Marion Davis
@marionsd.bsky.social
Writer, editor & comms strategist focused on climate, sustainable & inclusive development, livable cities. Costa Rican in New England. Hiker, nature lover, sci-fi fan, 🐈⬛ mom, gardener.
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Somerville Urban Forestry Committee Seeking One Youth Member
The City of Somerville is seeking one new youth member to join the Somerville Urban Forestry Committee. If you’re passionate about protecting and cultivating our local urban forest, this is a great op...
www.somervillema.gov
Hey #SomervilleMA folks! Do you know a teenager who loves nature and/or is interested in government? The Urban Forestry Committee is recruiting a second youth member. It's a chance to learn about urban ecology, native species and public service. Deadline: Jan. 5. www.somervillema.gov/news/somervi...
Hey #SomervilleMA folks! Do you know a teenager who loves nature and/or is interested in government? The Urban Forestry Committee is recruiting a second youth member. It's a chance to learn about urban ecology, native species and public service. Deadline: Jan. 5. www.somervillema.gov/news/somervi...
Somerville Urban Forestry Committee Seeking One Youth Member
The City of Somerville is seeking one new youth member to join the Somerville Urban Forestry Committee. If you’re passionate about protecting and cultivating our local urban forest, this is a great op...
www.somervillema.gov
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hey #SomervilleMA folks! Do you know a teenager who loves nature and/or is interested in government? The Urban Forestry Committee is recruiting a second youth member. It's a chance to learn about urban ecology, native species and public service. Deadline: Jan. 5. www.somervillema.gov/news/somervi...
Wow, this photo. This is what they *want* to look like? www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
December 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Wow, this photo. This is what they *want* to look like? www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
Sasha imagines what a responsible elementary school might do if an 11-year-old child did and said what this vile man has done. How so many people can see such obvious depravity and just 🤷 is just unfathomable to me.
Trump's response to the murder of Rob and Michele Reiner was arguably most debased presidential response to a public tragedy in US history. Daily, he is now saying and doing things that would get a child expelled from school. Here's my take in the Nation magazine:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump's Vile Rob Reiner Comments Show How Much He Has Debased His Office
Every day, Trump is saying and doing things that would get most elementary school children suspended.
www.thenation.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Sasha imagines what a responsible elementary school might do if an 11-year-old child did and said what this vile man has done. How so many people can see such obvious depravity and just 🤷 is just unfathomable to me.
Just finished Oyinkan Braithwaite's "Cursed Daughters," a gorgeous, multi-layered novel quite different from the author's hit novel "My Sister, the Serial Killer," sadder, but rich and lushly written and often wryly funny. #Booksky
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“I am drawn to the uncanny”: Oyinkan Braithwaite on "Cursed Daughters" - Chicago Review of Books
In Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite tackles a provocative and mysterious premise of reincarnation and the legacy of generational trauma in a Nigerian household. At the heart of the novel is the F...
chireviewofbooks.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just finished Oyinkan Braithwaite's "Cursed Daughters," a gorgeous, multi-layered novel quite different from the author's hit novel "My Sister, the Serial Killer," sadder, but rich and lushly written and often wryly funny. #Booksky
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/11/i...
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/11/i...
Just participated in a pretty aggressive push poll from @sethmoulton.bsky.social in his race against Ed Markey. The irony is that, much as I love, respect and appreciate Senator Markey, I wish he'd retire and clear the path for a younger progressive, like Ayanna. But NOT a white male "centrist."
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Just participated in a pretty aggressive push poll from @sethmoulton.bsky.social in his race against Ed Markey. The irony is that, much as I love, respect and appreciate Senator Markey, I wish he'd retire and clear the path for a younger progressive, like Ayanna. But NOT a white male "centrist."
Big thanks to Joan for live-tweeting this and sharing details!
I am in the McGrath Highway -> Boulevard project meeting for the 25% design presentation. You can join me here: www.mass.gov/event/somerv...
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www.mass.gov
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Big thanks to Joan for live-tweeting this and sharing details!
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Adaptation starter pack go.bsky.app/3G5Eono
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Adaptation starter pack go.bsky.app/3G5Eono
ChatGPT: So you never have to speak with another human or even read anything again. Guaranteed to be totally reliable, of course.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ChatGPT: So you never have to speak with another human or even read anything again. Guaranteed to be totally reliable, of course.
