Miles Grant

Boston officer holds 5 youths at gunpoint during arrest in downtown parking garage, video shows - The Boston Globe The tense encounter was presumably recorded by one of the youths.

Cop threatens to execute kids for petty theft

Our oligarch media will never call this what it really is, but we need to

Massachusetts Dems' response to this has been ... to pass huge tax giveaways for building more data centers

Laser focused on kitchen table issues*

* unless that threatens our megadonor profits

Mass.gov https://www.mass.gov Governor Healey Signs First Tax Cuts in More Than 20 Years Oct 4, 2023 — The final agreement will permanently raise the Earned Income Tax Credit from 30% to 40% of the federal credit and establish an uncapped Child ... WGBH https://www.wgbh.org Healey stands by tax cuts after trimming state budget | GBH Jan 9, 2024 — A day after trimming $375 million from the state budget, Gov. Maura Healey said she has no regrets about signing a billion-dollar tax cut package into law.

This is so dangerous because the editorial board closes with a call for yet more tax cuts

The last time the Boston Globe editorial board successfully campaigned for a massive tax cut for the rich in 2023, huge cuts to social services almost immediately followed

EDITORIAL ‘The bigger picture is grim’: Yes, Mass. snagged Hasbro, but can it compete with North Carolina? The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation’s latest competitiveness index report ranked the Commonwealth dead last in the nation for private employer job growth between 2023 and 2024. By The Editorial Board Updated October 6, 2025, 4:00 a.m.

I've been reading the Boston Globe for 40 years & don't know if I've read anything worse signed by the editorial board

America's Best States, per this report:

1. Wyoming
2. South Dakota
3. Alaska
4. Florida
and it goes on like that

Those are the states MA must throw away our values to emulate?

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

Hard to see how American life goes on as normal when our media, culture, & on & on is by & for the 0.01%. Our choices are increasingly no longer free market & consumer-driven, but happily operated at a loss by billionaires proving fealty to Republicans. And the opposition party doesn't seem to care.

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Boston Globe: Since 2018, Golden has reliably held his district, which Trump has carried in all three elections, making him one of Democrats’ most tested and most valuable incumbents. That success is a big reason why he has never faced a serious primary challenger despite causing the party occasional heartburn in both Washington and back home. Many national Democrats believe that Golden, with his unorthodox centrist politics and military background, is the only Democrat who can win his seat. Last year, he defeated Austin Theriault, a top GOP recruit, by fewer than 3,000 votes. Some party operatives were relieved when Golden decided to run for re-election in 2026 rather than run for the state’s open governor seat, or challenge Senator Susan Collins.

How our conservative media subtly endorses their fav Dems in "objective news" copy

Jared Golden is "one of Democrats’ most tested & most valuable incumbents" & can pick whatever office he wants to run for! Unstoppable!

But also barely won re-election to his own seat by 3,000 votes, uh, ignore that

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

The Republican Party has made it incredibly cheap to buy the US government

"Fossil fuel donors provided $96M to support the Trump campaign & allied groups & contributed $11.8M to Trump’s 2nd inauguration"

2024 global profits for just the 5 biggest oil & gas companies: $102B

energy-profits.org

Temp Hides Fun, Fulfilling Life From Rest Of Office BOSTON—Ty Braxton, 23, continues to hide his fun and fulfilling life from the full-time employees of Hale & Dorr, the Boston law firm for which he has temped since July.

"If anyone found out I’m not living a hellish existence like they are, I’d be asking for trouble." @theonion.com

My ebike is speed and power regulated from the factory because lawmakers see it as a safety threat to people in cities if left unchecked.

Boston Globe: Since 2018, Golden has reliably held his district, which Trump has carried in all three elections, making him one of Democrats’ most tested and most valuable incumbents. That success is a big reason why he has never faced a serious primary challenger despite causing the party occasional heartburn in both Washington and back home. Many national Democrats believe that Golden, with his unorthodox centrist politics and military background, is the only Democrat who can win his seat. Last year, he defeated Austin Theriault, a top GOP recruit, by fewer than 3,000 votes. Some party operatives were relieved when Golden decided to run for re-election in 2026 rather than run for the state’s open governor seat, or challenge Senator Susan Collins.

How our conservative media subtly endorses their fav Dems in "objective news" copy

Jared Golden is "one of Democrats’ most tested & most valuable incumbents" & can pick whatever office he wants to run for! Unstoppable!

But also barely won re-election to his own seat by 3,000 votes, uh, ignore that

Center-left megadonors nod sagely at center-left pundits saying Dems must expand the tent, then fund projects hyper-tailored to appeal to them personally in message, messenger & medium

Meanwhile Republican billionaires fund young podcasters & TikTokers & care little about tone, only audience size

Does not refer to her as conservative or a Republican *even once*

NPR has responded to conservatives cutting off their funding by sucking up to them *more than ever*

Die already

The bomber jacket didn’t work the first two times <Tobias meme> but …

Conservatives are every sports team that gets their ass kicked on the field, then in the locker room tells the media they still think they were the better team

Republicans believe two things:

1️⃣ Charlie Kirk was a saint while words inspired millions

2️⃣ Those words must never be quoted & if you do, we’ll go running to your boss to get you in trouble & maybe fired

Every time the Chamber types talk about Boston 2024 now, they sound like Egon in “Ghostbusters” talking about the time he wanted to drill a hole through his head: “That would’ve worked if you hadn’t stopped me”

a man in a white shirt and red tie is holding a white mug in his hand . Alt: Chazz Palmentieri drops his Kobayashi coffee cup as he finally connects the dots in Usual Suspects

Had The Santa Talk with daughter (11) today. She took it very well & offered to help keep the magic alive for her brother (8).

Her at bedtime, whispering: I always noticed the Santa gift tags were in mom’s handwriting

Me: THE CLUES WERE THERE ALL ALONG

Lotta Dems with no morals who just want to do whatever their friends at the Chamber want & “uh it’ll be good for us in the elections?” Is their retcon

These are literal Nazis seeing if we’ll allow them to push the envelope far enough that they can start Holocaust the non-whites

The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

This one of many reasons that 21st century liberalism should reorient itself around *places*, namely creating places that are actually pleasant to live in, with generous public spaces that bring people's physical bodies into proximity.

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

What could rent control look like in Providence? Portland, Maine, offers clues. Portland has a complicated rent control system that has ratcheted up tensions between landlords and tenants.

Every single day, our newspapers tell us they speak for the wealthy, not for us

All renters in this article say they love rent control! But the Boston Globe headline criticizes it as “complicated” & claims it “ratcheted up tensions” (by making renters realize their landlords were breaking the law)

Anyone going to try to stop and/or punish this? Tough talking Dems? Other cops always claiming there are good apples? Anyone?

Every bit of advice to individual Democrats, from *anywhere and everywhere* on the political spectrum, begins, "you must distance yourself from the other Democrats, who suck."

Centrist pundits. Left pundits. "Objective" journalists. They all echo this central point, over & over.

The fossil fueled climate crisis is a more dire threat to human civilization than ever, and our media & opposition party response during Trump 47 has been to completely stop talking about it

Beatles in 1969 with long hair & beards, except for dopey Paul

Amazing how all their fates are visible right in this video: Paul thinking this is so cool, John thinking this is on the way to cool, George wanting to GTFOH, and Ringo the children’s show host

And only 6 years later, they looked like this! And broke up never to reunite!