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News at
@bostonglobe.com
// Stories at
@thesundaylongread.bsky.social
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Rodger Sherman
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Someday they should let the Falcons play a single game without people mentioning the most emotionally crushing moment in franchise history. as a treat
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Leah Sottile
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A weird ending note for a weird year: I wrote a manifesto for journalists in 2026.
leahsottile.substack.com/p/66-clarity
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66. Clarity
A Living Manifesto on Journalism for 2026 and Beyond
https://leahsottile.substack.com/p/66-clarity
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"So many young people lack community, they say. How did you find this? Well, I didn’t find it. We built it." -
@samanthajgross.bsky.social
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Everyone wants to be part of a village. But it takes being a villager. - The Boston Globe
My friend group works to maintain a support system so rich and tight-knit that we not-so-jokingly refer to ourselves as family.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/25/magazine/building-community-boston-friends/
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Frog and Toad Bot
6 days ago
Toad got to Frog’s house. He looked in the window. “Good,” said Toad. “Frog is not home. He will never guess who raked his leaves.”
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Charlie Warzel
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In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.
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America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory
It’s beginning to look a lot like … extremely disturbing PDFs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/holiday-epstein-purgatory/685435/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAWAXSJ0ur3JJ4GeGgYFlD5A&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Moby Dick
7 days ago
the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder
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A palate cleanser: "So raise your glass to Aunt Mary, to all who loved her, and to the wonderful tradition she created."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/20/l...
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Welcome to the O’Leary Cousins party, a Christmas extravaganza since 1970 - The Boston Globe
The founder of the party adored celebrations, Christmas, and her family, and the cousins party paid loving tribute to all three.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/20/lifestyle/holiday-party-traditions/?event=event12
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The Washington Post
12 days ago
Every line, spot, blemish and blood vessel of President Trump's inner circle was captured by Christopher Anderson’s lens in Vanity Fair. The Post talked with the photographer about his reaction to the photos and the process behind them:
https://wapo.st/48KZXBY
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Robinson Meyer
13 days ago
People say you’re driving a moral panic, that you’re blocking good regulation, that there’s no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively):
nymag.com/intelligence...
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How the Phone Ban Saved High School
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens in New York have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation, board games, and poker.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-new-york-public-school-phone-ban-saved-high-school.html
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
14 days ago
It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged.
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Leah Sottile
15 days ago
If you can believe it, January 1, 2026 marks ten years since the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. For Portland Monthly, I wrote about how the ensuing decade was dominated by anxious men and a culture of lawlessness.
www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...
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The Takeover of Malheur Kicked Off a Decade of Lawlessness
The wildlife refuge occupation set the stage for Trump, January 6, and so much more.
https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2025/12/malheur-refuge-occupation-anniversary
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ProPublica
18 days ago
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
https://propub.li/3MTlm33
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
25 days ago
Go to bed; tired is stupid.
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Bodega Cats
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Jessica Luther
about 1 month ago
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece
@dansolomon.com
and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened:
web.archive.org/web/20190208...
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How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190208073328/https://deadspin.com/how-baylor-happened-1828372303/
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Bodega Cats
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
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“Do you know how to read?” “No. It is one of the black arts.” He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
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Molly Knight
about 1 month ago
Caroline Kennedy’s daughter Tatiana Schlossberg announces she has terminal cancer with a year to live in an essay in the New Yorker:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
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The Conversation U.S.
about 1 month ago
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by
@gizmodo.com
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The Boston Globe
about 1 month ago
Hubba Hubba was more than a place specializing in sex, and sexy. The soon-to-close Cambridge shop was the kind of place people could walk in the door and find solutions to problems the straight-laced world couldn’t solve.
