#no-kings #pride parade in #Boston today. Great turnout on a rainy day.

Happy to see Phil Eng, general manager of the ⁦MBTA⁩, at the parade today. #pride

⁦Marvin Kalb⁩ writes about Trump, immigration, family, the future. ⁦Shorenstein Center⁩ contrarian.substack.com/p/the-goldene-…

If your day could use a burst of delight, listen to David Byrne perform "One Fine Day" with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus: themarginalian.org/2020/05/14/one…

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

NEW: Kamala Harris, in her forthcoming book, on Biden’s decision to run: “In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Thanks to ⁦@HutchinsCenter⁩ for hosting ⁦Charles M. Blow⁩ today. He gave a fascinating presentation about Isaiah Montgomery, and the perils of political accommodation.

This meditation on official corruption by @noahshachtman is the finest reported opinion article I’ve read in a long time. nytimes.com/2025/09/20/opi…

Huge crowd on the Boston Common today. Happy, peaceful demonstration. #NoKings

"“People keep asking, ‘What’s wrong with the Democratic Party? What’s the right message?’” Kuster said. “They act like there are magic words. And it’s like, ‘It’s not a question of just getting the right words. It’s that we are too freaking old.’” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Today we celebrate our founder, Carl Sagan, on what would have been his 91st birthday. Among his many gifts to humanity was the Pale Blue Dot. The image captured when the Voyager spacecraft turned its camera back toward Earth, revealing our world as a tiny, fragile speck

Read Judge Wolf’s essay in The Atlantic

As our thoughts turn to Carl Sagan on the 29th anniversary of his death, let’s remember the words, more apt than ever, from an essay that he and Ann Druyan wrote in 1988, addressed to newly elected President George H. W. Bush entitled “Give Us Hope.”  “Let's stop talking about

DHS has use of force rules. Whatever is said about the victim by the WH, compare the shooting to rules governing ICE agents. @cnn

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

65-year-old British woman in the US on the "trip of a lifetime", with a valid tourist visa, was arrested by ICE, shackled, transported & held for weeks on end. Do NOT travel to the US under any circumstances. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…

Democrats need to stop hiding behind legal concerns or just asking for briefings. This is wrong. It is deadly. It is being run and managed by a political leadership that is not capable. It is without justification. The president is unpopular and lying and has said we are at war.

The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.

Spain’s Prime Minister, on the ceasefire, says Spain 'will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket.”