To protect our privacy, safety, access to abortion and other essential health care, Massachusetts needs to ban the sale of cellphone location data.

Andrea Joy Campbell is right – the legislature must end this dangerous practice by passing the Location Shield Act.

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Hmmm the city councilor complaining about a well organized group of people of color running part of their marathon through a white neighborhood is the same guy who voted “No” on a resolution to recognize Eid as a city holiday.

An Israeli quadcopter is roaming Nuseirat camp in Gaza and playing the sound of a baby crying.

When people go to help what they think is a baby in need, they are shot and killed.

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is still too silent about the war in Gaza. Following my viral tweet last month, this is the updated & expanded version of how I see things based on >1000 articles and 1000s of videos/images of the war. 🧵of summary conclusions:

This is lunacy. Israel will likely be using US weapons. Def Sec Lloyd Austin said Israel's strike in Damascus put US troops at greater risk. This strike would too. So why, exactly, doesn't the US have the right to an opinion?

Cornell showing its commitment to fighting antisemitism by sponsoring a lecture on replacement theory by an overt antisemite

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt…

Incredible story. USC offers a minor in “resistance to genocide”, this girl minored in it, was named valedictorian, and then they cancelled her speech because she might talk about genocide

i can’t stop thinking about this tiktok, gotta be the best meme to come outta dune 2

the data privacy bill congress is once again toying with isn't good enough to justify preemption that would knock out state privacy laws and end privacy progress in the states techpolicy.press/unclear-protec…

Nobody gets 'left with the tab' when student debt is cancelled. It doesn't cost taxpayers. This is one of like five raggedy ass arguments conservatives have to rely on to justify disrupting relief for the working class. They just keep repeating it over and over as if it's true.

“Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got,” says Mark Perlmutter MD, orthopedics hand surgery specialist and president of the World Surgical Foundation who just volunteered in Gaza. “This is dehumanization. The purpose of this is to kill a population.”

Cambridge, MA saw an ~85% decrease in “incapacitating” injuries and a ~92% decrease in serious “non-incapacitating” injuries for people on bikes while ridership increased, after it started installing a connected network of protected bike lanes.

SF should follow Cambridge’s lead.

The numbers are in and they’re not good. It’s time Boston ended its relationship with ShotSpotter.

Luke Kornet hitting a three: yeti sighting #BleedGreen