Last Ditch Bar Makes Saturday Masks Optional And Backlash Begins
We start with the first day of autumn and quickly land on one of the strangest stories of the morning: Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue in Greenfield, Massachusetts, makes masks optional on Saturday nights while keeping its rule on other nights, setting off a fierce backlash and boycott. We get into the bar’s financial trouble, its unusual house rules, the owners’ effort to draw more customers, and the crew’s disbelief that the dispute is happening in 2026. The opening also sets the table for Tony Bruno’s return and the promised reckoning over Disneygate. Dawn’s news brings a heavy Philadelphia…
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