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Producer, NBC10 Boston. I use “likes” as a bookmark, to keep track of stories or posts I think are noteworthy.
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A great listen here on the immigrant man ICE sent from Mass. to Texas without alerting his lawyer or wife @wbur.org @jmarrerosuarez.bsky.social #mapoli www.wbur.org/news/2025/02...

“The main holdup, per sources, is the protracted sale of Celtics. league officials are eying a sale price of at least $6 billion, in part to set a baseline for the expansion franchise fees. But that hasn’t come to pass yet. ‘the sale..is taking a lot longer & it’s going to come in at a lower price’

A Delta flight carrying ~80 passengers from Minnesota appears to have crash landed at Toronto Pearson Airport. No casualties reported as of this time. Numerous photos and videos have been released showing passengers safely exiting the plane, which flipped upside down. At least 8 people injured.

“.. In my 20-year law enforcement career, this is one of the most horrific crimes I have ever investigated,” Captain Swift said at a news conference on Friday.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/n....

The New Mexico Department of Health declared a measles outbreak in a southeastern New Mexico county. Cases had previously been detected in a neighboring Texas county. nmpoliticalreport.com/2025/02/14/d...

📈 POPULAR NOW The pandemic led to more access to local town meetings. Beacon Hill will decide what comes next.

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

City officials say this now clears the way for more substantial demolition work to commence at the White Stadium site.

Brady’s voice sounds hoarse. Get that man some tea

ESPN running a segment on the Super Bowl prop bet about the color of the Gatorade that gets dumped on the winning coach and if I heard a friend discuss this we’d be having an intervention.

Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

NEWS: I’m launching a new @globeopinion.bsky.social newsletter about the US Supreme Court: The Gavel. In it, I’ll give you analysis on what the nine justices are doing, and why it matters to all of us. Best of all - it’s free! Sign up! bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

CNBC EXCLUSIVE: Key Census data taken down. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/s...

NEW from me: Why has Patrick Soon-Shiong touted RFK Jr repeatedly and run interference for him at his paper, the LA Times? Maybe because his biotech company has 3 applications pending at the FDA, whose parent agency Kennedy is about to be running. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

What happens to student loans if the Dept of Education goes away. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2r7xTbc/

here’s a thing!

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

* U.S. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION RESTRICTS HELICOPTER FLIGHTS NEAR REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT INDEFINITELY, FAA OFFICIAL SAYS @reuters.com

Another year and @bostonglobe.com puffs up Walton family K-12 interests, never divulging how much $$$ the Waltons pour into them. That news is Banned in Boston. I'm here to help so here is Walton political spending from 2017-2023. www.masspoliticsprofs.org/2025/01/31/b... #maedu #mapoli #bospoli

www.levernews.com/before-d-c-a... Tha menace, so often, is greed

POST EXCLUSIVE Tulsi Gabbard said under oath she didn’t know “until today” that a cleric she met in Syria threatened to unleash suicide bombers in the U.S. Documents from 2017 indicate she was told then @jonswaine.bsky.social and @ellenwapo.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please don’t shrug and say it’s normal—it’s not, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

um (article has paywall) www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Officials ordered evacuations as a major brush fire broke out on Wednesday in a part of Western North Carolina that is still recovering from the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene in September. The fire has burned more than 150 acres.

Breaking News: Justice Dept. officials are said to have spoken with federal prosecutors about possibly dropping the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams.

Trump deported 200 Colombians. None were criminals, Colombian officials say. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

the kids are not alright

The Boston Herald spelled Colombia wrong on their front-page today

“I was treated like a celebrity for having stormed the Capitol building. Not just from the inmates, but from the staff as well. The first thing a correctional officer said to me when I reported in the booking was, 'Let's go, Brandon.'“

Sagan was a prophet.

www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...

This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

After Thursday's explosion small chunks of what's left of Spacex's Starship have been found on the islands of Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean. The FAA had already said on Friday that it was investigating these reports. Here the island government confirms debris findings

Celtics 0-5 in the last 3. All jump shots

GM was selling drivers’ location info to data brokers - who sold to insurance agencies. Truly outrageous! Thank you @kashhill.bsky.social and FTC for putting a stop to this data exploitation.

Republican Rep. Mike Waltz, who called TikTok "CCP spyware" last year, now - as Trump’s pick for national security adviser - says it's a "great platform that many Americans use and has been great for [Trump's] campaign"

RIP Bob Uecker. Never forget the time he and Bob Gibson got in trouble for holding hands during the team photo.

Jalen Polk

@sentdefender US-based Venezuelan media outlet VPITV has confirmed that opposition candidate María Corina Machado was arrested by Maduro regime forces after making a surprise appearance at a rally in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. Regime forces shot at her convoy of motorcycles and arrested her.

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

"As things stand, the surgeon general reports that less than half of Americans are even aware of alcohol’s link to cancer," the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/3C2ZIV9