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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year Trump signed an omnibus bill that includes a federal voucher program. While a Massachusetts coalition is urging Gov. Maura Healey to opt into the program, critics warn the state would have no control on how the money is spent.

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧵Locally and nationally there's been a focus on the extensive surveillance capacities of Flock camera networks and the pernicious effects on privacy. While BPD has dumped its contract with Flock, it is now deploying Motorola cameras, which are every bit as useful to ICE agents as those run by Flock.

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧵Last week I asked Mayor Michelle Wu whether her backing primary challengers in this year's Senate races backfired. Her response: “I’m eager to find ways to advance the agenda on behalf of Boston residents, with whoever is in any role, in any leadership position,” she said.

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Union activists have shifted their focus from the annual Labor Day breakfast to actions in the streets, reflecting the increased strikes and demonstrations union locals are increasingly engaged in.

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First-time candidate Persis Yu took on a 16-year incumbent and won. "What we did, many thought was impossible. We took on an entrenched candidate with the full weight of the establishment and full money of the establishment behind him." (link in comments)

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Yawu Miller @yawumiller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Persis Yu is up by 500 votes. Mail in ballots aren’t in and results are unofficial, but looks like she’s actually won.

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CourtWatchMA @courtwatchma.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Some things change, some things stay the same. Even 50 years later. BPD's Former Superintendent Eddy Chrispin in 2026 🤝 BPD Commissioner Robert DiGrazia in 1976 #bospoli #DefundBosCops #mapoli

Former Boston Police Superintendent Eddy Chrispin spent years dealing with people in crisis, first as a social worker, then, for nearly three decades, as a police officer. When he was honored last month at the City Council, he spoke from the perspective of both roles and pointed out what he described as a societal bias toward incarceration.

“We never say there’s not enough money to spend to incarcerate somebody,” he told the gathering of elected officials and community members. “But at the same time, we always lack the means and ability to invest in young people at the early stage of their lives.

“If we’re going to fix this thing that we call crime, that everybody battles with, dysfunction, whatever it is that you want to call it, we have to invest in young people. We have to invest in families, not on the back end when they, unfortunately, hurt somebody, generally, who is somebody from their communities.”

Not all police administrators are afraid to speak up on the realities of
crime. Robert DiGrazia (former) Boston Police Commissioner, said at
the Police Foundation’s Executive Forum on upgrading the police:

“There is one other thing few police chiefs are doing-leveling
with the public about crime. Most of us are not telling the
public that there is relatively little the police can do about
crime. We are not letting the public in on our era’s dirty little
secret: that those who commit the crime which worries citizens
most-violent, street crime-are, for the most part, the products
of poverty, unemployment, broken homes, rotten education,
drug addiction and alcoholism, and other social and economic
ills about which the police can do little, if anything.
“Rather than speaking up, most of us stand silent and let
politicians get away with law and order rhetoric that reinforces
the mistaken notion that the police-in ever greater numbers
and with ever more gadgetry-can alone control crimes (the
politicians, of course, end up perpetuating a system by which
the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and crime continues).”

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Shootings and murders often spark calls for increased hiring of police. Yet, while the city's rates of violent crime has halved in the last 20 years, police personnel has remained nearly constant. Activists are calling for greater investments in crime prevention, not policing.

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Voters in 2024 rejected the use of the MCAS exam as a graduation requirement. State education officials are now proposing end-of-year assessments that “meaningfully count toward students’ academic record.” Board of Education members have questions (see comments)

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Faced with the choice between rejecting Mayor Michelle Wu's operating budget, accepting it or amending it, Boston's City Council yesterday postponed a vote on the budget until next week's Council meeting. This comes as the Council faces pressure from both the mayor and from community groups.

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Just 5.1% of the $89 million the city has spent so far on its White Stadium project has gone to minority-owned businesses. 1% has gone to Boston-based businesses.

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

State law prohibits demonstrations in front entrances to court houses or engaging in any form of activity aimed at intimidating judges and court officers or influencing court proceedings. March 19, dozens of armed, uniformed officers may have done just that. flipsidenews.net/were-they-of...

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Were they off-duty or on the public's dime? Cops who turned out for arraignment violated BPD policy or state law

Scores of uniformed Boston Police officers turned out inside and outside Roxbury District Court March 19 in a show of support for patrolman Nicholas O’Malley, who is charged with manslaughter.

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

🧵Last week, the gloves came off. Friday, @leungboston.bsky.social dropped a piece about Wu settling scores with her perceived enemies: "March madness, Boston style is well underway: Who’s next to find themselves on Michelle Wu’s political grudge list?"

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The Flipside @flipsidenews.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A Boston Cop has been indicted for manslaughter for the first time in more than 30 years. How did we get here? The '02 police shooting of Eveline Barros-Cepeda was a pivotal moment.

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