Chris Dwan (he/him)
@somershade.bsky.social
Hyper local in Somerville, MA. FOIA requests & long threads live-tweeting city meetings. Also @fdmts
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The most important thing to remember about Somerville social media is that most of Somerville is not on Somerville social media.
Go, go tiny bike lane and sidewalk plow!
February 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Go, go tiny bike lane and sidewalk plow!
Real talk about driving in Boston: We’re not actually mean … just desperate and more than a little confused.
It’s easier to just go home I’ve canceled plans from a wrong left turn
February 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Real talk about driving in Boston: We’re not actually mean … just desperate and more than a little confused.
Safe to assume that the city will plow at some point here? Perhaps?
February 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Safe to assume that the city will plow at some point here? Perhaps?
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Massachusetts is not defenseless. Know your rights. Memorize them. Share them.
A message from my office, @markey.senate.gov, @massgovernor.bsky.social, @mayorwu.boston.gov, @pressley.house.gov, @whipkclark.bsky.social, @repmcgovern.bsky.social, and @trahan.house.gov.
A message from my office, @markey.senate.gov, @massgovernor.bsky.social, @mayorwu.boston.gov, @pressley.house.gov, @whipkclark.bsky.social, @repmcgovern.bsky.social, and @trahan.house.gov.
February 7, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Massachusetts is not defenseless. Know your rights. Memorize them. Share them.
A message from my office, @markey.senate.gov, @massgovernor.bsky.social, @mayorwu.boston.gov, @pressley.house.gov, @whipkclark.bsky.social, @repmcgovern.bsky.social, and @trahan.house.gov.
A message from my office, @markey.senate.gov, @massgovernor.bsky.social, @mayorwu.boston.gov, @pressley.house.gov, @whipkclark.bsky.social, @repmcgovern.bsky.social, and @trahan.house.gov.
This is the building I was protesting at on Wed. It’s behind the Burlington mall.
It’s in our backyard, people.
It’s in our backyard, people.
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:08 PM
This is the building I was protesting at on Wed. It’s behind the Burlington mall.
It’s in our backyard, people.
It’s in our backyard, people.
Whoever dug out the fantastic snow cave at the Greek Orthodox Church, you rock.
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Whoever dug out the fantastic snow cave at the Greek Orthodox Church, you rock.
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/ THE WEATHER IS HAPPENING ABOLISH ICE 3" STICKER
/ SPEAKS 4 ITSELF
/ SELLING SLITELY BELOW COST OF STICKER/SHIPPING
/ BC IT IS A *RULE* THAT B4 PURCHASING
/ U *MUST* DONATE 2 www.lucemass.org/donate
/ THEN U MAY PURCHASE
/ merch.weatherishappening.com/product/abol...
/ ITS THE HONOR SYSTEM
/ SPEAKS 4 ITSELF
/ SELLING SLITELY BELOW COST OF STICKER/SHIPPING
/ BC IT IS A *RULE* THAT B4 PURCHASING
/ U *MUST* DONATE 2 www.lucemass.org/donate
/ THEN U MAY PURCHASE
/ merch.weatherishappening.com/product/abol...
/ ITS THE HONOR SYSTEM
February 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
/ THE WEATHER IS HAPPENING ABOLISH ICE 3" STICKER
/ SPEAKS 4 ITSELF
/ SELLING SLITELY BELOW COST OF STICKER/SHIPPING
/ BC IT IS A *RULE* THAT B4 PURCHASING
/ U *MUST* DONATE 2 www.lucemass.org/donate
/ THEN U MAY PURCHASE
/ merch.weatherishappening.com/product/abol...
/ ITS THE HONOR SYSTEM
/ SPEAKS 4 ITSELF
/ SELLING SLITELY BELOW COST OF STICKER/SHIPPING
/ BC IT IS A *RULE* THAT B4 PURCHASING
/ U *MUST* DONATE 2 www.lucemass.org/donate
/ THEN U MAY PURCHASE
/ merch.weatherishappening.com/product/abol...
/ ITS THE HONOR SYSTEM
As with most Saturdays, there's a protest downtown. C'mon out and support trans rights.
February 7, 2026 at 1:44 PM
As with most Saturdays, there's a protest downtown. C'mon out and support trans rights.
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At the protest on Wed, I stood facing the ICE facility rather than the street, and to hold a sign that promised accountability and consequences for what the agents were doing.
