Blunt reality: Americans are not "taxed enough already." We aren't taxed enough, actually.
Norway collects 31% of GDP as taxes. The United States collects 12% of GDP as taxes.
That, not "military spending," is the real reason that Greenlanders have "free" health care and Americans don't.
Doesn’t the project include parking though?
To make building housing more palatable, Somerville allows new units near transit to be ineligible for street parking. Affordable units are always eligible; how much of an impact is this? Of 90 affordable units in the 450-unit Union Sq tower, only 7 have permits.
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
The trend shift in adults per family household is so insane.
its even more insane that every important policymaker and economist thought we were slowly soaking up a glut of homes even into the 2010s.
And it’s even more insane that there are still supply-crisis skeptics today.
hard to imagine why housing prices are so high in lexington...
a majority of bus riders are transferring to the subway where they have to pay a fare! the mbta has free transfers, effectively making the bus free!
It's kind of wild how driving the speed limit feels like an act of resistance against car culture
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Historic neighborhoods with iron preservation mandates don't stop change. They accelerate change. Historic preservation turns units for renters into mansions for billionaires
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
new from me: a story about VACANCY CHAINS, the idea that underlies the argument that more housing is good even if you can't afford it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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the somerville star market on beacon street has condensed all of its culturally asian cooking products to about 3 feet of shelf space. it’s fucking annoying and embarrassing
i was complaining about this for weeks. completely screwed my flow
As a bicyclist what I would really like more than anything else is to not be treated like someone on foot and also not treated as if I am encased in a half ton of safety measures and a big ass engine
Boston did not clear snow from the bike lanes after the storm two weeks ago, so our community came together to do so. "We just want to get home safe and alive!" @bikeboston.bsky.social @streets.boston.gov @mayorwu.boston.gov @universalhub.com @wcvb5.bsky.social @mass.streetsblog.org
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
Maura Healey is now the only Democratic governor in the whole country with a 287(g) agreement. It is shameful that she insists on collaborating with a rogue, fascist agency.
if the state is to have a monopoly on violence in a democracy, you would think there would be a clear mechanism for holding those agents of violence accountable to the people
somewhere along the way, we seem to have ceded that power
beating myself up for not hiring sam polzin photography for my wedding www.sampolzin.ca/weddings
West Roxbury crosswalk blocked by snow shoved onto it by a plow
Maybe with the next storm, #Boston can concentrate just a tad more on crosswalks in what is allegedly America's most walkable city
www.universalhub.com/2026/maybe-n...
#snow
zillow NEEDS a comment section. someone is trying to rent this windowless basement unit for $4,500 and they deserve to be roasted in the comments.
and yet she’s still doing t-mobile commercials
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
American auto industry: Consumers don’t want EVs so we’re going to keep making dirty, polluting gas vehicles.
Also American auto industry: if we drop the 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs, it will destroy our business and drive us to bankruptcy.
the cambridge city manager oversees a billion dollar budget. it is completely reasonable to pay him $300k. and that’s probably underpaying him
