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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Donald Trump took to Twitter to weigh in on the controversial “free speech” rally that took place on Boston Common on Saturday, commending Boston police and Mayor Martin J. Walsh. The protests to the rally — which ended early, after barely an hour — drew as many as 40,000 people to the area around Boston Common, according to Boston police.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Throngs on Boston Common chanted — sometimes angrily, often profanely — against Nazis, racism, the KKK, and fascists.  One week after violence in Charlottesville sparked tremors of outrage across the country, anything seemed possible to the crowds. Would there be bloodshed here, too?  Despite the fact that the day was largely peaceful, President Trump tweeted that there were “anti-police agitators” at the Boston events.

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE The teenagers with the Hyde Square Task Force were the first to discover that TD Garden failed to comply with a 1993 law requiring the arena hold three annual fundraisers.   The prospect set off some angry words from the camp of one of the US Senate candidates.  CAPITAL SOURCE Likely Republican Senate candidate John Kingston has begun staffing up his campaign, adding a former aide to Governor Charlie Baker as a senior adviser.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Throngs on Boston Common chanted — sometimes angrily, often profanely — against Nazis, racism, the KKK, and fascists.  One week after violence in Charlottesville sparked tremors of outrage across the country, anything seemed possible to the crowds. Would there be bloodshed here, too?  Despite the fact that the day was largely peaceful, President Trump tweeted that there were “anti-police agitators” at the Boston events.

Posted at 4:00 am on August 17, 2017 by Caleb Howe 2017 is year one of the Flight 103 presidency: if the plane crashes, the entire airline is going down with it. It may go down anyway. You – or the leader of your party – may win a court battle over responsibility only to find out your brand has suffered irreparable damage. There are no guarantees. Except one: if the bomb doesn’t go off, the plane won’t crash, there won’t be a trial, and the company may survive.

Posted at 8:31 pm on August 18, 2017 by streiff Caricature by DonkeyHotey flic.kr/p/Ct4G4K https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Steve Bannon is out of the White House and he’s obviously not all that happy about it. Shortly after his resignation was announced, Bannon acolyte and Breitbart editor-at-large Joel Pollock had this to say–and received a lot of help from the internet:

Posted at 9:21 pm on August 18, 2017 by streiff Sign in favor of immigration reform are on display outside Judson Memorial Church on West 4th Street in New York CIty on June 5th, 2010.

Posted at 9:30 pm on August 18, 2017 by Susan Wright So p***y-grabbing, claiming no need for God’s forgiveness, and abusiveness to others wouldn’t do it, but Nazis… that may be too much. One of the members of Trump’s laughably untapped Evangelical Advisory Board has knocked the dust off his feet and decided to walk away, lest the stench of the latest controversy become too thick to wash off. Business leaders have already began to back aw

Posted at 4:00 am on August 19, 2017 by Joe Cunningham With the termination of Steve Bannon’s job in the White House, those who were concerned about the dangerous liaisons between Donald Trump and the alt-right can breathe a little easier. That the website bearing Andrew Breitbart’s name is up in arms over Bannon is a good sign.