After a few minutes, a man with a beard, a bit of a southern drawl, and a similar sentiment on his sign joined me.
1/?
After a few minutes, a man with a beard, a bit of a southern drawl, and a similar sentiment on his sign joined me.
1/?
February 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
At the protest on Wed, I stood facing the ICE facility rather than the street, and to hold a sign that promised accountability and consequences for what the agents were doing.
After a few minutes, a man with a beard, a bit of a southern drawl, and a similar sentiment on his sign joined me.
1/?
After a few minutes, a man with a beard, a bit of a southern drawl, and a similar sentiment on his sign joined me.
1/?
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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
February 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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
See also: Ordering military strikes on Venezuela over the menace of the drug trade while the Sackler family walks free.
The call is coming from inside the house, y’all.
The call is coming from inside the house, y’all.
cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked.
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting
February 6, 2026 at 6:19 PM
See also: Ordering military strikes on Venezuela over the menace of the drug trade while the Sackler family walks free.
The call is coming from inside the house, y’all.
The call is coming from inside the house, y’all.
Good for these employees … but i think we can see the next low hanging fruit for layoffs from here.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Good for these employees … but i think we can see the next low hanging fruit for layoffs from here.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
This is a good mid-length read on how the financial industry is a big, big part of everything that’s wrong with the world today.
In short: Why is it so hard to get money to start a business or build new homes? Because Wall Street are pigs at the goddamn trough.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
In short: Why is it so hard to get money to start a business or build new homes? Because Wall Street are pigs at the goddamn trough.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
This is a good mid-length read on how the financial industry is a big, big part of everything that’s wrong with the world today.
In short: Why is it so hard to get money to start a business or build new homes? Because Wall Street are pigs at the goddamn trough.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
In short: Why is it so hard to get money to start a business or build new homes? Because Wall Street are pigs at the goddamn trough.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
At a coffee shop this morning, a man came to the counter with yesterday’s paper and asked ‘excuse me, my daughter was born yesterday, do you mind if I take this?’
I’ve come to associate the daily news with a nearly unsustainable level of psychic damage.
It warmed my heart.
Good morning.
I’ve come to associate the daily news with a nearly unsustainable level of psychic damage.
It warmed my heart.
Good morning.
February 6, 2026 at 1:49 PM
At a coffee shop this morning, a man came to the counter with yesterday’s paper and asked ‘excuse me, my daughter was born yesterday, do you mind if I take this?’
I’ve come to associate the daily news with a nearly unsustainable level of psychic damage.
It warmed my heart.
Good morning.
I’ve come to associate the daily news with a nearly unsustainable level of psychic damage.
It warmed my heart.
Good morning.
Cryptocurrencies are no more an ‘industry’ than the lottery or your local March Madness pool. There is no intrunsic value anywhere in the stack, and when it goes to zero there won’t even be any assets to sell off to satisfy the bad debts.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...
Crypto Takes a Deep Slide Despite Trump’s Support
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Cryptocurrencies are no more an ‘industry’ than the lottery or your local March Madness pool. There is no intrunsic value anywhere in the stack, and when it goes to zero there won’t even be any assets to sell off to satisfy the bad debts.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...
Without reducing @karenho.bsky.social’s points about the WaPo newsroom staff or Epstein’s victims … it also feels this way for a lot of us in biotech right now as investors go fluttering off towards the AI candle or just up sticks to China because the US is too inconstant to be a good bet anymore.
At the same time, the extent of the Washington Post layoffs highlight how it didn't matter how hardworking, loyal, smart, collaborative, award-winning, competitive, knowledgeable and devoted so many of the staff were. It wasn't enough to prevent being laid off by one of the richest men in the world.
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Without reducing @karenho.bsky.social’s points about the WaPo newsroom staff or Epstein’s victims … it also feels this way for a lot of us in biotech right now as investors go fluttering off towards the AI candle or just up sticks to China because the US is too inconstant to be a good bet anymore.
I’m a bummed by the incomplete job of snow clearing that Cambridge and Somerville have done.
Even larger through-ways are still constructed (Oxford is today’s example) side streets are f-ing tight, sight lines at corners are garbage, etc, etc.
Are we planning to wait for it to melt, or what?
Even larger through-ways are still constructed (Oxford is today’s example) side streets are f-ing tight, sight lines at corners are garbage, etc, etc.
