Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Perhaps the nation's most baffling degrowth regime is New England's ban on itself Hundreds of historic town centers*ban their own buildings*, mandating Sunbelt cinderblock strip mall replacements if anything burns down It is so bizarre that the legislature must intervene

One of the largest spills of untreated wastewater in American history happened while an environmental review process held up sewer line repairs because they were studying risks to a flower and a bat.

The reason for Gen. George's firing, in part: Hegseth for months has pressed Gen. George & Army Secy Dan Driscoll to remove 4 officers -- 2 Black & 2 female -- from a promotions list. George & Driscoll have refused, citing the officers long and exemplary service.

It is insane to now see the Boston's top development officials get in front of the council and say they're "proud" of the "success" of the 20% unfunded IZ mandate! 2022-25 saw the fewet multifam units permitted in a deacde! Asleep at the wheel. youtu.be/pVbyhDPGY98?t=…

The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them. Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him. Nine U.S. officials told NBC News

"The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests." nytimes.com/2026/04/03/cli…

As someone in central North Carolina I just want to say thanks to metro Boston as you’ve done wonders for our economy.

A decade ago, there was no building boom in Everett, but in Chelsea next door. Chelsea is closer to Boston and has better transit connections. Then Chelsea imposed 20% IZ. There's been essentially no market rate development since, depriving them of tax revenue and homes.

Again, a reminder, the amount Trump wants to INCREASE the annual Pentagon budget by would be enough money to lower the age of Medicare eligibility to about 35 years old.

Among the material pulled from the Holocaust Museum's website were teaching materials about the parallels between Nazism and Jim Crow and a conversation between a Holocaust Survivor and a woman whose father was lynched in Alabama.

trump's proposed 2027 budget. defense up $440.9 billion. most everything else — health, housing, education, labor, agriculture — cut.

JPM's Michael Cembalest: In the ~160 years after the Civil War, US presidents fired 11 four- and five-star military officers. In Trump's first 14 months, the White House has fired 9 of them.

I mostly avoid commenting on what President Trump says from day to day, while pulling no punches in my assessments, whether positive or negative, of his policy. His Iran ultimatums feel different. Making such threats is a policy. If he were to follow through on them, the

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists. wapo.st/4tFqKqY

NIMBYism is slowly but surely losing its decades long grip on Massachusetts. It's consistently losing in court. It's losing in the court of public opinion. And it's losing at the ballot box as pro-housing, pro-growth candidates are winning elections over NIMBY incumbents.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

The emerging American tax logic right now is something like: - we can’t tax the poor because they’re poor - we can’t tax the working class because they work - we can’t tax tips bc that’s just unfair - we can’t tax businesses because they create work - we can’t tax property bc

Massachusetts has yet to even try building its way out of the housing crisis.

In his second administration, President Trump’s family, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of