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Whoops! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/m...

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Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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Haven't heard an official word, but my guess is that the FEMA grant for a berm along the Fort Point Channel has also been nixed. Trump and his supporters are placing the future of the City of Boston itself at great risk. www.universalhub.com/2025/regime-... @universalhub.com

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Every single time.

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Today @vanhollen.senate.gov was denied entry to the same prison.

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The House Committee on Ways and Means has released their FY26 budget. malegislature.gov/Budget/House...

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Chesterton's Fence: If you don't understand why a rule exists, you're not qualified to question its presence. Even if you fundamentally disagree with the reason for the rule, you should find out what that reason is before you start knocking down walls.

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well. Yikes. who-cester.blogspot.com/2025/04/thre...

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Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.

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To say "let's eliminate due process for the bad guys" is to fundamentally misunderstand what due process is.

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I've been thinking about this all week. There was no ICE before 9/11. (Truly, GWB does not get enough heat for me.)

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so help me, Harvard Kennedy School...

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Worth a read, educators, if only so you know what "success sequence" is should someone start trying to get you to adopt it

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A little more than 3% of WBUR's annual budget comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But that doesn't fully encapsulate the potential impact of CPB cuts.

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BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACCINE. AND, UNTIL RECENTLY, ALMOST EVERYONE TOOK IT. Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...

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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

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“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

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This is where your Harry Potter money goes

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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Oh this one's easy: you throw the paper directly in the trash and don't read it at all. GenAI has no place in research.

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Xinis says she's going to force multiple Trump administration officials to sit for depositions over the next 7 days to confirm whether they're complying with the Supreme Court.

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"D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday ordered a government-wide freeze on spending as a means to address a $1.1 billion hole that Congress created in the city’s current budget — and has thus far failed to fix." - @maustermuhle.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/email/a47321...

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Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas, was on lockdown after a "shooting incident" wounded a 17-year-old in the leg. This comes one day after state lawmakers heard bills that could allow 18 year olds to carry loaded guns in schools.

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BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for banning books and curricula about race and gender at schools on military bases around the world. This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights.

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"I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better," Atallah said. "Things actually changed to the worse." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

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A thing for which I'm fervently hoping is that the ~AI Revolution~ will end in financial calamity for its standard bearers & ANOTHING thing for which I'm fervently hoping is that it will prompt a return to serifs so that "AI" no longer scans as the name that Paul Simon insisted you could call him.

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He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.

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“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.” - Terry Pratchett, Jingo (and these are not good men)

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I love hearing from those of you who are planning to or already have joined your library boards or your local friends of the library groups. KEEP it coming!!! I get good energy from the actions you take in this respect!

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one of four finalists for BPS in 2015, yes www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/0...

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And yes, the joke has already been made, Red Sox fans.

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Notable that the increased funding and staffing for the IRS was on track to generate approx billions more in revenue than the additional funding, by reducing tax evasion. That will all vanish with cuts to IRS staffing and funding.

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15 APRIL 1775, BOSTON: The grenadiers and light infantry are removed from regular duty “’till further orders.” The stated reason is so that they may “learn Grenadrs. Exercise and new evolutions” but Lt. John Barker believes this “is by way of a blind. I dare say they have something for them to do.”

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Re- AI

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The letter obtained by NPR marks a rare bipartisan critique from Capitol Hill of the administration's immigration policy.

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#MAEdu Commissioner interviews (though not finalists) are posted: www.doe.mass.edu/bese/docs/fy... And selection meeting: www.doe.mass.edu/bese/docs/fy...

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here's my question: how come we don't know who these people are?

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If you haven't thought about the Beverly Hills School District since '90210', interesting piece in @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/after-the-wi...

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DC bar members pls be sure you are voting against Pam Bondi’s brother Brad and FOR Diane Seltzer starting Tues 4/15!!

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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

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Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

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This is a pretty extraordinary thing -- not sure I've seen or heard of anything like this before. It's tomorrow/Tuesday morning -- noon eastern, 9am pacific: speakupforjustice.law

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💯 "In theory, the other institutions of government should put a swift end to this, but neither the Republican Supreme Court nor the Republican Congress want to pick up this fight, because they're all deeply terrified of an old man in clown makeup." @kevinmkruse.bsky.social dropping facts here.

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