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Politico
3 days ago
- Politics
- Politico
Meet Markey's primary challenger
MARKEY CHALLENGER ENTERS THE CHAT — Alex Rikleen — a father, former teacher and fantasy sports writer — is running for the U.S. Senate 'because Democrats have shown us that they're not going to change on their own.' Rikleen, a first-time candidate, launched his primary campaign against Sen. Ed Markey earlier this week with a call for Democrats to do more to fight the 'existential threat' they warned of from a second Trump term. 'Democrats the whole last campaign, the overwhelming message was 'existential threat, existential threat,'' Rikleen told Playbook. 'And Ed Markey has been around for — this is his seventh new Republican administration — and I don't see any difference in how he is responding to this new Republican administration versus any of the previous six.' Out of power in D.C., Democrats have unleashed a steady drumbeat of criticism against Republicans. Markey has crossed the state to attend protests and rallies, and he t raveled to Louisiana in April to urge the White House to release Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk who was detained there. But beyond messaging, there's little Democrats can do to block President Donald Trump's agenda without control of either the House or the Senate. Republicans will likely be able to push their policy agenda through Washington, Rikleen acknowledged. 'A unified Republican majority can overcome people who are objecting to unanimous consent, and they can overcome quorum calls, but it slows them down,' he said. Rikleen isn't alone in launching a frustration-fueled primary challenge against a longtime Democratic member of Congress. Candidates are running similar campaigns in California, Illinois and Virginia. But Rikleen, a millennial, didn't specifically mention Markey's age (he'll be 80 when he's on the ballot next year). Taking on Markey will likely be an uphill battle for a political newcomer like Rikleen — especially considering he notched a decisive victory last cycle over high-profile congressman from one of the country's most storied political families. GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Happy Friday! TODAY — Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll announce the state's new Poet Laureate at 12:45 p.m. in Salem. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu hosts a Chinatown and Bay Village coffee hour at 10 a.m. in Chinatown, speaks at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Flour Bakery location in Boston Common at noon and talks about 'governing in the age of Trump' at the WBUR Festival at 2 p.m. THIS WEEKEND — Auditor Diana DiZoglio is on WCVB's 'On the Record' at 11 a.m. Sunday. Rep. Jake Auchincloss is on NBC10 Boston Weekend Today at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Have a tip, story, suggestion, birthday, anniversary, new job, or any other nugget for the Playbook? Drop me a line: kgarrity@ DATELINE BEACON HILL EYEBROW RAISER — Massachusetts' Healey seeks meeting with Trump border czar Homan by Barry Richard, 1420 WBSM: 'Days after Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey praised 'some' of President Donald Trump's border policies, Healey is now looking to score a meeting with Trump border czar Tom Homan. … [F]ormer Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson, the Massachusetts chairman of the 2024 Trump campaign, told WBSM's Chris McCarthy he was approached by a Healey contact who asked if he might mention Hodgson to Healey as someone who might be able to put her in touch with Homan. Hodgson agreed. 'I will wait for his response,' Hodgson said. 'He (the contact) did not say she asked him to reach out to me, but he prefaced his conversation by saying he was 'having dinner with Maura Healey.''' Healey has previously said she would be willing to meet with Homan, but an aide didn't clarify Thursday night whether she was actively seeking a meeting with Trump's border czar. — Lawmakers urged to block library book bans by Christian M. Wade, The Eagle-Tribune: 'Lawmakers are being urged to restrict efforts to ban books from public libraries and schools in response to a rise in challenges from parents and conservative groups. The bipartisan proposal, which is being considered by the Legislature's Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development, would, if approved, make Massachusetts one of only two states to effectively outlaw book bans because of 'partisan or doctrinal' reasons by setting new restrictions on receiving state funding.' WHAT'S ON CAMPBELL'S DOCKET — AG Campbell releases 'Know Your Rights' guide as ICE arrests surge by Vivian La, WBUR: 'In response to an increase in immigration