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This makes sense. Why should cities with pressing needs for new housing and commercial space sit by while investors let their properties lie fallow for decades, merely throwing off tax losses? Boston should also apply this same kind of pressure. #bospoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/06/m...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It's reassuring in a way to see that even here in MA, our elected officials think we are rubes to be manipulated. You don't have to go all the way to DC to have pols tell you they are above the law, immune from oversight, and that they know what's good for you. www.bostonherald.com/2025/04/02/e...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is a very good, very short explainer on the tariffs, how they work, and why they are crashing the stock market. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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"One of these individuals [the one unlawfully deported to El Salvador] is a paragon of manliness; the other [the one with 13 or so kids he doesn't know] is an effete parasite." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly, the NYT deserves all the crap it gets. Julian Barnes "explains" today how the massive Signal fuckup is of a piece with Biden taking his own notes home, and how the use of Signal by officials with secure rooms in their homes is just human nature. Whitewash. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone has the resources, tactics, and knowledge of the law to stand up to the Trump Admin, it should be America's largest law firms. Like the WilmerHale lawyer who undid McCarthy with "Have you no decency, sir, at long last?" But money is addictive, so we'll see. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE is crippling the Social Security Administration. SSA’s website crashed four times in 10 days and Americans who depend on Social Security have flooded congressional offices with angry phone calls. The AARP says it has been getting 2,000 calls a week.

submitted 22 days ago • 101 comments

This is worthy of the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. "Here's How Trump's Wacko Obsession With Greenland, Born of a Misapprehension of Mercator Projections, Actually Fits Within a Long, Rich History of American Officials Plotting to Overtake That Island." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/w...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Dems endlessly attacking each other about Dem strategic failures is so stupid. Trump won in 2016 because a black man had just been president and a woman was the nominee, and he won in 2024 because a woman of color was the other option. Racism and sexism are not "failures of messaging."

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Tonight's response by Sen. Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov to the president's speech can be outraged in tone, or frustrated, or indignant, or even plaintive or sarcastic if it's done right, but the one thing it absolutely may not be is smug. Democratic smugness is over. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Daniel McCarthy is paid by the Times for his opinion so he can rate every action so far by Trump as about a 7/10 in importance, with no differentiation or prioritization at all. Because Republicans have no fucking idea what will end up mattering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Now that Donald Trump, who I do not support, has exposed Volodymyr Zelensky as a globalist shitlib, perhaps the world will understand that the only trustworthy politician of the 21st century has been Vladimir Putin, who I do not support. by Glenn Greenwald

submitted 46 days ago • 35 comments

Yes. MAGA did not like Mayor Adams until he corruptly broke the law, they went after USAID (0.7% of the budget) first because it helps people. They love Putin, hate Jose Andres, love Matt Gaetz, hate John McCain, love MBS, hate Trudeau, and love the Tates. Nihilism is very much on the menu.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 48 days ago • 433 comments

NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 253 comments

Message from the Republicans at The Bulwark to @nytimes.com.web.brid.gy and other news media: "Tell the White House that you’ll fuck all the way off before you accept Newsmax as a peer. Take your own damn side of this fight." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Every city has a few things it must do -- public safety, firefighting, education, maintaining public space, and building and renovating buildings. Why have public agencies/employees to handle all these core functions in-house except the last one? Not to save $. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Here's my issue: you've got four candidates, and one is terrible & scary. That candidate gets the fewest votes and no candidate gets a majority. Why should the portion of the electorate stupid or mean enough to vote for the terrible candidate decide the election? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/26/o...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

An entire 800+ word piece by Axios about the current MAGA government's unprecedented control of the free press, and not one word about the First Amendment or the US constitution. Why? www.axios.com/newsletters/...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Gitmo is the sock puppet Uncle Sam puts over his hand when he wants to do barbaric, illegal shit and say "that's not me."

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

We had a million private attorney's general giving us up-to-the-minute forensic audits of Hunter Biden's art sales, but no one seems to have much energy for simply tracking the ways Trump is profiting off of his presidency and creating ways to bribe him directly www.foxbusiness.com/politics/loo...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING The United States has voted against a UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The resolution passed.

submitted 51 days ago • 76 comments

"Musk has spent 24 hours tweeting more than 220 times and engaged in public fights with two of the mothers of his children while allegedly running companies and overhauling the government, while Trump spent at least 12 nights at Mar-a-Lago in his first 29 days in office."

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

open.spotify.com/track/65ADTP...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

This is wild. While people like Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are telling staffers to hold off on replying to Elon Musk’s email blast, the man whom Democrats picked over AOC for House Oversight ranking member tells federal employees to reply to the email.

submitted 52 days ago • 155 comments

No one knows what impact defunding/destaffing FHA will have on mortgage lending (although it will certainly hurt first-time buyers more), but together with the talk of selling/privatizing Fannie and Freddie, the administration is introducing a lot instability into a skittish and risk-averse market.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

What are the rules here? We have multiple independently-sufficient reasons for the outcome of the last presidential election, including straightforward & evident racism and sexism. So how is it okay to assert unqualifiedly that the election was "about inflation"? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans are proposing $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, an increase of $4 trillion in the debt ceiling, and about $150 billion in cuts to supplemental nutrition programs. It's just redistribution of wealth. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

In May of 2024, 32% of Michigan Republicans voted against the prohibitive front-runner Trump. Biden got a fraction as many protest votes. If that surprises you because you only remember "Democrats Riven by Dissent" stories about Michigan, you have excellent reading comprehension and recall.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk, with this blitzkrieg, are killing people. All the Republicans in Congress are accomplices. And Trump voters bear responsibility for this, too.

submitted 71 days ago • 92 comments

The FBI is full of tough minded, hard charging, patriotic people—mostly Republicans—who have devoted years of their lives serving the country and placing mission over money. Many there now feel unfairly targeted by political operatives for doing things they were assigned to do. They are furious.

submitted 73 days ago • 241 comments

🟡 NEW: CBS News staff are bracing for an all-but-inevitable concession by the network’s parent company to Trump over a broadcast that virtually no one at the network actually believes was flawed, @maxtani.bsky.social reports.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

still the most accurate depiction of life in the 21st century

submitted 134 days ago • 40 comments