Cambridge is leaving X. Our policy order to take the city off the platform passed unanimously Monday night. Yesterday morning, the city posted a final farewell message—and then went dark.
Thread below on how we got here and what we do next
Good! Now, let’s get things going around social housing. How long must pro housing advocates wait for meaningful progress?
City councillor Ayah Al-Zubi calls on Monday for Cambridge to gets its municipal accounts the hell off Twitter within 60 days of enactment.
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Update: we won!
Just voted to establish a union at my workplace with UFCW!
Got out and did some shoveling with @councilloralzubi.bsky.social yesterday
While shoveling out the intersection of Hyde Park Ave and Ukraine Way, we witnessed two near crashes in just 30 minutes! Time for Boston to step up and deliver much needed safety improvements to this dangerous intersection.
This is a pretty dumb take
Good. Patrick is a jerk for doing this.
Proud to drink a pint with Somerville city officials and friends in support of the workers at Lamplighter Brewing on Broadway last night. 🍻
Somerville gang supporting lamplighter workers
Somerville gang supporting lamplighter workers
Flyer for solidarity day
✊Somerville stands strong with workers at Lamplighter! Had a blast tonight supporting their campaign to unionize with UFCW 1445 @jonlink.bsky.social @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social @jake4somerville.bsky.social
They sold the building with some kind of covenant that prevented it from being used as a restaurant or club.
Rhetorical but why not demolish entirely and build some grad student housing on top of a new academic building. There’s nothing special about those columns and slabs.
"We simply want bike lanes and bike paths that can be used when it stops snowing.
Nowhere in Boston will you find a street that becomes a dead end because of an enormous pile of snow, or intersections that become impassable because of the snow."
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What does it mean to demolish a building except for the columns and slabs?
Please join us on Sunday at either Lamplighter location for beer, snacks, and solidarity! Community support is important in this moment 🙏
Burhan and I don’t agree on everything, but I respect his willingness to listen and make space for a range of good faith perspectives as policy is made. I haven’t decided who I’m supporting in this race yet, but it’s exciting to see him throw his hat in the ring.
Albany Street was included in the list of AHO corridors, which means the city can build up to 12 floors of permanent supportive housing on top of the newly renovated shelter.
Cambridge should remain a sanctuary city for unhoused people. The renovations to this space are sorely needed, but we need to meet the needs of the residents throughout the construction timeline. The new facility should contain low threshold beds and permanent supportive housing on top!
I recently spoke in support of housing and dignity for the residents of 240 Albany as their shelter is renovated:
“Low-threshold beds are often the only way that many people can get off the street, especially those who are using drugs. The emergency beds [at 240 Albany] are a particular lifeline.”
I’m proud to stand with my colleagues as we form our union with #UFCW. Ownership has chosen not to voluntarily recognize us, so we’re heading to an election.
While @boston.gov Dithers, @bikeboston.bsky.social Takes Snow Removal Into Their Own Hands - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/10/w...
Comm Ave now has a bike lane again thanks to the effort of this volunteer crew!
This is just one street, and we don't have the plows that the city has. Let's get this done city-wide!
Bicyclists clear snow and ice off Comm. Ave. bike path, photo by Mandy Wilkens
City wouldn't clear a Comm Ave. bike lane, so some bicyclists showed up today with shovels
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#Boston #snow
I’m proud to have helped draft the zoning that will allow a hundred more low income households to live in Porter Square. “Get used to” taller buildings on Mount Vernon street!
Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
I worry that there are some/many scenarios in which this would disadvantage an insurgent progressive. Zohran’s victory notwithstanding, RCV seems to favor the ideological center of any given field. Polarizing candidates need an outright majority at the outset or they won’t survive.
Zusy references “a series of layoffs” in a way that makes it sound like more are coming.
Councilor Toner wondered rhetorically whether “we” would be submitting such an order every time someone is laid off.
My response: “you certainly won’t be”
It also makes me wonder if he knows that more layoffs are coming.
