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Todd Wallack @twallack.bsky.social · 12h

Some personal news…

@twallack joins from @WBUR as an education accountability reporter

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 16h

Had a blast at the fourth annual Chinatown Night Market! With families from across the region, amazing performances, and fantastic food, it was incredible to see the city come together to enjoy all that Chinatown has to offer.

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 12h

You folks are awesome.

The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 12h

Boston is a city for people who care more about others than they do themselves.

Now recalling reading 26 pages of obituaries in the Globe on a Sunday in 2020.

Proud to be a Bostonian. 👇🏼

Boston Public Health Commission @publichealth.boston.gov · 14h

Get your COVID-19 and flu vaccination for free at one of our clinics throughout Boston. Select clinics will offer routine childhood vaccinations. No appointment necessary, walk-ins welcome.

Find dates, times, and locations at boston.gov/vaccine-clinics.

#GetVaccinated #Boston

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DotNews @dotnews.bsky.social · 1d

Company owned by former BRA director Tom O'Brien hired to plan re-development of shuttered Carney Hospital campus in Dorchester
www.dotnews.com/2025/former-...

A box truck is shown outside the main entrance of Carney Hospital in Sept. 2024, days after it closed. Seth Daniel photo

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 15h

Somehow.

One columnist draws a second income selling ivermectin and survival kit advertisements during his podcast.

Sensationalist claptrap.

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 15h

In more stark terms, Trump is placing troops in a position where it’s increasingly likely they’ll be killing American citizens. He’s even stirring the pot. No doubt our more seasoned military top brass thinks he’s insane.

Cities are not in “chaos” and every rational person knows it.

Victoria McGrane @vgmac.bsky.social · 16h

Healey and Campbell are prepping in case Boston is next on the National Guard deployment front

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

Mass. leaders in talks about potential National Guard deployment to state. ‘No one wants this,’ Healey says. - The Boston Globe

Democratic leaders have signaled they could move quickly to fight any effort to send troops into yet another Democrat-led state.

www.bostonglobe.com

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 15h

Same!

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 17h

They have incredible energy for these displays there. I love it.

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 17h

Architect: Bruner/Cott

Also known for outstanding work at MassMOCA and, in Fort Point, most of the original Channel Center buildings including both new and adaptive reuse projects such as 25 and 35 Channel Center.

Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu · 18h

👏 Congrats to Gund Hall! Docomomo US—a non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of works of the twentieth-century modern movement—announced Gund as the recipient of the 2025 Modernism in America Award for excellence in civic design.

https://hgsd.us/4q4AOsw

Gund Hall Receives 2025 Modernism in America Award From DOCOMOMO US

Harvard Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall announced as a winner of the 2025 Modernism in America Award of Excellence by Docomomo US.

hgsd.us

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 17h

Gotta appreciate USPS Dot Ave and it’s employees before the service is privatized and loses its entire vibe. IYKYK ❤️

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 17h

“Socialist shopping?” Trump is gutting both health care and SNAP benefits that help the least among us, any number of whom living on the edge may be driven into homelessness.

The Herald can’t host adult conversations about any potentially innovative concept that helps those in need. It’s infantile.

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 19h

Within days of Mayor Wu's 2024 State of the City announcing the BPS Sundays pilot (now Boston Family Days) — and continuing for months — she was taking heat for not including METCO, charter, parochial and private school students.

The two Councilors throwing rocks were ruthless.

The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, the GOP candidates seem to be tapping MAGA “fear of cities” vibes.

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Gintautas Dumcius @gintautasd.bsky.social · 22h

Wu’s big personnel move
massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/wu-taps-go...

Wu taps government relations aide as next chief of staff

Plus: Healey gathers with fellow guvs in Boston’s Seaport

massterlist.beehiiv.com

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1d

Two teenagers from Rhode Island set this cruiser ablaze, reportedly with a few fireworks.

The MA Republican Party is hyperventilating, incapable of responding like rational adults. Should these people be put in charge?

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1d

What bar?

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[email protected] @fpnaboston.bsky.social · 1d

Lots Going On In & About #OurWaterfront This Week: programming @atlanticwharf, flood prevention & protection, development, ⛴️ transportation, Landmarks & 🎨 openings… as always details on the #FortPoint neighborhood blog
fortpointboston.com

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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently they blocked me too. I think it’s reflective of how much they want to work in the shadows. I do think they deserve serious public scrutiny.

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1d

The videos I've seen showed MAGA supporters embedding themselves among protesters.

The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1d

Ben is correct. 👇 The Trump administration is manufacturing a crisis. In Portland, agitators and provocateurs have been embedded among protesters. It's not only "sick," it's dangerous. Trump is attempting to incite riots, potentially an insurrection or worse... MAGA is openly jonesing for a war.

Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Total BS. The objective of the administration is to manufacture a crisis in as many democratic-run cites as possible by filling them with ICE and the military in order to provoke a response, film the activity, and lie about it. The only “antifa” that exists is the one they try to manufacture. SICK!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1d

Guesses without evidence? That's your opinion, poorly-informed in my view.

In fact, one one occasion, BPI stated that the questions asked by this Councilor were "our questions." I have numerous bits of evidence, any number of them provided here.

Exactly what are you afraid of?

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1d

@jimaloisi.bsky.social 👆

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 1d

Must have touched a nerve asking dark money nonprofit @bostonpolicyinst if the founders (political strategists) have been communicating with a City Councilor privately, and helping him draft questions asked at Council hearings and in his 17F filings.

Can't take the heat, @gpimaynard.bsky.social?

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 1d

I've been reading the Boston Globe for 40 years & don't know if I've read anything worse signed by the editorial board

America's Best States, per this report:

1. Wyoming
2. South Dakota
3. Alaska
4. Florida
and it goes on like that

Those are the states MA must throw away our values to emulate?

EDITORIAL
‘The bigger picture is grim’: Yes, Mass. snagged Hasbro, but can it compete with North Carolina?
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation’s latest competitiveness index report ranked the Commonwealth dead last in the nation for private employer job growth between 2023 and 2024.
By The Editorial Board Updated October 6, 2025, 4:00 a.m.

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