arrests, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell issued a guide that outlines what immigrants, families and communities should know about their rights if they are approached by ICE or witness detentions in their neighborhoods. Over the last few months, some arrests have shocked communities. Five federal agents tackled a man in Watertown; a chaotic arrest in Worcester led to an hours-long standoff between bystanders, local police and federal agents; agents smashed a car window to access a man in New Bedford; and a Tufts student who didn't know her visa was revoked was arrested by plainclothes agents.' FROM THE HUB — Opioid-related deaths decline in Boston in 2024 by Craig LeMoult, GBH News: 'Opioid-related deaths dropped sharply in Boston last year, hitting a nine-year low, according to a new analysis by the Boston Public Health Commission. Public health leaders believe some interventions, like distribution of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, are helping — but they say the biggest contributing factor may be what's in the illicit drugs themselves.' THE RACE FOR CITY HALL — District 7 candidates debate land use, White Stadium at Boston forum by Tréa Lavery, MassLive: 'Nine candidates seeking to replace Boston District 7 City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson discussed a number of community issues during a virtual forum Thursday night. But the one issue that remained unsaid during the nearly three-hour forum was the reason Fernandes Anderson's seat is open — her conviction on federal corruption charges.' PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES — MBTA employees busted for allegedly falsifying Red Line track inspection reports in Boston by Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald: 'Four former MBTA employees who clocked in overtime well north of $50,000 last year and a current staffer could face up to 20 years in prison for allegedly falsifying Red Line track inspection reports. The four former employees are accused in federal court of working on private vehicles, playing on their phones, and chatting with other employees instead of performing track inspections, which they stated they completed.' DAY IN COURT — Grand jury investigating State Police recruit death by Sean Cotter, The Boston Globe: 'A state Superior Court grand jury has been hearing sworn testimony over at least several weeks from State Police troopers and others close to the investigation of a police recruit's death during a training exercise in September, according to three people with direct knowledge of the secret court proceedings. The grand jury appears to be an escalation in the months-long investigation by special prosecutor David Meier. The veteran defense attorney and former prosecutor was tapped by state officials to lead an independent probe into the death of 25-year-old Enrique Delgado-Garcia, who suffered serious injuries in a boxing ring during an academy training exercise in New Braintree. He died a day later.' WARREN REPORT — Savannah Chrisley clashes with Elizabeth Warren over Trump's pardon of her parents' fraud convictions by Tal Kopan, The Boston Globe: 'Senator Elizabeth Warren drew the ire of a conservative reality television star Thursday morning over a pardon from President Trump that wiped away her parents' fraud convictions. Savannah Chrisley, daughter of 'Chrisley Knows Best' TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, took issue with a Warren post on the social media platform X that called Trump's pardon of her parents 'a get-out-of-jail-free card for the rich & famous who cozy up to Trump.' The younger Chrisley campaigned for Trump last year.' — Led by Senator Warren, Mass. lawmakers demand answers about Trump's ongoing attack on international students by Tonya Alanez, The Boston Globe: 'Senator Elizabeth Warren led a delegation of Massachusetts lawmakers in demanding answers from the Trump administration about its revocation of international students' visas, what they called the latest in a string of hostile actions aimed at students from abroad, according to a copy of a letter sent Wednesday.' FROM THE DELEGATION OVERSIGHT OFFICIAL — Rep. Stephen Lynch made his bid for the for the top Democratic spot on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee official Thursday, touting his decades of experience on the committee, and the support of the late Rep. Gerry Connolly, who previously held the post. 'As we all know, Gerry Connolly was all about the work, and I am honored to have earned his trust and endorsement to continue this important work and lead Oversight Democrats at a moment when our decisions and our actions over the coming months may determine the course of our American experiment,' Lynch, who has been serving as the party's temporary head of the panel, wrote in a letter to Democratic colleagues. 