Chris Lovett

.#Dorchester native covering #Boston news in print, TV, photos since 1976. Views my own. Retweets not endorsements.

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@RpsAgainstTrump Self-excommunicated.

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@LanaSofka @atrupar Gleichfalls Freiheit macht Arbeit.

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@ChrisMurphyCT If Trump does take over Columbia, I guess it will have to reassume its original name--"King's College."

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The great deal-maker stocks up on "dead souls."

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: The Social Security Administration added the names and Social Security numbers of over 6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track dead people, effectively erasing their ability to receive benefits or work in the U.S. https://t.co/DILEieP2xC

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Yesterday afternoon. Tremont Street, Boston. #HandsOff2025

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@knbaraldi Bolaño: “Uno tiene la obligación moral de ser responsible de sus actos y también de sus palabras e incluso de sus silencios,... porque también los silencios ascienden al Cielo y los oye Dios y soló Dios los comprende y los juzga... Mis silencios son inmaculados.”

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via @dotnews: The makings of the last close call for an incumbent Boston mayor: White vs. Timilty in 1975. Photo from 1979 rematch. https://t.co/eb1jk9IoJM

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@tylercreighton And to think the boss blames the agency for “destroying people’s lives.”

[Gintautas Dumcius @gintautasd]

Mayor Wu responds to Josh Kraft's launch

“Frankly, I’m a little surprised that someone who hasn’t even voted for mayor or City Council in the city, thinks that he is ready to lead the city, but I look forward to getting into the details and there’s so much to talk about"

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@RonDurk I think I've seen that face before, in 2013. In Boston politics, some figures come and go, like furniture, while others are more like wallpaper.

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@atrupar Could this mean placing CA, if not under martial law, then some kind of receivership, as with "MAC" for NYC in 1975? Relief for CA has much less Red state support than it would for Florida, Texas, Louisiana, N. Carolina.

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@allenanalysis I don't mind the visas as much as the rationale that it's useless trying to develop the necessary skills among people already living here--through good schools. This is not the same standard applied to good-old factory jobs.

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@johnstonglenn JD Salinger cited the same quartet when he praised Seymour's "non-stop talks," comparing them to "the bulk of Beethoven's output after he ceased being encumbered with a sense of hearing."

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@FlutoShinzawa Sacco'd.

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via https://t.co/fXciibZE59: data prompt small changes in admissions policy for Boston exam schools--and more analysis to come. https://t.co/fTGXANx9wi

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@johnstonglenn It snowed in Dickens, it snowed in Tolstoy, it snowed in Chekhov and Pushkin, it snowed in Orhan Pamuk, and it snowed when Kafka's misdirected land surveyor approached the Castle. Like it says: "snow was general."

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@BetterBlueThanX @DotNews I thought of this, especially because of the drop in "student" area voting. There were also Democratic losses in areas with low income, less consistent engagement--maybe averse to funding for Israel & Ukraine, but not the same as campus outrage about "genocide."

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via @dotnews. A look at Boston's presidential vote: less a Trump surge than Democrats unplugged. https://t.co/JyN0QRGkKG

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@ProudPatriots1 Does it come with a shot glass?

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@atrupar Maybe more important than cabinet wealth is the private equity ethos. This considers government as one more underperforming asset from which to extract more value--for the apex extractors.

[Gintautas Dumcius @gintautasd]

Campaign finance regulators, in Nov. 14 letter released this week, dinged Boston Cllr Tania Fernandes Anderson for violations, including late disclosures of financial activity

More could be coming. The person listed as her treasurer told me weeks ago he no longer works for her