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The Massachusetts Spy
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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 · 1h
Question for the usual right-wing gasbags: Are these the "conservative views" that are not warmly received on those cancel-crazed college campuses?
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 15h
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 · 1h
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?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h
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 · 2h
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!”
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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 · 2h
Killer St. David Brooks imitation.
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 2h
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
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 2h
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 · 13h
Dementia ex. 462
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
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 · 14h
“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 · 14h
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 .
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 15h
“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
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 17h
We have one. It’s called liberal Democrats.

St. David too invested in his both-sides theology to return to Earth now.
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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.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 17h
Mad King's latest: Let them eat lard
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 21h
NB to Gym Jordan: Be careful what you wish for.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22h
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.

judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 21h
Coming up in @nytopinion.nytimes.com :

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

By - ah, pick ‘em.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
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 · 23h
Yet another argument for flipping the House is that a Democratic majority could open impeachment proceedings against this cheap hood.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h
Truly abhorrent and a mockery of the rule of law that Emil Bove is a federal judge.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23h
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 · 23h
"Next thing you know he's going to close bridges to punish his political enemies," predicted mainstream Republican Chris "Atsa My Beach" Christie.
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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.”
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 23h
I would ask Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 23h
China has "overstepped?"

Didn't Douglas MacArthur say the same thing in 1950?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
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'
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 23h
This is unquestionably true, but it is part of larger unified Republican effort to smear @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social because they are terrified of the power of her ideas and have no response on their merits.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d
The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d
Which is why I fear that after he is inaugurated, the @nytimes.com , real estate tycoons, police unions, and other reactionary forces will follow their usual playbook of undermining and opposing anything and every thing he wants to do to "prove" that progressives can't govern.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.
Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d
"President Donald Trump humiliated himself Monday at a summit of world leaders gathered to sign a peace agreement between Israel and Hamas....While celebrating his momentary victory..,Trump spoke incoherently and made several embarrassing comments."

Paging Mr. Tapper
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d
Trump Fumbles Repeatedly While Bragging in Front of World Leaders newrepublic.com/post/201706/...
Trump Fumbles Repeatedly While Bragging in Front of World Leaders
Donald Trump essentially told his fellow world leaders to pound sand.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d
Also in @nytopinion.nytimes.com today ex-hero Danielle Sassoon says that pro-Palestinian speakers have it easier on campus than poor persecuted Likudnik "scholars." Unless they're arrested by ICE and asported to jail for signing letters, that is.

I guess "evidence" is only for courtrooms.
Students who object to policies of the Trump administration or oppose Israel’s war in Gaza or who advocate abortion rights rarely have to worry that their campus speakers will be disrupted by protesters or generate security concerns related to the backlash of a student mob. - D. Sassoon
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d
As a frequent critic of mainstream media, I am surprised and impressed that they are not anointing the Mad King as the Prince of Peace as they did with Nixon and Kissinger in 1973.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d
Leave it to Trump to take issue with a glowing cover story about a ceasefire deal—that may come to define his term—because he doesn’t like the way he looks in it.

The picture isn’t even that bad. He always looks like that. trib.al/Se5wB9r
Trump Melts Down Over His Hair Disappearing on Time Magazine Cover
“What are they doing, and why?” Trump fumed in the middle of the night.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d
Why are Republicans deliberately harming great American job creators like GM?

Do they hate American workers or capitalism itself?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/b...
Slowing Electric Vehicle Sales Will Cost G.M. $1.6 Billion
www.nytimes.com
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d
"And that's why I support higher taxes on billionaire finaglers like me who have garnered virtually all of the rewards of economic growth over the past 40 years!"
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d
Blackrock CEO Fink: If we do not grow our economy by 3% a year over next 10 years, our deficits are going to overwhelm this economy - CNBC Interview.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 1d
She’s just another in a long line of mediocrities who found fame and fortune by telling rich a**holes what they want to hear. It’s a grift that’s worked great for many Republican third-raters since the 60’s.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
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