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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 : 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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@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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@bodhipaksa @jessamyn 🤩

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