Jasmine Crockett doesn't look, talk or act like any U.S. Senator I know of. Because the Senate is overwhelmingly old white men. I don't know if Texans will get behind her, but she's certainly smart, tough and gutsy enough for the job.
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Jasmine Crockett doesn't look, talk or act like any U.S. Senator I know of. Because the Senate is overwhelmingly old white men. I don't know if Texans will get behind her, but she's certainly smart, tough and gutsy enough for the job.
I'm reading this right now and it's so great! Like the noodles it features, it's fun and enjoyable, but also multilayered, with bite. #Booksky
Holy crap -- Automatic Noodle is an instant USA Today and Indie bestseller! Thank you so much, humans and robots, for reading this li'l book and making it soar. Now go eat something! Or get your noodle swag at automaticnoodle.website
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm reading this right now and it's so great! Like the noodles it features, it's fun and enjoyable, but also multilayered, with bite. #Booksky
This is brilliant. It focuses on NYC, but is relevant to cities all across America (and beyond). Free parking is a huge waste of public resources. Meters and modestly priced permits are just... civilized and can help pay for better mobility for all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
Opinion | We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is brilliant. It focuses on NYC, but is relevant to cities all across America (and beyond). Free parking is a huge waste of public resources. Meters and modestly priced permits are just... civilized and can help pay for better mobility for all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
It seems clearer to me every day that the assault on 🏳️⚧️ and 🏳️🌈 people is just an extreme manifestation of a much broader campaign to subject *all* people to rigid and oppressive gender stereotypes. Responding to "kids are suffering if they're not girly/manly enough" with "it's the Bible" is just vile.
You know that OU student who was failed by her professor for getting all biblical in her paper? When you read the actual article she was assigned to respond to, it becomes pretty fucking clear that she didn't do the assignment. She didn't respond to it. She wrote her own bullshit.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It seems clearer to me every day that the assault on 🏳️⚧️ and 🏳️🌈 people is just an extreme manifestation of a much broader campaign to subject *all* people to rigid and oppressive gender stereotypes. Responding to "kids are suffering if they're not girly/manly enough" with "it's the Bible" is just vile.
Friendly vocabulary lesson:
Forward = moving ahead, like "step forward"
Foreword = preface, like a note from a CEO or a public official or some respected authority before the main text
Forward = moving ahead, like "step forward"
Foreword = preface, like a note from a CEO or a public official or some respected authority before the main text
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Friendly vocabulary lesson:
Forward = moving ahead, like "step forward"
Foreword = preface, like a note from a CEO or a public official or some respected authority before the main text
Forward = moving ahead, like "step forward"
Foreword = preface, like a note from a CEO or a public official or some respected authority before the main text
I'd never heard of this show until last night and wow it's so fun! And indeed, distinctly Canadian. (In the U.S., found it free on Roku btw.)
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'd never heard of this show until last night and wow it's so fun! And indeed, distinctly Canadian. (In the U.S., found it free on Roku btw.)
Wild.
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Wild.
Reposted by Marion Davis
Political Gap Between Pastors & Pews
“Political partisanship of the average mainline pastor diverges significantly from the politics of the folks sitting in their pews.”
Ryan Burge analyzes recent PRRI data to highlight pervasive pattern in Mainline Christianity 👉 open.substack.com/pub/ryanburg...
“Political partisanship of the average mainline pastor diverges significantly from the politics of the folks sitting in their pews.”
Ryan Burge analyzes recent PRRI data to highlight pervasive pattern in Mainline Christianity 👉 open.substack.com/pub/ryanburg...
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Political Gap Between Pastors & Pews
“Political partisanship of the average mainline pastor diverges significantly from the politics of the folks sitting in their pews.”
Ryan Burge analyzes recent PRRI data to highlight pervasive pattern in Mainline Christianity 👉 open.substack.com/pub/ryanburg...
“Political partisanship of the average mainline pastor diverges significantly from the politics of the folks sitting in their pews.”
Ryan Burge analyzes recent PRRI data to highlight pervasive pattern in Mainline Christianity 👉 open.substack.com/pub/ryanburg...
God forbid you accidentally include a few trans women in your disaggregated data; let's make sure everyone who participates in climate activities must disclose intimate information! An absurd distraction that only hinders urgent progress for women and girls.
Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
God forbid you accidentally include a few trans women in your disaggregated data; let's make sure everyone who participates in climate activities must disclose intimate information! An absurd distraction that only hinders urgent progress for women and girls.
