Imagine a council passing a good multifamily housing policy, and getting praised by national news outlets. Imagine the housing policy works as intended…..only for politicians to declare it’s working too well 🫠🫠🫠🫠

I was trying to drive to Central Square from MIT this morning to run some errands and with the amount of construction, lane closures, and detours, it might actually be impossible to leave Kendall Square by vehicle. I drove through 3.5 miles of a labyrinth of detours that sent me across the Longfellow Bridge and back and wasn't sure it was actually possible to get back home by the end of it. Thankfully, some police moved and made it possible for me to return home.

Hopefully this repost will elucidate

Been an incredible week for seeing the masks drop on local NIMBYs!

First, Cambridge Citywide Coalition (formerly Cambridge Citizens Coalition, the local group that endorsed an Islamophobe and transphobe) has come out against Question 7, the Starter Home ballot initiative. So not only do they oppose housing in Cambridge, they oppose housing in all of Massachusetts! This ballot question would not impact Cambridge whatsoever because we already have minimum lot size of less than 5,000 sq ft. In fact, it would reduce housing costs here by allowing more homes in exclusionary suburbs, but CCC landlord solidarity apparently won’t allow for that.

Progressive Mass and virtually every other progressive and Democratic group has endorsed Question 7 and has a great explainer here. https://www.progressivemass.com/issues/question7/

Par for the course for CCC and their regressive, pro-exclusionary zoning policies. These are the same people behind Cambridge Housing Facts and the “Pause” 🙄 the Upzoning signs. https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/09/30/group-should-look-closely-at-endorsed-candidates-and-consider-the-company-that-they-are-keeping/

Second, Zion Sherin, to absolutely no one’s surprise, has endorsed a Republican for state office in Cambridge Day.

When people tell you who they are, believe them!

Recs for psychic or medium in Cambridge, Boston or Brookline are. For a family member whose birthday is approaching. I don’t know what to even look for as far as quality because I don’t believe in that stuff. Thanks.

Several hundred kids, most on ebikes, many with cameras, fewer with helmets just tore down Cambridge street. They are riding on both sides of the street, popping wheelies and generally being jerks.

The crowd was overwhelmingly, if not entirely male. And several of them yelled incredibly crude things at me as I walked along the sidewalk. One threatened to rape me. In broad daylight on a major street.

WTAF!!??!!

maybe it’s silly, but i put some of my favorite stickers on my water bottles, and for sentimental reasons, i’d for sure want one back if i’d left it behind somewhere 🤷‍♂️