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.

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. www.newstimes.com/news/article...

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. wapo.st/4kIGFke

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: reason.com/2025/06/01/t...

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. brookline.news/the-world-st...

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).

Gift link here👇🏽 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

Posting again: if you want to leave Google search, DuckDuckGo is an amazing option. I’ve used it for ages and it’s fantastic. Just know you aren’t stuck with Google for web search!

This is when I knew the Metaverse was going to be the future.

Wow, that was fast. Irving Energy, company that provides propane/fuel oil customers in New England, says it will pass on the full 10% tariff cost to all their customers immediately (reposting with fixed figure - meant to say 10%, not 30%)

Something fun I’ve been noticing: other politicians are making their own DOGEs Here’s New Hampshire Gov Kelly Ayotte creating her own COGE (Committee on Government Efficiency) www.governor.nh.gov/news/governo...

local newspapers die and we get this instead. Great story by @andrewdeck.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/insi...

NEW ODD LOTS: Get ready for another shock to rental affordability. Why deportations, the California fires, insurance, and higher interest rates are combining to create a new supply crunch. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

You've all seen Edvard Munch's famous Scream painting but have you seen his landscapes? Trippy AF.

A leaked document obtained by HuffPost reveals the fierce backlash against Trump's now-rescinded funding freeze was part of the plan all along

From the series "A Birder's Guide to the Apocalypse": "This mustn't happen here. I cannot bear it to happen here", pencil crayon/graphite on paper, 8x9", 2023- $250 (Cdn).

“The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general.” — www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

New York City subway riders are safely and sensibly standing behind the yellow line away from the platform edge, and the New York Post is ON IT

tired: tiktok is offline wired: all of the federal websites explaining climate change are offline

The ‘unofficial adviser’ was a staple of the Andrew Cuomo years in Albany, most infamously the Buffalo Billion mess. The US Supreme Court ruled that because they weren’t officially government employees that the usual ethics rules don’t apply. (The Percoco case) — www.oyez.org/cases/2022/2...

Cool map www.wbur.org/news/2024/05...

I love this story so much, it hurts. nypost.com/2025/01/06/u...

“I think that there's a lot of mythology around scale, and that mergers and acquisitions and consolidation is some way to be on a path toward the promised land of cost effectiveness” says Christina Severin, president of Community Care Cooperative on.soundcloud.com/ChsAuEY7dkME...

It's nice to see a positive story about local news.

Since August, I've released 3 coastal field recording albums. These collections reflect months of hiking, recording, and preserving a kind of silence that's quickly being subsumed by human-made noises. You can stream/DL these albums for free on my Bandcamp. Thx for listening. chikwhite.bandcamp.com

“…In 13 countries (28%)—including Sweden and the Philippines—there was evidence of a significant increase [in trust in the news] while there was no statistically significant effect of year in Australia, Ireland, and seven other countries.” 🧐🤨

Super interesting assessment of trust and media from a comparative perspective #wesgov214

"Greater Boston could add 85,000 units of housing by developing just 5% of Massachusetts’ vacant state and municipally owned land at 15 units per acre, according to the report." bit.ly/3YPAMHU

Hi good people of Bluesky! Just made a starter pack of our staffers, and a list. Both still growing as more people in the newsroom sign up. Starter pack: go.bsky.app/Q3Ai8Za List: bsky.app/profile/did:...