'I am well-prepared to manage an extremely talented group of Oversight Democrats as we fight like hell against every action taken by the Trump Administration to curtail individual rights, dismantle our democratic institutions and unload the costs of reckless economic plans onto the backs of America's workers and vulnerable communities,' Lynch added. So far, Lynch is up against Rep. Robert Garcia of California and Rep. Kweisi Mfume of Maryland. Others, like Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, have also expressed interest in running. MARIJUANA IN MASSACHUSETTS — Small marijuana businesses call reform bill a 'Trojan horse' for big companies by Walter Wuthmann, WBUR: 'Massachusetts House lawmakers this week released their long-awaited plan to restructure the state's embattled Cannabis Control Commission, but some marijuana retailers say it contains provisions that would be a 'death blow' to the industry. The agency tasked with regulating the state's $8 billion marijuana industry has faced calls for reform following allegations of workplace toxicity, infighting and perceived regulatory delays. The House proposal would reduce the five-member commission to three, and give more governing power to its chair.' — With cannabis industry struggling, Western Mass. sellers and growers seek relief from high court by Jim Kinney, The Springfield Republican: 'Plaintiffs growing, selling and delivering legal marijuana in Massachusetts now have two court decisions against them, but aren't giving up. They seek to overturn a federal law they say strangles their business. They were turned back last week by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. But plaintiffs say their fight against the Richard Nixon-era Controlled Substances Act of 1970 is not over.' FROM THE 413 — ICE takes two into custody Wednesday morning in Amherst by Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette: 'Amherst officials are notifying the community about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in which two individuals were taken into custody, in separate incidents, Wednesday between 7 and 8 a.m.' — Pittsfield City Council gives initial OK to 10 city budgets by Maryjane Williams, The Berkshire Eagle. THE LOCAL ANGLE — Holy Family Hospital in Haverhill cuts overnight care, pursues 'satellite emergency' status by Jill Harmacinski, The Eagle-Tribune: 'Plans are underway for Holy Family Hospital in Haverhill to become a 'satellite emergency facility' with 59 beds for overnight admissions now being phased out, officials said. Surgical services ended in March at HFH Haverhill and intensive care unit services have been unavailable there since 2024 before Lawrence General Hospital assumed ownership after the Steward health care system collapse.' — $70 million in bonds in pipeline for New Bedford's water systems by Colin Hogan, The New Bedford Light: 'A new bond order advanced in City Council last Thursday will kick off the latest round of work — $70 million in total — for the Whaling City to repair, replace, and improve its water systems: stormwater, wastewater, and lead pipes alike.' — In Nantucket, fears of an economic chilling effect after ICE sting by Danny McDonald, The Boston Globe. — — Renters find relief at Worcester legal clinic to clear their eviction records by Sam Turken, GBH News. HEARD 'ROUND THE BUBBLAH HAPPY BIRTHDAY — to CNN's Eric Levenson, Senate Ways & Means Chair Michael Rodrigues, Bill Fonda, Natasha Sarin, Ayanna Pressley alum Luisa Peña Lyons and Wes Ritchie. HAPPY BIRTHWEEKEND — to WPRI's Ted Nesi, Katie Sagarin and Gena Mangiaratti, who celebrate Saturday.
Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Tufts men's lacrosse started the season under a cloud of controversy. It finished with perfection.
What followed was the most dominant season in the program's history. Tufts finished 23-0, capping the year 'I think our guys really didn't have a choice but to move on and be focused,' said coach Casey D'Annolfo, a Tufts alumnus. 'I think if anything at all, it kind of made us more more resilient, and sort of more exclusive to the outside. I think it made us a tighter-knit group and a more resilient group.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The Jumbos' success started in midfield with junior Jack Regnery, the Division 3 Player of the Year, who led the NESCAC with 103 points. Tufts overwhelmed opponents with its scoring, firing in 418 goals — more than 100 more than any other NESCAC team. Advertisement Tufts junior Jack Regnery was the Division 3 Player of the Year. Daniel Murphy/Melrose High School Tufts had a couple of scares — mainly in overtime wins over No. 3 Christopher Newport University in March, and No. 10 Wesleyan and No. 6 Bowdoin (both double OT) in April — but nobody could get one over on the Jumbos. Advertisement 'When we encountered things during the season that were challenging, or in years past would have been considered as adversity … it sort of paled in comparison to what we went through in the fall,' D'Annolfo said. 