Jake Auchincloss, facing a progressive challenger in September's primary (though reportedly up 47 points per internal poll), votes with 100 fellow House Dems to cut off military assistance to Israel. Auchincloss been among the more pro-Israel Dems and received more than $1m from pro-israel PACs

hello i am here to tell you actually probably don't need to be panicking about the explosive diarrhea parasite a thread: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Latest Brookline real estate nonsense in this week's data dump: A 183 square foot "condo" goes for $140,000

Awful, I knew of Louisa by name and reputation as someone who devoted an incredible amount of time and energy to working for safer streets for bicyclists and pedestrians. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/09/m...

The Public Schools of Brookline will start formally reviewing student artwork before it is displayed at school-sponsored exhibitions after an investigation into a piece at a recent Ridley School art show that depicted a sharpened stick piercing an Israeli flag. brookline.news/brookline-sc...

Perhaps Ro Khanna should rethink where he paints his red line next time, because this red line missed a whole lot that should have been disqualifying

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

if only there had been like dozens and dozens of signs he had serious character deficiencies

It was absolutely inevitable that Trump would get involved in the world cup in a way that would completely ruin the good vibes that were building against all odds

The owners of Party Favors in Brookline recently announced their store's closure. But it's a decision forced by rising costs, not a retirement by choice, and the Pergantis family is still hoping they can find a financial lifeline to stay open in some form. brookline.news/forced-to-cl...

Looked it up in the dictionary, and yeah, it turns out they're right: Socialism is when you politely ask people to turn up their ACs a little bit so that the grid doesn't explode

Here's the "more to the story" of the recent closure of iconic Brookline restaurant Golden Temple. Court docs show an acrimonious family feud with allegations of millions of dollars of theft, restaurant mismanagement, and a decade without paying income taxes. brookline.news/behind-golde...

While most other national news outlets are leading their sites with Trump's billion dollar crypto corruption right now, WaPo would like you to think about whether the trans rights movement has gone too far.

This is probably not at the top of anyone's list of problems with AI but the amount of pro se legal filings that I see while reporting is absolutely skyrocketing

End of an era for one of the most interesting and inexplicable restaurants in Brookline, which really had a strong cult following in the neighborhood. I've already heard from two (!) people who met their spouses there, presumably after hours as it morphed from a Chinese restaurant into a club

Extraordinary, enraging excess on display here (and I absolutely feel the same about Schefter, Chams etc who make much more.) You could fund a local newsroom for three or four years on this and the amount of good it would do in the world would be infinitely more than scooping NFL free agencies.

Very interesting to see the conservative Taxpayers Protection Alliance putting out this pro-data-center explainer. Not sure that's very well aligned with Republican voters on the ground www.protectingtaxpayers.org/datacenters/

When I win it's democracy but when the other guys win it's something else

Tough day for somebody

Twinge of guilt every time I write "amid" in a headline since it's such a journo word that nobody else uses, but it says so much in so few letters that it's hard to resist

I used to grift, but the thing I'm doing now, this time on the side you agree with, and that also makes me money, is totally different

SCOOP: We've obtained a police report that shows Junming Zhu, the driver accused of killing a man on the Paul Dudley White Bike Path in Cambridge in fall 2024, had caused another serious crash in Melrose less than two months before the homicide: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/06/04/a...

Updating to add that it's fair and reasonable to want the men you vote for to respect women

Updated story: A labor dispute between workers and management at the Coolidge Corner Theatre escalated further on Wednesday when the theater's leaders filed a federal unfair labor complaint alleging bad faith bargaining. brookline.news/workers-at-t...

Nearly two years of contract negotiations between workers and management at the Coolidge Corner Theatre have failed to come up with an agreement, and a strike could be in the works next. brookline.news/workers-at-t...

When the measuring stick is "decimate a historic newsroom and stamp out dissent among any remaining journalists looking to do real reporting"... She is doing a great job

Really interested to see where rent control debate goes this fall in MA. I think for the many people struggling to afford housing, it's simply not a very compelling argument to say, from on high, that rent stabilization is "bad policy" or that building more supply is the long-term solution.

