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GBH News is your home for news, distinctive storytelling, and what matters to you in Boston and beyond. #Boston, #Massachusetts, #USA

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🌞 Good morning! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 56F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 miles.

The first humanitarian supplies delivered from a floating pier built by the US military entered Gaza today.

In Indiana, a judge ruled that are "Mexican style sandwiches," clearing the way for a taqueria to open.

in 2004, the first legal same-sex marriages in the US happened in Massachusetts, the first state to make equal marriage law.

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GBH News was there, of course, on that day in 2004.

Here's what it looked and sounded like in Cambridge, Boston and beyond on the first day same-sex couples were able to legally marry in Massachusetts.

https://youtu.be/TLTrlakaexw

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Fast forwarding to checks notes yesterday, here is Justice Margaret Marshall, who visited our studios yesterday to reflect on the historic decision in Goodridge,.

Here she reads a portion of the decision she wrote: https://youtu.be/i4jBl4qF_oU

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And looking forward to tomorrow, here's our big list of Pride events, with some this week and continuing throughout June.

If you know about a -area event you don't see here, let me know, we are updating this list all month.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/the-big-list-of-2024-pride-events-in-boston-and-beyond

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so fascinating!

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It's so interesting: I have a lot more access to ebooks than physical books, but I still really like physical books even if they are now a minority in my reading diet.

This feels similar...Wordle is as close to us as our phones or laptops, but what we really want sometimes is those physical tiles (and people?).

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🌞 Hello ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 56F at Logan Airport and visibility is 3mi.

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the way the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is financed, a win for the watchdog agency.

Renters rallied at the Mass. State House for rent control and a higher minimum wage.

A kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, speaking in a commencement address, panned checks notes women working outside the home, LGBTQ people, and IVF.

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they do say every vote counts tho

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@marxistvegan I suspect our followers are not as highly concentrated in Greater Boston or even New England as they might be on, say, Instagram.

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🌞 Hello ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 69F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

The managed to stay in it by winning Game 5 and staving off elimination in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Trump and Biden agreed to their first debate in June.

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira could face new charges after hearing in military courtroom at Hanscom yesterday.

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anyone have updates on the MA state and redesign?
This @gbhnews
article from last year said no design was currently being considered post the decision to remove the current racist imagery?

https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2023-11-14/commission-to-rethink-state-seal-and-motto-concludes-with-no-specific-proposal-for-either

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@audrinabell Let me see if I can find Adam Reilly, who has covered this for years.

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I try not to spam you guys with links, but this was wicked cute. https://youtu.be/Nx6vfZztkT4

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author note: the "wicked" is not an affectation; I actually grew up saying it and still make use of this useful linguistic intensifier to this very day.

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@Zotmeister With the exception of a few years as a teen living in Puerto Rico, I have lived my whole life in the Boston area.

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@n1vux #TodayILearned: MUTCD stands for Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices!

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@n1vux I think I want to be in that Facebook group?

One of my favorite offbeat FB groups is one of MBTA enthusiasts where they just share photos of buses and train cars, along with intensely detailed commentary on the vehicles. There is great excitement every time a subway line shuts down for repairs because that means many different hired-for-the-occasion shuttle buses.

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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 56F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Congrats to Mr. & Mrs Punxatawney: the weather-prognosticating groundhogs welcome 2 kits, Sunny and Shadow.

3 men charged in the killing of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger now have plea deals.

The Biden administration announced that it will raise tariffs on some imports including EVs from China.

Today:

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pretty good for a Monday tbh

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🌞 Good morning, ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 54F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Over the weekend, people in many parts of North America were able to see the Northern Lights, as the aurora borealis was visible much further south than usual.

Somerville observed its annual Porchfest, with the band Guster making an unexpected appearance.

in 1965, the Rolling Stones recorded "Satisfaction."

Satisfaction:

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pardon the brief interruption in your weekend

BUT OMG DID YOU SEE THESE?!?

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The Northern Lights were visible in the night sky much further south than they normally are, due to a massive solar storm.

