfare Daily, Olivia Manes spoke to @susglickman.bsky.social about the role of defense tech in the second Trump admin and how defense tech firms which have benefitted from U.S. industrial policy are now undermining it for the sake of short-term profits. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
On Lawfare Daily, Olivia Manes spoke to @susglickman.bsky.social about the role of defense tech in the second Trump admin and how defense tech firms which have benefitted from U.S. industrial policy are now undermining it for the sake of short-term profits. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
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There goes the lucrative industry of international tourism, already fairly wrecked. The US was "the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year" said the World Travel & Tourism Council in 2024.
Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There goes the lucrative industry of international tourism, already fairly wrecked. The US was "the world’s most powerful Travel & Tourism market, contributing a record-breaking $2.36 TN to the nation’s economy last year" said the World Travel & Tourism Council in 2024.
And run for local office. Too often just the local NIMBYs bother
from a state party director
December 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
And run for local office. Too often just the local NIMBYs bother
This will literally kill people
BREAKING: A Queens judge on Friday took the unprecedented step of ordering the city to rip up the partially installed protected bike lane on 31st Street in Astoria, defying years of legal precedent that empowers the DOT to redesign city streets as it sees fit. buff.ly/02lWfWs
Queens Judge Orders City to Nix Half-Installed Astoria Bike Lane - Streetsblog New York City
A Queens judge on Friday took the unprecedented step of ordering the city to rip up Astoria's partially installed 31st Street bike lane.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This will literally kill people
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Worsening traffic congestion and the removal of critical bus lanes means that @mbta.com bus trips on Boston's highest-ridership routes take, on average, 15 percent longer than they did when @mayorwu.boston.gov took office 4 years ago.
#mapoli
mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...
#mapoli
mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...
Paying With Their Time: Increasing Traffic Congestion Erodes Benefits of Boston's Fare-Free Buses - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Mayor Wu's press office avoided several inquiries from StreetsblogMASS to discuss the worsening delays in MBTA bus service over the course of her first term.
mass.streetsblog.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Worsening traffic congestion and the removal of critical bus lanes means that @mbta.com bus trips on Boston's highest-ridership routes take, on average, 15 percent longer than they did when @mayorwu.boston.gov took office 4 years ago.
#mapoli
mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...
#mapoli
mass.streetsblog.org/2025/11/19/p...
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This has got a good beat to it.
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This has got a good beat to it.
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When the rainforests of the sea and the rainforests of the land are gone… I don’t want to finish that sentence.
This could be our shining moment of courage and solidarity. Our time to show what great things humanity is capable of.
Fight climate change now.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This could be our shining moment of courage and solidarity. Our time to show what great things humanity is capable of.
Fight climate change now.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says she is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
When the rainforests of the sea and the rainforests of the land are gone… I don’t want to finish that sentence.
This could be our shining moment of courage and solidarity. Our time to show what great things humanity is capable of.
Fight climate change now.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This could be our shining moment of courage and solidarity. Our time to show what great things humanity is capable of.
Fight climate change now.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What if public transit was designed by Disney instead of engineers? What if the transit journey was slower but fantastic?
It think this is slightly overstated (not “really, really slow,” but slower) but makes an important point around psychology vs physics (or enjoyment AND efficiency).
It think this is slightly overstated (not “really, really slow,” but slower) but makes an important point around psychology vs physics (or enjoyment AND efficiency).
From the IG pages: if the #OttLRT was an interesting journey no one would care if it was a bit slower. Instead we run it thru featureless tunnels, the middle of highways etc; make the trip more interesting, more reliable, more uplifting and more ppl will take it. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
What if public transit was designed by Disney instead of engineers? What if the transit journey was slower but fantastic?
It think this is slightly overstated (not “really, really slow,” but slower) but makes an important point around psychology vs physics (or enjoyment AND efficiency).
It think this is slightly overstated (not “really, really slow,” but slower) but makes an important point around psychology vs physics (or enjoyment AND efficiency).
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And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
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📽️ WATCH: Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history.
Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv
Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
📽️ WATCH: Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history.
Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv
Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv
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if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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This is the evilest thing I think I’ve ever read. A few years ago a woman was sentenced to two and a half years in prison plus probation for doing less than this. It’s not going to happen in Trump’s America but there need to be laws tightening liability on shit like this.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is the evilest thing I think I’ve ever read. A few years ago a woman was sentenced to two and a half years in prison plus probation for doing less than this. It’s not going to happen in Trump’s America but there need to be laws tightening liability on shit like this.
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we deported a 13 year old www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
Everett boy in ICE detention 'allowed' to return to Brazil, judge says
An immigration judge in Virginia says 13-year-old boy from Everett currently in federal immigration detention can return to his home country of Brazil.
www.wbur.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
we deported a 13 year old www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
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It’s not even “papers please” anymore…
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
‘This is kidnapping — plain and simple’: ICE arrests 9 employees at Allston car wash
The employees were detained Tuesday morning before they could present their documents, according to the car wash’s manager.
www.boston.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It’s not even “papers please” anymore…
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Now it’s “we’re kidnapping you because you’re brown and we don’t care that your documents are five feet away in your work locker”
This is illegal, immoral and cruel.
22 masked agents to kidnap nine car wash employees:
www.boston.com/news/local-n...