We're wrapping up #BlackHistoryMonth with art by Bostonian Allan Rohan Crite. Crite lived in the South End and graduated from English High and the School of the MFA. He worked as a draughtsman and artist for the Charlestown Navy Yard and the Boston Naval Shipyard, while also creating his own art.

The @mbta.com is soliciting riders' reports on unshoveled bus stops. Use this link to find out who's responsible for your bus stop, and how to contact them: www.mbta.com/winter-weath...

Trump said in last night's SOTU/rally that the man who killed Ukrainian immigrant Irina Zarutska on a train in NC during what appears to have been a psychotic break was here because of "open borders." He was born in Charlotte but his name was DeCarlos DeJuan Brown so I guess that's all it takes now

Pod Drop! I had a great conversion with Kelly Marino about the suffrage activism of college students- people angry about protesting college students has a long history, but college students fighting to make the world better also has a history! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The failure of local news outlets, even in blue markets, to accurately cover this President is a huge issue. This isn't some Sinclair or Nexstar station. Local news matters because people still trust it, and we've got TV stations doing Trump's job for him.

The blue line is shuttling between Suffolk Downs and Maverick and boy is it fun for a long line of buses to negotiate Chelsea Street after a snowstorm. @universalhub.com

the costco CEO is a 40-year-veteran of the company who rose from being a forklift driver to the top, the firm has made a public point of defying Trump's racism, and by god they will make sure that the hot dogs have ketchup. www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/b...

Mostly I’m just embarrassed

4 Minnesota guys

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

You know who hasn’t changed their name yet and can probably still find their birth certificates (since they were just born)? Gen Z

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, a former ICE instructor and attorney, testifies that agents were trained to disregard constitutional rights.

The blue line is running but also this train stopped so the driver could dig out something on the tracks at Wood Island. @universalhub.com

On this day in 1822, Boston incorporated as a city. A century later, State St Trust Co published this commemorative booklet documenting the changes in the city's landscape and built environment over its first 100 years. @universalhub.com @hubhistory.com bc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Not for nothing, but the women didn’t party with Kash Patel after they won. 🥇💅🏼

In 2018, the top FBI agent in Los Angeles held a single meeting of his senior staff during an MLB playoff game at Dodger Stadium. It was the end of his 25-year FBI career. www.politico.com/news/2020/08...

Here we go

We just processed a family photo collection that is full of images of pre-1930 cars! The Lyons family collected cars, donating two of them to the Smithsonian. Their photo collection contains nineteen images of cars owned by the family. Visit us to see more. findingaids.bc.edu/repositories...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Heavy snowfall (10-20 i.!), wind gusts up to 60mph, power outages, coastal flooding (stay off Long Wharf!) and references to the dreaded 40/70 Benchmark! Starting late Sun. or early Mon. Head out now, with grim determination, to fill your trunk with bread, eggs and milk! bostonfrenchtoast.com

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Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

🥇 Megan Keller BC ‘19 scored the game-winning OT goal to help lift Team USA over Canada. Here she is on the ice during her senior year playing for @bostoncollege.bsky.social

So, the US govt approach is: *We are going to scan tourists social media accounts and deny visas because of content we dislike, like mocking Trump and *We are going to allow foreigners a work-around to consume social media content their governments have banned, including hate speech

Sound advice

Preying on someone's kindness like this is beyond evil

With Haven Watch volunteers outside the immigration detention center in Fort Snelling — before they met freezing detainees released at the gate and gave them blankets.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

Look Congregationalists Who Recently Discovered Liturgy, I will kneel when there are kneelers

You certainly do not need an id at the library

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

This also works in the classroom

I cannot be the first person to make this observation but isn't it *interesting* how women Olympic figure skaters fall far, far less (this isn't an observation about talent, it's an observation about risk)

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Both of Georgia's senators have game.

Giddy up, its the year of the horse. Fair Day at Castlewellan, farmers "hit hands" to complete a horse sale, County Down, 1980s, Bobbie Hanvey photographic archives, MS-2001-039. findingaids.bc.edu/repositories... Accessed February 13, 2026.

We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.

Ew

That Underground Railroad stop that was just discovered in NYC - a "generational find" - was owned and built by a fervent evangelical convert and abolitionist Joseph Brewster media.villagepreservation.org/wp-content/u...

Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

This is truly wild

Did you know that you can read Wuthering Heights in Irish? Visit us to check out our 1933 edition, translated by Seán Ó Cíosáin. bc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor. The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

Every month these homes are delayed, the number of houses should be doubled

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

On Nov 23, 1967, civil rights activist and SNCC member James Forman spoke at the Western Regional Black Youth Conference in LA. A longtime member of SNCC, Forman hoped to encourage greater alliances between Black and white radicals and was working to negotiate a merger with the Black Panthers.