Just now at Broadway and Hathorn St. #iceout

Balance of Payments Portal | Rockefeller Institute of Government Explore the balance of payments between states and the Federal government.

Maybe Federal funds that Massachusetts and California receive aren't handouts after all? How much does your state contribute to our federal budget? rockinst.org/issue-areas/...

Explains a lot.

Mayor Wu speaks from the stage to a large crowd at City Hall Plaza.

Thousands of people standing together around a stage on City Hall Plaza.

A close up shot of crowds on the plaza holding signs and rallying at the protest.

Boston is not a city that tolerates tyranny. We will not sit by while Donald Trump and his billionaire friends dismantle the protections that our families count on.

Thank you to the thousands of people who came out today to tell this administration #HandsOffBoston!

We have the turnout today in the MILLIONS — sourced from handsoff2025.com directly and echoed by @moveon.org and @publiccitizen.bsky.social.

Millions.
Enormous turnout across all 50 states and globally. Please reinforce that to everyone you know.

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

If you don't think this will cripple us science, including disease research (including cancer research), you don't understand how science works. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Me neither

And to be clear, I support the social security tax, I'm just saying where is the outrage from the maga about obvious plans to take this money and use it for something else?

Note there is no talk of cutting our taxes for social security, while they are gutting it and destroying it. Meanwhile they cut taxes for the rich

Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.

They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

I’m curious how you think about how protests should be addressed, considering the context of what you just said. The Trump administration just announced it’s pulling $400 million in funding from Columbia University, giving the reason as “relentless violence, intimidation and antisemitic harassment.” I’m wondering what you make of that. Columbia did not do enough. I criticized them. And believe me, I believe in free speech, I believe in the right to protest, as you read in my book. I started my career protesting the Vietnam War. I say to some people, “If I were your age, I’d be protesting something or other.” So I get that, and I love it, and it’s about America. But when it shades over to violence and antisemitism, the colleges had to do something, and a lot of them didn’t do enough. They shrugged their shoulders, looked the other way. Columbia among them. So what did they do? They took away $400 million. I’m trying to find out what they took away. Are they taking away money from cancer

"Columbia did not do enough....shrugged their shoulders, looked the other way. So what did [Trump] do? Took away $400 million.
... I think we have to see." @schumer.senate.gov to @nytimes.com.

Oh, my word.
This is a punch in the stomach.
Schumer is not standing up for science, or universities. 1/

Oh really? So shutting down the government was entirely up to you? It would have nothing to do with the majority party in both the House and the Senate?? Your math doesn't add up

You are "fighting" like it's 1985. Wake up and fight now

Disagree. You signaled that you were going to fight and now you didn't. When will you fight? You're going to let the courts do it?? You should be using every breath you have right now to fight these people. They're destroying things now.

Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again. His MAGA sycophants knew all along that his central economic proposal was a sham, but they repeated his lies. And now the economy is cracking.

Fact Check: "This is a Biden hangover.”

Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit. Biden then reduced it by $942 billion.

In the last 50 years, the deficit has increased by a total of $3.8 trillion under Republican presidents. Under Democrats, it’s gone down by $2.1 trillion.

We’re Standing Up for Science because science is for everyone! Join the team of students who organized for this event. Get loud and tell everyone why you’re Standing Up for Science!

#StandUpForScience #ScienceNotSilence #ScienceForAll #50501Movement @polrev.bsky.social

Stand up for Science rally in Boston

✊Massive turnout for STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in Boston #StandUpForScience

Trump credit card freeze crippling cancer and Alzheimer's research On February 26, President Trump issued an executive order expanding the power of the United States DOGE Service (DOGE), the government initiative controlled by Elon Musk.

1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH.

An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.

#krasnov

Trump's KGB handle is "Krasnov," Russian for "beauty."

uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump...

I'm reviving a older project, "Propaganda Posters of the Class War":

I genuinely don't think I can handle the next four years of New York Times headlines.

Kill me now.

A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.

Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story

The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

Light therapy in morning after rains. Cambridge Massachusetts

Back at you