Are we planning to wait for it to melt, or what?
February 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I’m a bummed by the incomplete job of snow clearing that Cambridge and Somerville have done.
Even larger through-ways are still constructed (Oxford is today’s example) side streets are f-ing tight, sight lines at corners are garbage, etc, etc.
Are we planning to wait for it to melt, or what?
Even larger through-ways are still constructed (Oxford is today’s example) side streets are f-ing tight, sight lines at corners are garbage, etc, etc.
Are we planning to wait for it to melt, or what?
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It's now been well over a week since Boston's snowstorm, most bike lanes are unusable because of the snow accumulation.
Help clear snow from bike lanes that the City has failed to do: Friday Feb 6 @3pm at Comm Ave & Backcock street.
@bikeboston.bsky.social
RSVP Here:
🔗 bcu.bike/shovel
Help clear snow from bike lanes that the City has failed to do: Friday Feb 6 @3pm at Comm Ave & Backcock street.
@bikeboston.bsky.social
RSVP Here:
🔗 bcu.bike/shovel
February 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
It's now been well over a week since Boston's snowstorm, most bike lanes are unusable because of the snow accumulation.
Help clear snow from bike lanes that the City has failed to do: Friday Feb 6 @3pm at Comm Ave & Backcock street.
@bikeboston.bsky.social
RSVP Here:
🔗 bcu.bike/shovel
Help clear snow from bike lanes that the City has failed to do: Friday Feb 6 @3pm at Comm Ave & Backcock street.
@bikeboston.bsky.social
RSVP Here:
🔗 bcu.bike/shovel
Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Reposting for the excellent, understated Cormac McCarthy reference.
Trump says ICE agents will use Anton Chigurh's captive bolt pistol to murder legal observers instead of shooting them 9 times. Journalists praise this "softer touch" to summary executions.
After Trump tells NBC News he could maybe use a "softer touch" on immigration, we immediately get the "different tone" narrative from CNN.
Brianna Keilar: "A change of tone for the president. Softer touch."
David Chalian: "He acknowledged learning something that this requires a softer touch."
Brianna Keilar: "A change of tone for the president. Softer touch."
David Chalian: "He acknowledged learning something that this requires a softer touch."
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Reposting for the excellent, understated Cormac McCarthy reference.
Bearing witness against ice with @bearingwitnessice.bsky.social, at the field headquarters behind the Burlington mall.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Bearing witness against ice with @bearingwitnessice.bsky.social, at the field headquarters behind the Burlington mall.
1/?
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I will be up in Burlington today at 11am with @bearingwitnessice.bsky.social. If you’re free, you should come too.
We’re on for TOMORROW, Wed., 2/4 with veterans against ICE! Bryan Winter, ret. U.S. Army sgt. & program director/vet rep for @mass50501.bsky.social, and John Paradis, retired Air Force lt. col. & member of the Veteran Action Team with @in-slwm.bsky.social will speak. Come rep your branch proudly🫡
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I will be up in Burlington today at 11am with @bearingwitnessice.bsky.social. If you’re free, you should come too.
I had a friend visit this weekend who is still a bit wobbly from a broken ankle earlier in the year and OH WOW do I have a much clearer picture about the importance of clearing sidewalks, curb cuts, rail crossings, and the rest now.
To public agencies scolding pedestrians for walking along the roadway: we have no other choice if sidewalks are still not cleared.
At least this bus stop on North Main St. in Providence has a path from the curb to shelter. Good for able-bodied riders but a nightmare for people with disabilities. 😫
At least this bus stop on North Main St. in Providence has a path from the curb to shelter. Good for able-bodied riders but a nightmare for people with disabilities. 😫
February 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I had a friend visit this weekend who is still a bit wobbly from a broken ankle earlier in the year and OH WOW do I have a much clearer picture about the importance of clearing sidewalks, curb cuts, rail crossings, and the rest now.
Nobody should be surprised that the leading cryptocurrency was funded and presumably heavily used by Epstein.
Crime is what it was -made- for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Crime is what it was -made- for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein
The crypto community is reeling from the discovery that Epstein was a huge backer of early Bitcoin efforts.
futurism.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Nobody should be surprised that the leading cryptocurrency was funded and presumably heavily used by Epstein.
Crime is what it was -made- for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Crime is what it was -made- for.
futurism.com/future-socie...