The Massachusetts Spy

“Resistance may or may not be futile. Acquiescence definitely is.” - @yabraham.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/29/m...

It was also take dramatic change in the US midterms, which I would argue are more likely to lead to real progress toward a two-state solution and recognition of Palestinian rights.

The GOP feel safe enough to be openly disgusting on every single level. This is who they are. This is who they have always been.

50,000 shares of the new company in the Mad King's account should take care of that pesky Antitrust Division.

I would have s***canned that clueless oil plutocrat for a double chocolate doughnut and a large coffee.

Thinking and reading: pure poison to Republicans.

Tough but fair.

Or as we call it in America, “meritocracy.”

Amount of tax they will owe on their $13,000,000,000 windfall for pushing out fatally flawed software: $0.00.

Apparently too hard for the @bostonglobe.com , which is too busy fluffing real estate developers and other plutocrats.

Fun fact: this is illegal under U.S. and international law.

Remind me again why the owner of the @washingtonpost.com is more interested in cheap cardboard boxes than in feeding school children, protecting Mainers from ICE death squads, or ensuring the people of Maine don’t freeze to death this winter.

Unfortunately there was no earlier time that the @nytimes.com could have warned us about the Mad King’s consistent efforts to subvert democracy and free elections because she stored unclassified e-mails on her own server. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/u...

Guess Jen’s gotten over her long-time crush on Melech Bibi.

A Halloween horror treat from the @wsj.com : Op-Ed’s of the living dead

That is some high-grade buffoonery he's spewing there.

Someone should tell this demented dip**** about the thousand years of Islamic scientific progress while his ancestors were running around the peat bogs in pelts and blue paint

Coming up in all media: Every Republican running in this election is grilled about their ties to an admitted notorious adjudicated sex offender. And their failure to respond will be taken as the greatest moral lapse since Sodom and Gomorrah, amirite?

All of these Comsymp Republican goons are ripe for the plucking. (via The Counteroffensive) open.substack.com/pub/countero...

Pretty drab #Ivoted sticker IMHO. We should have one that celebrates the heritage of our Commonwealth, like depictions of a glazed cruller and large iced regular.

Republican hacks yearn for the good old days when GOP moral giants like St. Ronald of Bitburg and Mission Accomplished Bush cut foot stamps to prevent “strapping young bucks” from buying T-bone steaks and invaded Iraq based on lies and killed hundreds of thousands.

"If humanity is destroyed by our out of control AI agents, this could cause a material adverse effect on our income, revenues, and potential future growth."

Evergreen post.

Including grandiose cliche-spouting CIO's who can be replaced by AI agents collecting and regurgitating the conventional wisdom of the market.

I'm proud that my Senator @markey.senate.gov encouraged members of groups marginalized and persecuted by white men like Freisendorf to apply.

What are the chances that the bent Supreme Court chucks out centuries of precedent and decides that the mighty Article II unitary executive can ignore Civil Service protections for government employees? I'd say 50-50 but lower odds if Supreme Court reform is put before a Democratic House.

Just a reminder that collective punishment of unarmed civilians in response to an attack on soldiers is an atrocity and a war crime, as very many Wehrmacht officers would tell you had they survived the firing squads. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Only 11 years after the Mad King began venting his anti-Islam hate (remember “Barack HUSSEIN Obama?”), the @nytimes.com finally accurately says so. Keep up the good work, fellas. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/u...

Is he wrong?

Would watch/eat

The Mad King’s MO late in a campaign is to flood the zone with irrelevant bs to keep the media from focusing on what’s key: Russian ties in ‘16, COVID disaster in ‘20, dementia and insurrection in ‘24.

If this guy can get St. David Brooks to show any empathy for the victims of the last half-century of Republican cruelty endorsed and supported by the patron saint of sopprasata I will truly believe in miracles.

He can post campaign signs in the colors of Dunkin’ Donuts and this MAGA plutocrat won’t fool anyone. #magov

Interesting piece by a formner pardon attorney in the unbent DOJ. I wondered about the effect of “blanket” pardons too, especially if they define those pardoned by category and not individually.

And the Republican hacks at @thebulwark.com who shilled for a war of lies claiming that Saddam Hussein was somehow connected to al-Qaeda dusting off their halal hot dog suits.

And following Kristen Welker's lead, another act of journalism today on @facethenation.bsky.social . Is it contagious?

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This just in: Kristen Welker commits an act of journalism on @meetthepress.com . Imagine what could happen if this catches on.

Wonder if Yoopers will remember which political party brought them $6 heating oil and stop voting for their candidates. #misen

Now for $250 explain why the @wsj.com Editorial Page always takes the position that will maximize short term wealth and power of the white plutocratic elite.

Just wondering how many white faces, oblivious to the danger, appeared in public in the stands at the Michigan game? 70,000?

This is the way we campaign in America! (h/t St. David Brooks)

Annals of Great Humanitarians, Ch. 74,219

Also to get out ahead of Republican whiners and media tsk-tskers, a reminder that prosecuting the guilty is not sort of the same thing as prosecuting the innocent. (h/t Princeton Philosophy Prof. D. Morgendoerffer)

I'm always dragging Jeffrey "Bombs Away" Goldberg, but he did refer on @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social to the Mad King's comments about Husted's ass as a "rear-guard action."

The purpose of this frivolous action is to provide a basis for Republican Senators to refuse to seat Mary Peltola in January, especially if she would be the 51st Dem Senator. #aksen Apropos of nothing, where is Stanley Woodward licensed to practice law? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

And that’s why New York liberals need to leave their Bluesky bubble and reach out to very fine Queens real estate brokers.

Not surprising — she has always been known for providing happy endings with her hand.

Coming up tomorrow: All Sunday shows will grill all Republican candidates about their ties to neo-Nazi subversive Ketamine Leon, amirite?