The only DCI I choose to recognize.

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

@bymatthewkelly.bsky.social is doing really strong reporting on this. Here’s their story on the (astounding) way this legislation was forced through. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Great guidance from Rachel. Here’s a Mass. org that can connect you with folks who need rides to doctor’s appointments / job interviews, help registering their kids for school or learning English, so many things essential to survival. (I volunteer w them, they’re amazing.) iine.org/get-involved...

Sigh.

This flew under the radar but has devastating potential. More than 230,000 refugees will have their cases reexamined and applications for permanent residence frozen. Each underwent years of vetting by our government, risked everything to come here, have nowhere to return to. Unprecedented.

For years, I’ve participated in a pre Tgiving food drive for 100s of Boston families, organized by excellent nonprofits. This year, due to fed cuts, each home got less than 1/2 the normal amount. Give to your food bank, folks. The need is huge. 1/2

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

This is good advice. In Mass., www.gbfb.org supports 600+ food pantries, community meal programs and other hunger-relief orgs. If you can, donate cash, not cans. Just as valuable -- donate time. Food banks will need a lot of new volunteers to help with distribution.

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

Two very Boston signs. @universalhub.com

One time I was new to Boston, left my book on my subway seat, asked a T worker on the platform if there was a lost & found, he radioed my train, a T guy found the book, handed it off to a train going the opposite direction and I had it back in like 3 min. (I too have trouble believing this story.)

I have eaten the plums, but.

My Rousseau-Called Life

Thanks for making us all watch The Turnaround, Ryan. I’m not a big baseball fan and never would have clicked on this otherwise. Beautiful, honest little movie about unconditional love, with more authenticity, depth and unlikely twists in 20 minutes than most feature films.

Free flu and COVID-19 vaccinations today, December 21, at Mattapan Community Health Center from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. If you have insurance, please bring your insurance card with you. If you are not insured, you can still receive free vaccinations. Learn more: boston.gov/respiratory-protection #Boston

The elegance of this gratuitous book review tucked into a murderer profile piece -

Hello GoodReaders! Goodreads is hosting a giveaway for Oathbreakers. 25 copies! Sign up today. #Booksky 💙📚 #medievalsky www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Timeline cleanse

This is a wonderful thread, especially for #newspapersky #journalismsky

newskies, some culture notes: don't be a jerk don't quote-skeet to dunk on ppl don't do stuff for clout / clicks don't argue with dinguses, just mute/block/report (this is NOT a nazi bar) amplify good folks cheer ppl on we're glad to cheer you & your work on you are not a brand be a human being

If you see this, I'd love to see 4 of your favorite characters from 4 different series!

Today is a good day to buy books

This one moment felt absolutely amazing. 10/10 recommend.

If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains. Highline Trail in late August, Glacier NP.

Such good news. There’s an amazing back story about the scientist who worked on this relentlessly for 40 years — a couple of cool profiles of her below. Ronnie Levin is a true American hero. www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/feature... www.eenews.net/articles/ex-...

New George Saunders short story collection looks great.

Morning walk to work.

Peter Dickinson’s James Pibble. So smart. So decent. So brave. So quietly Britishly feckless and sad. OTOH if I were murdered I’d want DCI Jane Tennison on the case.

Don’t even think about going gentle into that good night, clown.

I am very calm in a crisis. Patient with impatient people. Optimistic even when it’s unwarranted.

Everything in this thread is so important. We went through this with my in laws. The only recommendation I have is check your state policies carefully.

I keep coming back to Paxton’s definition of fascism.

Without downloading new pics, where are you mentally?

Probably the most quoted single sentence in the book is the third proverb for paranoids: “if they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” 🚀

Season 3 of In the Dark is a devastating, meticulous investigation of the murders of 24 Iraqis nearly 20 yrs ago. As a byproduct, heroic FOIA work yielded the 1st database of alleged US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the legal outcomes. I’ve never read or heard better journalism.

Police estimate that there are 120k people there.

This is beautiful and heartbreaking and a must-read. lithub.com/love-in-the-...

Statement from President Biden on Hersh Goldberg-Polin | The White House www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

One of the books is called “Amelia Bedelia and the Baby” and it’s the most chilling book title I’ve ever heard.

Great thread. The Walzes sound like amazing educators - and they remind me so much of my parents, who also worked nights, weekends, vacations to give their students extraordinary opportunities. Love that this campaign may shine a light on incredible public school teachers.

Kicker:

This is a really beautiful piece.

Historians (esp medieval historians) this is a heads up 🧵 for work that’s going to be released in the next few weeks—my late mother-in-law, Treasa McKernan’s magnum opus, ‘From Out of Her Bounds’ a study of medieval women’s lives thru an unusual lens (keep reading)—buckle up this is a long story. 1/

The Katmai National Park bear cam is HOPPING tonight!

Yes. Fascinating, beautifully written and slightly terrifying piece by @jenszalai.bsky.social

Yes. I will say I kind of like how the poster, while definitely complaining about having a bad night, takes the time to be grateful he hadn’t run afoul (yet) of @kathryntewson.bsky.social

. @michelledean.bsky.social’s brief meditation is one of the finest pieces of writing I’ve read in a long time. Razor sharp literary/cultural criticism, with a deep, heartbreaking, true-north sense of the lessons we’re learning from this particular Munro story. www.thecut.com/article/alic...