The announcement was breathlessly covered by the Boston Globe — because it must be a day that ends in Y if the Globe is publishing another glowing Wu piece.

Of course, the Globe has its own reasons to keep Wu looking good. The mayor's more than $200 million White Stadium project — a taxpayer-funded gut job of a public park in Franklin Park that the surrounding community fought tooth and nail against — is being built for a private soccer team directly tied to Boston Globe owner John Henry's wife, Linda Pizzuti Henry. The Globe covering Wu like a fan page while its owner's family profits from her signature vanity project is the kind of conflict of interest that would make journalism professors weep into their textbooks.

Seth Moulton, 47, is challenging Markey on generational change — though after a decade in Congress himself, the "outsider" label is a stretch. Former Marine, four tours in Iraq, VoteVets backing, and not much else. Whether that cracks the progressive establishment's iron wall in a deep-blue primary is anyone's guess.

On the Republican side, John Deaton has an inside lane to the GOP nomination. The crypto attorney and Marine veteran pulled 1.4 million votes against Elizabeth Warren in 2024 — 40% in one of the bluest states in America, and more votes than Donald Trump himself got in Massachusetts that same night.