Have you spoken to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/08/n...

All of the salutes about Jaylen’s excellence in the community have had me thinking a lot about Reggie Lewis the last few days. Their dedication to people that needed help is so similar. Kind, empathetic men.

maybe I am a lame amateur fan, but I thought this was very cool www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cape Verde's national team received a huge, celebratory welcome home after their historic first World Cup appearance, reaching the round of 32 and pushing Argentina into extra time.

It's a #climateemergency... www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Thank you to PBS News Hour @pbsnews.org for giving me the time and space to say this last night: “What we're seeing is a manifestation of climate change. What we're doing is living in the future that climate scientists have been warning us warning us about for 50 years.”

“.. They may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Wirecutter also recommends 78 as most efficient AC temp (at least for when you’re out of the house)

The Globe is going back in time to 1776. The Continental Congress voted to adopt a Declaration of Independence from King George III. Read the day's news from Massachusetts and beyond. globe.com/1776

What was it like to live in Boston 250 years ago? The Globe is going back in time. globe.com/1776

Heat and humidity as severe, prolonged and far-reaching as this week’s would have been “virtually impossible” in the Northeast and eastern Canada before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday.

Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Did they say why?????

A Troubling Milestone: The Supreme Court now decides more cases using its shadow docket than it does on its merits docket, the first time ever that has been the case, a @propublica.org analysis found. @kbmorales.bsky.social

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

Lies

England playing in Foxborough. The Dubliner, an Irish bar and a hot scene the past two weeks, decided to close today. "Thankfully there's nothing happening in Boston today," the bar said. 🤔 🇮🇪 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/23/s...

Very interesting paper finds that when South Korea suspended its “low-skilled” guest worker program, the result was not a rise in wages for native Koreans doing those jobs, it was the opposite; current employees got reassigned to those jobs and took pay cuts and firms went under.

“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

sometimes i'm doing real journalism and sometimes i go to work and say "can I please just make a photo gallery of the England hooligans getting rowdy at a pub in Dallas" and @abigailrosenthal.bsky.social thankfully says yes: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

I’m in @foreignpolicy.com taking a big swing (but not a hot take): Trump’s defeat in Iran is a bigger US defeat in strategic terms than the US loss in Vietnam foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/16/i...

I feel this... and for awhile I was also helping my mom take care of her mom, so think club sandwich panini

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸

I had no idea men played soccer, too! Good for them! Go boy soccer!! ⚽️

Live your life such that the Irish Literary Times never subskeets you like this.

😍😍😍

He f*cked around and found out www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/11/m...

Do they think the historians will be like “well they expunged those impeachments so we just won’t mention that part”?

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

shooting the 'hooch is one of the best afternoons I ever had in my godawful high school years

This means TMZ is officially part of the DC press corps.

World Cup hasn’t even started and the @mbta-cr.bsky.social is apparently already broken. 🫠

President Trump suggested in a video to TikTok that the Ultimate Fighting Championship cage taking over the White House South Lawn may “never” come down, and compared it to Paris' iconic Eiffel Tower.

Oh hello there sir

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

if you are "using AI for writing," you are not writing. i do not know how to make this any simpler

Not surprising there is essentially zero discussion of the Markey / Moulton primary on X, even with the convention yesterday. The #mapoli crowd left a long time ago. Some journalists and consultants tweeting into the ether getting crowded by trolls and hate speech.

Mass. Legislature once again behind most of the country. We're one of only 5 states that hasn't made AI-generated nudes OF CHILDREN illegal www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/29/b...

A reminder that the great Stephen Colbert once played a murderer on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This was just before he got his own show on Comedy Central (The Colbert Report).

I’m on Amtrak and the conductor just made the best quiet car announcement I’ve heard yet: “This is the quiet car. If you’re going to feel some kind of way when people shush you, then you should not sit in the quiet car.”

For my fellow Dodd-Frank survivors, you can read Chris Dodd's take on Barney Frank at the Globe as well. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/20/o...

His decision to make the entire Dodd-Frank conference committee open to the public represented his a commitment to transparency in government that every public official could learn from.

RIP Barney Frank. He defined a major period of my career on the Hill, and although he was at times acerbic and unpleasant to us reporters, he ALWAYS came out to talk, and took every question even if he first told you "well, that's a stupid thing to ask." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/20/m...

Good times