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I like biking. I hate inaction on preventing climate change. I think Boston could be the best city in the US, should have over a million residents, and be fully bikeable #CarLiteBoston #AutomateSafeStreetsMass

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · Jun 8

They're hereeeere! You can order a "Bike Lanes Help Me #ArriveAlive" lawn sign from the BCU! Local delivery (by bike, natch) or pickup only (no shipping at this time) @bikeboston.bsky.social

There are options to "sponsor a sign" so they can be donated

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Show your support for bike lanes with a yard sign!

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 1h

There needs to be a massive grassroots push across the Commonwealth to get the camera enforcement bills passed. It's not like it's online sports gambling with a fat cat lobby cutting checks to Ron Mariano! Just kids getting run down walking to school. WRITE YOUR REPS

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · Apr 8

There's a bill for that

SD1495 and HD3053: An Act relative to traffic regulation using road safety cameras; Filed by: Senator Brownsberger; Reps Cruz & Owens

#AutomateSafeStreetsMass

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

It's important to allow people from the suburbs to drive as fast as possible and kill people in Boston.

Residents were also enthusiastic about the idea of cameras at traffic lights that could trigger tickets to motorists who blast through the lights. Worrell agreed, but said that would require an act of the legislature, so he urged people to contact their state reps and senators to support the idea - besides state Rep. Sam Montaño of Jamaica Plain, who is already fighting for the idea.

Weber agreed with the idea, but said it might be hard to get the idea out of the legislature, since Boston would likely be the main place to install them, and suburban legislators don't want to see their constituents getting tickets in the city.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 1h

@mass.streetsblog.org @bikeboston.bsky.social @walkmass.bsky.social @streetsboston.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov @jfh01.bsky.social excellent summary of the Hyde Ave safety walk this weekend with city councilors @ben4district6.bsky.social @enriquepepen.bsky.social @brianworrell.bsky.social

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 8h

Simple repaving not enough to make Hyde Park Avenue safe, Forest Hills residents say
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#Boston #JamaicaPlain #Roslindale #HydePark

Walkers pause at horrible Ukraine Way intersection

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 1h

Updated right in production

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

Glad to see the City Council looking into this. It's a great idea to address food insecurity, and Zohran is right to have put it on the table in NYC. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Boston City Council to explore publicly-owned grocery stores

Rising prices and impending SNAP disruptions mean that a discussion about publicly-owned grocery stores is more necessary than ever, some officials say.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 1h

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Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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StÂco City @stacos.bsky.social · 5h

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Multi-car collision on McClellan Hwy at Frankfort St, right near I-95 exit 145, one car flipped over, BPD requesting 4 hard tows from A-7 base, 2 lanes of McClellan closed, BFD on scene
#740pm

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 4h

More truck-free cargo trailer action! This was a 30-mile bike ride to pick up a bedroom set from a Craigslist ad. Once you live a car-lite or car-free lifestyle, you can't unsee the waste and inefficiency of personal car ownership. #CargoBikes #CarsRuinCities #FossilFuel #CleanAir #CarsStink

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 1h

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 23d

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm

Tear gas is an abortifacient.

When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby.

The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since.

Horror movie stuff.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

Tear gas everywhere.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8h

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 3h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 5h

Getting ISA required in all government and corporate vehicles, as well as repeat speeding offenders, would be a game changer.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12h

This is good news.

A few vehicles with Intelligent Speed Assist can have an outsized impact on safety bc they’ll also prevent vehicles behind them from speeding.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 5h

Great job Everett Police, city of Everett, state of Massachusetts, @massgovernor.bsky.social, literally everyone in power

No one is protecting us from Trump & I hope every Democrat in Massachusetts gets primaried by someone with an ounce of fight in them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

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Aaron Greiner @aarongreiner.bsky.social · 1h

Let’s do this yesterday!

The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 11h

If you can pedestrianize Broadway in NYC, Boston can make Newbury St permanently car free #CarLiteBoston

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 23h

Some of the urbanism happening in New York City…is stunning.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 1h

Have become, but also have been for some time now

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Hundreds Turn Their Back on de Blasio at NYPD Officer's Funeral

Hundreds of police officers turned their backs on a screen showing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke at the funeral of one of two officers killed last week.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.