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UPDATE: At this point, there are now — at least — efforts to amend challenges to ending TPS for Ethiopia (which I covered yesterday night), South Sudan, and Somalia in fed'l court in Massachusetts. The amended Somalia TPS complaint was filed today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Amended Complaint – #90 in African Communities Together v. Noem (D. Mass., 1:26-cv-11201) – CourtListener.comAmended Complaintstorage.courtlistener.com
The Americas equivalent of UEFA comes out against FIFA
John BullSo Concacaf sides with Uefa. FIFA's financial power grab is done. What's funny is Infantino would probably have just about got away with this if it wasn't for the Balogun thing. As i said at the time, that scared the absolute shit out of the European FAs. So they instantly closed ranks on this.
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
I'm very glad the Massachusetts Legislature finally passed the PROTECT Act which will, among other things, limit ICE's ability to operate in courthouses. But it remains infuriating that our state has not canceled its lone existing 287(g) contract. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/29/m...
As my buddy @jonathancohn.bsky.social always says, Massachusetts has a larger GDP than Sweden but much, much worse public services. A travesty that people think of the state as some socialist paradise. By our powers it will be someday, but that day is not today.
gbhnewsA recent report by civil engineers in the state warns that Massachusetts’ stormwater infrastructure requires billions of dollars in funding as extreme rain events become more frequent. https://bit.ly/4vVszka
They do what now
Jeff GrohAvocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds sayImmigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.www.charlotteobserver.comA driver in Boston ran down and murdered a scooter rider because he felt "disrespected." Cars are weapons.
WCVB NewsCenter 5, BostonMan faces murder charges in fatal scooter crash, Boston police say | Click on the image to read the full story
"Convenient gambling options" is a phrase I'd like to set fire to and never have to read again.
WBURThe Massachusetts Lottery officially entered the digital world Monday with the launch of Mass. Lottery Online, the online sales and gameplay platform that Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and other Lottery officials say is necessary to remain relevant in an era of convenient gambling options.
"An exciting new chapter" in exploiting the poor to keep taxes low for the rich.
WBURThe Massachusetts Lottery officially entered the digital world Monday with the launch of Mass. Lottery Online, the online sales and gameplay platform that Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and other Lottery officials say is necessary to remain relevant in an era of convenient gambling options.
We shouldn’t have to live like this.
MassLiveMultiple people shot as gunfire erupts near Seattle’s iconic Space Needle, police say
It would be so funny if every single person but one canceled their New York Times subscription, and that one poor soul had to churn out gift links for everyone who asked. We could call them the Paperboy of Omelas
David HoNY Times subscribers can now share unlimited gift links (vs. 10 per month before). There’s no reason to whine about paywalls from the NY Times anymore.
Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer
Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching SoccerWASHINGTON—Dazed while trying to piece together the series of bizarre yet deeply vivid images, the entire nation reportedly awoke Monday from a strange dream in which it had been watching soccer. “I w...theonion.com