Bees being bees

Views from the summit of Mt. Moosilauke: Cannon, Franconia Ridge, Washington (rt); Camel’s Hump, about 80 miles west; an Adirondack peak seen through the Appalachian Gap (VT rt 17), possibly Whiteface?

A heated standoff between MassDems Chair Steve Kerrigan and angry delegates on the floor derailed the party's attempt to craft a more centrist platform. flipsidenews.net/can-massachu...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

🧵 Haitian bands had increased presence at carnival. There was this new rara band called Freda Rara making their debut this year. And…

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Soca Under?

From Trinidad: the Lavent Hill Rhythm Section

Rainy day snuggles

"It’s an endless stream of tax-dollar-wasting, task-bungling, butt-covering alphabet soup, a river of woe that leaves well-meaning managers who get caught up in it to drown." massterlist.com/2025/08/18/m...

Do your homework

The Trump admin. is now requiring that 10% of its Homeland Security grants go toward "supporting border crisis response and enforcement," ie., working with ICE. The Boston Regional Intelligence Center will apply, Wu says. flipsidenews.net/wu-says-city...

Demonstrators gather outside Capital One branch in Harvard Square to protest the bank’s investment in Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.

youtube.com/watch?v=tV62... He was a master

Coalition backing rent control rallies before Senate hearing

"...the vision promulgated by tech oligarchs requires, as a foundation, the unraveling of core social, political, and economic fabrics."

“Either Governor Healey is oblivious to what’s actually happening with ICE or her values don’t align with the majority of the people in the state. I hope it’s the former.” — Chelsea City Councilor @robertoj.bsky.social. Reporting by @yawumiller.bsky.social for @flipsidenews.bsky.social.

Demonstrators gathered outside Gov. Healey’s Arlington home to demand she end 287g agreements allowing the Dept. of Corrections to detain immigrants for ICE.

🧐🤔“…residents of the city's least-white neighborhoods also accounted for roughly half of the crash victims in the city's whitest neighborhoods.”

She tried to go upstairs, then gave up.

Stay cool!

Marching on JFK Building

Anti-war demonstration in Downtown Boston

Solstice sun

In the midst of an Earth Science lesson on alluvial fans, she fell asleep. But this is basically what it looks like IRL.

Love these headlines where no one's really responsible for the death and starvation. It's just happening. Or, in the case of desperately needed aid, not happening.

March for rent control- City Life/Via Urbana, Homes for All, Chinese Progressive Assoc., and other orgs

(1/2) In the transit plan for soccer matches at White Stadium, city officials say they expect 40 shuttle bus trips for a game to move 6,600 people between MBTA stops and remote parking sites. Dorchester resident Marti Glynn points out that a charter bus seats about 56 people.

Could be a whole lot of sound and fury about Tania Fernandes Anderson tomorrow, but much of it may signify nothing www.universalhub.com/2025/could-b... #Boston #CityCouncil

🧐Massachusetts donors, businesses sent millions to Trump’s 2025 inauguration fund  commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/mas...

Mass. voters were told millionaires would leave the state in droves if the millionaires tax passed and revenue would decline. Two years later, there are more millionaires living here than ever and the state collected $2.2 billion from the surtax. ips-dc.org/report-wealt...

The District 7 race has grown from 7 to 16 candidates. Challengers now in 6 of the 9 Council districts, plus an expanded cast of at-large candidates. flipsidenews.net/expanded-fie...

Nothing suspicious here 🙄

Lazy Saturday

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.