I think it's more than fair and reasonable to want the people you vote for to be good people, to hold the same values as you do in their personal lives as well as their public lives, and to feel uncomfortable about voting for candidates who don't even when they might further your ideological goals.

Thank you Boston Globe

That second sound you heard was the keyboards of people all over new england typing "what was that sound" on their local community's facebook group

Here's everything else Town Meeting voted on this week, including a call for higher stipends for Select Board and School Committee members, and two measures aimed at making it harder for ICE to operate in Brookline. brookline.news/town-meeting...

I've been covering this planning process, debate, politics, etc for two years, so it's a big night. Two more years (let's be real, probably more) before construction starts.

Updated story: A firefighter and dive shop employee suffered non-life threatening injuries in the fire at 213 Boylston Street this morning, and seven residents of apartments above the store are temporarily displaced. brookline.news/stretch-of-r...

Widows Bay, my goodness. Maybe the best execution of horror-comedy I've ever seen.

I have no idea what the average person knows about the news because I spend more on news subscriptions than streaming subscriptions but every time I hear someone ask “why isn’t the media covering X” it was, like, the headline in Bloomberg the previous day

After two years of planning, it’s crunch time for Brookline’s biggest redevelopment project in decades. Town Meeting will vote Thursday whether to rezone an office park on Route 9 in Chestnut Hill to allow City Realty to move forward with a major mixed-use project. brookline.news/what-to-know...

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

A Facebook post wondering if this arrest was ICE-related quickly blew up in a Brookline group earlier this morning, and Brookline police say a person driving by gave them the middle finger and shouted "Fuck ICE" as they made the arrest, which was completely unrelated to immigration.

A winding tale about Brookline's municipal governance and separation of powers that I've spent a few months on.

Disturbed by many of the comments on a Facebook post from a local newspaper in MA about the chair of the school committee (elected official) getting arrested for drunk driving

If you're wondering if Ross Barkan's plagiarism was limited to NYMag: No, it was not. He's written for @nytimes.com 16 times. I looked at his most recent story, from last summer, about Zohran, clicked on a link in his context paragraph, et voilà. First: Barkan Second: @dankaufman70.bsky.social

Really hoping that Ross Barkan isn't just allowed to cynically post through what seems to be clearcut plagiarism

Bending over backwards not to rehash someone else’s wording and synthesis of facts is part of being a writer. I sometimes avoid a turn of phrase because I have a nagging feeling I may have seen it somewhere. https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5824503/new-york-magazine-review-ross-barkan

our system of knowledge production is under attack from an extraordinary array of forces and if the people putatively on the side of maintaining it cannot commit to the most basic standards (not using fake citations, writing your own words, etc) I fear there is no hope

Ross Barkan's plagiarism mini scandal has barely been discussed on Bluesky. We should be taking note of it. Especially since, now that he has responded on Twitter, his explanations are ridiculous.

The lede of our Ben Shapiro story on Saturday and the lede of the @nymag.com story today washingtonpost.com/technology/2... nymag.com/intelligence...

Update: An @nymag.com editor told me they reworked the passage to credit our story and added a note at the end. The writer, Ross Barkan, hasn't reached out yet, so I'm still not entirely sure what happened nymag.com/intelligence...

The man, a Framingham resident from the Dominican Republic, had been arrested by Brookline Police earlier in the day after he was stopped for riding a motorcycle with an allegedly fraudulent license plate. Police say he then dropped the motorcycle on an officer's foot and fled.

A video reviewed by Brookline.News shows ICE agents shoving a man into a vehicle in Chestnut Hill on Thursday evening as he screamed for help, and one of the agents threatened to handcuff a bystander filming the scene. brookline.news/ice-agents-s...

"Leave your morals at the door and come use your skills, experience and network to help some of the most shitty and powerful people make more money at the expense of vulnerable people" is a real tough sell for me, I can't lie