It is not every day you could take a photo with a tuskegee airman. Enoch "Woody" Woodhouse was at the martin luther king jr. commemoration event at Saint Paul's AME in Cambridge today. What a joyful, high-energy person.

My enterprise rental car shuttle driver in detroit asked me if I had my phone. Turns out I did not-- it was on the seat of my rental. Just saved me a world of trouble. Thanks, Tom.

I've been a journalist for four decades. Today I covered my first arraignment. New year, new things. www.cambridgeday.com/2026/01/09/m...

O'Sullivan's was a favorite of my family's when we lived nearby. Looking forward to trying this new restaurant.

at the Cambridge City Council inaugural for 2026, where Sumbul Siddiqui was elected mayor on the second ballot, and Burhan Azeem vice mayor, also on the second ballot.

love this essay by Paul Kvinta. archive.ph/Z1p8N

“It comes down to the fact that the FDA is not doing its job,” a retired cardiologist said. “Everything you are swallowing should be tested — there should be no question about it. You don’t want a bad batch coming to the drugstore.”

YAH: "We're already on the path to terminating the contract. We're going to have to start over in terms of thinking about ALPRs." "I think where we are is we're terminating the contract."

At Lesley University for tonight's #Harmogeddon #acapella showcase. The music director gets way up for the run through.

This looks like the @bostonglobe.com public health edition. Those stories take up almost the entire front page. A chronicle of a broken system. Even the politics story's really about our health system.

Ballot boxes at the end of election night in Cambridge. www.cambridgeday.com/2025/11/05/a...

#cambma Municipal Early Voting started on Saturday. So far less than 1% of registered voters have voted early: 196 on Sat; 163 on Sun, for a total of 359 voters. (As of July there were 40,725 active voters out of 66,539 registered voters. That's probably gone up but the final numbers aren't in.)

Members of the @cambridgeday.com team talking Election Guide 2025. Marc Levy, @sydneyywisee.bsky.social, Jane Peterson, Julia Carpi and me.

MIT says "Nope! to Trump "college compact" plan. Here's MIT prez Sally Kornbluth: "fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." Full statement here 👇 orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Inspiring to write about @nabarund.bsky.social and the work he's doing that prompted a MacArthur genius grant. ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

noteworthy piece by @wudan.bsky.social on simultaneous pitching for freelancers and why it can no longer be considered verboten. In some cases it still will be, but she makes a good case for it. open.substack.com/pub/thewrite...

Our team got to work with Disclose, a French NGO, to help them use @documentcloud.org keep tabs on thousands of environmental assessments and other gov reports. Would love to have some US organizations following their lead! www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

AI can tell a joke. But does it know it's joking? @smjyoti.bsky.social in @undark.org undark.org/2025/07/21/a...

AI "will perhaps allow a specific type of media executive to squeeze out a few more months of salary." A bracing take on the business case for AI in journalism from @404media.co .

Was scanning @theatlantic.com's newsletter and saw this @arthurbrooks.bsky.social article on how professional decline comes for us sooner than we think. They snuck in a piece first published in 2019. It was still good the 2nd time around. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

@hilaryburns.bsky.social @ditikohli.bsky.social @lizkowalczyk.bsky.social look at how the Ivy League's pain may be the SEC's gain. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/m...

I still like getting a contributor's copy of a magazine. Thanks @briansimpson99.bsky.social and looking forward to reading the package..

Things i wish #AI would fix that will never happen: customer service complications.

This thread from @bxroberts.org is worth your time 👇👇

Hey anyone want to be part of a BlueSky truth squad next week when Jay Bhattacharya testifies before Congress? Would mean live-skeeting the hearings. DM if interested so we can coordinate. #NIH #Science #MedSky #EpiSky

@mariahblake.bsky.social 's book on forever chemicals has a redemptive arc. @deborahb.bsky.social is making grim jokes to make sure we don't lose sight of the problem.

At the @mariahblake.bsky.social event for "They Poisoned the World" with @deborahb.bsky.social at Harvard Bookstore.

I talked with researchers and policy types about the slashing of U.S. science. Here is what they said: magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/scienti.... Thx @briansimpson99.bsky.social for the opportunity.

This conversation between two “sides” was deep, thoughtful, and truly honest… in ways that I didn’t expect. Take a listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... @brindabee.bsky.social @craigspencer.bsky.social @kkjetelina.bsky.social

“My concern is that there is going to be a large outbreak of not just measles, but other vaccine-preventable diseases as well, that’s going to end up causing a lot of harm, and possibly deaths in children,” said Dr. Anna Durbin of @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social. (Published April)

Have been standing in the rental line for Budget Rental Car for more than an hour. It is 4x as long as when I started. I'm still 8 people from the counter.

@hatethegamebook.com looks like it is selling well at terminal C at BOS. I bought one. 😀

So much great work in this year's @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social!

One of the annoying things I do as a dad is read out loud. I just read key lines from Yeats's "The Second Coming", prompting one of my sons to threaten to pour coffee on me. Slouching towards Framingham, anyone?

Dang. There is traffic at the border again.

The key to living well: keep it simple. By Amy Roeder for @hsph.harvard.edu hsph.harvard.edu/news/to-boos...

I have driven through Canada between Buffalo and Detroit during recessions and COVID-19. I do not remember a time when there were not at least a few vehicles in front of me in the passport line. Until tonight. #tradewar

There were dozens of swans at Farm Pond in #Framingham this afternoon.

Nobody loves the IRS, but as this @bostonglobe.com story notes, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tax fraud and non-payment happens every year. Seems like a good question to ask how slashing the agency helps address this. mobileapp.bostonglobe.com/03152025_d66...

The first episode was terrific!

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China. Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

You'll notice that neither DOGE nor its predicate office, the US Digital Service, has statutory authority to receive NDNH data crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

The questions by @adrianalacy.com and Ann Silvio were excellent.

Dean Baquet on #journalism and #AI: "We should embrace it....we cannot run away from new technology."

Dean Baquet on Trump's lawsuit against CBS: "it is a frivolous lawsuit. I hope and pray CBS does not settle. It will make life harder for all of us."

Dean Baquet speaking @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social says #journalists need to stick to their principles. "Don't bend them to beat Trump. Hold onto your soul."