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All Boston, all the time, and, yeah, that includes turkeys and helicopters.
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Man sought for being a violent dick towards a woman with a service dog on the Red Line, police say
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#Boston #MBTA #crime #dogs
Suspect in white T shirt
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Boutique and extended-stay hotel with rooftop dining proposed just off Dot Ave. in #Dorchester
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#Boston
Rendering of proposed six-story hotel
January 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Firefighters search water near Granite Avenue Bridge on report of somebody climbing over bridge railing; don't find anybody
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#Boston #Dorchester #Milton #NeponsetRiver
Divers in yellow suits search water along bridge, photo by BFD
January 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Incongruence at Park Street: Festive Christmas lights and outrage over regime murder
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#Boston #Minnesota #ICE #protest
Protesting ICE murder at Park Street, photo by Ron Newman
January 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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More ICE protesters in West Roxbury
Stop ICE
January 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Some de-ICErs at Holy Name Rotary tonight

#Boston #WestRoxbury #Minnesota
People protesting ICE murder
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Resident injured, dog and cat dead in South #Boston #fire
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Firefighter checks for hot spots inside smoke-filled house, photo by BFD
January 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Licensing board hears two versions of the chaos inside a Theater District club where a woman fatally collapsed on a dance floor
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#Boston
Angelica Morales, in hoodie memorializing her sister, listens as one of the family's lawyers, Howard Kahalas, makes a point today
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Somebody downtown trying to beat Musk to Mars?
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#Boston #RocketMan
Rocket on the roof of a downtown building
January 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Bostonians hold quick-reaction protest against regime's kidnapping of Venezuelan president, his wife
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#Boston #Venezuela #war
Signs: All wars are stupid, but this? Holy crap. And We have always been at war with East Asia. By Ron Newman
January 3, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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State moves to allow widespread consumption of #Boston Harbor shellfish for first time in a century
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H/t ebender00.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Circles around Winthrop, Hingham and Hull (and Logan) show where state says shellfish now safe enough for people to eat
January 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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#Boston in 2025: Murders
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The faces of Boston murder victims in 2025
January 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Boston in 2025: It's never a good T time when the headline is in rhyme
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#MBTA
Signs at Harvard say the Red Line stopped in both directions, photo by Ari Ofsevit
January 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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Judge orders #Lexington schools to let father keep son away from books and lessons related to LGBTQ issues
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#Massachusetts #lawsuits
Man objects to the lessons his son might get from a drawing showing all sorts of people, including same-sex parents being welcomed
December 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Patriots wide receiver faces charges he tried to strangle somebody.
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From online docket, listing of the two charges against Stefon Diggs: Strangulation or suffocation and assault and battery
December 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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#Boston in 2025: Storrowing
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Box truck with fresh haircut on Storrow Drive, photo by Riptor
December 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Police hunt Red Line onanist
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#MBTA
Man in yellow jacket not holding white container; police blanked out what he was holding
December 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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#Boston in 2025: 311 complaints - including this dumpster without a permit in #Charlestown
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Unpermitted dumpster, um, Cybertruck
December 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Preble Street is not the highway to hell
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#Boston #SouthBoston
Sign that prohibits motorists from going down
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Boston in 2025: Wildlife
There was a lot going on in 2025 in the wildlife refuge we call #Boston - a dolphin visited Port Norfolk, a beaver waddled through Dorchester Lower Mills, a snake polycule ignored a photographer in West Roxbury ...
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Two nuzzling fuzzies along the Charles, photo by Mary Ellen
December 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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No Christmas magic at Millennium Park
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#Boston #birds #eagles #HallmarkItAint
Bald eagle about to get spurned
December 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Two-alarm Christmas-morning #fire displaces three on Washington Street in #Dorchester
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#Boston
Firefighter in smoke on the roof, photo by BFD
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Good point - when it came to charts, I did not chose wisely. Here's a chart that does show the earlier surge this season: The most recent numbers from Dec. are comparable to numbers from last Jan., so a month earlier. I'll swap that in. Source: www.boston.gov/government/c...
Chart showing weekly flu numbers from last fall to now - and showing a surge a month earlier this season
December 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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#Flu surges in #Boston; still not too late to get vaccinated, city says
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Sharp week-to-week increases in flu cases in Boston on charts - a month earlier than last year
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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What would snow be without some bunting?
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#Boston #CastleIsland #birds
Snow bunting on a railing at Castle Island
December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM