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#OTD on November 8, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy was elected president in a close race, beating Vice President Richard M. Nixon by approximately 118,550 votes. After casting his vote in Boston, JFK traveled to Hyannis Port to await the election results with his family. 📷: PX89-10

A sign posted in Massachusetts campgrounds, as the season comes to a close in the land of expensive housing.

The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/loga...

❗Join us November 13 for a conversation in the Brown Seminar Series on women property holders of Boston’s waterfront in the late 1700s with professor Katy Lasdow❗ Use the link in our bio to register for the event. #bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum

@massgovernor.bsky.social you have a state police force to arrest criminals. Use it.

Guns Actually #alwayssunnypod #iasip

Let it unleash a thousand memes. I call this one: "Donald Trump stands idly by while the American economy passes out in a corner."

Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center. “They are coming for all our children!” #immigration

One of the largest collection of photos of Black Boston club women I've ever seen. Including Rosa Brown and Melnea Cass. 🗃️ www.digitalcommonwealth.org/book_viewer/...

a five-dollar fuckyou

13. Donald Trump has created conditions in which fighters ranging from Mamdani to Spanberger are trusted while middle-of-the-road centrists who can’t decide whether to join the fight open themselves up to contempt from both sides.

10. By that, I mean a Washington press corps that has internalized the idea that the Republicans are the only legitimate leaders as well as the idea that the Democrats, even after they win, must seek the Republicans’ consent before using the power they have legitimately earned.

This is what I meant yesterday when I said the blue wave wasn’t about the Democratic Party The Party didn’t do much. In some cases, it risked doing damage by approving or disapproving candidates regardless of what voters wanted The wave was created by voters DESPITE the Party And that’s democracy

Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Can you figure out when and where this photo was taken?

Meet the cast of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and Plays in Place! Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky

During his tenure as mayor, some 57% of Bostonians personally met Tom Menino and shook his hand. Tom Menino was mayor of Boston for over 20 years.

Conservative evangelicals (mostly MAGA) respond to Mamdani's election. (Trigger warning: This gets ugly): thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/05/i...

My grandpop almost bled out on Utah Beach to make the world safe for democracy. This guy sounds like him, or my stepdad, or my Vietnam vet uncles, or my high school classmates who went to Afghanistan. Sold out by their commander in chief.

In 1777, American troops went hungry at Valley Forge because of the Redcoats. In 2025, American troops are going hungry because of their own President.

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

You literally can’t make this stuff up. Here’s the supporting article. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

ICE abducted 9 documented workers at a car wash in Allston & denied them the chance to retrieve their documents — this is cruel & harrowing. My office is in touch with the families and working with them to track down their loved ones & connect them with legal counsel.

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Attn Boston genealogist and historians! We recently digitized student ledgers from St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing in Brighton. @universalhub.com @shamrockgen.bsky.social @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social @dlgenealogist.bsky.social @allston-brighton.boston.gov findingaids.bc.edu/repositories...

Black says it took him a while to return to the Broadview facility because "I was very afraid." But he says his Bible tells him to "not be afraid."

Black is asked why it's important to engage in ministry outside the ICE Broadview facility. Black: "It's very clear to me, from scripture, that Jesus called ministers and his followers to be where people are being persecuted and bring the good news."

I swore an oath to the Constitution in service to the American people. I come to work each day in a green-and-gray uniform with a gold-plated badge pinned over my heart. I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

Remember remember the fifth of November! Listen to this classic podcast to learn how George Washington brought an end to Boston's favorite (albeit virulently anti Catholic and violent) holiday 250 years ago today www.hubhistory.com/episodes/pop...

*whispering* It's great that Democrats won some races this week, but our country is still broken, possibly irreversibly.

And it shouldn’t be at all unusual to hear a campaign suggest that the quality of life in your city/state/country is something you should ascribe to the choices of people *more* powerful than you rather than the failings of people *less* powerful than you. But it felt unusual to me. (3/3)

Just the funniest juxtaposition in my feed.

Dick Cheney was 60 years old on 9/11. It speaks to the ossification and gerontocratic collapse of both major parties that he would be considered a whippersnapper today.

4 NOVEMBER 1775, ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS: “The Pirates and Rebels in Boston are very busily employed in fortifying themselves, and by late accounts from them, they are very much afraid we shall attack the Town,” Joseph Ward tells John Adams.

On November 10, co-host emerita @nikkijstewart.bsky.social will be presenting about the many ways Americans have remembered, reinterpreted, and reshaped the meaning of the American Revolution over the past 250 years. Register to attend in person or remotely: cambridgepl.libcal.com/event/15458403

What did music sound like in colonial Boston? Who played it? What sort of instruments were played? Next Wednesday, join musicologist Laura Zoll on Zoom for a fascinating talk about music-making in colonial Boston! www.eventbrite.com/e/music-maki...

There’s literally a clause in the Declaration criticizing the king for limiting immigration to the colonies.

Yeah, send 'em back! Like, who needs Casimir Pulaski, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Bernardo de Gálvez, or Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette? They would only take Revolutionary War jobs away from good hard-working Americans

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

I discipline myself to only sit down and examine my podcast stats once a year, and this week is that time. I'm seeing a surprising trend... Anything related to Black history far, far outperformed any other topics. I see 5+ year old episodes with more downloads this year than the latest episodes.

To my new political party, my fellow Dems: Quit fucking complaining, quit making excuses, quit playing by some polite old rule book. My former political party is ruthlessly playing to win. They don’t give a damn about “norms.” So Dems, fuck the norms. It’s time to fight. It’s time to fucking fight.

My dad always said that the worst beating he took in his life was when my grandpop caught him playing dress-up as a Nazi

I know that Bluesky has powers that Twitter could never dream of. Is there some sort of magical filter I can enable to never have to see any sports-related posts ever again? I'm willing to make exceptions for the Boston and NYC marathons and Olympic swimming and track and field, but that's it

These fucking idiots. Look at any photo of an SS officer. Is your skull the same skull as the one on the SS officer's hat? Congratulations, you have a Nazi skull.

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

“The department declined to answer questions about whether the donor is an American citizen or a foreign national.” Jesus Fucking Christ

Ah yes, the George Wright golf course, former site of the Hyde Park hermitage. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/the...

Did I set a new mile PR today? I did! 31:43 at a 1:46 pace (But it was the second of three sets captured here, and I can't figure out how to post the stats separately)