Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.

The best thing about having a cat is that when things go missing or seem awry you can just blame it on the kitty and half the time it’s because of them anyway

Massachusetts' goals for grid-scale battery storage faces a growing challenge: The anti-battery movement sweeping the state and country 🔌💡 @wbur.org www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Summers had been retreating from his public commitments amid fallout of a new trove of emails revealing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but had maintained that he would continue teaching economics classes at Harvard.

sometimes I had to literally pin my children down to get them in their car seats or put shoes on or whatever and I'd be in a heavy sweat afterwards like I had been to the gym. they were like no more than 30 pounds at the time. toddlers have incredible strength

“I turn down flacks trying to send me free booze multiple times a day, and invitations to all-expenses-paid junkets no less than once a month... This week, I yet again found myself wondering why I'm even bothering.” this is very good, from @marisakabas.bsky.social

This Reddit thread of your most Greater Boston photo is absolute perfection

this is delightful

That doesn't mean Olivia's actions weren't wildly unethical as a journalist, and it doesn't make her a good person but I just hate what this world does to young women and I hope we don't lose sight of that aspect in all of this

Yeah sorry seeing that Olivia Nuzzi was making songs about being "jailbait" at 16 and no parent stepped in, that she was scooped up by a MUCH older and MUCH more powerful man when she was concerningly young... This seems like a much sadder story than the current discourse on it suggests

Quick video here to catch you up on the Summers/Epstein saga @wbur.org @meghanbkelly.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/BfXp5...

also get ready because Dan and Katie and I are going to have an amazing video about the Nova Scotia tree in a few weeks

the noise I just made

just excitedly mentioned this article to my husband, who was, shall we say, less enthused than I about the prospect

They don’t agree on much but they do agree on this: Mother leaves the house far too often

New insult to life itself just dropped

evergreen

we did guys & dolls my junior year of high school and it was an absolute blast - everyone was having just the best time on stage. the songs are SO good!

"it's actually ephebophilia" was like very rampant in a lot of the early online discourse of the late 90s/early 00s & I absolutely cannot believe it is rearing its head again

yo dawg I heard you like Oreo so I got you some Oreo in your Oreo

this from @adamserwer.bsky.social on Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons and the right-wing is so good: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

some great roller derby names here, and also great story by @amandabeland.bsky.social

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

The dog and the cat have reached a truce where they have agreed that neither of them gets to sleep in the bed with me but they can both be on my bedroom floor, six feet apart

lol

I'm gonna go touch some grass, which I would also recommend Ross Douthat do, and then will also maybe scream into the air for a bit

"But what stings the most is the loss of one of the only publications that allowed young people to share their own stories and took them seriously as political actors."

It's Election Day here in Massachusetts and @nikdecostaklipa.bsky.social has the skinny on the races to watch:

Figaro and Bandit want to know if you got the memo about the TPS reports?

Good morning, it is the best day on social media

I am doing the Artist's Way and this week is ... no reading. I do need to do some reading for work but I am also interpreting it to mean not reading Reddit or anything here so... see y'all in a week!

Doubtful I will ever see Tron: Ares but the soundtrack is by Nine Inch Nails and it is quite good

Boston and other Mass. cities turned out for No Kings today: www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

Oh you definitely want to check out this Head of the Charles & rowing primer from my awesome @wbur.org colleague @meghanbkelly.bsky.social. It has all you need to know before heading to the river this weekend. It's hilarious and SO well done. youtube.com/shorts/CtVLE...

i convinced my husband (late 40s, also a dad) to get shorter shorts and they look great on him!! men, wear the short shorts!

It's official: Seth Moulton is taking on Ed Markey www.wbur.org/news/2025/10... @wbur.org

This morning in WBUR Today: Why did ICE detain a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts (and then transfer him to Virginia)? "I think the government's intent is to hinder effective legal representation," his family's lawyer told WBUR: www.wbur.org/news/2025/10... @wbur.org

This John Oliver takedown of Bari Weiss is excellent and well worth a watch, especially if you’re not familiar with her: youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Still devastated we’ll never have a season 2 of doctor odyssey. It’s what the people need now more than ever!!

I met my husband on an ancient social media platform and in more recent times I have made friends, leading to the very job I am currently working at

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

I need more “late bloomer” stories! Tell me about the things that you did at 50+ that you never thought you’d do or finally got to do! And if you have examples that aren’t you, bring ‘em!

Activists connected through an immigrant advocacy group called LUCE are documenting arrests throughout the state. The "ICE watchers" record the names of those detained to make sure they’re accounted for, and help family members connect to resources.

This is so sad because kids actually have low standards, by which I mean, they just want to do fun stuff with the adults in their lives. A kid doesn’t care you can only draw stick figures or that your bedtime stories are retelling. They want to create ANY art with you and spend time with you!

no roast like a middle schooler roast

This is a very good read

*twirls hair* so is there a Mrs Pope?

Oh hey, we made a cool tool to help you track where various offshore wind projects in New England stand and understand which actions from the Trump administration have affected their progress. www.wbur.org/news/2025/10... @wbur.org

As the years go on it gets harder and harder NOT to say, when offered vegetables, “I said I don’t want any damn vegetables”

Great interview with @miasato.bsky.social: "As journalists we’re ceding ground to content creators who don’t know left from right, who didn’t report the stories, who don’t have the expertise to explain ... And so part of me being on TikTok is honestly being the representative for my own work"