Matt Szafranski
@mszafranski.bsky.social
Attorney; Editor-in-Chief, @WMassPI.com; #Spfldpoli when you need it; #MaPoli when you want it. "Retweets" ≠ Seal of Approval. Likes = ??? Fasten your seatbelt, please.
"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on." -Samuel Beckett
Always Eccles. 1:9
"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on." -Samuel Beckett
Always Eccles. 1:9
An accurate description of it would veer into the prurient and become inappropriate for polite society.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
An accurate description of it would veer into the prurient and become inappropriate for polite society.
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I heard from someone who works for an NGO that does health care in Africa that they’d started using AI for certain things and it went fine in a site that was scrupulous about humans checking the results and led to a lot of misdiagnoses in a site that didn’t double check carefully.
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I heard from someone who works for an NGO that does health care in Africa that they’d started using AI for certain things and it went fine in a site that was scrupulous about humans checking the results and led to a lot of misdiagnoses in a site that didn’t double check carefully.
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After report Hegseth ordered second strike, top House Armed Services R and D stmt. “We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.”
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
After report Hegseth ordered second strike, top House Armed Services R and D stmt. “We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.”
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unironically Labour needs to be taking notes on policy from Mamdani instead of Blue Labour's socially conservative statist corporatism
Honestly it's funny that he is *quite literally* saying "deregulate and reduce the burden of taxation on business to create jobs" and nobody on the left will criticise him. Good.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
unironically Labour needs to be taking notes on policy from Mamdani instead of Blue Labour's socially conservative statist corporatism
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Thanks for reading, Mr. President
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Thanks for reading, Mr. President
More cracks.
Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, says he is directing inquiries into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's reported order to "kill them all" in strikes on an alleged drug boat.
The Mississippi Republican vowed "vigorous oversight."
The Mississippi Republican vowed "vigorous oversight."
Wicker Directs Inquiry Into Hegseth's Reported 'Kill Them All' Order, Vowing 'Vigorous Oversight' of Boat Strikes
Sen. Roger Wicker is vowing "vigorous oversight" amid reports Hegseth ordered the U.S. military "to kill everybody" in a boat strike.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
More cracks.
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Hegseth in particular clearly just loves the idea of showing you're tough by murdering people. war is seen as virtuous and strong; peace is seen as weak. starting wars is a fun and noble.
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hegseth in particular clearly just loves the idea of showing you're tough by murdering people. war is seen as virtuous and strong; peace is seen as weak. starting wars is a fun and noble.
Looks like whatever the feds are planning, the protest ruined it. If so, good job folks.
Around two dozen car/vans have sped out of the garage, with NYPD officers clearing the path. One guys tries to stop them, NYPD officers come chasing.
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Looks like whatever the feds are planning, the protest ruined it. If so, good job folks.
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Funny what happens when a society tries to memory hole a pandemic and everyone gets burnout, instead of treating it as a mass trauma event.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Funny what happens when a society tries to memory hole a pandemic and everyone gets burnout, instead of treating it as a mass trauma event.
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There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
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/11 Meanwhile, Tara Palmeri is busy promoting the interview in which she let George Santos say that other journalists are literal prostitutes who used sex to get information. Her tone is typical: he’s such a character, tee hee.
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
/11 Meanwhile, Tara Palmeri is busy promoting the interview in which she let George Santos say that other journalists are literal prostitutes who used sex to get information. Her tone is typical: he’s such a character, tee hee.
Call 1-800-COURT-MARTIAL, today!
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Call 1-800-COURT-MARTIAL, today!
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It was just over a month ago we learned Secretary Rubio betrayed cooperating witnesses to keep quiet an investigation into President Bukele of El Salvador’s secret deal with MS-13. The whole war on narco-trafficking is a farce.
Breaking News: President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who was convicted in a sweeping drug case last year.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It was just over a month ago we learned Secretary Rubio betrayed cooperating witnesses to keep quiet an investigation into President Bukele of El Salvador’s secret deal with MS-13. The whole war on narco-trafficking is a farce.
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Sarah Beckstrom seems like she was a wonderful person who had a bright future ahead of her. Such a tragedy.
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sarah Beckstrom seems like she was a wonderful person who had a bright future ahead of her. Such a tragedy.
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Indeed. www.lawdork.com/p/the-two-sh...
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Indeed. www.lawdork.com/p/the-two-sh...
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Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Part of this is that it doesn't take a weatherman to tell you what way the wind's blowing, and part of this is that a big chunk of the rich folks on the right are starting to realize that a complete Trump flameout could truly bring about Woke 2: The Wokening.
Interesting that Politico is running a ton of "Trump and MAGA in trouble" pieces all of a sudden. 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Part of this is that it doesn't take a weatherman to tell you what way the wind's blowing, and part of this is that a big chunk of the rich folks on the right are starting to realize that a complete Trump flameout could truly bring about Woke 2: The Wokening.
The trick has to be doing what sits at the center of Dems' fecklessness post-Bush and post-Trump: holding individuals to account however possible. Re: universities, its exposing individuals who either facilitated or advocated submission. That will mitigate impact on innocents like students & staff.
I think this is very accurate. Universities, in particular, don't think that democrats will extract a cost for complying with Trump because they're universities and such.
The answer is that they need to be held accountable so they realize that this isn't just a simple game theory bing bong.
The answer is that they need to be held accountable so they realize that this isn't just a simple game theory bing bong.
They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The trick has to be doing what sits at the center of Dems' fecklessness post-Bush and post-Trump: holding individuals to account however possible. Re: universities, its exposing individuals who either facilitated or advocated submission. That will mitigate impact on innocents like students & staff.
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It is underrated how much of the fact that the Trump administration is constantly online and posting at all hours is because they have 0 ability to have recreation in Washington D.C. The city rightfully treats them like occupiers.
Stephen Miller is, and has always been a "Massive Whiny Little Bitch". He will be the first to bail out of here come January 21st 2029 or sooner (If impeachment happens), exhibit A: He moved his family to a military base, dude is the biggest coward to ever exists.
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It is underrated how much of the fact that the Trump administration is constantly online and posting at all hours is because they have 0 ability to have recreation in Washington D.C. The city rightfully treats them like occupiers.
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Politico looks through the results in hundreds of New York State governments, and finds Dems flipped 50 seats — more than the 2017 blue wave. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Forget Mamdani. New York’s real political shift happened everywhere else.
Democrats flipped over 50 county legislative seats across the state. Republicans flipped one.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Politico looks through the results in hundreds of New York State governments, and finds Dems flipped 50 seats — more than the 2017 blue wave. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
I mean…
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I mean…
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Notably not in attendance: the man who sent her there illegally so she could be killed. He's not ruining his Thanksgiving.
New — In light of WV guard member Sarah Beckstrom’s death, a call has gone out to all National Guard members in the DC area asking them to come to the Eisenhower Memorial to line the procession from the hospital.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Notably not in attendance: the man who sent her there illegally so she could be killed. He's not ruining his Thanksgiving.
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There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
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Farage because Miller is much easier to point out as a unlikeable loser with a high school inferiority complex.
Curious. Which one do you think is more dangerous?
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Farage because Miller is much easier to point out as a unlikeable loser with a high school inferiority complex.