My firm opinion is that Mary Travers is the Queen of Everything and nothing can dissuade me

I grew up on Peter, Paul, and Mary and this thread is correct about almost everything

This bodes well. Has anyone told him what happened in 1919

I really look forward to this

Fake Massachusetts Towns april 19 2021 April 17 2022 4/17/23 4/14/24 4/21/25

Tomorrow is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which means it's a good time to roll out this all-timer from our archives.

New blog post by one of my students highlighting the USS Constitution Museum’s Lego Maritime Festival. slis.simmons.edu/blogs/lis476...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

i wouldn’t be where i am today without this program.

my heart breaks for the futures changed without getting to be a part of it this summer.

I’m surprised I can still be shocked by how bad this is.

Black and white photograph of individuals in Victorian dress on a Swan Boat in the Boston Public Garden Lagoon

Mayor Wu will take the first Swan Boat ride of the season today, marking 149 years of Swan Boats at the Public Garden. dyk that the boats are still powered by a foot propelled paddle wheel. This image from the late 1800s/early 1900s lives in our collections. More: library.bc.edu/iiif/view/BC...

My lovely neighbor has to have her steps fixed and so since 8 am, I have been listening to a loud cacophony of Italian, Spanish, and Boston swearing

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Reposting for the comments

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

This explains why llms write like the most insufferable men you have ever met

WTF? Was GPT-Henrietta taken?

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Mr. Bernard Shaw receives daily a mass of appeals from charitable institutions, religious sects, and Churches, inventors, Utopian writers desirous of establishing international millennial leagues, parents unable to afford secondary education for their children: in short, everybody and every enterprise in financial straits of any sort..."

Whether or not you filed your taxes yesterday, enjoy this postcard from playwright and activist (George) Bernard Shaw. Shaw sent this pre-printed postcards to people who reached out seeking charitable donations. Contact us to see more. Finding aid here: findingaids.bc.edu/repositories...

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Shocker

If you were homeschooled, please take this survey about how your experience impacted outcomes afterwards! And share widely--CRHE is trying to get 1,000 participants.

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Last week, I wrote about how Zohran Mamdani is clearly having FUN as mayor—and treating his public service as the gift it is. There’s an important lesson here: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...

This was my experience going to state school, absolutely

This is such a Bible belt Baptist thing to say. Which is....probably what Vance actually is.

Smell of feces, vomit fills crowded ICE facility, detainee's wife says Conditions at the ICE facility in central Phoenix mirror the conditions at a Mesa facility, where people were being treated worse than "animals," lawmakers said.

Story here: www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Seems like a good time to share an amazing bit of reporting by Cokie Roberts that has stuck with me: Her discovery of a letter from Louisa Adams detailing how Congress left behind *40 pregnant mistresses* after the extra-long session of 1820, necessitating more orphanage space -->

“If this is how I’m leaving, I never want to step foot in this country again,” Ajak said.

I don’t blame him one bit.

And Syracuse University did nothing?

My brain is well and truly broken because I just read "call for papers" as "call for pirates" and there was a moment where that made perfect sense to me