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Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!
December 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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It took a lot of recent refugees gathered together at Los Alamos to make an atom bomb. Not just Fermi.
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.
December 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Yes but the Orange Line should really extend out to West Roxbury, with a terminus off the VFW Parkway near the former WR High School. Going only to Roslindale would be a big missed opportunity to do it right the first time.
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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My friend and I both had postpartum pre-eclampsia. I am white. My concerns were validated and I was treated promptly. My friend was Black. She was dismissed and sent home...and died.

I will never forgive that.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.

Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”

(Published Dec. 2022)
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...
www.propublica.org
December 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.

Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”

(Published Dec. 2022)
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...
www.propublica.org
December 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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we don't talk enough about how google searches are basically non-functional at this point. It no longer recognizes excluded words, it forces location searches, ignores words put in quotes, you can do a "verbatim" search or a timestamped search but not both together. And it prioritizes VIDEO RESULTS.
December 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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The photographer might need to go into witness protection because he just blew ALL their shit up, lol. A master work.
Marco Rubio just straight up looks like a sad divorced man at a Motel 6.
December 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The Massachusetts House has advanced a plan to study the feasibility of extending the Orange Line into Roslindale. A similar proposal is on the move in the Senate.
Orange Line extension to Roslindale attracting attention on Beacon Hill
The Massachusetts House has advanced a plan to study the feasibility of extending the Orange Line into Roslindale. A similar proposal is on the move in the Senate.
www.wbur.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A huge win for Boston!
Boston's first non-hospital birthing center approved for Winthrop Street in #Roxbury
www.universalhub.com/2025/bostons...
#Boston #zoning
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Boston's first non-hospital birthing center approved for Winthrop Street in #Roxbury
www.universalhub.com/2025/bostons...
#Boston #zoning
December 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.

I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.

Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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late night BSky.

me in the summer at 4pm: perfect time to grab some groceries, fry up a steak, crack open a beer, and play fetch with my pup.

me in the winter at 4pm: oh, that's basically night time. doors locked, pajamas on, the day is officially over.
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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for too long, the left wing in this nation has put forward only candidates who represent the "young and cool" or "curmudgeonly" identity groups

finally, lame middle-aged left-wing parents have a candidate we can see ourselves in
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Stunned by how dishonest senators like Senate President Karen Spilka and Senator Nick Collins are being about Mayor Michelle Wu's tax shift home rule petition.

It was filed in February. They ignored it. No right to complain that it's a brand new ask. #mapoli
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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“All of the energy and all of the excitement we’ve had about bringing an end to the AIDS epidemic … that has just completely had the wind taken out of its sails.” This story was originally published by @19thnews.org.
America’s Most Basic HIV Protections are in Danger as a Decade of Progress Unravels
Health experts are alarmed as Republicans degrade the country’s pivotal HIV programs—and break promises made during Trump’s first term.
rewirenewsgroup.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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This is my mid-shoveling reminder that it is nuts that the city of Worcester plows streets but not sidewalks.

If you drive, we care, but if you walk, hope other people did!
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.

Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.

No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.

That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM