👀 A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of a roster of DOGE employees and affiliates, as well as a text message revealing a top NEH official’s views on “woke” and “progressive” grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is it too much to ask that the chief executive of OpenAI read one (1) history book or understand anything about human nature? The answer is "yes", apparently. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

Y’all remember 25 cent pitchers of beer???? Get ‘em in the door?

For too goddamn long everywhere!!! OG public policy geeks out there be like, “remember when Lehman Brothers extracted public value out of toll roads?”: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Drip Drip Drip Is there an ice dam on the roof at that agency?

Squid Alert!

Massachusetts is hiring its first ever Chief Biodiversity Officer to advance the Commonwealth’s Biodiversity goals. Priority goes to candidates that apply within 14 days of posting, which was yesterday. Go for it if you’re interested, and share with good candidates and networks!

#JobOpportunity: Massachusetts Department of Fish & Game is hiring a Chief Biodiversity Officer! 🦋 You'll lead coordination across state government and work with partners to drive progress towards the Massachusetts Biodiversity Goals

Biodiversity Officer job. Do the work! If you’re interested, don’t pass it by, it is worth your time to apply! Happy to discuss. It is great work 🤓 www.linkedin.com/posts/jobopp...

next time you see a movie with too much cgi, remember that we used to be a proper country

No, that wasn’t me whistling the Thong Song in the empty office. Nope.

“It's really exciting for us because we feel like it could be the tip of an iceberg of converting many thousands of units," said @kenziebok.bsky.social , administrator of the Boston Housing Authority.

Bummer. Saw Cake at the 2008 Earthfest at the Hatch Shell. DCR and radio sponsors had just about removed irreverent acts from consideration (Green Day ‘94 scars). Cake made the cut! It got rowdy, and Staties temporarily stopped the show, roughing up the drunks & pissing off the band. So…

we are not obliged to pretend that bad faith rules lawyering is anything except rancid bullshit

In 1958, Art Kane photographed 57 jazz musicians on a stoop in Harlem for Esquire. As his photograph—commonly referred to as “A Great Day in Harlem”—ingrained itself in our collective memory, countless “Great Day” homages were created as well... www.gordonparksfoundation.org/gordon-parks...

Again it is world defining ironic that people took a slim majority win a low turn out election as a culture-changing moritoruma that America Is Like This Now only for everyone up to and including the Super Bowl to go no

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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This years Super Bowl ads are all sponsored by the buy nothing movement

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I’ll take them being down 7 after that middling half by the Celts.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

That call was wahm gahbage

If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

Massholes need to commit to the bit today.

Me if I was at FAMU right now: youtu.be/lvHBqe4c0l0

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

It's also important to recognize that unhoused people are in cities because they *can* be, in contrast to suburbs that implement housing policies to exile lower-income people to other locations. Suburbanites complaining about the existence of homeless people in cities have a hell of a nerve.

Imagine me, a Masshole at SMU, guided by my young man brain, careening between Lower Greenville and the Park Cities!

I know it’s great that the Celtics came back from down 22 to beat the Heat, but gotta brush up on the Massholishness for Super Bowl Sunday.

Hahaha. Da NY Bricks in effect.

Yesterday, in a work email discussing better ways to design urban public spaces, I used “teens (complimentary)”, in a list of things to think about and couldn’t be prouder of myself.

Boston did not clear snow from the bike lanes after the storm two weeks ago, so our community came together to do so. "We just want to get home safe and alive!" @bikeboston.bsky.social @streets.boston.gov @mayorwu.boston.gov @universalhub.com @wcvb5.bsky.social @mass.streetsblog.org

The energy from the Winter Olympics crowd when they saw the man who loves couches.

Just had a colleague (non-local) call Sumner Street (in Cambridge, near Harvard Square), “Sumter Street” and I was like…

Watch they try to pay bro in treats and trips to the park instead of giving him his bread.

This is right near the Green Line too. 😱

That thing we are seeing in Minneapolis that we haven't seen in a long time and need a helluva lot more of is solidarity.

Black History

For us in the neighborhood, it looks a lot better than what was there before, but 😬😬😬 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/03/b...

Listening to tractors taking the snow off the PROW putting me to sleep like the pitter-patter of a nighttime rainstorm. Welcome back all of you adorable little curb cuts. We’ll be seeing you tomorrow in the daylight. 😘

this is a good one storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For the culture 🇭🇹

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

/ DONT DO THIS / THE WATER UNDERNEATH IS MOVING / IF U FALL THRU, UR NOT GETTING BACK 2 UR FALL THRU HOLE / U WILL DIE / & SINCE THERE'S FLOWING WATER / THE ICE MITE NOT BE AS THICC / DONT DO THIS

CBS can censor shit but can’t translate a gotdam thing.

Mmm hmm

For 20 years straight, nearly every mention of Ms. Lauryn Hill has been accompanied by some punchline about her punctuality. But it is a simple truth that she is a genius, and there's no better evidence than her being damn near the first person in Grammy history to put on a worthy memorial tribute.

My back up singers getting it.