Yeah, because he did amazing, dogged work that brought truth to light. It's what journalism should be.

Bruce Arthur@brucearthur.bsky.social · 3d ago

After the NBA smashed the Clippers, @pablo.show was asked over and over, do you feel validated? He wanted to say no. But after growing up in a crumbling media environment, and after pouring so much into his Pulitzer-winning podcast, he struggled to admit: yes, he did. www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

Community organizer Rice declares a run for Ward 3 seat in Somerville, and a potential rival has filed with the state

Community organizer Rice declares a run for Ward 3 seat in Somerville, and a potential rival has filed with the state

With a declaration Saturday that he hopes to fill the emptying City Council seat in Ward 3, resident Derrick Rice launched Somerville’s special elections season. “I am not willing to wait for progress to be convenient and comfortable. We can do a lot more, particularly for those... The post Community organizer Rice declares a run for Ward 3 seat in Somerville, and a potential rival has filed with the state appeared first on Cambridge | Somerville Independent.

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#Boston federal judge ordered immigrant's release after concluding he can no longer trust #ICE agents to tell the truth www.universalhub.com/2026/boston-... #immigrants

Why are all these cuties riding without helmets? You think YOUR melon is stronger than these curbs?

“.. The Atlanta Fed calculates that as of May, a household would need income of $124,674 a year to afford a median-priced home … that is 45% more than the median household makes.” - Schwab

Sure looks like Apple went through a lot of trouble to design a pretty impressively secure system with a lot of technical fail safes that I’m also definitely never going to use because lol my dude it’s on all the time and logs what we say!

Yoel Roth@yoyoel.com · 5d ago

Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354

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NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:

NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy

US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.

nature.com

Original Cat Dude@jon639.bsky.social · last wk.

ugghh, eat american meat at your own peril... 👉 China rejected shipping containers from Uruguay after finding residue of an anti-parasitic drug in the meat, rejected beef from Argentina...it tested positive for banned antibiotic that causes serious blood disorders. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...

VERY COOL: Using Flock cameras and the state’s criminal records database to stalk your ex-girlfriend is not a fireable offense for cops in Revere, #Massachusetts.

Revere police officer serves suspension after using Flock cameras to track ex

Michael Tiso has returned to work after being suspended for allegedly misusing the department's ALPR system and criminal records database.

boston.com

I think there’s a weird quality, or inversion, of the human’s instinctive need for justice that necessitates that almost every person thinks they a) have earned and deserve whatever comfort or benefit they have b) are being really unfairly persecuted when related inequities are pointed out.

A response for renters after 100 years of humiliation

A response for renters after 100 years of humiliation

It is the first of September and it is raining. Two landlords are emailing me, each with a list of escalating demands: my prior landlord, reminding me to hire professional cleaners, to empty the city trash cans, to leave no evidence of my life here; the new... The post A response for renters after 100 years of humiliation appeared first on Cambridge | Somerville Independent.

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Counterpoint: heckling Fascists is always good. Though one must expect them to behave true to type and whinge and flee if they are outnumbered and commit assault and murder if they feel secure in their majority.

Happy Caturday from my pack. My baby daughter and her big brother are inseparable which is amazing. Big sister wants nothing to do with the baby girl and, as a child-free queen myself, I respect that too.

"If the proposed Treasury rules become policy, risk-averse schools will further eliminate programs to fix historic inequities, and there will be fewer students of color in US colleges and universities." "That’s clearly what the president intends." @victorerikray.bsky.social states it plainly:

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · last wk.

For MSNOW, I wrote about the Trump administration threatening to strip colleges of their tax-exempt status as part of its larger segregationist agenda.

🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

nature.com

China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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“We value friends who are viscous to people we dislike.” — paper that won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize today, scientist accepting the award thanked her family, and birth control.

Given that the “losing my mind about housing,” corner is well covered in my neighborhood I have decided to lose my mind over energy infrastructure and costs in Massachusetts.

Many problems with “let the courts sort it out” as a mode of opposition—the biggest being that the Supreme Court is rogue. But another is that it implies an unsettled controversy rather than an intolerable abuse that must be stopped. www.offmessage.net/p/stop-donal...

Hoping Someone Else Stops Trump Is Not A Plan

A whistleblower exposed his illegal scheme to cheat in the midterms, and House Democrats turned around and funded his government. It’s a bad omen for 2027.

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Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

It seems like “the criminal president is ignoring court orders to build an ad hoc federal system to reject mail ballots from states he doesn’t like” should be bigger news

“a decent chance it would backfire” That’s what I mean by demoralizing. Please try anyway, next time…if we have the luxury of a next time.

We have got to socialize these IX costs. "Last one on pays for the infra upgrade!" doesn't work.

Miriam Wasser@miriamwasser.bsky.social · 2w ago

A developer canceled a battery project in Massachusetts after learning it'd have to pay $65 MILLION to connect to the grid. Clean energy advocates say exorbitant interconnection fees pose a huge challenge to the state's clean energy goals www.wbur.org/news/2026/09... #energysky @wbur.org

wow all this and they don’t have to pay taxes or create jobs? what a deal!

Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

Again. Again. It was just the usual white supremecist double standard the first dozen times. After Arday‘s sad, avoidable tragedy it feels like more than the usual distraction. They want to gaslight us to death. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

A relatively ok democrat beating a right wing democrat is like winning $100 on a scratchie. Oh haha wow cool. Welp back to my normal bad life.

In case you missed it they need a new one because Anna Wintour bullied them into celebrating a murder-mouth lying bigot who was a bridge too far so they had to backpedal and tho I’m no expert in these matters this seems like one of the best ideas in America right now. www.allure.com/story/met-ga...

What If Dolly Parton Was the 2027 Met Gala Theme?

She understood better than anyone the sheer joy, and the great power, in fashion and beauty.

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