Tonight they are saying: "if they do not leave the Rose Kennedy Greenway and Dewey Square areas that authorities would move them out."

"The mayor's office, however, has said the city will make no effort to clear the original Dewey Square tent city tonight, but police have said that if protesters do not leave the Greenway, the authorities would clear both the Greenway and Dewey Square."

Basically the protest got too big for it's original staging area, and they don't want them disturbing the newly planted Greenway.

Meanwhile:  "Police also seem to be conflicted about what to do with the Greenway gathering. "I hope we don't do anything," said one officer."

All the cops I've seen so far have been very supportive of the protesters.  Will be interesting to see what happens tonight and I'll update people in the morning.  As of now, the crowd just keeps growing.  At least Mayor Menino hasn't been talking out of his @ss like Bloomberg.

here's a fox news attempt at a hit piece for his support.

"the city is not requiring the group to get any permits even though that's what is supposed to happen when groups protest in the city.

The state owns the Greenway land where the protesters are camped out, and electricity is actually being provided to the demonstrators staying there."

Statement from Menino:
""Why are they allowed to be in the city without a permit?" Beaudet asked.

"Well because freedom of expression, and I think that's the important part here," Menino said."

I regret to inform the TL crowd that I only made it till 1am, because I had to work today and am coming down with something.  They originally said they were gonna kick them out at midnight.  But were probably banking on the fact that some people (like me) would bail eventually and go to sleep.

Last night was great though, lots of college students out.  The group veterans for peace were marching and waving flags around the outside of the encampment, and they were the first ones arrested.  Students stood arms linked around the campsite until it went down.  The BPD threw all the tents and personal possesions into the garbage.  And probably trampled their precious plants in the process.

It is for the best, his pain and suffering is over, now may his family also find peace and comfort.  

Too bad that, as usual, attracting Republican votes means policy likely to result in the loss of more jobs (my bold)...

For instance, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been quietly courting some Senate Republicans and Democrats to see whether there is any appetite for merging a GOP-backed idea -- a tax holiday for corporations to bring home their overseas profits -- with a Democratic-supported plan of creating a national infrastructure bank. At the same time, Democrats are weighing whether to push ahead with other individual pieces of the president's jobs plan, like its extension of the payroll tax cut.

On the floor this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) also plans to schedule votes with significant GOP support but tepid backing among Hill Democrats: free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. And on Tuesday, the Senate is expected to give final passage to a bipartisan bill cracking down on Chinese currency policies, a populist proposal with broad support in the Senate but opposed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

David Dayen:

As Bernie Sanders alludes to later in this piece, this is like exchanging a fire extinguisher for a match and some kindling. The so-called free trade agreements will cost roughly 200,000 jobs over 10 years and commit the United States to placidly doing business with the most dangerous place for trade unionists, Colombia, in the world. The repatriation tax holiday is a horrible idea that didn't create jobs the first time it was attempted in 2004, that solves a non-existent problem of capital inflows which are already at a decent enough level, and that teaches multinational corporations how to avoid taxes by stashing more of their profits overseas.

The payroll tax cut, while criticized by some, acts as a wage increase for wage earners who have seen their take-home pay fall. And the Chinese currency bill is just smart policy. But because they have the likelihood of being effective, the Republican House will resist any efforts to pass them. And ideas like a sustained 5- to 7-year infrastructure spending program are really pie in the sky, however necessary.

Civil forfeiture run wild.

EPA agent manufactured evidence