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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 · 21m
If the law students think that the firms are making their lives miserable now, wait until they see what happens next.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 3h
The harder task would be to instill morality in their bosses
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 3h
The Minnesota criminal defense bar owes Todd Blanche a huge cake inscribed “Thank you!”
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 4h
"Her husband posted his own content, advising men on how to become a “strong patriarch” who can mold a “sweet tradwife who happily ‘fills your gut and empties your balls,’ as the saying goes.”" The Republican Party platform. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Her Brand Was Tradwife. Now She’s Divorced.
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 5h
Mission Accomplished! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
nytimes.com
After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future
Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 5h
So this obscenely rich finagler is trying to bribe some credible school into fulfilling his fantasy of turning an unlivable low-rent submerging hellhole into a tech bro paradise? And he gets a $3,000,000,000 tax break for his fantasy? And this is a good thing?
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 6h
In a related development, centibillionaire Ken Griffin announces again that thanks to plutocratic ownership of the US Government, he will never pay a penny in taxes on his huge ocean of undeserved wealth.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 7h
So the airport in Dakar has better transit access than LaGuardia.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 7h
Sounds like dog-killer Kristi Noem's marriage turned out to be a big bust www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem files for divorce, court docs show
Court documents show the filing happened earlier this year.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 8h
How hard is this, people?
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 8h
Probably a good time to recall that in 2002, the Republicans hammered Democrats by demanding that TSA workers not be entitled to union representation as a matter of “national security,” which won the midterms for them.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h
and coming from mr. medicare fraud 🤯
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 8h
I assume the next step is for some rich white male Cornell Trustee to call up his old frat brother and commission a million-dollar “investigation” conducted by his $2K/hour law firm that will exonerate Cornell and no one will ever see.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 8h
Coming up next in @nytimes.com : Will Mamdani’s plan for Socialist public housing in the Bronx hurt private landlords in the area?
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 21h
Hell I'm so old I remember when St. David Brooks was pushing John "Yes Sir May I Have Another" Thune as the great white Republican hope.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Mad King regime, through its jesters formerly employed as geek show touts, also apparently now flaunts its anti-Muslim bigotry, as previously endorsed by the six bent Republican Lords of Justice.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The six bent Republican Lords of Justice may soon regret their love for legislation stripping them of jurisdiction. At least I hope so.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And because Sen. Amy “Hot Mess” Klobuchar had so successfully pushed for “bipartisan cooperation” since the inauguration of the Mad King, the Republicans graciously apologized, amirite?
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And because Sen. Amy “Hot Mess” Klobuchar had so successfully pushed for “bipartisan cooperation” since the inauguration of the Mad King, the Republicans graciously apologized, amirite?
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Going to?"
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Majority Staff Counsel Hamilton Burger is in a lot of trouble.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And despite the ominous umbral headline, the story appears to be that Mamdani is more popular than Hochul which is of course…Mamdani’s fault!
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Paul Szep — haven’t seen him in a while. Good reminder that attacking the free press has been a core Republican principle for over half a century.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I believe it was AJ Liebling who said that when all the ice cream stands sell only strawberry, the customer chooses the one who provides the largest scoop.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What is the point of this travesty of due process, other than to degrade our country and betray its values? The simple fix for these children is either (1) provide counsel or (2) adjourn the proceedings until the respondent is 18.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coming up in @nytimes.com : How divisive comments from extremist Democratic representatives like "that sh*t ain't legal" add to Congressional dysfunction.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Isn't that what Lee Iacocca used to say about exploding Pintos?
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Bush sent a lot more Americans to an early grave — at least so far — than Trump has, on top of a lot of women and children in Iraq and other faraway lands. His people "tortured some folks," and committed war crimes." - the great @willbunch.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
inquirer.com
War, AI, and the end of the world | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, new proof that George W. Bush is not your friend.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just a reminder that to all Republicans taxing "other people's money (like Ketamine Leon's) to feed the poor is "communism."
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In Great Neck for a wedding (my son's) last June and at the train station these Nassau County goons were waiting to snatch someone. Great Neck ffs.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They seem nice.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Coming up next in @theatlantic.com : When my department head told me to respect people’s pronouns I felt just as abandoned and alone as these babies.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From the @nytimes.com 5/7/1937 “The thunderstorm, which weather experts said could be dangerous for a blimp full of hydrogen gas,…”
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With American democracy at if not over the brink of destruction the real problem is that progressive Democrats are picking too many fights. Another galaxy brain insight from the both-siders at @theatlantic.com . Ts;dr
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And then the gambling app pushers tell you there’s a $250 bonus if you bet that parlay using your home as collateral!
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just based on the tape it looks as if the pilot did a good job keeping the aircraft under control and flying it down to the ground wings level.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎯
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But Harvard-Dalton gasbags living in Tribeca told us that Red state Democrats have to embrace trans bigotry so I don’t know whom to believe.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good thing your boss Joe Kahn decide to cover the 2024 race as “just another election.”
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bregman A 2 HR 1 !B 1 2B 1 BB Where did the Cubbies find this guy? #BOSvCHC
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“And is it anything like seeing the world with new wives? Because that rocks!”
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Coming up in @nytopinion.nytimes.com : But the liberal thought police at my college ordered me to comply with people’s pronouns, so Both Sides!
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are aliens taking your Lebensraum? Denounce them here!
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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theendofthyme.bsky.social @theendofthyme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When are one of these reporters finally going to say, "Mr. President, do NOT talk to me this way, now or ever!" ?? Hopefully their editors and bosses have their back and let them know not to put up with this harassment anymore.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I believe I read that in 1940 the Supreme Court cafeteria was whites-only. I don’t know when that changed. Before 1953?
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We wish him the best of luck in his job search after the Mad King taint- polishing plutocrat daddy and failson take over #CNN next week.
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today in The Massachusetts Spy: realmassachusettsspy.blogspot.com/2026/09/gone...
realmassachusettsspy.blogspot.com
Gone With The Windbag: A preview of the next Lost Cause
By National Correspondent George T. Strong  The Mad King’s regime has entered its Battle of Atlanta era. Surrounded by enemies, de...
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Massachusetts Spy @themassspy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Of course, "be quiet" is the same advice the sadistic Mad King gives to victims of his sexual assaults. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump tells female MS Now reporter to ‘be quiet’ amid questions on press pool ban
US president doubles down on criticism of CNN and MS Now as Akayla Gardner questions attempted White House ban
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