Van Jones literally using ChatGPT as the entire basis behind his column claiming that Mamdani's victory speech was divisive "To make sure I wasn’t hallucinating, my colleague entered the two speeches into AI."

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

if you can't handle journalists asking clarifying follow up questions you have no business managing reporters. go run a dick's sporting goods

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Two people were taken to the hospital this afternoon after a car crash at the intersection of Beacon St and St. Paul St. The collision between two SUVs sent the cars skidding towards the sidewalk and forced a pedestrian to jump out of the way, according to a witness. brookline.news/two-people-i...

I've been closely following the debate around a homeless shelter slated for my neighborhood (West Rox). I think I'm a pretty cynical person and not much shocks me. But I feel completely stunned and disturbed by the invective and lack of humanity from some of my neighbors on this subject.

Michelle Wu gets a shoutout from NYT editorial board as a mayor who has "delivered concrete solutions to specific problems." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Anybody got a traffic report on the NYC outbound bridges?

In a community email listserv, former Brookline Town Meeting member Mike Offner (these days more involved in town gov in Amherst) has called Zohran Mamdani a "monster bigot," linked him to an attack on a rabbi in NYC a few days ago, and claimed that Trump won b/c of the Brookline teacher's union

Defense is now questioning Lairmore on cross-examination. They show a video still of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground, post-throw. "Do you recognize that sandwich?" the attorney asks. Lairmore won't confirm. "I did not go back to collect it," he says.

Our reporting at @brooklinenews.bsky.social was what first made the public aware of the plan to install controversial Flock license plate readers in South Brookline. Now the real estate company behind the plan is putting the installation on pause after community backlash

Detailed design work for the Beacon Street Bridle Path, which aims to revive Olmsted's vision with a protected bike and pedestrian pathway down the median of Beacon Street, is beginning this fall. brookline.news/brookline-be...

I find it interesting to read and listen to Ezra Klein but I also think it would be a good thing if everybody cared a lot less about what he says.

Zero emissions by 2040? Not happening in Brookline, the town's leaders and climate experts acknowledge. They've set a new goal of 2050. brookline.news/town-pushes-...

New favorite guy just dropped: the redditor who was arguing with me about a story I wrote and is active in the following subreddits: Landlord EufyCam TeslaSupport Trump Kalshi TacoBell WalmartEmployees ChatGPT

A few quotes from last night on Flock: "Do we want to be North Korea?" "We should not be aiding and abetting the expansion of a nationwide surveillance network by what is obviously a bad actor." "We live in a scary time, and this is a scary technology that can be accessed by scary people."

This would be way more depressing than opinion polling

Incredible reporting here, hats off to the Globe. "He isn’t a high-ranking member of anything. He’s high-ranking dumb."

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

"They used tear gas in a neighborhood where children were about to march in a Halloween parade" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Attorney hired by neighbors opposing transitional housing in West Roxbury: "Zoning is the backbone of neighborhood democracy."

Fourth known ICE arrest in Brookline: This time, BPD arrested a man riding a motorcycle after he failed to pull over, also charged with negligent operation, and no license/registration. ICE was waiting outside the police station after he was released on bail. brookline.news/tracking-ice...

Somebody posted this on the local neighborhood FB group and while it's Fox News and to be expected, need to call out how utterly mendacious this framing is.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

Democracy in action in the MA leg again

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD (apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

Ominous, apropos error message currently on the MA courts system website

RIP Jack DeJohnette (1942-2025)

EXTREMELY bluesky to not immediately grasp that this is tongue in cheek. Like come on

Maybe I'm not reading the right sources but I haven't seen anything approaching any kind of urgency to end the shut down. Are there like... negotiations happening?

A driver was cited for failing to yield after striking and injuring a 15-year-old boy on a bicycle at the intersection of Lee and Warren Streets Wednesday evening. brookline.news/driver-cited...

Excited to finally publish this today after 6 months of digging. After an under-construction apartment building collapsed in Brookline, town officials blamed winter weather. But a new lawsuit and more than 1000 pages of records raise questions about that conclusion. brookline.news/lawsuit-emai...

A reader asked recently: Many crosswalk signals in Brookline used to only trigger if a button was pressed. They were changed to trigger automatically because of the pandemic. Why haven't they been changed back? Student reporter Lauren Albano dug in to find out: brookline.news/the-town-cha...

This is a pretty brutal headline to come out hours before everyone starts talking about your Nazi tattoo www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I love keeping up with Boston's restaurant scene through Marc's incredible blog, I hope you'll join me in supporting the work

The crowd at Brookline's No Kings rally on Saturday was made up of seniors, families and locals of all kinds, as millions of people gathered to protest Trump around the country. See more photos from Coolidge Corner, and read about why some of the attendees were there. brookline.news/were-everywh...

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

I think there's a lot of reasonable debate to be had about when and how news outlets should use AI, but writing an important crime story seems pretty obviously not it. The highest stakes kind of reporting, and the stories for which readers care most about having trained journalists doing the work

A judge this week dismissed vandalism charges against a Boston man who was accused of placing stickers (featuring Elon Musk making an apparent Nazi salute) on several Teslas in Brookline. Musk had tweeted about the case during a spate of anti-Tesla vandalism in March. brookline.news/judge-dismis...

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

Cleaning off my glasses and reading this again

I think this week's young republicans group chat story (like the giant roe v wade scoop a few years ago) is a great example of why you should continue to support the (union) journalists at Politico and tune out some of the...politico-ness and punditry that's of much less value. Cough, Playbook

I was once whining to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that one of my key sources had cut me off. She said: "Access is overrated." And indeed it is. The press is not likely to miss out on any crucial Pentagon stories just because they can't roam the corridors.

New at Media Nation: Surveillance cameras in Brookline, Mass., raise serious questions about civil liberties. dankennedy.net/2025/10/15/s...

My favorite is the guy who said he liked Mayors Flynn, Menino and Walsh but not Wu. Hm let's unpack that a little buddy

I need to share some of these comments about West Roxbury secession (I'm not joking and neither was he) on the neighborhood Facebook page.