Today we @bostonglobe.com ran a full page love letter to the #TartanArmy

Scottish soft-power strategy: give up on the football, and just pick a random world city every couple of years and send ten thousand folk in kilts to win hearts by drinking all their beer and putting things on top of other things. I don't understand _why_ it works, but the evidence is compelling.

No Scotland, no party 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The town is alive ❤️

Rainbow over Big Nahant

Moulton: Ed Markey is not a coward...

NEXT WEEK: How will Boston navigate federal policy shifts, economic woes, and political uncertainty in 2026? Mayor Michelle Wu joins @kelleratlarge for an in-person fireside chat on Wednesday at the MCLE. Sign up: events.humanitix.com/keller-wu

At MCI Framingham, female inmates are strip searched after Zoom meetings… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Sen. Dylan Fernandes filed legislation (SD 3994) dubbed "An Act to make Noah Kahan tickets affordable for the rest of us" that proposes a cap on ticket resale prices at 110% of their original price. www.statehousenews.com/news/economy...

Spirit lives on at Logan ✈️

The Reporter requested an interview with MBTA officials, but the agency repeatedly directed the newspaper to board meetings. A legislator learned of the delay from the newspaper, not the MBTA.

Spotted at North Station… Almost like the two should be connected!

Brattle Loop SZN 🤠

"Slow boat to nowhere, or just the typical Massachusetts-style bureaucratic grind? We’ll see, but given how many years Rollert has been at this, it’s hard to understand how basic questions about the condition of DCR docks are still unanswered." @scottvv.bsky.social 🧑‍🍳

Buddy says summer has arrived.

How will Boston navigate federal policy challenges and economic woes in a time of political uncertainty? Kicking off a blockbuster summer, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will join MASSterList columnist Jon Keller for an in-person fireside chat on June 24 at the MCLE in Downtown Crossing.

June 24 🤠 #MaPoli (Details in your inbox tomorrow morning)

Platform screen doors save lives! mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/21/m...

Earn Marriott status at the acting US Embassy in Caracas.

On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, @statehousenews.com debuted a new feature offering subscribers a compendium of headlines from across Massachusetts in their inboxes. A newsletter before newsletters were cool. Then, now, always — the original #MAPoli newsletter: @massterlist.com 🐐

We’ve secured a court order halting the merger of Nexstar/Tegna while our case continues — a critical win. This merger is illegal, plain and simple. The federal govt may have thrown in the towel, but we’ll keep fighting for consumers, for workers, for affordability, and for our local news.

📰📰 I'm very excited to say that next month I'll be starting at @bostonglobe.com as a political reporter covering state and local politics. I'm looking forward to continuing to cover the crazy world of Massachusetts politics, including Beacon Hill and the 2026 elections. #mapoli

Marine layer (I think) over the Common just now #WX

From @scottvv.bsky.social: Do we really need two radio station CEOs, both making $800,000 or more and each leading an entourage of executives pulling down $300,000, $400,000, $500,000 a year?

Nice lead by @gintautasd.bsky.social: "Town officials in Foxborough have local World Cup organizers by the soccer balls." #mapoli massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/wu-weighs-...

View of Boston from Dorchester Heights

Moving to Salem in May. Any recs?

I talked with @gintautasd.bsky.social of @massterlist.com about @massago.bsky.social's decision to leave Xitter: "“The days when everybody could gather around the social media campfire are pretty much over." #mapoli massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/ag-campbel...

Donnelly: The challenges facing the Mass. economy are mounting, but please stay. If you like a challenge, Massachusetts is the place to be. #MAPoli

The cause of death officially was stated as a "response to Customer demand for more options," but unofficially is known to many as a "cash grab from Elliott Investment Management." crankyflier.com/2026/01/30/c...

Lumi?

Interchange pays for a bundled service people take for granted. Global acceptance, instant authorization and liquidity, fraud management, currency conversion, and purchase protections and chargebacks are funded by the economics of the system. Cut the economics, and you gut that service.

MUST-READ @massterlist.com morning e-mail today provides insights into the property tax relief scramble in the Senate, and the political campaigns of Latoya Gayle (challenging Sen. Nick Collins) and Daniel Lander (challenging Sen. Will Brownsberger). Two snippets from a larger piece:

“The online sermons from the left and the right often decry media bias, but the simpler explanation for the alleged bias may be that newsrooms are indifferent to orthodoxies and sacred texts from party clerics and their true believers.” — @massterlist.com Morning E-mail

Thanks to @gintautasd.bsky.social for including me in the @massterlist.com set of New Year’s resolutions. Though apparently I made a mistake by giving an actual resolution when it looks like the thing to do is recite a policy agenda?

BULLY POTPIT #MAPoli

Monday! #MAPoli

📻📻 I’m very excited to say that in a few weeks I’ll be starting at @wbur.org as their state politics reporter. I’m looking forward to continuing to cover power and policy on Beacon Hill and the 2026 elections. I’m also excited to work with a very talented group of editors and reporters. #mapoli

Monday at the UMass Club #MAPoli

Sitting pointlessly beside the top businessman was...

Private express GL-D shuttle tonight! Love the non-stop service between Newton Highlands and Copley. Well done, @mbta.com!

When I returned to @MASSterList.com earlier this summer, one of the first things I did was reach out to Massport about a sit-down with their CEO, whom I knew from my days covering the T. The result is this interview, conducted over eggs and coffee massterlist.com/2025/08/29/o...

Market Basket’s latest power struggle is as much a PR battle as a business one. Arthur T. Demoulas is again backed by Rasky Partners, while the board has tapped Liberty Square Group via its law firm. Unlike 2014, this saga lacks a simple hero-villain storyline.

@massterlist.com meeting the moment 🦾

There are so many good little nuggets in this morning’s @massterlist.com #MAPoli

The list, obtained by MASSterList, included but was not limited to Alstom, Deutsche Bahn, Transport UK, Transdev, Herzog, and Alternate Concepts Inc., the company headed by James O’Leary, who lost the current contract to Keolis Commuter Rail Services in 2014.

News: On tonight’s Daily Show, guest is LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who announces that he is taking the newspaper public, per source in studio.