Senator Markey joins advocates and community members under the Embrace statue with a sign reading Protect Our Neighbors as candles are lit around a photo of Renee Nicole Good.

Renee Nicole Good should still be alive. Today we gathered under the Embrace statue in Boston Common to remember her life and envision a future free from the horrific acts of this administration. No more violence. No more murder. ICE out of our cities now.

All that time
I thought I’d see a school friend
You said “I know how this ends
He’s not a flute you can learn (don’t take the chance)
Stay in Wittenberg
I hear he’s fighting in graves”
Saved my heart from the fate of
Guildenstern (and Rosencrantz)

This Is Just To Say

I have read
the poems
that were in
the screenshots

and which
you were probably
hoping
would entice

Forgive me
I cannot read more
so gross
and so wrong

The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

One book that ignores this advice very completely is Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld.

INDICTMENT COUNT ONE False statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government [18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)] 1. On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United States, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not "authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports" regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1. 2. That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1. 3. All in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2).

1. Lack of Candor with Then-Director Comey on or around October 31, 2016 We concluded that McCabe lacked candor during his conversation with then-Director Comey on or about October 31, 2016, when they discussed the October 30 WSJ article. As detailed above, Comey and McCabe gave starkly conflicting accounts of this conversation. Comey said that McCabe "definitely" did not tell Comey that he had authorized the disclosure about the PADAG call. To the contrary, Comey told the OIG that, on or about October 31, McCabe led him to believe "in form or fashion" that McCabe did not authorize the disclosure about the PADAG call to the WSJ. Comey described how McCabe gave Comey the impression that McCabe had not authorized the disclosure about the PADAG call, was not involved in the disclosure, and did not know how it happened. By contrast, McCabe asserted that he explicitly told Comey during that conversation that he authorized the disclosure and that Comey agreed it was a "good" idea. While the only direct evidence regarding this McCabe-Comey conversation were the recollections of the two participants, there is considerable circumstantial evidence and we concluded that the overwhelming weight of that evidence supported Comey's version of the conversation. Indeed, none of the circumstantial evidence provided support for McCabe's account of the discussion; rather, we found that much of the available evidence undercut McCabe's claim.

So James Comey has been indicted for testifying, in essence, that he didn't authorize Andrew McCabe to be an anonymous media source about the Hillary Clinton email investigation—which McCabe disputes.

But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.

Heard this report this morning on WBUR. Great journalism.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

On the plus side, a bunch of people on the left who have not yet grasped it are about to viscerally understand why some of us, despite despising bigots to our very core, keep insisting that allowing the government to prosecute "hate speech" would be a bad idea.

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

In an address on Sunday, Pope Leo responded the the horrific shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minnesota: “Stop the pandemic of arms”

As Harvard nears deal with Trump, some on campus feel left in the dark - The Boston Globe Harvard, some students, professors, and alumni argue, needs to be much more transparent about what exactly is on the table in its discussions with the White House.

“But since June, Harvard has negotiated with the federal government behind closed doors — without publicly commenting on or even acknowledging the talks — in hopes of restoring funding...”

In the name of all that is good and democratic, do not capitulate.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/m...

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

Search process for a superintendent stumbled onto a candidate who'd stumbled even harder - Cambridge Day Facing continued criticism even from within its own ranks for a superintendent search process that has seemed secretive and scattered, School Committee members moved Tuesday toward releasing more info...

I would like to know first why the Cambridge School Committee outsourced the superintendent search in the first place, and why to this firm. Picking the superintendent is pretty essential and seems like what we elect the Committee itself to do. www.cambridgeday.com/2025/08/06/s...

Yes, I have a case where the prosecutor put in the part of the defendant's statement where he acknowledged presence in the area, left out the part where he was shocked to hear the accusation and denied guilt. Defendant moved to put in more under the doctrine of verbal completeness, no dice.

Not to mention the defendant's statements come in if the prosecutor wants them to. But he can't introduce them himself. If he was interviewed and incriminated himself, it comes in. If he convincingly denied guilt, in practice it doesn't.

Poll: Right-Leaning Faculty Likelier to Be “Hostile” to Jews On the other hand, non-Jewish faculty who identified as “extremely liberal” were more likely to be hostile to Israel, a survey found. But 90 percent of all non-Jewish faculty were hostile to neither J...

surprising nobody, the real campus antisemites are the right-wingers www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

And there's absolutely no reason to think that grand jury materials would necessarily reflect the involvement of others. The point of the grand jury is to indict the individual defendant, not to show off everything investigators collected--materials about other people would likely be superfluous.

Okay, this actually made me laugh out loud.

Yeah historically POTUS would have their pick of any top 20 firm.
Trump hires a guy whose website has to announce it’s “prestigious”

I thought the press descriptions had to be at least slightly off. But they are completely accurate.

America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”

I'm old enough to remember when the prevailing argument against affirmative action was that it failed to consider the "real" form of unfairness, which was income disparity

Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference.

They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth

Since I know at least a few Cambridge folks follow me, I want to say that I am excited that Eugenia Shraa Huh is running again for the School Committee. I met Eugenia as a fellow daycare parent. She is passionate about excellence in the schools, detail-oriented and energetic. www.voteeugenia.com

The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education America’s colleges and universities have long been the bright lights of our civilization. For nearly four centuries, they have pioneered new fields of knowledge, brought the arts and sciences to new h...

Totalitarians, feeling power, demand to use that power it to enforce totalitarianism in academia. Never let a single one crawl back to respectability outside their grubby circle of thugs.

manhattan.institute/article/the-...

It should be a massive scandal that indigent criminal defendants in #Massachusetts can't get lawyers because the state won't pay them fairly even though they've been asking for raises for years and the response from top Beacon Hill Democrats is to blame the lawyers. It's shameful.

#mapoli

It is enraging to see legislators claim that bar advocates aren't engaging directly with them. MACDL hired a lobbyist for this issue at least as early as 2021. Legislators have just been ignoring the attorneys and refusing to address the issue for years. Blame is squarely on them.

Hitler committed suicide. Mussolini was shot and then his corpse was attacked and hung. Pinochet died under house arrest, while facing criminal charges in Europe and in Chile. Idi Amin died in exile. The Shah of Iran died in exile. Pol Pot died under house arrest. Mobutu died in exile. Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad. Saddam Hussein was hung. The Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo was assassinated. The last Somoza dictator was assassinated in exile after being overthrown. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez all died in exile. Argentina's Jorge Rafael Videla died while serving a fifty-year sentence. Ferdinand Marcos died in exile. Only last winter Assad fled Syria; only last summer Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh. That hasn't been the fate of all dictators but for many of them the chapters after their power crumbled were not what they would have written. Nor is this reassurance that justice or democracy always wins or dismissal of the damage each of them did. I was just thinking and then decided to compile a list.

In a handicraft moment, I made this little list for you. I hope you enjoy it.

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)