'So I think it calloused us in a way, and I think it made us more resilient in the springtime." By the time the postseason arrived, any thought that Tufts would be seriously challenged vanished. The Jumbos romped through the NESCAC tournament, winning each game by at least nine goals, including a 12-goal demolition of Wesleyan for the championship. Then came the NCAA Tournament. Rhodes College was first, victim of a 15-7 defeat. Next was No. 17 St. Lawrence, whose 14-8 loss was the closest any team would get to dethroning the champion. No. 7 Gettysburg College went down, 17-8, in the quarterfinals. Fifth-ranked Bowdoin perhaps looked likeliest to give Tufts a real challenge in the semifinals, having come closest to an upset this season. Instead, the Polar Bears were subjected to a 26-11 demolition. All that was left to do was finish the job in Sunday's title game at Gillette Stadium, and the Jumbos did it convincingly. Tufts scored the first 10 goals and led, 14-3, at halftime, never being challenged by No. 11 Dickinson College in the final stretch of the Jumbos' road to perfection. Tufts set records for goals and margin of victory in a Division 3 championship game. Casey D'Annolfo, a 2006 Tufts graduate, has guided his alma mater to two national titles. Daniel Murphy/Melrose High School The final calculus on the Tufts postseason: eight games, eight wins, a combined margin of victory of 90 goals, and a dominant fifth national championship for the program. 'When we were playing those games, after the first couple minutes, we're like, 'OK, we're dialed, we're ready to go,' ' D'Annolfo said. 'So, you know, was I surprised? No, I wasn't totally surprised, but I guess I was just happy that they were ready to answer the call.' Advertisement For a group of 16 seniors (including five Massachusetts natives), four seasons in Medford finished with a record of 82-7, three NESCAC titles, two national championships, and one perfect season. 'The senior class is incredible,' D'Annolfo said. 'They're incredibly resilient. We were wire to wire, No. 1 in the country, so you're getting everybody's best shot, the expectations from everybody are super high. And every time their best was needed, they provided it ... Certainly, statistically, the most successful group to ever come through the program and they just answered every call at every turn.' Amin Touri can be reached at
CBS News
24-05-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
Tufts lacrosse goalkeeper hopes to win national title after breaking record
This weekend, Massachusetts is hosting the college lacrosse national championships at Gillette Stadium and one player on Tufts' team has grown accustomed to this big stage. The Jumbos have punched their ticket to the national title fight for the third straight year. A cornerstone to that potential Division III dynasty is goalkeeper Conner Garzone, who has been in net for the Tufts lacrosse team for 87 straight games over the last four years. Played in 87 straight games "The amount of crazy saves Conner makes per game is a lot, he's truly always balling out in cage and he's kept us in so many games this year," said freshman goalkeeper Alex Dircks. "I actually had pretty bad asthma when I was a kid so they kind of threw me in net," said Garzone, a fifth-year grad student studying quantitative economics. "And since then, it's just been a great journey." Broke school record for career saves Garzone just broke the school's record for career saves when he stopped his 907th shot on goal. "He's just an absolute rock back there and he's having the best year of his career, both in terms of save percentage, goals allowed, he's just been his best in the biggest moments," said Tufts lacrosse coach Casey D'Annolfo. "You're only as consistent as the guys around you and those guys have trusted in me and believed in me, whether I've had good games or bad games," said Garzone. "And that's not an easy thing to do at all times, trust me, there's plenty of games I'd like to have back." The New York native, who came up through perennial powerhouse Chaminade High School, has built a lasting legacy in net for the Jumbos. He's hoping to close out his time at Tufts with one more ring. "There's so many guys that came before me here that worked so hard and deserved it and they didn't get a chance to play in that game or they didn't get a chance to win that game," said Garzone. "Just to be a symbol for those guys, a beacon for this program, is really special."
