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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b... Let’s try to make this as big a story as possible Please share

No reservations

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most

Six Ways Local News Strengthens Democracy www.rebuildlocalnews.org/six-ways-loc...

A great @pablo.show ep on Trump's war on public DC courses

Broadcasters have a First Amendment right to report polling data, even if it proves to be inaccurate, just like they have a First Amendment right to report on Brendan Carr and Trump’s own countless lies, even when they turn out to be inaccurate. More:

The POTUS and VP hyping the Acton ad is like Springfield “eating the pets”. You think the guys at the highest levels won’t go so low — surely they’ll leave the gutter swimming to their minions — but no they will absolutely go to the depths. You have to conclude, they like it.

🧊 ICE IS A MASSIVE GRIFT 💰

HT @thriftygiblet.bsky.social who makes a fair point: If malls can put up Xmas trees in October, it's only right to open up the *SeesCandies* stands by Columbus Day. #C'monMan

The remarkable thing is that they have not done so yet, either individually or what would be even better, collectively.

This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

The @concordbridgema.bsky.social, an award-winning nonprofit news outlet, is looking to hire an executive director. www.journalismjobs.com/1693883-exec...

Watch this discussion between @markjacob.bsky.social and NYT editor Patrick Healy where Jacob calls out the paper for this type of obfuscation and soft-peddling language, and Healy expressly defends it:

Just one mo' time

One of my favorite signs

Brew-ha-ha!

Sen. Angus King says he sat down and made a list of everything Putin could possibly want from an American president. His conclusion about Trump? “This guy, this president, is doing almost all of them.” King then goes through the list. WATCH.

Do you ever bolt awake in bed, wondering how your friends from the CompuServe forums, Friendster and Tweet-Ups are doing?

NEW: The Trump admin just cut the time that a refugee has to submit a formal response or an objection to a Notice of Intent to Terminate refugee status from the current period of 30 days to just 10 days. This new rule, issued without the normal notice and comment process, goes into effect tomorrow.

In a communist system, the government owns the means of production. The Cato Institute is tracking how the Trump regime is steadily acquiring shares of private companies, taking ownership of the means of production.

@alanyoung3000.bsky.social Does your staff include a business-feature/humour writer? This year, a list of local Boston biz leaders includes "The Scottish Cone" so I'm wondering who will accept the trophy. . .

Election bullshit Bingo! “Every square is a trope — a recurring story element from real election rumors. Line up five in a row (across, down, or diagonally) and you’ve got BINGO. The center square is a free space.”

Go Blue! Vote Blue! (NB: as a Northwestern alum, I do not endorse UMichigan or Wolverines, though I have enjoyed this fine website, Labatt's Blue and the occasional Harold Melvin&Blue Notes song).

There is no McTry. There is only:

Ohio, today is the last day to register to vote for November’s election. Register online or drop off your voter registration form at your county board of elections office TODAY by 9PM. For more information, head to https://iwillvote.com/OH.

If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned.

One heckuva profile of an MA community and teen hero from bsky.app/profile/matt.... And, yes, you ought to read to the very last word. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/04/s...

Has anyone asked Hegseth how soon he can leave for this "Send me" mission?

“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

It will take years to restock our depleted munitions, but recovering our international stature and reputation and rebuilding frayed alliances may take decades. As a result, the world will be less stable, less free, and less prosperous.

Trump has frequently insisted that other countries were “laughing” at the US. But he’s done something worse: Turn the US into a dispensable ally, a patsy for China, a punchline for Canada, a defeated power hobbled by the Middle East, and a human rights miscreant.

So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury

Today is National Voter Registration Day — and we're less than 50 days from the midterms. The best time to check that your voter registration is up to date is right now. And remind your friends and family to do the same. This is absolutely vital. ⬇️ https://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/

This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.

Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.

This is going to be *really* good. Today in NYC. knightcolumbia.org/events/the-f...

Ya know?! I’ve never done this before. But I think i just might sign up.

It's Election Day-and to every volunteer who has made a call, held a sign, shared a post, talked to a neighbor, donated, or given your time to this campaign: thank you. We couldn't have gotten here without you. Polls are open until 8 PM. Vote David Solet for Middlesex County District Attorney!

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Most headlines refer to this as "misspent" or "misappropriated". Whether by a legal definition it's "stole" those other words GREATLY understate what happened. They took $10M of public money for childrens health care and laundered it thru a string of orgs to get it into a political campaign account.

I’m honored to share that the @bostonglobe.com Editorial Board has endorsed my candidacy for Middlesex District Attorney. Read the full endorsement: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/25/o...

cc @edmarkey.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @whipkclark.bsky.social

He officially has more felonies (34) than approval (33). https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-falls-33-lowest-his-presidency-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-08-17/?taid=6a839726659d87000122b970

Among the *many* problems with Pete Hegseth hitting the campaign trail again: The White House increasingly sees Cabinet secretaries as little more than pieces on an electoral chess board to be moved around to the benefit Republicans, ethics laws be damned. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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If you left your (text)book A World More Bright in the last row of a Harvard-bound #1 bus a little after 4 today, the driver has it @mbta.com @universalhub.com

Pourin out some Gatorade (tm) today for last-mile delivery drivers and postal workers who are the real heros of MA Tax-Free Weekend.