Regime freed to slash medical research
Supreme Court lets regime resume $800 million in racist, homophobic cuts to federal research grants
August 21
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court overturned rulings by judges in Boston that would have blocked the regime from cancelling $800 million in federal grants for medical research that might help people who are not white, straight men - under diktats that one of those judges said were the most racist and homophobic orders he had seen since he was...
Somebody's feeling a bit down today
August 21
A roving UHub photographer wondered what made the Wendy's at American Legion Highway and Walk Hill Street in Roslindale so grumpy this morning. Maybe the nearby KFC, Dunk's and McDonald's can get together and cheer Wendy up.
In advance of Allston Christmas, city to offer free furniture pickup in, um, Brighton
August 21
NBC Boston reports on a Boston program with an Acton concern that helps get furniture to people who can't afford it to do curbside pickup of furniture from apartments people are vacating on Sept. 1. Although...
Filling up before the long trip to Mexico
August 21
Mary Ellen captured a monarch butterfly chowing down this morning before setting off for the breeding grounds of Mexico. Note the nearby bee, also filling its tanks.
Woman sought for smashing senior in the face with a phone on trolley at Copley
August 21
Transit Police report they are looking for a woman they say yelled at an 89-year-old man, yelled racial epithets at him, spit on him, then smashed him in the face with her phone on an inbound Green Line trolley at Copley around 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday....
There were dead trains on Green and Red; Blue Line has signal problems instead
August 21
The Red Line was jammed up because of a dead train at Fields Corner this morning, while commuters on the D Line were delayed by a dead trolley at Chestnut Hill. Now the T is reporting delays on the Blue Line because of signal problems between Airport and Orient Heights.
Harvard to rip 'Black Lives Matter' signage from two professors' office windows
August 21
The Crimson reports on the impending teardown of large letters that have spelled out "Black Lives Matter" on the exterior windows of two biology professors since 2020, under newish rules that prohibit sign posting without some sort of official OK. Of course, this being Harvard...
Five teens sought for beating inside Tremont Street theater
August 21
Boston Police report they are looking for five teens they say surrounded and attacked somebody inside one of the theaters inside the AMC Boston Common on Tremont Street downtown...
