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Since 1770, more or less, the Commonwealth's leading journal of politics and culture. Available at realmassachusettsspy.blogspot.com

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · Mar 31

“Resistance may or may not be futile. Acquiescence definitely is.”

- @yabraham.bsky.social

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/29/m...

Democracy dies in silence – Rümeysa Öztürk’s arrest is a warning - The Boston Globe

Democracy isn’t something we are. It’s something we do. And too few people in this country are doing it right now.

www.bostonglobe.com

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 2h

Another Mob shakedown

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 3h

Dementia ex. 463

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We just ordered about 20 brand new B2 bombers. I know Putin when I was riding with him in Alaska, we passed a lot of them and he said, 'That really did the trick.' I said, 'Yeah it did.'"

The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 6h

I’m sure that Brainworm Bobby will give her a, um, shoulder to cry on. Just give him the full Olivia. - defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Sandy F. @baystaterinnc.bsky.social · 6h

He repped me when I was up there. No charm/charisma. He didn’t reveal himself as a transphobe until I had left. That’s not going to fly in MA for the most part except for the MAGA team flyers in the part of the Merrimack Valley area that I’m from & some other conservative towns.

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 7h

He's like Joe Kennedy III without the charm.

Take a hike, Seth.

#masen

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/15/n...

Why is Seth Moulton running against Ed Markey? He thinks the senator is too old. - The Boston Globe

In an exclusive interview with the Globe, the Salem congressman cited Ed Markey's age and seniority as core concerns behind his campaign.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 9h

Kavanaugh really, really wants a time limit on remedies for racial discrimination. I really, really want a time limit on racial discrimination in America. But guess what

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 8h

Mayor @wutrain.bsky.social much too smart to take the bait

Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 23h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 8h

Just a reminder that smearing peaceful protesters as unpatriotic America-haters has been in the Republican playbook since at least 1969, and supported by lots of our now very fine Republican allies.

Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 8h

There's a lot to unpack in "we call it the Hate America Rally", but the biggest one is that they are panicking

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 10h

Question for the usual right-wing gasbags: Are these the "conservative views" that are not warmly received on those cancel-crazed college campuses?

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

This is disgusting. And I can GUARANTEE you that lots of dumps are going to come out about lots of Republican electeds who are way too close to the people in these texts. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent roundup but I have a few questions about the Everett Police story:

1. Is ICE really sitting around looking at every set of prints filed and then sending out body snatchers? Or did someone in Everett tip them off?

2. Why was the kid outside and mom inside at the time of kidnapping?

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 11h

Art Fern voice:

“No college degree? We don’t care!

No high school diploma? We don’t care!

Criminal record? We don’t care!

Restraining orders? We don’t care.

Unwilling to kidnap 13-year-olds? Now we care!”

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 6

This is how the US Department of Homeland Security is recruiting now.

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 11h

Killer St. David Brooks imitation.

🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 11h

Happy Wednesday friends!!

Just a few more days til we go and make some good trouble while being loud af🔥💯

I've been fairly silent on this purple revolution ridiculousness.

I will say this though. You can't trust self-serving folks. Especially of the maga variety.

Stay safe y'all!
#SheShed

The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 11h

Entrusting the fate of Harvard and academic freedom to an insufferable billionaire finagler who couldn’t even get in off the waiting list? What could go wrong?

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/m...

He was wait-listed at Harvard as a high schooler. Now he’s a billionaire crucial to the university’s Trump negotiations. - The Boston Globe

Stephen Schwarzman has become a key go-between as the two sides resume talks to restore Harvard’s funding and resolve a litany of federal charges.

www.bostonglobe.com

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 22h

Dementia ex. 462

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 22h

“The…psychologists working for the C.I.A. had nearly drowned Mr. Nashiri while waterboarding him. They abandoned that effort …because he was too small for …the board.”

Just a reminder that all of our now wonderful Republican allies were A-OK with this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Fragments of 2003 Cable Detail Torture in a Secret C.I.A. Prison

www.nytimes.com

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 23h

And I know that campuses have cracked down on pro-Palestine demonstrations because I read it on page A8 of the same day’s @nytimes.com .

The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 23h

“The Cato Institute, a right-leaning policy think tank,… stated the [ACA premium subsidies] are too generous and too expensive to sustain.”

But these shills for plutocracy don’t think the huge tax cuts for the rich are too “generous.”

Dishonest 🤡s.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/13/m...

The thousands in Mass. who receive federal health insurance subsidies fear for their financial security if they get cut - The Boston Globe

Federal subsidies that make affordable insurance policies possible for 337,000 people in Massachusetts are at the heart of the government shutdown.

www.bostonglobe.com

The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d

We have one. It’s called liberal Democrats.

St. David too invested in his both-sides theology to return to Earth now.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

America needs a mass social movement—now—to save itself from autocracy, David Brooks argues.

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

bit.ly

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d

Mad King's latest: Let them eat lard

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d

NB to Gym Jordan: Be careful what you wish for.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: House Judiciary Committee seeks Jack Smith’s testimony, notes his deputies Jay Bratt and Thomas Windom pleaded the 5th and asserted grand jury secrecy.

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d

Coming up in @nytopinion.nytimes.com :

Why aren’t out-of-touch Democrats (like Mamdani) reaching out to young Republicans?

By - ah, pick ‘em.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another argument for flipping the House is that a Democratic majority could open impeachment proceedings against this cheap hood.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Truly abhorrent and a mockery of the rule of law that Emil Bove is a federal judge.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: The 3rd Circuit *denies* a push by national GOP to reconsider ruling on misdated mail ballots in Pa.

Judge Emil Bove may have cast his first vote here in dissent of the decision -- and plans to write about it later. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d

"Next thing you know he's going to close bridges to punish his political enemies," predicted mainstream Republican Chris "Atsa My Beach" Christie.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d

I would ask Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d

China has "overstepped?"

Didn't Douglas MacArthur say the same thing in 1950?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

GREER: I think China realizes they've overstepped

CNBC: You think they realize they overstepped? Their statement says 'if forced to fight, China will fight to the end'