— Auditor Diana DiZoglio is passionate about auditing the legislature’s books. But she may be getting a little too passionate, as in taking a rhetorical flamethrower to just about everybody and anyone who might conceivably disagree with her. Jon Keller at MassterList has more on Dizoglio’s take-no-prisoners approach to the audit fight. … Fyi: At least one GOP gubernatorial candidate is siding with DiZoglio in this fight, the Herald reports.

— Who says the Globe can’t be tough on Mayor Wu? Check out this Globe editorial urging Wu to stop with the progressive virtue signaling and start addressing the city’s budget deficit in a more realistic way, i.e. “spend less, grow more.” 

— The BPS nearly doubled its administrative bureaucracy over the past decade. And now it’s mostly cutting … classroom jobs. The Globe has more on the BPS’s budget priorities. Meanwhile, the Herald looks at how the BPS bureaucracy just couldn’t find the funds for baseball caps at Southie high school.

— This isn’t exactly a good time to be asking voters to raise their own taxes. You know, the price of food and gas, the whole affordability thing. Right? Anyway, GBH reports on Malden voters’ rejection of a Proposition 2 ½ tax override.

— Reading this Globe Ideas piece on the ‘manosphere,’ I thought of two things: Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March way back when and the old adage that there’s two sides to every coin. Sure, there’s disturbing aspects to the ‘manosphere’ phenomenon, as Luc Olinga writes. But there’s also the consistent message to confused young men about the need for self-discipline, wealth building and taking responsibility. A lot of pols and pundits don’t seem to get this, as Olinga notes.

— Progressives are often accused, rightly so, of imposing purity tests on Dem candidates, as part of a never-ending quest for ideological uniformity and obedience. But conservatives do the same damn thing – and they’ve’ been far more successful than progressives in purging moderates and other non-believers from their ranks. And they’re at it yet again, as the Herald’s Joe Battenfeld reports. But this time they’re not really going after RINO moderates per se. They’re going after everyone and anyone who isn’t loyal to the president. 

— What is it with Hitler analogies and The Atlantic? The Atlantic’s latest heavy-handed Nazi analogy: “Hitler’s Edifice Complex,” obviously tied to the you-know-what renovation at the White House without actually saying it’s tied to the you-know-what renovation at the White House. … I’ve posted before (here and here) on The Atlantic’s TDS-driven Hitler-Trump overkill. They’re obviously not paying attention! …

Btw: I’m still a huge fan of The Atlantic. But its anti-Trumpism can get out of hand now and then.