A bit more about the colors of the Aurora Borealis: https://www.pbs.org/video/what-causes-the-northern-lights-55f4yi/

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@jessamyn Yes! I experienced this too! I would love to know more about why that is.

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@JosephAndriano @jessamyn Wow!

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@bodhipaksa @jessamyn Hey thank you for the cogent explanation!

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@bodhipaksa @jessamyn Love that you got the pink. Was all green and some purple down near me.

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@otterX wowwww that's cool!

Yeah, it's hard to find dark places! We drove out from the city to capture the photo I shared. It's pretty magical. I'm still thinking about it.

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@bodhipaksa @jessamyn 🤩

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also: As Mothers' Day approaches, my colleagues @meghansmith and Elena Eberwein spoke to 8 women who lost loved ones to violence.

Often, crime stories are very brief and don't address the impact on survivors, or tell us much about those who died.

I'm grateful to the women who were willing to talk to us about their people, and proud that our newsroom is sharing their voices.

Story:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-05-09/their-loved-ones-were-murdered-in-boston-on-mothers-day-they-keep-memories-alive

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and now for the poll of the day

you're at the library 📚

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@marxistvegan Hear hear!

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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 49F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Cambridge is moving towards eliminating single-family zoning as the state faces an ongoing housing crisis.

Overnight, police dismantled a pro-Palestine protest encampment at MIT, arresting 10.

More than 100,000 have fled Rafah in southern Gaza as fighting approached the outskirts of the city.

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@serenebabe We are a local newsroom in Boston, so what I share about international news typically comes from Associated Press.

If I talked to someone there, what do you think should replace "fighting" in this headline?

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DeepMind's tools and AF2 blew scientists away with their ability to predict structure.

Now AlphaFold 3 is here, and it solves one long-standing complaint: that AF couldn't predict complexes with ions, DNA, and other biomolecules.

@STAT's Casey Ross with the latest:

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/drug-discovery-alphafold-3-google-deepmind-isomorphic-labs/

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@brittanytrang @STAT 👀

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farmer's market vote gonna end up in the Electoral College

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and in other news https://www.wgbh.org/news

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@PJ_Evans that sounds delicious!

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@PJ_Evans I love things that smell like eucalyptus...going to keep my eye out!

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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 56F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.

Dozens were arrested at UMass Amherst during pro-Palestinian protests.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels will return to the stand today in the Trump hush-money trial.

in 1945, World War II in Europe ended.

you're at the farmer's market:

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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 52F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.

In an Instagram post, Britney Spears announced that she would move to Boston. (No word on how this would affect the MBTA).

The Bruins and the Celtics are still in it, the Bruins with a win in overtime over the Leafs.

in 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile.

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and now for the poll of the day

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@lydialurch this is a devastatingly effective argument

potatoes forever

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@CaptainFlab Imma need some of that merch

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🌞 Hello ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 56F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 miles.

A Pennsylvania man says his checks notes emotional support alligator has gone missing in the coastal marshes of Georgia.

Boston's city council passed a call for a ceasefire in .

Police made arrests at campus protests at UCLA while President Biden defended the right to protest but said "order must prevail" as campuses face unrest over Gaza.

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also

what about .

Got any big 🌳 in your neighborhood? Let's see 'em. We love a nice tree.

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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 50F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Getaway Zebras! Zebras got loose from a trailer in North Bend, WA, but were corralled on an onramp before they got on the highway.

Pro-Palestinian protesters took over a building at Columbia U.

in 1854, Lincoln University, America's first historically Black degree-granting institution was chartered.

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also yr humble servant is enjoying this story with her morning coffee: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-04-30/in-a-national-fight-over-au-pairs-massachusetts-takes-center-stage

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also stumbled across this yesterday in the attic https://www.wgbh.org/lifestyle/food/recipes/2021-07-22/julia-childs-hamburgers-you-julia-at-home-with-amy-traverso

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@Kevin lololol WISE

fortunately I just found the fragile, sepia-toned HTML of the recipe

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