Steve Owens
@votesteveowens.bsky.social
MA State Representative 29th Middlesex District (Cambridge & Watertown); Former chair of Watertown Democratic Town Committee; current DSC member — He/Him
Another reason to restrict the use of automated licence plate readers www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/n...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns - The Boston Globe
The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Another reason to restrict the use of automated licence plate readers www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/n...
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Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But,
www.eff.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.
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🚨 Scam Alert 🚨
Scammers are sending fake emails posing as City of Cambridge employees and asking for permit payments.
If you get a suspicious email, don’t click links — call the department directly.
🔗 Learn more: https://camb.ma/4oQHXLo
Scammers are sending fake emails posing as City of Cambridge employees and asking for permit payments.
If you get a suspicious email, don’t click links — call the department directly.
🔗 Learn more: https://camb.ma/4oQHXLo
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨 Scam Alert 🚨
Scammers are sending fake emails posing as City of Cambridge employees and asking for permit payments.
If you get a suspicious email, don’t click links — call the department directly.
🔗 Learn more: https://camb.ma/4oQHXLo
Scammers are sending fake emails posing as City of Cambridge employees and asking for permit payments.
If you get a suspicious email, don’t click links — call the department directly.
🔗 Learn more: https://camb.ma/4oQHXLo
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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But if there were a real king, there wouldn't be a protest.
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
But if there were a real king, there wouldn't be a protest.
This doesn’t even show the overflow folks closer to the Parkman Bandstand.
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
October 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This doesn’t even show the overflow folks closer to the Parkman Bandstand.
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The Solar for All program ensures no community is left behind in the transition to solar and that every resident feels the benefits – from breathing cleaner air to more affordable utility bills.
The Trump Administration is attempting to illegally gut this program – we’re fighting back and suing.
The Trump Administration is attempting to illegally gut this program – we’re fighting back and suing.
October 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Solar for All program ensures no community is left behind in the transition to solar and that every resident feels the benefits – from breathing cleaner air to more affordable utility bills.
The Trump Administration is attempting to illegally gut this program – we’re fighting back and suing.
The Trump Administration is attempting to illegally gut this program – we’re fighting back and suing.
The 2026 gubernatorial race is going to be so insufferable.
October 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The 2026 gubernatorial race is going to be so insufferable.
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We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
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New dashboard shows exactly how much federal funding Mass. is losing out on under Trump trib.al/2stsXRv
New dashboard shows exactly how much federal funding Mass. is losing out on under Trump
Many Massachusetts residents are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage, SNAP benefits, and more under the funding cuts.
trib.al
October 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New dashboard shows exactly how much federal funding Mass. is losing out on under Trump trib.al/2stsXRv
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ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
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September 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The National Park System truly is America's best idea. The fact that Trump is out to destroy it is not the worst thing he's doing, but it's part & parcel of his administration's goal of plundering our shared national resources.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Trump Is Setting the National Parks Up to Fail
Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The National Park System truly is America's best idea. The fact that Trump is out to destroy it is not the worst thing he's doing, but it's part & parcel of his administration's goal of plundering our shared national resources.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
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Some of us are old enough to remember the huge brouhaha over the memorial for Paul Wellstone.
How times have changed...
How times have changed...
September 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Some of us are old enough to remember the huge brouhaha over the memorial for Paul Wellstone.
How times have changed...
How times have changed...
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ALPRs can still be abused given the sheer volume of data collected and the lack of transparency in who can request it. “What we actually need, if we want these laws to mean something, are robust oversight measures,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told Spectrum News 1.
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LA County moves to limit license plate data sharing amid ICE raids
State law prohibits local police from assisting federal immigration enforcement in California
spectrumnews1.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ALPRs can still be abused given the sheer volume of data collected and the lack of transparency in who can request it. “What we actually need, if we want these laws to mean something, are robust oversight measures,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told Spectrum News 1.
spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern...
spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern...
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📣 Attention Cambridge families! 🎠 One of the biggest family events of the year is TOMORROW, September 20! Enjoy a fun-filled day of amusement rides, activities, arts and crafts, giveaways, music, food & more at Danehy Park Family Day. 🥳 More info: https://camb.ma/3yWQybr
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
📣 Attention Cambridge families! 🎠 One of the biggest family events of the year is TOMORROW, September 20! Enjoy a fun-filled day of amusement rides, activities, arts and crafts, giveaways, music, food & more at Danehy Park Family Day. 🥳 More info: https://camb.ma/3yWQybr
Internet of Things that want to show you ads….
Samsung is now showing ads on some U.S. customers’ smart fridges.
These fridges cost between $1,800 and $3,500.
Samsung says the advertisement program is "enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers."
These fridges cost between $1,800 and $3,500.
Samsung says the advertisement program is "enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers."
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Internet of Things that want to show you ads….
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The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
September 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Nothing could possibliy go wrong when AI intersects with high stakes testing. www.nbcboston.com/investigatio...
'No rhyme or reason': AI grading issue affects hundreds of MCAS essays
The use of AI to score Massachusetts’ standardized MCAS tests resulted in errors that affected hundreds of exams, the NBC10 Investigators learned.
www.nbcboston.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Nothing could possibliy go wrong when AI intersects with high stakes testing. www.nbcboston.com/investigatio...
Sky the same cloudless blue it was 24 years ago.
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sky the same cloudless blue it was 24 years ago.
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Really tired of listening to right-wing politicians claim bike lanes are bougie infrastructure sought by rich white people when street calming will disproportionately benefit poor people of color who don't have cars! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/09/m...
Bostonians from neighborhoods of color nearly 4 times more likely to be struck by cars across city, data show - The Boston Globe
Residents of predominantly non-white neighborhoods are more likely to commute longer distances without a car, putting them at greater risk, researchers said.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Really tired of listening to right-wing politicians claim bike lanes are bougie infrastructure sought by rich white people when street calming will disproportionately benefit poor people of color who don't have cars! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/09/m...