Boston Globe
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Tufts, Colby, Middlebury to represent New England in Division 3 women's lacrosse Final Four
Three-time reigningchampion Middlebury will face Colby Friday at 4 p.m. at Roanoke College, in Virginia, while the Jumbos will take on Gettysburg (Pa.) at 7 p.m. Both semifinal games on Friday will be available to stream on The winners will advance to the championship game, set for Sunday at noon. Advertisement Bedford's Allie Zorn leads Tufts (20-1) in points (82) and is second on the team in goals (59). The junior was a 2022 Globe All-Scholastic and girls' lacrosse player of the year during her senior year at Bedford High. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Tufts beat its first two NCAA Tournament opponents by a combined 20 points before eking out an 8-7 win over Salisbury (Md.) to advance to the national semifinals. On the other side of the bracket, Colby (17-3) will face powerhouse Middlebury (19-1), which has lost just two games in the last four years: against Tufts in the 2022 NESCAC tournament final, and against Wesleyan in this season's NESCAC semifinals. The Panthers have won three straight NCAA titles and are led by former Globe All-Scholastic Hope Shue, a graduate of Dover-Sherborn High School. Now a senior, Shue was Advertisement The attacker leads the Panthers in goals (76) and points (107) and is second in assists (31). She's the program's all-time leading goal scorer (296) and this season broke Middlebury's all-time points record with 379 and counting (the previous record was 347, which Amy DiAdamo set from 1994-97). Gillette Stadium will Emma Healy can be reached at
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Biggest Sign That Trump May Already Be an Elected Autocrat
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Donald Trump's presidency has been colored in a dozen shades of censorship, up to and including prolonged detention for those who have engaged in pure and protected free-speech activities. Yet the Framers knew that the freedom of speech was utterly central to liberty. On this week's Amicus Plus bonus episode, Dahlia Lithwick speaks to Cristian Farias, who covers the courts and the law for Vanity Fair. This week, he also launches a new podcast, in partnership with the Knight Institute, called The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment. Their conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Dahlia Lithwick: You've been covering the legal proceedings around Tufts Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was returned to Massachusetts after being held in ICE custody in Louisiana for 45 days. Cristian Farias: In March she was taken off the streets. Nobody knew where she was. Her lawyers couldn't even find her. They raced to court to file a habeas corpus petition to try to get her released. A judge ordered Ozturk to not be taken out of the district of Massachusetts. Because the Trump administration doesn't know how to follow court orders, they didn't listen to the court ruling. They took her to an airport in Vermont the morning after—and then she was shipped to Louisiana, 1,600 miles away—and essentially divested the court of jurisdiction. For 45 days, she was in Louisiana, fighting for her release. What was the basis for seizing her, revoking her visa, and keeping her detained? The basis was literally an op-ed that she wrote for the student newspaper at Tufts. This was an article that she co-wrote with other people basically advocating for the end of the war on Gaza for Palestinian lives. The Trump administration determined that she is a threat to national security. In a statement shortly after her detention, the Department of Homeland Security said that she was engaged in pro-Hamas speech, which is definitely not what the student op-ed was about, but that's what they ran with and that's the basis for her detention. So she was basically a political prisoner of the Trump administration for 45 days, on the basis of her opinion. That's happening in the U.S. right now. People are being locked up for the views that they hold, for the things they believe in. You were listening in on the hearing last week, at which she was ultimately ordered to be released. She had to Zoom in to the hearing in Vermont from Louisiana. It ultimately led to her release, but you've covered a lot of judicial proceedings, and you clearly experienced this as something akin to a body blow. Judge William Sessions III noted that her continued detention potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in this country who are not citizens—any one of them may now avoid exercising their First Amendment rights for fear of being whisked away to a detention center. This feels as if it really is at the nexus of this project you're trying to do. This isn't just about deportations and seizures of visas. This is about chilling protected speech and the proposition that you don't have to be a U.S. citizen to have your speech protected. That's black-letter law. Since 1945, the Supreme Court has recognized that noncitizens, when they're here, also have First Amendment rights. The government can't just snatch them and deport them because they say they don't like something the government did. I want to talk about this through the lens of a habeas petition. The same weekend that Rumeysa Ozturk was released from ICE custody, we had Stephen Miller telling us that maybe the executive branch is just going to suspend habeas rights because of this alien invasion. I wonder if Ozturk's case shines a light on why these petitions are so urgently necessary, even though probably most Americans don't know what they are and why they matter. Habeas petitions are what's keeping many of these folks from basically being disappeared from their communities without ever being found. We see habeas petitions in the cases related to the renditions to El Salvador. We see habeas petitions in these cases where students are contesting their detention. To file a habeas petition is basically what ensures that you won't be sent to a black site or put in a prison without ever getting out. I was really struck by the way it mapped onto that New York Times editorial last week by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt, in which they suggested that the way we know authoritarianism has meaningfully taken hold in a country is when people become too afraid to criticize the government for fear of retribution. It's not just the chilling effect; it's that you are afraid that you are going to be punished for your words. And that feels as if it is the through line in the work you're trying to do now on Trump and speech rights: Students with student visas and the press are facing literal retaliation, and law firms are facing literal retaliation, and fired government workers can't speak. It suggests that if that's the test of whether we've reached what they call competitive authoritarianism, it is happening. A lot of advocates are thinking long and hard about how to use the First Amendment as not just a shield but also a sword that they can wield to be able to combat the administration on these things.
