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But you know what? After Devers went off the rails, Bregman went down and starting pitchers not named Crochet took a while to find themselves, the Red Sox made the playoffs and gave the Yankees a good scare. So there's that, plus it's hockey season in Boston anyway. nesn.com/2025/10/red-...

Researchers across the US and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings, and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals. From our friends at @insideclimatenews.org:

"MAGA's backlash to the civil rights groups comes as the number of hate crimes in the past few years hit record levels," Axios reported. "Black Americans were the most targeted group, followed by Jewish Americans, then gay men, according to the data." #HateCrimes #Fascism

"This is happening all across the country and the little guy is getting the short end of the stick." There's growing concern the huge amount of energy it takes to power AI data centers could be passed on to consumers in the form of higher electric bills, KGO reported. #ElectricBill #Inflation

Immigration agents have aggressively responded to protests outside what was once a sleepy ICE facility in the western suburb. Mayor Katrina Thompson says she’s not backing down.

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans. Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

“What really worries me is the kind of precedent that this sets” where the government can “basically dictate what kinds of apps people have on their phones,” said civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who works at Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic, AP reported. #BigBrother

Sarah Mullally has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to be chosen to lead the world's 85 million Anglicans.

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon has paused drone deliveries in Arizona after a pair of its drones crashed into a crane. Someone was treated for smoke inhalation from the wreckage. The FAA says it will investigate the incident. www.theverge.com/news/790636/...

Workers’ wages are increasingly being taken against their will to pay medical bills. In 45 states wages can be garnished for unpaid medical bills, and medical providers are taking advantage of that fact. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

George Clooney says Trump should create incentives, not tariffs, for movie industry reut.rs/46SUGpN

"Photojournalists provide an important public service in a universal language," says Sun-Times photo desk editor Ashlee Rezin. "This belief keeps me going through the hard days." trib.al/ASxzWnM

Blind revenge, serious consequences for more than Blue States. His Royal Nastiness lashes out and everyone suffers. It's just plain wrong. America deserves better.

"Some Republicans estimate they will eventually need to provide $35 billion to $50 billion in aid to farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs," Politico reported. Trump officials "are looking at how to tap tariff receipts or other funding" to pay to bailout farmers slammed by Trump tariffs, Politico said.

Exclusive: President Trump is considering providing $10 billion or more in aid to U.S. farmers as the agriculture sector warns of economic fallout from his tariffs.

"Nearly half of the respondents to a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll said it's harder to afford groceries than it was a year ago," Axios reported. "For all of Trump's yearslong insistence that Americans don't pay for tariffs, the data is clear that they do, almost entirely." #Tariffs

Great example of how tariffs harm broad economic segments but benefit narrow niche interests: housing analysts + NAHB worry (rightly) that tariffs on cabinets will slow housing production. Who's happy? The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

FEMA stops release of key grants and requires states to prove population counts, CNN reports reut.rs/3IM0U2D

President Trump has threatened to use the government shutdown to enact sweeping cuts to agencies as part of a pressure campaign that halted billions of dollars in funds to Democrat-led states and used federal websites and workers to wage political attacks. Follow live updates.

"The cancellations will also affect major U.S. manufacturers such as Cummins, GE Vernova, John Deere and Caterpillar, as well as grid-related projects for major utilities such as Xcel Energy, National Grid and Commonwealth Edison," Politico reported. #ElectricBill #Inflation

From one of his own seals the deal ... Mr. Trump lands in the category of "unwell".

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," Pope Leo said. "And someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

President Trump referenced Project 2025 today despite denying it during his 2024 campaign

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling on the Trump administration to release the September jobs report on Friday despite the ongoing government shutdown, a Senate aide told CNN on Thursday

"On average, we're expecting premium payments by enrollees to increase by 114%," said Cynthia Cox, vice president at nonpartisan health research organization KFF, which did an analysis on what will happen to people's premiums next year if Congress doesn't extend enhanced subsidies, NPR reported.

This constant flood of bad news isn’t normal, and it shouldn’t be accepted as such. In this moment, let us pause to reflect and hold onto hope for brighter days. Jen Rubin offers her perspective.

Without the subsidies, premiums will increase for more than 20 million people next year, and an estimated two million people are expected to lose coverage. But the magnitude of the change depends on where people live, how old they are, and what they earn. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"In fact, the eagerness of Trump and his lapdogs over the last eight months to disregard the will of Congress and close whatever they want of the government offers another reason why Democrats shouldn’t cave in," writes Robert Reich. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

ICE "busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and US citizens were among those detained for hours," Sun-Times reported.

"Some sectors of the economy are being hit harder than others, though," explains NPR chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley. "It's odd because, you know, domestic factories are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the president's trade policies. Instead, they've really been struggling." #Tariffs

"The group has lost donors and had one prominent executive resign following CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s statements praising or defending Musk, which has not stopped the tech mogul from publicly attacking the organization," The Guardian reported.

Breaking News: Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor President Trump tried to fire, can stay on the central bank's board for now, the Supreme Court ruled. The court is set to hear arguments in January in a legal battle with major implications for the Fed.

The federal government started shutting down early Wednesday after Congress failed to approve a funding bill before the beginning of the new fiscal year. via @jennifershutt.bsky.social @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fede...

Breaking News: The organizers of a flotilla trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza say Israel has intercepted some of their boats.

This Atlantic piece nails it: Trump’s remarks to senior military leaders in Quantico were rambling, fact-free, and alarming — turning a show of strength into a partisan spectacle that violated every standard of American civil-military relations. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Department of Paranoia: After assembling the U.S. high command for a speech promoting the virtues of domestic warfare in America and boasting about the immense fire Trump can bring on Third World boaters, Hegseth imposes a loyalty witch hunt on the Pentagon.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday that it referred Harvard University for suspension and debarment proceedings, the latest creative research-funding threat the government has employed to pressure the university into policy changes.

Never doubt the strength behind thoughtful, determined, and yes, kind, leadership @mayorwu.boston.gov delivers time after time.

Coal isn't going to lower our skyrocketing electric bills, but Trump's vision for a Mad Max American landscape imagines smoke stacks spewing ugly carbon clouds. Reality is it's a really lousy business investment to build or refit coal plants -- too costly for meager returns. #Utilities #Inflation

AOC: Donald Trump is trying to play this bluffing game of, well, maybe what we're going to do is hold the entire all the federal workforce hostage and fire everybody. Donald Trump has been firing everybody.

The September layoffs represent a significant increase from the 93 workers laid off in August. The largest layoffs came from Air Wisconsin and Saputo Cheese USA, impacting 252 and 240 workers respectively, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. #Layoffs www.jsonline.com/story/money/...

Trump and Bessent are bailing out Argentina as Buenos Aires reached a deal with Beijing to sell soybeans to China that totally cuts out U.S. farmers. The emerging foreign policy blunder comes after Trump tariffs and a labor shortage driven by immigration policy already sent farmers into a tailspin.

"As one would expect, Democrats were not happy. Senator Elizabeth Warren immediately called out Bessent for helping Trump give 'away our money to his corrupt buddies,'” writes Matt Stoller. #Argentina #Bailout

“We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China.” #Argentina #Bailout www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

"Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary" @juddlegum.bsky.social for @popular.info

It’s “yet another case where the administration is saying … I’m going to do what I want to do and not what the law says and make the court make me,” McElroy said at a hastily convened court hearing Tuesday. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"If the court sides with lower courts’ verdicts, finding that Trump lacked such authority, the federal government could have to refund around $80 billion worth of tariff payments businesses made this year," CNN reported. "That, by no means, would prevent Trump from pushing higher import taxes out."