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"

@wbur.org is looking for our next round of fellows! Applications are open for our three fellowship positions. Learn more about the roles and apply here:

I'm excited to say that this piece won a @coveringclimatenow.org award! www.wbur.org/news/2024/12... @wbur.org

Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.

the rules of journalistic ethics and the rules of Faerie ethics are eerily similar

Nope. We're done. We are going to back to a text only internet. Y'all had images and sounds and fucked it up too bad. We're going gopher mode. We're getting gemini pilled. You're going to learn to use telnet and like it. You have one movie, it's pretty good.

Excited to share this interview @wbur.org chatting about my new album, the early 2000s, the challenge of finding focus in a burning world, that kinda thing. Thanks so much for the fun convo @shmabelia.bsky.social ! Hope to see folks at the release party Sept 20! www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Josh Kraft has dropped out of the Boston mayor's race. His exit is an abrupt shift for a candidate who spent $5.5 million of his own money on the campaign.

Seventeen years had passed by the time Boston police knocked on Louise’s door to say they had a DNA match for her alleged rapist. But under Massachusetts’ 15-year deadline for prosecuting rape, that evidence didn’t matter.

“People want something in their inbox that isn’t evil” @bencollins.bsky.social at @journalists.org

Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft pledged to "keep fighting" after finishing second behind incumbent Mayor Michelle Wu in the city's preliminary election by nearly 50% percentage points. If history is any indication, closing that gap will be a tough fight.

nooooooo

"Niamos! (Galaxy Mix)" / "Niamos! (Morlana Club Mix)"

I got to break down Harvards legal victory over federal funding with @tizianadearing.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

this is going to age me but there was a time in the late 90s/early 2000s where we called these types of dudes Sensitive New Age Guys (or SNAGs, if you like)

OTM is hiring a Senior Video Producer! We're looking for someone with video and editorial chops, who can help us repurpose and reimagine the show for social media. More info: nypublicradio.org/job-openings/

And now, behold: the top three picks for each category! These are not their final forms -- they may change after public feedback and some professional refining. The commission will present their full recommendations to the Legislature in December:

If you need a break from the world for 3 minutes, check out this great and quick read from @meghanbkelly.bsky.social and @wbur.org on the silliest submissions for a new Massachusetts state flag and motto. www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

really love this piece from Martha Bebinger on how some chaplains are using tattoos to connect with their patients who might otherwise decline their services:

[Mass flag design waiting room] Me: [chanting] pil-grim shark, pil-grim shark- Other visitors: pil-grim shark, PIL-GRIM SHARK Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] PIL-GRIM SHARK, PIL-GRIM SHARK, PIL-GRIM SHARK!

tried to explain to my 13-year-old the other day how different journalism was when I started in the early 2000s as compared to now and it felt like trying to explain calculus

Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.

Samath “Sam” Thoeun is the type of immigrant ICE says it’s going after: people with criminal records, even old ones. Now he's facing deportation to the home country of his parents, a place he's never been.

The Lexington Minute Men are calling for reinforcements (or, an excuse for me to use bicenterquasquigenary in a newsletter) www.wbur.org/news/2025/08... @wbur.org

New from me: In an age where human labor seems to be ever more deprecated, it's becoming ever more apparent that the real in-demand product is human taste: open.substack.com/pub/lschmeis...

This is when the internet peaked and we never should have progressed into the current era of social media and hot takes and call outs.

I have now been a dog *and* cat owner for about six weeks and my biggest conclusion about both species is that dogs have zero dignity and cats have all the dignity

have inadvertantly trained the dog to immediately come running after I spill something on the ground with "Bandit! Clean up on Aisle 5!"

“There are not individuals that are lining up to replace the Haitian community or other immigrants that actually are filling these jobs,” said BU finance professor Mark Williams. “And we already have a labor shortage in Massachusetts.”

On Monday, Aug. 11, I will be moderating a panel about one of my favorite subjects -- dogs -- at @wburcityspace.bsky.social . AND, there will be some dogs you can come visit who are eligible for adoption! Tickets here: www.wbur.org/events/10214...

imo the vibes are off this year for a song of the summer

Another hazy day in Greater Boston

why would you do this, this is absolutely ghoulish

The haze from the wildfire smoke is putting an orange glow on everything and it's pretty but feels also kind of ominous

ICE recently shifted the flights from Hanscom Field in Bedford to an airport in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Plymouth County Sheriff's office transported nearly 600 people held on immigrations violations to Hanscom from December to May, according to public records.

It's August TOMORROW? In this economy??

NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration. Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

This is an absolute delight of a read (I do not have a chaos dog, just an anxious reactive one 😅)

I absolutely could not survive this and continue to have incredible admiration for the people who actually do work there

Essay: It's easy to forget how ground-breaking "The Cosby Show" was, writes Dart Adams. Growing up watching Theo Huxtable made me believe I — a creative Black boy in Boston — could achieve big things, too.

I took a history of modern art class and I absolutely loved it. I learned so much and it really gave me a basic foundation for understanding art and how it relates to what was going on in the world at the time. Plus I was able to impress my dad with an explanation of "Guernica" when we saw it IRL.

the craziest storm just blew in and out of here in under 20 minutes and it was absolutely insane. sheets of rain, huge thunder claps like an instant after the lightning

What to know about the controversy over Massachusetts' big highway rest stop makeover plan www.wbur.org/news/2025/07... @wbur.org