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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 3h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Jill Barshay @jillbarshay.bsky.social · 1d

Despite Friday's wrecking ball at the Ed Dept. (which laid off another 466 employees and decimated special education offices), prep for the 2026 NAEP continues. Amid govt shutdown, employees who work on the "nation's report card" have been coming to work every day.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 2d

Taking walks can reduce your sense of impending doom.
Try to walk 24 hours a day if possible!

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

Boston peeps:

Is there anywhere near/in Chestnut Hill Mall to get a good cocktail?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Join your fellow patriots at a location near you 👉
nokings.org/#map

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 3d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

Guardian, ProPublica, Boston Globe, AP, Reuters

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

Mine is free through work. I should deny them eyeballs but the wreckage is difficult to look away from

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

We must never forget the millionaires’ Death March

When the desperate rich fled New York City

A city rendered a socialist apocalypse

By the creation of public housing

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

JFC

This is the NEW YORK Times

Perhaps the reporters could look out the window & then note here that public housing has been a successful, non-calamitous fixture of their own city since 1934

Created by reknowned socialist & political naif Fiorello La Guardia

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

JFC

This is the NEW YORK Times

Perhaps the reporters could look out the window & then note here that public housing has been a successful, non-calamitous fixture of their own city since 1934

Created by reknowned socialist & political naif Fiorello La Guardia

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 3d

This is gross

Gordon Ramsay thinks it’s cool

the families of Bostonians murdered and/or addicted by Bulger and Flemmi do not

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/m...

‘Whitey’ Bulger poster greets patrons at Dorchester bar once owned by man he killed - The Boston Globe

The image was part of a restaurant makeover by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay featured on a television series over the summer and intended to embrace the history of the building.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

Who did they have up?

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

The two heroes this restaurant is celebrating:

“The gangsters then followed their regular post-killing routine, with Bulger going upstairs to nap, Flemmi removing Hussey's teeth and clothing, and Flemmi and Weeks burying the body in the basement”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_...

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

So fun! to brunch looking at this guy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 2d

Cabo do Cabo

Boston nope

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 3d

This is gross

Gordon Ramsay thinks it’s cool

the families of Bostonians murdered and/or addicted by Bulger and Flemmi do not

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/m...

‘Whitey’ Bulger poster greets patrons at Dorchester bar once owned by man he killed - The Boston Globe

The image was part of a restaurant makeover by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay featured on a television series over the summer and intended to embrace the history of the building.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 3d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 4d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 3d

Mantra: you will never be younger than you are now. Do it!

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 4d

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 3d

TO THE 15TH

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4d

I am stomping around the house in mine. And liberally applying the balsam lotion. May dig out a hair dryer.

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 4d

At age 60 I am finally getting serious about breaking in my Docs

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