Jeff Byrnes 🚰 🏙️

Co-founder & steering committee member of @somervilleyimby.org, member of Abundant Housing MA, trying to foster housing abundance to bring down prices & make our cities & towns more welcoming! #MApoli #VilleMA #SomerPoli #YIMBY

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

[CW: slavery, SA] I wish this were true, but it's not even close to true.🤷🏿‍♂️ "Wishing and hoping that you may yet live to increase the debt which our Country owes you" - Pres. Madison, to Pres. Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings was younger than most of Epstein's victims.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

"Ingram was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town." Terrible people.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Tal Farlow (20) Ella Fitzgerald (12) Doug Watkins (5). #myweekcounted 37 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

They're just going to keep trying endless bad faith fuckery and the legal system very much isn't equipped for "DOJ are operating entirely in bad faith"

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Absolutely fucking awesome. Of all the drivers on the road, those who work in gov't should be obeying our laws & modeling good, safe, pro-social behavior.

Translation: If the government turns on him, he's finished.

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Musk's politics, because the right-wing populism he supports needs to frame itself as fighting for "the people" against "the elites," but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" not rooted in actual wealth or corporate ownership.

Hours after the Wall Street Journal published a story questioning Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan’s claim she “graduated Phi Beta Kappa” from the University of Minnesota, the national honor society said that she is a member.

this is one of those facts i wish more people knew—tax cuts for the rich caused the spiraling deficits, and just reversing them remedies the issue.

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Update yer stuff

Really like that Abdul El-Sayed is totally willing to put smarmy little dumbshit wrecker wannabes on blast to his campaign's entire social media following

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Ella Fitzgerald (30) Ray Charles (12) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (11) Creedence Clearwater Revival (10) The Mitchells with guest a.... #myweekcounted 89 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

Building more lanes to reduce congestion is the definition of insanity: doing the same thing and expecting different results. It's time to stop the insanity.

Somehow, we are an episode of NPR's Planet Money now. www.npr.org/2026/10/09/n...

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: James Brown (20) Black Nasty (10) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (10) The Bar-Kays (6). #myweekcounted 46 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

Holy cannoli

a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird

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It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose.

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Trump made ‘clear’ that media ban was due to critical coverage, court told

Very VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans." This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end.

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

A City In Amber Imagine you want to build new apartments in Somerville. …first, you need to demolish the structure that's currently in place, and you'll need to get past the Historic Preservation Commission to do it.

The floor has cracked. He used to have a hard core of 32-36% approval, people who would stick with him no matter what. Even those people are now starting to bail, and when THAT happens a trickle becomes a flood

"dem messaging sucks why aren't thry talking about xyz" idk maybe try following dems like Patty Murray

It’s so cool how the modern conservative movement is antithetically opposed to property rights when it comes to legalizing homebuilding

Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

Aces stuff from @anandwrites.bsky.social. 100% true! Now let’s make our cities even more welcoming by fixing our housing crises so those folks can find a home they can afford #YIMBY

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Bar-Kays (21) Breakestra (9). #myweekcounted 30 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

Our monthly social is tonight! 6pm at Remnant Brewing at Bow Market 🎉 Come on out & enjoy some conversation with us, discuss the primary election results, and more.

Hotel developer seeks size to pay for unknown ‘Pit’ contamination in a suddenly twice-as-troubled Teele Square

4 DUI's + causing serious injury in order to revoke a license obviously it's better than the nothing we had before, but JFC

one time in my 20s i was passing through another city and crashed with a guy i knew who was in love with my friend so thought it was safe. but he made an advance and i said no, so he started arguing with me. i didnt sleep a wink that night and stared from the couch at the kitchen knife on the wall.

“Unlike the city of Seattle and Sound Transit, the law in British Columbia mandates high-rise zoning of 20 stories for SkyTrain stops, and eight to 12 stories within a short walk.” What’s it like living in a real city with real planners?

Didn't have the GOP becoming a nanny state on my 2026 bingo card, wtf