Based on Cambridge’s liberal reputation, a candidate like Elizabeth Hudson shouldn’t have had a chance in School Committee elections, @rebeccaspiess.bsky.social writes.

The DEA said it arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true. from @globespotlight.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m...

I wrote about how bereaved parents are using AI to resurrect their kids lost to fentanyl. Many say it's helped them heal. Others say it's "kind of like an addiction." More here: www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...

🧵 Nearly 250 patients have filed civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by Dr. Derrick Todd, a renowned doctor at top Boston hospitals. He also faces two criminal charges of rape. A @globespotlight.bsky.social report found he could have been stopped earlier.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky has become Trump’s main Republican antagonist in Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein case. And as I learned reporting today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point, Massie got his professional start in Massachusetts www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/n...

Confused about how the US economy is doing right now? Today's Starting Point walks through numbers that help tell the story.

In which I spent $425 to hear a couple guys say "retarded" www.theargumentmag.com/p/a-tale-of-...

The Boston mayoral campaign will narrow to two contenders tomorrow. But as today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point explains, the two losing candidates could continue to shape the race’s dynamics going forward www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/08/n...

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies to Congress, today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point explains the 5 major ways he’s dismantling public health as America has known it for decades, including by ousting experts and spouting misinformation www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/n...

The CDC is in chaos. If you’re a current employee and would like to share information anonymously, please reach out via Signal: emullin.06 www.wired.com/story/center...

The Trump Administration has aggressively altered countless American institutions and norms, @rebeccaspiess.bsky.social writes. This includes official government communications. Can you tell the difference between messages from the government and posts from trolling X users?

BREAKING: Conservative network Newsmax agreed to pay $67 million in the defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.

My latest for Globe Opinion:

“I’d argue it’s time to create a new term for social media, one that better describes the current digital landscape,” @rebeccaspiess.bsky.social writes. “After all, no one is calling cars ‘horseless carriages,’ and no one thinks that a porn bot on Twitter is helping you build a friend group.”

I wrote about the burning Waymos and gentle singularity and ragebait and how everything is coalescing into a giant contradiction kyla.substack.com/p/everything...

Is Market Basket really the cheapest grocery store in the Boston area? The Boston Globe compared prices at four other stores to find out.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance. By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba

I love how everybody is talking about Astronomer as if we all knew the company existed before 48 hrs ago

For the first time, the median price for a single-family house in Greater Boston has cracked $1 million. https://trib.al/S4urWmQ

“An Armenian woman I considered an aunt asked me every time I saw her, ‘Rümeysa, please write about us. Please let the world hear our story.’ I am keeping my promise, Auntie.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

More than 450 subway passengers were led out of a tunnel beneath Boston Harbor after a Blue Line train became stuck due to a power outage Tuesday afternoon, officials said. https://trib.al/P9giBSj

Essential anaylsis from @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/o...

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

A fascinating look at leaving progressive movements by Sabrina Joy Stevens: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/11/o...

Today, if artists are globally popular, they’re not singing protest songs, write @rebeccaspiess.bsky.social and Alicia Chen. The levers of mass media influence for political music don’t seem to exist anymore, and if listeners want to tune out politics, they can.

Thanks to @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social for having me on. The problems with the MAHA report run far deeper than the AI fail.

From @camilo-fonseca.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/31/m...

💯 @ashishkjha.bsky.social. Beautiful paragraph about the #UrbanAgglomeration in #KendallSquare. As federal funds dwindle how can we help support the innovators that fuel our city’s success? @massgovernor.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/o...

Palestinian American analyst Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib still believes peaceful coexistence with Israel is possible, writes Klara Vlahčević Lisinski.

ICYMI: Our explainer of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, or SEVIS, is mighty relevant today. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...

Pari Kim’s appearance on Netflix’s “Love on the Spectrum” skyrocketed her into a niche pocket of MBTA-related fame. “It’s unbelievable,” she told @rebeccaspiess.bsky.social. “People are already requesting to do meet-and-greets and ride the T with me.”

It’s my first week at @bostonglobe.com! I’m in the opinions section, writing editorials, commissioning op-Eds and working on some longer-term projects. Email me: [email protected]

I finished up my last day with the @post-gazette.com last week. There were many highlights, but the biggest one will always be our recognition as Pulitzer Prize finalists. Pittsburgh is an incredible city, and I'm sad to leave - but I have big news coming soon! www.pulitzer.org/finalists/br...

The final ride: Retracing Christi Spicuzza's 2022 fatal Uber route in Monroeville

Updates:

I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society. I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

So much good thinking packed in this short @himself.bsky.social post, but to me this gets at the heart of it: "Making individuals better at thinking and seeing the blind spots in their own individual reasoning will only go so far. What we need are better *collective* means of thinking."

Nota bene #skystorians 🗃️

I bought my boyfriend a gaming laptop for Christmas that could like probably fly an aircraft but the only thing we’ve played on it is a Pokémon game from 2003 and Papa’s Pizzeria

The former Horne's department store is the latest downtown building to get an assessment cut, adding to Pittsburgh’s growing tax woes. The reassessment will cost the city, county, and Pittsburgh schools a combined $420,900 in lost tax revenue. From Mark Belko: www.post-gazette.com/business/dev...

One of the best, most chilling and personal stories I’ve heard from Gaza What an accomplishment

BREAKING: House rejects a Trump-endorsed plan to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling as time runs short to avert a shutdown. Follow AP's coverage for live updates. apnews.com/live/governm...

Wildest story I’ve read this week, from my coworker Megan Guza: www.post-gazette.com/local/region...

Zoning change in Pittsburgh will wait til next year after Gainey admin proposals hit a buzzsaw of public commenters including "a Santa impersonator, a self-described Polish Hill punk, and a person who identified as an Aborigine shaman," @publicsource.org reports www.publicsource.org/gainey-pitts...