Benjy Renton

MPP candidate at @Kennedy_School. Formerly at @Brown_SPH, @ariadnelabs/@HarvardChanSPH and @Middlebury. Views own.

[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

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[Daybook @DaybookJobs]

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[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

I also know which one the giraffe is.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "The first question is easy. You have a lion, a snake, a bear, and a giraffe. And they say, 'which is the giraffe?' So that's always the question they show ... when they get into those last questions -- see the fake news? There's not a person there that could answer."

[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

Have fond memories of flying on the A340-600, with its impossibly long fuselage and hairdryer engines, from Hong Kong to New York for many years. Farewell to this long-haul workhorse.

[Dulles Airport (IAD) @Dulles_Airport]

The final two Lufthansa A346 flights departed yesterday. Farewell to this legendary aircraft. It was an honor to send her off into the sunset. 🥹💙✈️

[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

Have zero idea what the president is talking about. @jeremyfaust and I did some analysis a couple of years ago which found that 83% of Americans have seen a doctor in the last year. So not "nobody."

https://t.co/0V9EbhtP6v

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Obama said you can have your own doctor. Nobody has seen their doctor. In fact, a couple of people saw their doctor recently and the doctor had aged and they did not even recognize him.

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

Can’t endorse this any more strongly

Bring back the newsstand!!!

When I arrived at Harvard in 2014, the most cosmopolitan and glamorous place on campus was Out of Town News.

Longtime denizens of the Square remember Julia Child sourcing German and Italian cooking magazines or Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen thumbing through issues of Popular Electronics at the famed newsstand.

In the 2010s, I often stopped by to grab a chocolate bar and the latest copy of the New Yorker, and I’d spot Cornel R. West ’74 buying a copy of the New York Times or a chic Graduate School of Design student grabbing the latest Architectural Digest. I never took the newsstand for granted. I grew up in a small town in Florida where one had to travel twenty miles to a Barnes & Noble to buy a magazine or newspaper, and unlike Out of Town News, they didn’t carry Le Monde or Die Zeit.

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A restored newsstand could not only reinstate Cambridge’s access to global journalism, it would also support the flourishing local print magazine scene that has erupted in the Boston area over the past few years.
It would be powerful to see Boston Art Review, House House Magazine (founded by Harvard undergrad Hengzhi Huang Yang ’27), Elastic (launched with Harvard’s support), and Duck (led by James Fraser of the Square’s Grolier Poetry Book Shop and his wife Bella Bennet) all in one place.
It would also link Harvard’s publications to the wider world of journalism — The Crimson and Cambridge Day could be offered alongside the Boston Globe and the New York Times, and the Harvard Review could sit alongside n+1 and The Drift (founded by Harvard graduates).
I find it hard to believe that Cambridge is less capable of supporting an international newsstand than the West Village. Harvard is home to over 10,000 international students, faculty, and researchers, providing a built-in audience for many foreign language publications. We are also a community of readers so devoted to print that we support five book stores, including ones that offer almost exclusively poetry and romance publications.

https://t.co/dn8vLsywW0

[Mayor Muriel Bowser @MayorBowser]

As of today, Bao Li and Qing Bao have been DC residents for two years. 🐼🐼

We are very proud that Washington, DC continues to be the only place in the nation where you can see giant pandas for free.

A magnet for residents and visitors alike—we love our DC pandas!

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

This home in Charlestown has dedicated their home to Scottland and the Tartan Army for Halloween.

🧡

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

It is hard to believe that Helen Branswell has passed away. Just heartbreaking.

On January 4, 2020, Helen wrote STAT's first story on a mystery pneumonia outbreak in China. She saw the pandemic coming well before anyone was paying attention.

Helen was a journalist who knew more than most of the experts she interviewed. She understood the science, the history and the politics of every outbreak she covered. She asked the hardest (and best) questions and never let me get away with a vague answer

Experts learned from her. I certainly did

It's hard to imagine a world of pandemics, biological threats and so much more without a Helen Branswell to explain it all.

https://t.co/kAanDgu1me

[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

Devastated by the loss of Helen Branswell, one of the finest health reporters of our generation and a mentor and friend to many. Her incisive reporting was vital to understanding our greatest health crises and she was always committed to science and truth.
https://t.co/YYVYpmG087

[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

Great work by @radiofinn and his students who are producing important midterm election coverage for local news outlets.
https://t.co/LQXfOWEL4r

[Maggie Rogers @maggieerogers]

If you live in New England, you need to go for a drive and look at some leaves right now. It’s good for you.

[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

Did a dog write this?

[NBC News @NBCNews]

A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. https://t.co/fCVVc4vwE8

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died. https://t.co/vhkTLe9J4Z

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

If you’ve been waiting to capture New England's array of peak foliage colors, Mother Nature may be hinting that this weekend is “all systems go.” Check out our fall foliage tracker here. https://t.co/ksjV5Iw3jf

[Benjy Renton @bhrenton]

Well-deserved honor for @leah_pierson!

[Leah Pierson @leah_pierson]

Very happy to have been named a 2026 STAT Wunderkind, alongside an incredible cohort of researchers and doctors!

@statnews #STATWunderkinds

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Can someone explain why so many bakeries close before people with regular jobs even get off work? I promise you there is a huge population of exhausted people at 6 PM who would happily exchange money for a croissant.

[ZooATL @ZooATL]

More GIANT panda news! Count down the days until you can meet Ping Ping and Fu Shuang: Zoo Atlanta is thrilled to announce the name of the new panda habitat – Arthur M. Blank Panda Grove – AND its opening day, set for Friday, November 6! @BlankFoundation https://t.co/e0Zpnh1eYO

[Harvard Kennedy School @Kennedy_School]

"People ask often whether Africa will side with the East or the West. But the answer is simple. Africa will side with Africa.": When facing pressure from foreign powers, Sierra Leonean President @julius_maadabio calls upon African states to act in the best interest of their people and their development as nations.

Watch the full Forum: https://t.co/wogHQiRo4w.

[Eric Balchunas @EricBalchunas]

Fun scene down at the 1st ann Philly parallel parking competition. It’s no joke for the drivers tho, super tight spot, only 18 inches of space. Lots of oohs and aahs from crowd.

[Shaun Terhune @Shaun_Terhune]

The best foliage in the world right now is in VT and NH. This is the current state of affairs in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.” Taken today, October 3rd.