Embarrassing. And pathetic.

To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks

Bookstores are the real community centers in so many places.

To Help SNAP Recipients, Bookstores Set Up as Food Banks www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

The fact that @kyivindependent.com has been able to sustain (and expand) its work in Ukraine for four tumultuous years is really one of the most remarkable journalism stories of the decade (and worth supporting!). kyivindependent.com/email/67f478...

At least W looked.

Can't help but think about how, as you are asked to donate food or resources to help feed your neighbors, billionaires are getting even bigger tax deductions for donating to a gold-foil ballroom no one asked for.

Did the TVs on the Qatari-donated Air Force One plane come with pre-installed AI videos telling President Trump to do this?

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

Coming from the institution that receives the highest percentage of its revenue from federal grants, this takes some bravery... and BRAVO.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...

Just parted company with my wife for the day with a cheery

"Channel your rage!"

"I'll try, you too!"

Makes a cute poster, too!

‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’

There are amazing journalists out there telling powerful stories like this one - don't waste time watching talking heads rehash arguments you've heard a 1000 times. Read/watch/listen to stories that matter - and pay for them!

‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Amen.

G'morning! So far other than cheery dispatches from L.A., my feed includes such features as "Witnessing an ICE arrest, here are your rights," explainers of posse comitatus and a reminder when returning to the US from overseas your phone can be searched without warrant. This is the America we want?

Let's be clear. If you did a Google search, downloaded a spreadsheet, and divided one number in it by another, you did not do an "in-depth analysis" or "investigation."

You barely even did math.

Springtime in New England means having thirteen jackets piled on your coat rack, never knowing which 7 you will need on any given day.

Just realized (because I had to log in for something else) that I’ve somehow survived for three months without Amazon Prime. ✅ Indie bookstores. ✅ Indie hardware stores. ✅ Ordered straight from manufacturers. And bought a lot less crap on a whim.

And I can’t even always remember to feed the dog on time.

If you are waiting to meet an SNL writer for drinks tonight… sorry, they have some rewriting to do.

Hoping the stands with all the Harvard gear for the tourists are out in Boston tomorrow... I need to do a little shopping on the way to work.

As a Brown University grad it pains me to say this, but “Thank You Harvard.”

(Now… about some of your graduates…)

Looked for you at the Bandstand today. Then at City Hall Plaza. Can't believe we missed each other in the tens of thousands of people showing up for democracy in the face of demagogues and despots who are exceptionally bad at economics. #handsoff

Just musing that not only are the tariffs illogical, but because of the way they were calculated, there is no easy way to negotiate. How exactly do countries that don’t actually tariff US goods reduce their trade surplus with the US?

Bob sells Katie one Apple for $1. Katie sells Bob an Apple computer for $1000. Should Bob declare a trade war, invoke tariffs and buy his next computer from Katie for $1500? Asking for a friend.

Cory Booker's record-breaking speech ignites a Democratic base 'desperate' for a fighter — NBC News He surpassed a record segregationist Strom Thurmond set in 1957, getting millions of views and widespread acclaim from Democrats as a model for how to take on Trump.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Cory Booker’s 25-hour speech is that he wasn’t wasting time. He shared stories and lessons, lifted up heroes and spoke with honesty and integrity. Hoping we listened for more than a day. apple.news/AFFuTDbDvQJO...

Today's news in a nutshell: Nothing poses a greater threat to the most powerful country on earth than a transgender teenager, except possibly an immigrant teenager. Or possibly a non-white historical figure.

Special Vermont Resistance edition Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.

This really got me on this Sunday morning.

Special Vermont Resistance edition open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

There are enough yeses here to advance bills and protect what the American people want - to support Ukraine. But will they?

The question now - again. Will anyone in the GOP stand for a democracy against a totalitarian aggressor? At home or abroad? So far, ummmm... not so much.

What's the next frontier of housing reform in Mass.? A state commission has some ideas In a new report, Massachusetts' Commission on Unlocking Housing Production is calling for a ban on single-family zoning, no more parking minimums and reduced lot size requirements, among other ideas t...

In a new report, Massachusetts' Commission on Unlocking Housing Production is calling for a ban on single-family zoning, no more parking minimums and reduced lot size requirements, among other ideas to address the state's housing shortage.

Because it serves the purposes desired. Bad data that says what you want it to magically becomes good data.

One plus of the current unraveling of just about everything: A realization of how many brilliant, outstanding journalists are out there there, slugging it out on their own or still in the trenches for legacy media orgs (many of whose editorial boards and opinionators long ago gave up the ghost).