Dave Marshall in wheelchair and Bledsoe post-op leg braces, March 8th 2026

Dave Marshall in Bledsoe post-op leg braces (full extension, bend limited to 60 degrees), March 7th 2026

X-ray showing fractured tibial plateau, March 5th 2026

Dave Marshall with Cannondale (flat tire) bike on MBTA train

Biking Boston since 1980. Comic artist, designer, developer. On March 5th I hit a pothole in Kenmore Square and fractured both tibial plateaus. Five weeks in rehab. Facing eviction from my home of 17 years.
I don't ask for help easily. I'm asking now.
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This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

Immigration Agent Is Charged With Assaulting a Protester

State, local, and interpersonal consequences are the only things likely to change the behavior of lawless people doing Trump’s will.

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Whether your particular errors are the result of a lack of data or a lack of reasoning skills remains to be seen, according to the tenor or your response, which may or may not indicate a deficiency of manners. Look forward to seeing! 🍿

I’m sorry that you have missed all of the Boston crimes, etc, committed by drivers, and also that you didn’t pay attention to any math course that included statistics. Have a great day!

The Globe is uninterested in retaining any local readership, or they’d fire all of the columnists who just regurgitate their prejudices.

Interesting to see people who read a report of a collision between people using two different modes of transit, and immediately decide that everyone on ONE of the two modes needs to ”get it together,” and it’s the people more likely to be harmed, rather than those more likely to kill.

Reminder:

In December 2025, buried in highly technical guidance on state reporting for Medicaid + CHIP, Sec. Kennedy quietly DROPPED mandatory reporting of child and adolescent immunization rates for half the kids in the U.S.

A radical move away from transparency.

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Amazing new resource for anyone trying to follow changes on state supreme courts.

Every cycle, around 20% of the seats on state high courts are up for election, and @taniel.bsky.social writes up every one of this year's races.

Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

Beds being so damn spartan is the one thing that reads as totally disability-inaccessible about Star Trek’s human future.

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.

Our Afghan allies provided critical support to U.S. forces for over 20 years, but the Trump-Vance Administration has turned its back on them and their families, shutting down key resettlement programs. The idea that we’re now in talks to send as many as 1,100 Afghans, whom we have already evacuated, to the DRC—a country with severe political instability, violence, and a massive refugee and humanitarian crisis—is insane. [1/2]

We told these Afghans that we would help ensure their safety after they helped us. We have an obligation to follow through on our promise because it’s the right thing to do, and because going back on our word will only make it harder for us to build the kinds of partnerships we may need to advance our national security in the future. [2/2]

My statement on reports that the Trump-Vance Administration may send Afghans, including those who served with the U.S. military and more than 400 children, to the Congo:

Justice Dept. Charges Prominent Civil Rights Group With Financial Misconduct

Let this be your cue to donate to the SPLC now!

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

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I asked X, Paramount, ABC, and Meta where their donations to Trump's Presidential Library went. None of them could give a clear answer.

Tens of MILLIONS of dollars are missing.

Why should Americans trust that this money isn’t going straight into Donald Trump’s pockets?

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This will be a shame upon the U.S. for generations.

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Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

The peak of fear mongering. The author claims Ohio HB 249 will jail women for going braless in a T-shirt. HB 249 is about shielding kids from adult performances & imagery —not policing whether women wear bras, bikinis, or T-shirts. Twisting it into "women could be jailed for going braless" isn't just wrong —it's a deliberate misrepresentation. It's common sense to shield kids' innocence from adult performances & imaginary. Nothing but perversion - twisting a bill that aims to protect the innocence of children into something it's not. Do better.

Here's the thing:

If legislators didn't intend for HB 249 to be used against women wearing leggings and low-rise jeans, if they didn't mean for it to be used against trans people existing... THEY COULD FIX THE LANGUAGE.

They drafted it that way for a reason. It's naive to think they won't use it.

Israeli Soldiers Sentenced to Jail for Damaging Jesus Statue in Lebanon

But what’s the penalty, if any, for destroying the image of God thousands of times over?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Starting July 1 there will be new limits on student loans for MLS students under the limited understanding of what fits as a "professional" degree.

This limit is going to further restrict access to the field.

I haven't seen anywhere near enough discussion of this (truthfully, none) by pro orgs. 📚

I know Tom is joking, but bike lanes only "take space" if you accept the car brained premise that roads are only for cars

CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve

WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question

WARSH: I believe this body certified the election

WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

Honestly, the only reason I’m never thrilled about hearing she might run for POTUS is she’s such a kickass, irreplaceable senator.

Elizabeth Warren asking Kevin Warsh how he could be the tough guy who will promote the Fed’s independence, when he can’t say in public that Trump lost the 2020 election, or name a single point of disagreement on economic policy with Trump …

🤣🤣🤣

What's especially frustrating is these domestic homicides are among the most preventable — if we took violence against women seriously.

Nearly all family annihilators or wife killers have a history of violence against women. And yet, they so easily get guns.

Look at the Justin Fairfax case.

I fear that we'll get yet another muted media and public response, because this is a domestic violence situation.

When murder, even mass murder, is about domestic violence, it's not taken as seriously as violence at the hands of a stranger.

What will it take for us to realize it's just as bad?

just saw an ad for a CNN show called Kara Swisher Wants To Live Forever and now I want to do the opposite of that

Trump Extends Sanctions Exemption on Some Russian Oil as High Gas Prices Persist

These twits have no strategy whatsoever. Can they not stick to any decision for a week?

(Clearly not, I know.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...