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What is lost when a sex store closes its doors? - The Boston Globe
"We’re therapists. We’re marriage counselors. That’s what you can’t get online," said M.J. Pullins, owner of the soon-to-close shop Hubba Hubba in Cambridge.
https://trib.al/zrg5mIe
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/baltimore-scooter-ice-patrol-buzz-grambo-us-navy-veteran/
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Merriam-Webster
about 1 month ago
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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Raphael Satter
about 1 month ago
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
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Will Bunch
about 1 month ago
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done My new column
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/student-journalism-harvard-crimson-epstein-larry-summers-charlottes-web-20251118.html
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Frog and Toad Bot
about 1 month ago
Toad played the piano, and he did not miss a note.
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The Sunday Long Read
about 1 month ago
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt? Deep inside Green Lake County, Wisconsin, Jamie Thompson investigates, tracking what turns out to be a globe-spanning story about family, responsibility, and what makes a good life. Our favorite this week
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Missing Kayaker
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/12/wisconsin-kayaker-ryan-borgwardt-death/684631/?gift=YCyn5y81d-mwEDw0Ly1NkCtYAuMm2bbm5HRf9WHwTWo
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Anna Bower
about 2 months ago
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
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Gregory Pratt
about 1 month ago
For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/latino-us-citizens-racially-profiled-immigration-chicago/
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Jack Jenkins
about 2 months ago
Oh wow
@reuters.com
got the photo here:
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Rural Indexing Project
about 2 months ago
UP Chuck’s Kenton, MI
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Eva Holland
about 2 months ago
I'm glad
@juliekliegman.com
wrote this:
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What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...
https://defector.com/what-does-a-great-trans-athlete-deserve
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WIRED
about 2 months ago
NEW: In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary, claiming intimate knowledge of Trump’s views in an exchange with a Gates adviser.
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Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-claimed-intimate-knowledge-of-donald-trumps-views-in-texts-with-bill-gates-adviser/
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
about 2 months ago
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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The NewsGuild-CWA
about 2 months ago
🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN! The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
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Kate Messner
about 2 months ago
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because.
apnews.com/article/louv...
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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
https://apnews.com/article/louvre-fedora-man-ap-photo-c0d59847ef5f836a0c5ac49de8bff441
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The New Yorker
about 2 months ago
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Olivia Messer
about 2 months ago
A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked. “Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
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When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE
As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/how-my-friend-and-fellow-journalist-was-targeted-by-ice/
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
about 2 months ago
He seemed not to know the uses of silence.
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Rural Indexing Project
about 2 months ago
Snoopy Hooppole, IL
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The New York Times
2 months ago
Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty.
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Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty.
https://nyti.ms/4qAJVkG
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NPR
2 months ago
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
https://n.pr/3X0UZtS
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The Sunday Long Read
2 months ago
Would you rather have a fully nude, open casket funeral or an open information corpse funeral, your unlocked phone and laptop available for mourners to scroll through? Writer Kiki Dy explores this question and more in a new SLR original story.
sundaylongread.com/2025/10/23/a...
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Can my dead uncle’s phone break the cycle of addiction? - The Sunday Long Read
What happens when you come into a relatives digital remains and are forced to confront questions of identity, addiction, and family history?
https://sundaylongread.com/2025/10/23/addiction-data-corpse-phone-messages/
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Dan Diamond
3 months ago
The real-life impact of Trump and Musk’s freeze on USAID Drugs and food, intended for global aid, instead languished and rotted in warehouses — and some children withered and died. Sweeping, damning investigation by my
@washingtonpost.com
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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/usaid-trump-malaria-hiv-drugs-death/
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When you die, would you rather have an open-casket funeral for anyone to look at your body or an open-access funeral for anyone to look at your data -- Google searches, Reddit history, text messages, and beyond? If that question gives you pause, read this.
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Can my dead uncle’s phone break the cycle of addiction? - The Sunday Long Read
What happens when you come into a relatives digital remains and are forced to confront questions of identity, addiction, and family history?
https://sundaylongread.com/2025/10/23/addiction-data-corpse-phone-messages/
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Leah Sottile
2 months ago
There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one.
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64. The Absurdity
There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one.
https://open.substack.com/pub/leahsottile/p/64-the-absurdity?r=kgg5&utm_medium=ios
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