In 'Live free or Die' N.H. - a proposal for an income tax gets a death threat from Libertarian party. Republican Gov. Ayotte has condemned the tax notion -- but not the death threat @wbur.org @agbrooksradio.bsky.social
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Because it’s hard to develop that capacity on your own from the album those who throw objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them
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Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails. For nearly 1/3 of those lives lost, no 'manner of death' is listed, according to a @themarshallproject.org analysis. Watch (and listen) for our six-part series via @wbur.org's Here & Now. First story here: wbur.fm/3VCGLyZ
For some reason when we posted this same video on LinkedIn on the Bellingcat account it was removed "for misinformation" with no further explanation.
Forbes screenshot of Robert Kraft net worth page with headshot and text Chairman & CEO, The Kraft Group $13.8B Real Time Net Worth as of 9/10/25 #190 in the world today
An important piece of context to the Boston mayor’s race: the $5.5 million Josh Kraft spent to fund his campaign represents just 0.04% of his dad’s $13.8 billion fortune.
All that to lose to @wutrain.bsky.social by 49 points and in every ward of every neighborhood.
Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.
Actually I love it when someone declares a thing you wouldn’t think of as art to be art. It’s such a middle finger to the idea of what gets to be art by capitalist and classist standards. There’s no catalyst for this thought, just regular old adhd void-staring.
I’m biracial (US dad, Ethiopian mom US born) and moved to Kenya at 4, had lots of Kenyan Indian friends, families there generations. When I moved to the states I didn’t know I was Black or have any idea of the American binary concept of race until someone called me the n word.
Today I will receive the copy edit for Tales of the Suburbs, my book on LGBTQ+ people and suburbia. The copy editor Jenni worked on my last book too. She is a riot. And also brilliant. A good copy edit is like therapy, or dancing
New England land-use policy has a sort of primal evilness that is unmatched anywhere else in the US. A toxic combination of "I got mine" selfishness, xenophobic stupidity, and presumptuous "I should have a say in everything" busybody culture.
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Can't stop thinking about this. Hospitalisations due to violence in UK are less than a QUARTER what they were 25 years ago, but nobody feels safer, do they? What gives? Nagging thought: is it because people see so much serious violence online?
Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street.
All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants.
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The ICE facility in a Burlington office park was never supposed to be a detention center. But it's where many people have been kept for days or weeks in "abysmal" conditions after being arrested by ICE. Great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration wrongfully deported to El Salvador, is on his way back to the U.S., his lawyer tells NPR.
You know how some fish have swim bladders?? Well, what if I told you that swim bladders EVOLVED FROM LUNGS.
If you thought housing affordability was a problem now, imagine a world a year from now where nearly every key material subject to a giant tariff and huge segments of the undocumented construction workforce have been deported. My latest for @reason.com:
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In fact, there has never been a confirmed case of juice jacking in the real world.
When I started researching their methods of an entry, I thought finding 4 such cases would be an unbelievable crime and scandal. In the end, it’s apparent that at least four DOZEN were legal immigrants who came with advanced permission. www.cato.org/blog/50-vene...
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
The Trump administration this week eliminated funding for Harvard research projects across a host of areas, from the origins of breast cancer and the impact of nutrition on fertility to antibiotic resistance.
The Trump admin's seemingly arbitrary VA cuts put Paul Hsieh's career in question, after years spent working on a groundbreaking genetic database.
Now the uncertainty has forced him to uproot his life, selling his home and moving away from his town of 30 years.
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President Donald Trump’s new administration has reignited conversations about the safety of judges, as threats and instances of violence against them increase annually.
We're delighted to announce that Heatmap has won a National Magazine Award for Service Journalism!
Thank you to ASME for recognizing our project on personal climate action, Decarbonize Your Life.
Special shout out and thanks to our partner, @rewiringamerica.bsky.social 💡
I'll be interviewing Bluesky's CEO @jay.bsky.team tomorrow for this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social. Lemme know what you want to hear us discuss!
FEMA is blocking the reimbursement of funds to local government in El Paso City and County, as well as to local charities, if they do not give the names of migrants who received aid.
My story for the El Paso Times.
As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — known as “underwriting.”
The US Indian Health Service (IHS) is chronically underfunded and has a 30% vacancy rate, despite health care being a treaty obligation.
Covering NM, I have lost count of how many times I’ve heard the Indigenous refrain, “just don’t get sick before October” (the start of the federal fiscal year).
