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Sorta wish Wikipedia did a Spotify wrapped type summary of all the obscure things I learned about in the past year.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Ride For Your Life - Boston. An annual event to honor victims of traffic violence and push for state speed-camera authorizations and truck safety reforms at MA State House.

The Franklin Park Zoo reports the death of Dinari the lion, at 17. www.facebook.com/100064875243... #Boston

THIS 👇 TOO.......

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

This means that since August, nine people have been shot in Hyde Park, three fatally www.universalhub.com/crime/2026/t...

Student debt is at the heart of why campus sexual violence derails victims’ lives too. The primary reason victims drop out of college is because they are encouraged to take temporary leaves of absence—and then they can’t return until they are current on student loan payments.

<EASTIE> B&E on 400 block of Border St, caller’s roommate found a NAKED MAN UNDER HER BED on fourth floor of an apt building. He jumped out a window and broke thru back door of a neighboring house on Falcon St, might’ve moved on to another yard, BPD on scene, K-9 unit from Area B enrt #950am

Mean #Boston judges have prevented regime from shipping 70 #immigrants to countries they have no ties to, just because they might face torture, regime whines to Supreme Court www.universalhub.com/2026/mean-bo...

'50s-style burger and chicken place opens in West Roxbury www.universalhub.com/2026/new-50s... #Boston #hamburgers

Opinion from BMC nurses: ‘We’re at the end of our ropes’ without a fair contract www.dotnews.com/2026/09/10/b...

The U.S. stopped issuing visas for citizens of 75 countries because it said they were likely to need public assistance. A judge ruled the policy illegally discriminated on the basis of nationality. n.pr/4gbeIlc

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

Wife continues daily walks through Hyde Park and Roslindale after husband's death www.universalhub.com/2026/wife-co... #Boston

In Boston, U-Haul roofs are like teeth: not covered by your regular insurance.

We're celebrating the signing of the Freedom to Read Bill keeping book bans out of MA schools and libraries! Cheers to all of those who used their strong voices to advocate for us all to be able to "read what we damn well please!"

We have been awarded a Historic Markers Community Grant to pursue a special project documenting the North End’s Jewish history! Thousands of Jewish residents once lived and worked in this historic neighborhood in the late 19th century.

Ride In Peace, Louisa. #NoMoreGhostBikes

Protest and public pressure work. Keep at it and stay dedicated. "Following months of protests outside its branches and Providence headquarters, Rhode Island’s largest bank announced Friday it is cutting its financial ties" with CoreCivic and GEO Group.

The Air Quality Index (AQI) at the Boston - Roxbury site in MA, United States is 160 [Unhealthy] as of Jul 18, 2026 @ 7PM Local Time. This is the highest AQI observation in 3 years. #AQIObs

Protect Haitian TPS Thurs. July 23rd noon Boston City Hall Plaza - ACLU, MIRA and more

Renee Goode. Alex Pretti. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Johan Sebastian Guerrero. Say. Their. F'N. Names 🤬 #GoodTroubleLivesOn in Newton Centre. #SayTheirNames #AbolishIce #ProsecuteIce #IceOutForGood cc @universalhub.com

Roslindale remembers one of its bright lights, snuffed out far too soon www.universalhub.com/2026/roslind... #Boston #LauraGag #bicycling

Racicot’s story isn’t brand new if you can read between the lines of what she told the NYT a month ago.

With an average speed of ≈7mph, it would take the B Line 15½ days to make it from Park to Los Angeles.

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

Green Bean needs a foster home in the Twin Cities area. new.shelterluv.com/embed/animal...

Nope. Fuck off & don't use Fenway Park or Boston for your bullshit fascist propaganda. To quote Big Papi: "This is OUR fucking city!"

If you want to see humanity at its very best please watch the finish line of Boston Marathon . The real race starts long after the professional competitors have finished. Amazing sights of dedication, endurance, determination, goals achieved , tears of happiness & hard work paying off.

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

BOOKMARK THIS: Massachusetts launched a brand new ICE Reporting Portal. Know that if federal agents operate unlawfully in Massachusetts, we will hold them accountable. You can submit reports of potentially unlawful activity or misconduct by ICE agents at www.mass.gov/fedmisconduct

Say it plain: This is a terrible jobs report. The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, nearly double the expected loss of 50,000. It’s the third payroll decline in the past five months. 📌Note: This is one of the worst monthly payroll drops since Covid.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Name: Davi De Jesus Lana Missing Since: Feb 11, 2026 Missing From: Cambridge, MA Age: 15 Any info or if seen, contact Cambridge Police at (617) 349-3300 (NCMEC)

HERO 🔥 And I don’t want to hear shit about a censure vote against this man. Rep. Al Greene was ejected from the State of the Union for the sign — “Black People Aren’t Apes.”

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

< DORCHESTER > Coyote bite, PERCIVAL ST area, EMS checking him out, sound like vict thought was a “cute pup.” BPD heading in to take the report that starts with "A suspect with fur.. blablabla, babla, babla..." #712pm