Just staggering amounts of sea-level rise: 1.3 feet from 2008 to 2040, and 4.3 feet later this century. So glad I live a whole... 20 feet above sea level... and torrential rains are also increasing inland flood risks. Adaptation is urgently needed. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Massachusetts unveils plan to protect communities from sea level rise
The plan outlines steps to protect property and strengthen infrastructure, such as preserving natural buffers like salt marshes and elevating houses.
www.wgbh.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just staggering amounts of sea-level rise: 1.3 feet from 2008 to 2040, and 4.3 feet later this century. So glad I live a whole... 20 feet above sea level... and torrential rains are also increasing inland flood risks. Adaptation is urgently needed. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
This cozy fantasy, set in 1926 Carmel by the Sea, is just a delight with great characters, most notably a very strange, sentient and fastidious old house on a cliff. Read author @bethcato.bsky.social's own pitch: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/01/t... #Booksky
The Big Idea: Beth Cato
You can’t judge a house by its paint job. Or by the nefarious things that have gone on inside said house in the past. Author Beth Cato takes us for a tour in the Big Idea for her newest novel…
whatever.scalzi.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This cozy fantasy, set in 1926 Carmel by the Sea, is just a delight with great characters, most notably a very strange, sentient and fastidious old house on a cliff. Read author @bethcato.bsky.social's own pitch: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/01/t... #Booksky
Tesla's a special kind of awful, but I'm increasingly conscious of how all these "advanced features" in cars could come back to bite us. So many more points where hardware and software can fail, costing lots of money and, sometimes, lives.
Five adults died in a fatal Tesla crash in Wisconsin. A caller to 911 said she could here people screaming. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla Sued Over Claim Faulty Doors Led to Deaths in Fiery Crash
Tesla Inc. was sued over a crash in Wisconsin last November that killed all five occupants of a Model S who allegedly became trapped in a fast-moving inferno when the doors wouldn’t open, adding to sc...
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Tesla's a special kind of awful, but I'm increasingly conscious of how all these "advanced features" in cars could come back to bite us. So many more points where hardware and software can fail, costing lots of money and, sometimes, lives.
I'm starting a bit late this year, but hey, it's time for Beat the Bay State again! This is when hundreds of people across Mass. track every mile we walk, jog or run in a quest to complete the perimeter of our state, to raise funds for @walkmass.bsky.social. Join me! runsignup.com/Race/MA/Bost...
Beat the Bay State Team Challenge
The Beat the Bay State Team Challenge is on Saturday November 1, 2025 to Monday December 1, 2025.
runsignup.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'm starting a bit late this year, but hey, it's time for Beat the Bay State again! This is when hundreds of people across Mass. track every mile we walk, jog or run in a quest to complete the perimeter of our state, to raise funds for @walkmass.bsky.social. Join me! runsignup.com/Race/MA/Bost...
As of Dec. 2024, @unhcr.org says, there were an astonishing 123 million people forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. www.unhcr.org/refugee-stat.... Even at its best, the US takes a tiny fraction, but it's still a crucial refugee destination. This is vile.
“The Trump admin is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop announced Thursday that effectively suspends America’s traditional role as a haven for those fleeing war and persecution.”
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
As of Dec. 2024, @unhcr.org says, there were an astonishing 123 million people forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. www.unhcr.org/refugee-stat.... Even at its best, the US takes a tiny fraction, but it's still a crucial refugee destination. This is vile.
Incredible deals on a lot of eye-opening, thought-provoking and inspiring books.
ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Incredible deals on a lot of eye-opening, thought-provoking and inspiring books.
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An AI-driven mobile app which overrides hard documentary evidence to reach its own "definitive" conclusions of someone's citizenship sounds like an idea that didn't make it out of the Black Mirror writers room
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
An AI-driven mobile app which overrides hard documentary evidence to reach its own "definitive" conclusions of someone's citizenship sounds like an idea that didn't make it out of the Black Mirror writers room
This is how you lose elections: Force people to accept a betrayal of their rights and core values, or just not vote. Sending a clear message that you value conservatives who might (but probably won't) vote for you far more than LGBTQI people, communities of color, progressives and other loyal Dems.
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is how you lose elections: Force people to accept a betrayal of their rights and core values, or just not vote. Sending a clear message that you value conservatives who might (but probably won't) vote for you far more than LGBTQI people, communities of color, progressives and other loyal Dems.