Meanwhile this is ongoing.
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...I learned about this $1.4 million settlement from 2024 in which the sergeant who arrested Henry Louis Gates for entering his own house was accused of harassment, apparently credibly enough to merit $1.4 million but NOT firing him.
So while reading about this fascinating $400,000 settlement Cambridge approved for a former police officer ...
Just apparently going to spend my evening scrolling through @tracynovick.bsky.social's feed, clicking through to links, and emailing articles around.
www.forbes.com/sites/lindad...
As we keep saying, it's never going to make a "BE VERY AFRAID" Boston Globe editorial, but if you read the actual results, they're completely off the deep end.
"At 8th grade, where the impact of schools over time on a student’s learning is clearer, five of the top 10 states in 8th-grade reading on NAEP in 2024 appear on both the unadjusted and demographically adjusted state rankings: Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. "
WIN: My office secured a victory against Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, making it clear they must comply with Public Records Law.
No school funded by taxpayer dollars is above the law.
Transparency is essential to democracy. I will continue the fight to ensure that right is upheld.
This is spreading all over Bluesky today and is wildly misleading--it is from eight months ago and it is in reference to working with NATO allies and arming Ukraine.
As a Cambridge pedestrian, looking forward to the day the promise that bikers who feel safe will exercise more care around pedestrians comes true. So far not so much.
Welp WSJ published its 40th voucher piece just over the weekend
I had a grad school friend who was scared of cooking with garlic once tell me, to demonstrate she was working on her issues, “the recipe called for a whole clove but I just used two teeth.”
I didn’t tell her she’d doubled what it called for.
"But unlike [Renee Good and Alex Pretti], Martinez was not protesting - he was driving by the scene of a road accident where ICE officers were helping to direct traffic."
This is perfect and absurd and I love it for all the dipshits clomping around in shoes that don’t fit. (But also, who wears a size seven? My nine year old has significantly larger feet than that.)
That's fair -- he has some legit cameo appearances. He just doesn't participate in *plot* unless they really go in on Common Goal, and even then it's someone else's plot. (And if they were going to do Common Goal, they really should have saved Francois Arnaud for Eric.)
Maybe Jacob Tierney thinks the fan service is worthwhile, but it would take some contortion to do much with Kip. Partly because it’s boring! Scott and Kip got their HEA and even their best friend characters are kind of sick of celebrating them.
Basically trying to set up a need for fan service aimed at watchers of the show who haven’t read the books. But unless Common Goal is somehow in season two, which there’s no strong narrative reason for unless it’s like a 20-episode season, Kip isn’t really part of the story.
Rolling my eyes watching Robbie GK try to speak Kip into existence as an important part of the rest of the Game Changers series such that he should be a significant part of season two of Heated Rivalry.
Acosta not having been blackmailed makes it so much worse, too! It shows how power and wealth operate to protect people.
“This is a terrible tragedy, and our family is determined to prevent a separate tragedy from occurring, ruining the lives of these students,” Ms. Hughes added. “This would be counter to Jason’s lifelong dedication of investing in the lives of these children.”
Nope.
Visiting kid playing with fidgets by @mostlybree.kitrocha.com: “so there’s a guy who just makes fidgets?” Me: “well, it’s a woman. She writes romance novels, organizes against Trump, & sells fidgets.” Other visiting kid: “you could 3D print these yourself.” First kid: “but these are anti-Trump.”
I’m so sorry.
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
And we called that tiny bit of accountability "going too far."
I mean I am also an unfashionable middle aged person but nonetheless.
And yet I came looking for this take this morning after seeing the Balenciaga pictures last night.
There was what I’m pretty sure was exactly that play structure at a playground two blocks from us until they tore it up a few months ago to upgrade the whole park.
The thing about Timothee Chalamet is that he has been trying to have it both ways, as on the one hand an Oscar-seeking Actor and on the other hand the kind of bro who dates a Jenner and craps on other art forms. And both iterations basically suck.
this is, almost literally, a panel from next week's cartoon, written before I read this.
