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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 21h

You can make basically anyone or any organization look bad with contextless screenshots of a few words. Consider if doing that is productive or if you're just making people mad to get your little social media dopamine hits

Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 21h

Folks it's a news article and a good one, it would be cool if people on bluesky would actually read the articles

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 1d

Loved this slice of life (death?) story from reporter Heather Beasley Doyle, which includes so many fascinating historical and contemporary facts about Brookline's public cemetery.

Like: Cremation is growing in popularity nationally, but most customers here still prefer full-body lots.

brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 1d

Brookline's only public cemetery turns 150 this month.

The cemetery, a burying ground for residents and town employees and a much-loved piece of nature in Brookline, is facing modern challenges -- including slowly waning space that requires careful management.

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After 150 years, the keepers of Brookline's only public cemetery are trying to figure out its future - Brookline.News

As the Walnut Hills Cemetery marks a big anniversary this month, town employees and site trustees are brainstorming about how to stretch the cemetery's slowly waning space.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 2d

2019 ✨

"I'm usually pretty appalled by the perspective and issues that Bari has decided to use her considerable platform to amplify," Rosner wrote to me in an e-mail.
"Even more, I find her apparent bafflement at being joked about and criticized-even as she has made her profession out of diminishing and criticizing people with whom she disagrees-to be cut from the same flimsy moral fabric as her public opinions."

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 2d

Saving money on these subscriptions is a nice silver lining to the collapse of our media institutions

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison saw the other news institutions collapsing because of cowardly reactionary decisions by their leaders and said "how do i get in on this"

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more obsequious, facile and quietly unhinged statements I've read in a long time, which is perfectly aligned with the nature of this business decision

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 3d

Beyond infuriating to watch this serial misinformation account again take my reporting and skew it beyond recognition to suit a right wing agenda.

There is absolutely no indication that the man arrested shot "at" the temple or targeted jews, and our story does not state that.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 4d

One of the odder crime stories we've covered in recent times

brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 4d

A 43-year-old Brookline resident was arrested after allegedly firing a pellet rifle near a Beacon St synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur, breaking car window.

The man, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, told police he was hunting rats.

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Brookline man arrested after allegedly firing pellet rifle near synagogue on eve of Yom Kippur - Brookline.News

The 43-year-old man told police he was hunting rats near his Beacon Street residence.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7d

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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404 Media @404media.co · 6d

Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.”

🔗 www.404media.co/openais-sora...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

www.404media.co

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 5d

I think the most appropriate response to the Bari Weiss CBS news is to double down on support for independent news outlets that aren't funded by billionaires and exist to serve communities and people, rather than those billionaires' ideological and financial gain

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brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 5d

ICE detained a 30-year-old man in Brookline last week, waiting for hours outside the police station after he was arrested for alleged domestic violence.

It's the third ICE arrest documented here since the start of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

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ICE made third arrest in Brookline, police official says - Brookline.News

The latest ICE detention came after a man was arrested by Brookline police on charges including domestic assault and battery, strangulation or suffocation and issuing threats.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 6d

Shutdown comes to Brookline: The Navy Band Northeast's Jack Tar Brass Band performance which was scheduled for Saturday at Olmsted Park in Brookline has been cancelled.

Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 8d

The FBI considered investigating an act of vandalism at a Jewish grocery store in Brookline using a controversial investigative technique called a geofence warrant, public record emails show.

Ultimately feds did not open a case, and Brookline police have no leads

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FBI considered opening investigation into Jewish grocery store vandalism, emails show - Brookline.News

An agent from the federal law enforcement agency was seeking to use a controversial "geofence" warrant for the potential investigation, according to public records.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 8d

He discovered that the CoinEgg platform is a scam

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 8d

Mouth fully dropping open at this story about Cambridge superintendent finalist

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/29/m...

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 12d

The three Brookline area Starbucks locations that are closing all recently unionized (Coolidge Corner, Comm Ave, Cleveland Circle).

Several other Brookline locations (Brookline Village, South Brookline) which are not unionized are staying open

brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 12d

Starbucks is closing two stores in Brookline (and one in nearby Cleveland Circle) as part of major nationwide cuts which will shutter hundreds of stores.

The last day of operations for the Coolidge Corner and Commonwealth Ave locations will be Saturday.

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Two Brookline Starbucks locations to close as part of company's nationwide cuts - Brookline.News

The stores in Coolidge Corner and on Commonwealth Avenue are among the local stores where workers have unionized in recent years.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12d

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 13d

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 12d

Lol, to be fair we already used a slightly more direct quote in a previous story

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 12d

Update on this saga: state regulator says Brookline Town Meeting member Richard Nangle violated campaign finance law in May when he failed to disclose that he was behind local campaign spending done under the name of a dormant neighborhood association.

H/T to records hawk @gintautasd.bsky.social

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