DOGE broke something at the VA. Massachusetts veterans are paying the price. - The Boston Globe Many veterans say an exodus of medical staff has resulted in longer waits for treatment and has forced them to go outside the VA for care.

#DOGE broke something at the VA. Massachusetts veterans are paying the price.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/21/m...

#mapoli

‘It’s going to be different’: Preparing for life without Hampshire in Western Mass. - The Boston Globe Hampshire College’s upcoming closure poses an existential question.

‘It’s going to be different’: Preparing for life without Hampshire College in #WMass.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/20/m...

Best day of the year in any city.

Fight me.

Trump stooge Howard Lutnick is courtside for Celtics-Sixers.

Working hard on the economy!

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

A debacle from day one. The Senate has no excuse.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

AND watched the Greenville Drive walk it off against the Bowling Green Hot Rods

Friday night Pleasant Cafe supremacy

Checking in on the good ol’ Boston Herald Sports section

Why Orbán’s Loss Was So Devastating to the New Right The autocratic Hungarian prime minister showed J.D. Vance and his cohort what was possible. Now they have to regroup.

Why Orbán’s Loss Was So Devastating to the New Right

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a #Boston native who will forever be remembered as a key engineer of Trump’s gestapo.

Watched The Pitt finale and Hacks E2 tonight and I think Noah Wyle and Jean Smart are both going straight back to the Emmy stage. Also, I cried once per show. It's very hot in NYC right now and I am labile.

Opinion | This Is How Kennedy Loses the MAHA Moms

This Is How Kennedy Loses the #MAHA Moms

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/o...

Trump’s ‘Triumphal Arch’ Draws Backlash, Even From an Expert Who Proposed It

Trump’s ‘Triumphal Arch’ Draws Backlash, Even From an Expert Who Proposed It

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...

"To be a woman who does reporting in any field, especially one dominated by men, is to put up with a lot of propositions and harassment and unfairness that your newsroom will be unable to do much about."

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Opinion | This Is Not a Man in Control of Himself

This Is Not a Man in Control of Himself

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

World Cup Transit Is Broken Before It Has Begun | Defector On Tuesday, the Athletic reported that NJ Transit plans on hiking up the price of return tickets to New York Penn Station from World Cup games at the New York New Jersey stadium in East Rutherford, N....

World Cup Transit Is Broken Before It Has Begun

defector.com/world-cup-tr...

Trump: "Gasoline is coming down very soon, and very big"


(it's amazing how he's just talking to bullshit his way through all of his problems right now)

The View From Inside Trump’s DHS Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.

‘I Don’t Know if We Can Come Back From This’: The View From Inside Trump’s DHS

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Report: FIFA Plans To Ask Peace Prize Winner If He Would Maybe Consider Pausing Domestic Terrorism Program For One Month With just under two months until the start of the 2026 World Cup, it seems that FIFA executives have finally looked up at the horizon, seen the looming shitstorm, and are now scrambling to head it off...

Report: FIFA Plans To Ask Peace Prize Winner If He Would Maybe Consider Pausing Domestic Terrorism Program For One Month

defector.com/report-fifa-...

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I'm Dr. Jesus Christ | Defector The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is a deranged old pervert whose brain, long since sodden and pitted from a lifetime of indulgence and Diet Coke, is foaming out of his ears. Over the ...

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

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What do former grisly mob haunts say about modern day Greater Boston?

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/m...

#Boston #SomervilleMA

Trump administration’s rush to roll back environmental rules hits a MAHA wall In an exception to his blitz on other regulations, EPA chief Lee Zeldin is delaying approval for forever chemicals over fears of angering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s movement.

Trump administration’s rush to roll back environmental rules hits a #MAHA wall

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Opinion | Pete Hegseth’s Gospel of Carnage

Pete Hegseth’s Gospel of Carnage

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

Only one person knows how to run the Steamship Authority’s ticketing system. And he’s about to retire. - The Boston Globe David Cox built the system in 1996 and is the only person on earth who knows all the ins and outs of running it.

Only one person knows how to run the Steamship Authority’s ticketing system. And he’s about to retire.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/13/m...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

www.wired.com/story/the-in...

by @knibbs.bsky.social

BRUV grab your beer !!!!!!

#TheMasters

Hollywood is Embracing Influencers in a Shaky Bid to Win Back Gen Z The strategy is less “If you build it, they will come” than “If you take the veneer of something somebody already built, maybe they will accidentally end up here.”

The Influencers Are Coming! Hollywood is embracing content creators in a shaky bid to win back Gen Z viewership

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via @airmail.news

Israel's top hospital has landed in Boston — and is sparking backlash An Israeli hospital's entry into Mass. has prompted reaction, particularly after Healey admin. officials traveled to the country and tax incentives were offered.

Israel’s top hospital has landed in #Boston — and is sparking backlash

www.masslive.com/news/2026/04...

pic of Dana White, Rubio, and Trump

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail

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