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South Boston man says he was struck, seriously injured in bike lane by hit-and-run driver A South Boston man is slowly recovering after he was seriously injured while training for an Ironman competition. He is now looking for witnesses.

A veteran was critically injured in South Boston on Saturday, possibly Boston’s most dangerous neighborhood for cyclists.

As for “I support alternative routes for cyclists,” please show us where they are so we can use them. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

I feel this should be a bigger story, right?

Not desperate enough yet. Every person who works for ICE will go down in history as a deplorable monster.

I think it's really worth noting that this concentration camp was opened one month and three days ago.

This woman saw enough horror in that time to quit and tell the public what she saw.

Which suggests that it's not as bad as we think, or as bad as we can envision from her description—it's worse.

When Federal Funding Doesn’t Show Up The Trump administration has denied legally obligated funds to thousands of organizations dependent on federal grants, causing layoffs, service cuts, and mass anxiety.

"The Government Accountability Office has so far found that the Trump administration illegally impounded, or withheld, funding on five separate occasions." prospect.org/health/2025-...

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

Agents taunted, stalked Jose Castro and his family for several days outside of their home without once presenting a warrant for his arrest after failing to detain him.

By @afroxander.bsky.social

Full story: lataco.com/fontana-fami...

I don’t feel good about all my days, but feeling good about this one: fixed a gunked-up dehumidifier that caused a minor flood; knocked on doors; ran in a panic to S. Station but also stopped to help a senior w/Parkinson’s who fell on the escalator AND still made the bus to celebrate my kiddo’s bday

I think we all know she was brought in to end legal abortions and support a christofascist agenda. Not surprising that this isn’t the top legal mind. I’m surprised they picked someone who could read.

Conservative legal luminary Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error: For the purposes of historical analysis, she looked at the wrong statute and got the relevant date wrong by nearly *a century.*
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

He brought up Trump multiple times right at the start and then got upset because he got called out on it? I loved his plays when I was an undergrad, but it seems he’s not a bright as I thought he was.

WATCH: “Democracy demands our outrage, and our courage.”

Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social says he shares Maddow’s view that we have “crossed a line”, and says he hopes Tx dems breaking quorum will inspire others to stand up to would-be tyrant Trump.

Full: youtu.be/8_OzeeDmoyk?si

Not going to read this. The answer is no. Even posing the question disqualifies the writer.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

I was just writing elsewhere that I’d like Somerville to see some impact studies. 25k seats and no parking is going to mean Somerville will probably be hosting a lot of traffic and parking. Build the stadium by all means, but if we need to make changes, we should get money to make them.

Jasmine Crockett rallying the troops to testify against this insane gerrymandering bullshit!

Vouchers fail at their stated goals but succeed at privatization and resegregation. DFER's declining influence among Democrats is a good thing, and electeds shouldn't be listening to them.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

The #FoxTakedown movement is growing.

People are taking their protests directly to Fox News, the Trump regime’s propaganda arm that’s enabling this fascist and billionaire takeover.

Visit foxtakedown.com for more info on how to join by protesting at your local station and taking other actions.

The link above is for the Texas Democratic Party. This link below goes directly to the Texas House Democratic Caucus.

Accuweather app showing air quality index rising to 160 at 9pm

We might need to break the N95 masks out tonight in Boston

YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”

Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ - Carbon Brief Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.

Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA). www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

Two things are simultaneously true: the Democratic Party needs gerrymandering to have any chance at holding the House and gerrymandering should be outlawed the moment they do

It's another version of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance. To protect democracy California, New York, Mass, New Jersey, etc need to gerrymander the fascists out of power

A down sign for pedestrian crossing

Trash collected in Lincoln park

Donuts in the park at Lincoln park (happening now)

This is a good encapsulation of why I am running. Safe streets, better constituent services, getting money and support for our schools, affordable housing (not pictured).

Paul Ingrassia—a 30-year-old former right-wing blogger and newly minted lawyer who was admitted to the bar in 2024—is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia has called Jack Smith a “disgusting man,” accused him of “election interference,” and said he should be jailed.

only in a country with a political press as terrible as ours could a pair of democratic legislators be assassinated by a reactionary conservative and seven weeks later this double murder has been completely forgotten about