What if I told you that ALL the original US numbered highways are turning 100 this year, not just one them that was de-listed over 40 years ago anyway?

I don't often swim more than 50 laps in a day, occasionally all together, mostly broken up into smaller sets. But I got to the pool a little early this morning and felt good, so I jumped in and swam 60 laps at a decent (for me) pace!

27 APRIL 1776, BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS: “He is very sausy to me in return for a List of Female Grievances which I transmitted to him”: Abigail Adams writes to Mercy Otis Warren about John Adams’s (playful) dismissal of her demand for women’s rights: founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither,

A key Baker aide not getting enough convention support to make the 2026 primary ballot is further proof that the GOP we all once knew is gone, leaving the Republican party to represent nothing but MAGA.

In just 597 days we get to celebrate the semiquincentennial of the day Boston's "Town Bull" was caught breaking into Eliphalet Flint's garden and "Eating his Cabbiges." #NeverForget 🗃️

Who else wants to see this? 😀 uncpress.org/978146969717...

One of the funny things about shoving this stuff into every workplace with no understanding of how it works or its limitations is we've finally answered the age old rhetorical question "Do you want it done fast or done right" with "Oh fast, absolutely"

Spoken like someone who WANTS America to get into another Vietnam. I wish I could reincarnate my pistol packin' biker, decorated USMC Vietnam combat vet turned peacenik, multilingual Fulbright scholar Uncle Dave and lock him in a basement with the President for an hour.

New Hampshire is literally called the Granite State

Hacks delivers every time.

Dear @bostonglobe.com, this cover sucks and you should be ashamed. Even the anti-woman Herald got a photo of Lokedi above the fold, not to mention the at least two American women who beat the previous American course record.

“As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, I am committing to a brand of patriotism that demands growth.”

"To love our country at this moment is not to excuse its failures, but to insist on its full potential." Well said!

Do we all remember Des Linden's iconic Boston Marathon win in the arctic conditions of 2018? Well, today she finished 30th just one week after coming in third in a 168 mile ultramarathon across the Sahara. Holy cow. www.runnersworld.com/news/a710744...

#OTD 1967, Kathrine Switzer, 1st woman to register & complete the Boston Marathon! Five years later, in 1972, the Boston Marathon established an official women's race. Fredie Kay was honored to meet Switzer at the annual celebration of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY, in 2023!

My girl's wicked smaht.

Today we celebrate Patriots Day, remembering the battles at Lexington and Concord, the Boston Marathon, and the earliest acceptable date for Bostonians to put their snow shovels away for the season.

Motherfucker, I just spent $273.55 on three and a half bags of groceries.

Mayor Wu will take the first Swan Boat ride of the season today, marking 149 years of Swan Boats at the Public Garden. dyk that the boats are still powered by a foot propelled paddle wheel. This image from the late 1800s/early 1900s lives in our collections. More: library.bc.edu/iiif/view/BC...

Rule #1 of the Boston Marathon jacket: You can only wear the jacket for a year you officially ran and finished the Boston Marathon (no jackets for bandit runners, spectators, or family). run.outsideonline.com/road/road-cu...

Against my better judgement, I've gotten into an argument with someone who thinks Quincy Market was the site of a slave auction at some point even though it was water up to and beyond the time that slavery was legal in Massachusetts.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

There is a violent, heavily armed, lawless, right wing militia group operating with impunity in Boston. They're known colloquially as "BPD." Our police department operates as though they are completely above any attempt at civilian control or oversight. That's not healthy in a democracy.

Begrudgingly and with conditions.

An Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is a weird thing to tout, since Lebanon isn't a combatant. There is no Lebanese fire for the Lebanese government to cease.

If white American evangelical churches witness an exodus of members thanks to the pious lunacy of our Secretary of Dick Swinging War Crime Lethality and the shitposting of President Billionaire Racist McCheese Jesus, then they’ll have no one but themselves to blame.

I just ordered a 13 year old Chromecast on eBay to replace this broken one because I don't know any other way to see my photos on my TV in 2026. Why is technology moving backwards?

I feel like I'm nineteen again. Thanks Blood for Blood, I love you Boston.

art of the deal

I want diplomats recalled from the US. I want renegotiations about US bases in Europe. I want an official boycott of the World Cup by all participating nations. I want new articles of impeachment filed every single day. Play time is over. Act like adults or make way for those who do.

Eyewitness video from the scene of today's ICE shooting in California appears to (you guessed it) contradict officials' claims that the man "weaponized" his vehicle. The car is reversing and the agents appear to be well clear of it.

I find myself agreeing with Tucker Carlson barely 48 hours after agreeing with MTG.

I found this article very useful in understanding the US dilemma around the Strait of Hormuz. responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-...

We can agree with MTG's words and also be certain that she's working a dastardly angle of some sort.

A President simply cannot do this. It’s not like “controversial” or “breaking norms.” The President not controlling our money is the main structural support beam of American democracy. It’s the whole fucking thing. You let him do this, you have ended the separation of powers.

In this week's episode, I talk to Scott Kerman about Governor Dukakis, Brookline, and a few anecdotes about Mayor Menino sneak in for good measure. Listen now! www.hubhistory.com/episodes/the...

How the hell is boneless Australian leg of lamb cheaper per pound than regular old, cheap-ass American stew meat beef?? Donald Trump's economy is gonna turn us all into vegetarians, like it or not.

Glad my dad isn't around to see this.

Having stolen every scrap of intellectual property - books, paintings, plays, photos, scripts - from the creative class without a penny of recompense or a shred of human decency, Anthropic is now crying infringement because they accidentally leaked their source code. futurism.com/artificial-i...

2 APRIL 1776, CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS: Hannah Winthrop writes to Mercy Otis Warren of her joy at the departure of “those pestiferous barbarians, the Troops of George.” www.masshist.org/database/3342

Interesting article on how some Cajuns in South Louisiana use the expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia in the 18th century as a connection that makes them protest mass deportation in the US now. thecurrentla.com/2026/in-caju...

@appodlachia.com have you seen this

It is #TransDayofVisibility. I have three children, and two of them are trans. Our oldest is 14 and came out nearly a decade ago. Back then, our greatest worries were making sure other kids in kindergarten knew what her name was without putting her on the spot. Now, it’s different.

28 MARCH 1776, BOSTON: The return of the Thursday Lecture, “which was established and has been observed from the first settlement of Boston, without interruption until within these few months past,” delivered by Rev. Andrew Eliot and attended by George Washington.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

“WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.”