“It's not genocide because they deserve it.”

This story blames a supposed “uptick in violence” on Boston not having 600 more cops. But halfway through the article, you find out homicides are down compared to last year. And two-thirds of the way through, you find out they're down by more than half!

"The Board of CPJ will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets." From Mohammed El-Kurd (editor-at-large at Mondoweiss.)

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

This story blames a supposed “uptick in violence” on Boston not having 600 more cops. But halfway through the article, you find out homicides are down compared to last year. And two-thirds of the way through, you find out they're down by more than half!

Brilliant idea, Mr. President, that's absolutely something you should do. I'd recommend speaking for a minimum of five hours with no breaks, but you should try to go even longer to really show how healthy and energetic you are.

“A Middlesex Superior Court judge has confirmed the identities of a current and former #Massachusetts State Police sergeant being criminally investigated in connection with the concealment of a third sergeant’s role in a fatal crash in December 2023.”

I published this story a week ago and still haven't heard back from the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, the Brockton Police Department, or Lieutenant Matthew Graham.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

DA'S OFFICE: We can't give you our Brady Database because we don't know what that term means. ME: It's literally a term you use on your website so actually I'm pretty sure you do know what it means.

Also, obviously: “these parents see their kid’s best shot of going to college as an athletic scholarship” is pointing at a bigger, solvable problem with tuition costs than just “let’s remove the imaginary obstacle to your delusional goal.”

There’s obviously a lot that’s wrong here but one major component here is the delusion among a surprisingly large portion of parents that their kid is gonna get an athletic scholarship and go to the Olympics, and a truly courageous public official _might_ find a way to break the bad news to them.

The ability to search MassCourts dot org by docket number is currently broken, so I guess I just won't work on the thing I planned to do today! 🙃

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

One of the best things about my town having a plastic-bag ban is that I don't have to remember not to leave plastic bags out so that my dumbass cat won't try to eat them.

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Oh my God lmao #Massachusetts #mapoli

I saw Seth Moulton leave a public restroom after taking a number two without flushing or washing his hands. There was no TP in the toilet bowl so I don't think he wiped either.

Seth are you ever going to apologize for and acknowledge the harm of your transphobic comments?

You are trying to pretend we all have amnesia, Seth.

literally one day apart. goldfish would scoff at this lack of object permanence

“She had been homeless in Los Angeles with her boyfriend near the hospital where she died” Every single death like hers is preventable

I published this story a week ago and still haven't heard back from the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, the Brockton Police Department, or Lieutenant Matthew Graham.

“Canton officials released an internal affairs report on former Sgt. Sean Goode [on June 29], offering a stinging rebuke of the former police officer whose slur- and expletive-laden messages targeted a startling span of ethnic groups, minorities, and other protected classes.” #Massachusetts #mapoli

The irony is that no one hates the United States more than right-wing freaks like Samuel Alito. The US is a secular, multicultural democracy, and they can't stand that! Alito has spent his whole life seething about it and trying to end it!

It was 5-4, and this useless dipshit who has done absolutely nothing about the out-of-control court is patting himself on the back.

5-4 on maybe the most straightforward question ever put to the test in postwar history is genuinely an abomination. Destroy the Court.

If Nina Totenberg accidentally published her pre-write before she was supposed to and blew Alito's retirement announcement, I am going to die laughing at my desk

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

One clarification: It's 6-3 on equal protection (the big question); it's actually unanimous on Title IX, but on *very* different grounds.

First (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is the two transgender discrimination cases. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Kavanaugh *upholds* state bans on transgender athletes in public sports under *both* Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This is a really clever answer on the filibuster:

More racist texts by Michael Proctor released, public records lawsuits against police and sheriffs, and more—here are the reports of alleged law enforcement misconduct in #Massachusetts that I’ve tracked during the last week.

Dersh losing streak: First he gets barred from a Vineyard pierogi stand, now the Supreme Court has rejected his call to rewrite Sullivan v. New York Times so he could sue CNN www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

In the same vein: It is extraordinary just how little effort Roberts (and Kavanaugh) put into distinguishing the Federal Reserve from every other independent agency. They can just speak it into existence. There's basically no law here, and barely any pretense of it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

John Roberts handing down Slaughter and Cook together felt like a weird domination ritual in which he gets to flaunt his power to issue irreconcilable rulings that perfectly track his partisan preferences and we all just to take it because, really, who's gonna stop him? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Gavin Newsom also told me he uses generative AI to write his responses when he gets texts from his wife and children. He said it's so much easier than thinking of what to say and that everyone should try it.

I saw Gavin Newsom leave a public restroom after taking a number two without flushing or washing his hands

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Qualified immunity is a Calvinball nonsense doctrine, woven ex nihilo by the US Supreme Court Its sole purpose is to protect government officials from the consequences of their own bad decisions, when they violate the rights of the citizenry It has no basis in any law passed by Congress 1/

“Canton officials released an internal affairs report on former Sgt. Sean Goode [on June 29], offering a stinging rebuke of the former police officer whose slur- and expletive-laden messages targeted a startling span of ethnic groups, minorities, and other protected classes.” #Massachusetts #mapoli

John Yoo, the sociopathic Bush administration lawyer who authored the torture memos, “says he will be advising a team of prosecutors investigating whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump.”

“A [video-recorded] brawl between two [unidentified] off-duty #Massachusetts State Police troopers at a Quincy brewpub has the purported aggressor relieved of duty.”

The Supreme Court won't review the dismissal of Alan Dershowitz's defamation suit. Thomas, joined by Gorsuch, once again calls for the court to reconsider (and likely overrule) New York Times v. Sullivan, gutting First Amendment protections against libel suits. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Applying the Katz test, the majority holds that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our cell phone location information, so the government conducts a 4th Amendment "search" when it invades that privacy. I think that's pretty clearly correct. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court's second opinion is Chatrie v. U.S. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that a geofence warrant (described below) IS a "search" under the 4th Amendment. But it declines to say whether THIS search was "reasonable." Kagan writes. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Even when a forensic discipline is based on science, it's never 100 percent reliable—because there's always the possibility of misconduct.