Golden retrievers gathered on Boston Common today to honor Spencer, the beloved Boston Marathon dog known for holding a Boston Strong flag along the route.
Spencer passed away after battling cancer.
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I could watch videos of runners helping others finish the Boston marathon set to Viva La vida for hours 😭😭😭💛💙💛💙
Oh tbc I love ttpd I was not talking about that!
Almost missed this post because I have t*yvis muted lol but I hope you are right, I really can’t take another season of waglor/mahomes/bad music
New Jersey's 23-game Jeopardy champion Jamie Ding is more than a self-described faceless bureaucrat. He allocates Low-Income Housing Tax Credits ("LIHTC") to fund affordable housing construction across New Jersey.
We used his historic run to explain LIHTC!
betterblocksnj.org/2026/04/16/j...
This sign was reprehensible for so many reasons, but I don’t want it to be missed that the running community just lost former Olympian Jeff Galloway. He pioneered the “run walk” method which became known as the Galloway method and was a huge proponent of running being for everyone. Do better, Nike.
i'm not sure how to live in a country in which the murder of eight children doesn't ... stop everything
Okay he just bodied David Brooks who apparently in a mid 00s column tried argue for ending social welfare programs based partly on social conflict behavior models for great apes (!?!?). I’m 90% done and definitely recommend this book.
It’s an important topic though hard 💔 sounds like you helped a lot
Just finished my rewatch god DAMN this movie is a masterpiece. Crying on the elliptical ngl. These two letterboxd reviews capture its haunting brilliance
Thinking about how after she dies, in a dream Nahoko tells Jiro “The Wind Rises. We must try to live.” We never see Jiro again. Miyazaki followed this up with the film “How Do You Live?” where he explores living with grief and whether you would choose to love again knowing it ends in grief? (Yes)
Ohhh that does make sense. It’s still awful but I thought he said it in the past week and was wondering why it wasn’t being reported on
I’m reading this book on animal empathy by primatologist Frans de Waal and I love the constant jabs at economists for using incorrect assumptions about “primitive” animal behavior to justify capitalist systems.
How is this not getting more attention?!?!
“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.
Children hug Mayor Mamdani.
Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.
In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
Not mentally prepared to say goodbye to my foster cat tomorrow. Happy she’s being adopted ofc! But I’lll miss her 😭
Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich
Well, today we're taxing the rich...
This man has so many red flags wrt recent homophobia, antisemitism, victim blaming, desire for violence, etc. and it’s sickening how much support he has. I don’t see evidence of truly changed views, and I don’t think the senate should be one’s first stop for changing!
This is what Platner wrote on Reddit almost a year to the day I was sexually assaulted. In Maine, as a Maine resident. If I was still a Maine resident, I couldn’t vote for him.
He still hasn’t adequately apologized or shown he understands why these comments are so reprehensible.
I’ve been in New England for almost 15 years, but I still haven’t gotten used to patriots day being a holiday that we get off work or the fact that public school kids have a winter and spring vacation.
Think she’s in a state of pure bliss in the sunroom
we don’t owe the “why didn’t she report it” crowd a single response
I didn’t say that. Whisper networks are an imperfect solution but serve an important purpose in a broken system that does not provide safe ways for people to report abusers.
I am a survivor in a different but similarly broken industry (academia).
One thing this stuff with Eric Swalwell is bringing to the fore is that (hopefully for good reasons) a lot of people have never worked in industries or moved in social circles where whisper networks are necessary. So they can’t conceive of how an open secret can take 10 years to become public.
I don’t think people understand how hard it is to report these things, and that retribution during the reporting process is very, very likely. Blaming people who knew but “didn’t do anything” lacks the context of understanding a system that has few if any protective avenues for reporting.
This is how academia works as well. Lots of passed down knowledge and whisper networks about who to avoid at conferences, which grad schools are especially hostile to women, which professors are abusive to their advisees, etc. it allows us to help prevent harm without being completely vulnerable
Terry Tao guest co-authored this SMBC!
happy sixth birthday to the most perfect cat in the world
I really don’t like the joke of this skeet. Great leaders often struggle with mental illness. Bad ones do too.
Abraham Lincoln had what would be considered persistent depressive disorder. James Madison as well. Woodrow Wilson struggled with severe anxiety. Multiple others had substance abuse issues
