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Mahmoud Darwish recites 'Earth Poem', 1986

IT'S OFFICIAL: The House has passed our extension of TPS for Haiti. This win wouldn't be possible without the strength & organizing of our movement to defend our Haitian neighbors. To those in the #MA7 & beyond, this is for you. The Senate must pick this up without delay.

Installing gas lines? Just a headache nytimes.com/2026/01/29/cli…

Greenland politician Tillie Martinussen: We don’t want American wealth. Their greed drives them to shoot or invade their friends. Even with billions in oil and minerals beneath our land, we will not sell ourselves. We know what happened to Indigenous people in Alaska and Native Americans. We refuse the same fate.

$20.5M in Climate Ready Housing awards will modernize 1,000+ affordable homes across MA — deep energy retrofits, electrification and healthier indoor air. Proud to partner with @mhphousing , @MassHousing and @LISC_HQ. @MassEEA @MassGovernor Read more: mass.gov/news/healey-dr…

#tbt sorry we missed this, Mr. Mayor-Elect

Over 100,000 Massachusetts households using heat pumps, including @EEASecretary's, have been auto-enrolled in a new reduced rate. This rate that @MassGovernor called for in her Energy Affordability Agenda will save customers about $500 this winter heating season.

This is a historical moment, and every Jew should watch this. The Heritage Foundation is the intellectual cornerstone of the Republican Party, and here it embraces Fuentes as a legitimate part of right-wing discourse. The pretense of Nazism being unacceptable on the right (it never was) is gone. This comes after Vance did not dispute claims that Judaism was based on discrimination against Christians. Yes, the American Vice President and the premier think tank of the right legitimized open antisemitism within 24 hours. How did this happen? Many on the right gave a pass to antisemitism as long as the GOP supported Israel. Even as it became more open, that was the sentiment among right-wing Israel supporters. Now they are finding that the naked antisemitism is worse, and support for Israel has eroded too. The Faustian bargain has ended predictably. The mainstream of conservatism has embraced open antisemitism. There will be no turning back.

two schools of thought on protecting Jewish safety in America: 1) we either fight for a pluralistic democracy where we are safe because minority rights are protected or 2) we seek junior partner status in the MAGA white nationalist alliance the ADL has chosen door #2

Boston is racing to decarbonize its public housing. Its latest tool? @gradientcomfort’s window-straddling heat pumps that plug into standard outlets. canarymedia.com/articles/heat-…

Boston is piloting window heat pumps in affordable housing @CanaryMediaInc canarymedia.com/articles/heat-…

Faneuil Gardens was awarded funds from HLC's Public Housing Innovation Demonstration Program because this redevelopment is more than just simple rehab. This project will replace 258 aging units with new apartments for current residents AND add 187 brand new affordable homes.

I am not sure how we will forgive ourselves or the world for allowing this to happen nytimes.com/interactive/20…

A big @MSNBC scoop >>>> Trump border czar Tom Homan was under criminal investigation for potential bribery and claims he would steer fed contracts in new administration. Undercover @FBI agents recorded him accepting $50k in cash. Trump @TheJusticeDept shuttered the probe Me with @DilanianMSNBC msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom…

Some news: I've been fired from the Washington Post. But my work will continue anyway. api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…

JUST IN: A federal judge in Rhode Island — Trump appointee Mary McElroy — says the Trump admin violated "several laws" in a last-minute bid to force homelessness organizations to subcribe to its transgender policies in order to access a pool of $75 million in housing grants.

The cultural symbol that is D.C.’s Sandwich Guy has made it to the @WashSpirit game today. Also: pro-statehood and Free D.C. signs and jerseys.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opi…

From AP feed: big walkout at CDC Atlanta headquarters right now:

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE