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Boston Globe columnist. Cannot effing believe we are doing this again.
Mark Wolf in his own words.
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Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/
about 10 hours ago
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I hope Hell is real.
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‘I wasn’t letting go of my wife’: Video shows ICE agents in Fitchburg struggling with man having apparent seizure, holding toddler in car - The Boston Globe
A video of immigration authorities apparently trying to detain a man who is holding a toddler, while bystanders are yelling for his safety, has gone viral.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/metro/fitchburg-video-seizure-immigration/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
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Quincy mayor, already facing controversy, took thousands of dollars in illegal campaign donations, state says - The Boston Globe
Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch paid $55,000 under a resolution released Wednesday by the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/metro/quincy-thomas-koch-illegal-campaign-donations-controversy/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
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Fantastic!
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Cuomo Blasts Mamdani for His Rent-Stabilized Unit. But He Had One, Too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/nyregion/cuomo-rent-stabilized-apartment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.v1iZ._ROmS7SgCPog&smid=bs-share
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Great work by my colleagues! Big Trump admin Sinaloa cartel takedown turns out to have been very, very much not one. Same folks blowing up boats they claim are carrying narco traffickers...
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The DEA said it arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true. - The Boston Globe
A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against suc...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/metro/sinaloa-cartel-dea-arrests-roundup/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
11 days ago
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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/metro/everett-13-year-old-arrested-by-ice/
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Gee, I'm sure there is a lesson in here somewhere. BUT WHAT COULD IT BE?
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Duke Was Paring Back Diversity Programs. Trump Targeted It Anyway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/duke-university-dei-diversity-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk8.LKfv.A47Oihy3VShI&smid=bs-share
about 1 month ago
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)
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Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/opinion/trump-2024-election-maga.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE8.-98N.qWp9cEeazEAj&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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When Silence Is the Only Logical Choice, Are We Really Free?
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Opinion | When Silence Is the Only Logical Choice, Are We Really Free?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/opinion/charlie-kirk-media-truth-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE8.zU6p.U8KcvVC9BpjO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 month ago
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I’ve had two very formative interactions with William Young, the federal judge who authored today's remarkable decision in AAUP v Rubio. Nothing about his courageous decision surprises me. This guy is the real deal. 1/
about 1 month ago
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Our
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is just really, really good:
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What is it like to dine out in D.C. right now? - The Boston Globe
Dangerously delicious, as it has been for years.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/lifestyle/dc-restaurants-trump-2025/
about 2 months ago
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M. Gessen, always:
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Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/opinion/trump-kirk-trans-people-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk8.yfni.FmoINALD3mbg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 2 months ago
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Another great column by my spectacular friend and colleague
@rygraham.bsky.social
. The Globe, and our readers, are so lucky to have her!
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The joyful perseverance of Ketanji Brown Jackson - The Boston Globe
While it’s increasingly difficult in this political climate, to foster joy is to hold on to hope.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/opinion/ketanji-brown-jackson-joyful-perseverance/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
about 2 months ago
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Well, this is very interesting.
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Ex-Stoughton police supervisor contacted Sandra Birchmore on the day she died - The Boston Globe
The former Stoughton deputy police chief retired from the force in 2022 during an internal investigation over his interactions with Birchmore.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/metro/sandra-birchmore-stoughton-robert-devine/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
about 2 months ago
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Jason Leopold
about 2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL:
@bloomberg.com
has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/opinion/lincoln-schmitt-trump-vance-citizenship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k08._v8Y.aRmcetYw2ItG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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‘An unfathomable tragedy.’ Lloyd Young, Globe photo editor and avid athlete, dies at 57. - The Boston Globe
Several years ago, Mr. Young jotted four words of advice for his sons and anyone else… though he also taught by example.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/metro/boston-globe-photo-editor-lloyd-young-dies-at-57/
2 months ago
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Great reporting from my colleagues.
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A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. - The Boston Globe
Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/metro/trump-harvard-doj-lawyer-antisemitism-hitler/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
2 months ago
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A huge loss for the Globe, and for all who loved him.
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Globe photo editor killed while bicycling in rural Illinois - The Boston Globe
Lloyd Young, 57, of Boston, was struck and killed Saturday in McLean County in Illinois.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/metro/globe-photo-editor-killed-while-bicycling-rural-illinois/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
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If not for these two incredible women, he would still be teaching there.
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Miss Hall’s School failed to stop teacher from sexually abusing five students over 20 years, independent investigator finds - The Boston Globe
The investigation also discovered that seven other former employees allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with students dating back to the 1940s.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/19/metro/miss-halls-school-sexual-abuse-former-students/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
3 months ago
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Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during the war. “Consider that for a moment. A whole classroom of children killed, every day for nearly two years."
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/israel-gaza-war-children-death-toll/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f013
3 months ago
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Are you kidding me? Aren’t they supposed to be smart over there?
3 months ago
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Hi, this is FASCISM.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
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Trump Escalates Attacks on Mamdani
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-zohran-mamdani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.0lOV.-vk9a8P5jAly&smid=bs-share
4 months ago
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Hi, this is a CONCENTRATION CAMP.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/n...
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Trump toured Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades. Here’s what to know. - The Boston Globe
The site can currently house 3,000 people in dormitories corralled by chain-link fences and topped with barbed wire, and state officials say it can be expanded to ultimately house 5,000.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/24/nation/alligator-alcatraz-florida-everglades/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
4 months ago
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Hi, this is a BRIBE:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/02/n...
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Paramount to pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ interview - The Boston Globe
Paramount told media outlets the money will go to President Trump’s future presidential library, not to the president himself.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/02/nation/paramount-donald-trump-60-minutes-interview-settlement/?s_campaign=sharetool_Bluesky_view
4 months ago
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Please not JRUE!!!
5 months ago
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M. Gessen, brilliant as always:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...
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Opinion | The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/opinion/antisemitism-new-york-city-mayor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
5 months ago
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This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by
@iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social
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As questions linger, family and school grieve for Boston 5-year-old killed in April bus crash - The Boston Globe
There have been few answers in the nearly two months since a Boston Public Schools bus struck and killed Lens Joseph on April 28.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/23/metro/bps-bus-crash-5-year-old-lens-joseph-killed/
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Former Stoughton police officer charged with killing Sandra Birchmore did not father her unborn baby, DNA shows - The Boston Globe
Matthew Farwell is accused of killing Birchmore to prevent her from implicating him in her rape when she was a teen.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/12/metro/sandra-birchmore-baby-matthew-farwell/
5 months ago
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Open it up.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/m...
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Ex-Stoughton deputy police chief in Sandra Birchmore case faces secret hearing over alleged misconduct - The Boston Globe
A retired Superior Court judge closed the hearing, citing that there is “no reasonable method” for holding any part of the hearing in public “without a substantial risk of disclosing confidential evid...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/metro/sandra-birchmore-case-robert-devine-hearing-closed-/
5 months ago
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The Trump administration wants to destroy Harvard. The sooner we recognize what is actually happening here, the more hope we have of stopping this lawless regime and its authoritarian power grab.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/24/m...
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Trump won’t stop attacking Harvard. We need to treat it like an emergency. - The Boston Globe
The sooner we recognize what is actually happening here, the more hope we have of stopping this lawless regime and its authoritarian power grab.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/24/metro/trump-administration-attacks-harvard-university-funding-cuts/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results
6 months ago
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Yvonne Abraham
Society for Features Journalism
6 months ago
GENERAL COMMENTARY PORTFOLIO, DIV 3 Three columns or essays by the same writer on any human interest or specialty topic. 🥇 1st Place:
@yabraham.bsky.social
🥈 2nd Place:
@laurayuen.bsky.social
🥉 3rd Place:
@jaymichaelson.bsky.social
🏅 Honorable Mention:
@gustavoarellano.bsky.social
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Thank you! So honored to have this work recognized. It was a joy to work with Laura, and an honor to tell Sandra's story.
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6 months ago
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This House budget is an immoral document.
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With the big, ugly bill, the rich get richer and everybody else pays - The Boston Globe
The Republican dilemma: Should their cuts to Medicaid be downright evil, or just unspeakably cruel?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/22/metro/evil-big-ugly-bill-opinion/
6 months ago
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Is anyone surprised? Jesus Christ.
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6 months ago
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Today I wrote about the administration's crusade against trans people and how very many people are harmed by it, including those who think it has nothing to do with them.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/08/m...
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The ‘nightmare’ at the Liberty Hotel shows that state-sponsored cruelty to trans people was never going to stop there - The Boston Globe
The Trump administration's crusade against trans people is a cruel test of American tolerance.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/08/metro/supreme-court-trump-administration-transgender-rights/
6 months ago
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Yvonne Abraham
Boston Globe Spotlight Team
6 months ago
Read through all of our reporting on the Steward Health Care crisis in Massachusetts and beyond.
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Inside Steward Health Care: A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report
A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investigations/spotlight/2024/09/steward-hospitals/?s_campaign=audience:bluesky
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6 months ago
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Today I wrote about the federal agents smashing a car window to drag out a Guatemalan immigrant in New Bedford. If you haven't seen the video yet, you should.
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Federal agents in President Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign seem to be reveling in brutality - The Boston Globe
Nobody involved seems to care how cruel they appear.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/nation/new-bedford-immigrant-arrest-video-trump-brutality/?p1=Article_Feed_AuthorQuery
7 months ago
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"I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better," Atallah said. "Things actually changed to the worse."
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‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/treated-like-a-criminal-us-citizen-says-he-was-detained-returning-from-canada/3686188/
7 months ago
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Hellelujah!
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7 months ago
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Oh nothing, just watching the end of everything play out in a Maryland courtroom, skeet by skeet...
7 months ago
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Today I wrote about how MAGA’s cruelty sugar high will end with a crash.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/10/m...
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Trump’s performative cruelty on immigrants will cost us all - The Boston Globe
No army of white American workers is going to swoop in to do backbreaking personal care assistance for lousy money.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/10/metro/trump-immigration-cruelty-targets-legal-residents-and-workers/
7 months ago
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So good/disgusting.
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7 months ago
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Amy Spitalnick
7 months ago
We’ll keep saying it: none of this is about fighting antisemitism. It’s about gutting our education institutions and democracy under the guise of fighting antisemitism. And it ultimately makes Jews less safe.
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Ooh just peeked in at my 401k, which is TANKING FOR AMERICA!
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My latest. Obviously, the Trump admin does not give a flying fig about antisemitism.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/02/m...
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It’s not about antisemitism. Trump’s zealots want to gut Harvard. - The Boston Globe
The Trump administration is using antisemitism as a pretext to stifle dissent and dismantle the colleges they see as hostile to their worldview.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/02/metro/trump-administration-attacks-universities-antisemitism/
7 months ago
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Chris Murphy
7 months ago
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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It’s not about antisemitism. Trump’s zealots want to gut Harvard. - The Boston Globe
The Trump administration is using antisemitism as a pretext to stifle dissent and dismantle the colleges they see as hostile to their worldview.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/02/metro/trump-administration-attacks-universities-antisemitism/
7 months ago
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