🚨 Had to do a slight redesign of the cover for my upcoming book on @thestonepony because...
Bruce @Springsteen penned the foreward!
Pre-order "I Don't Want to Go Home" here: https://t.co/e3A10gXW0Z
With the late Joe Lieberman, VPOTUS Al Gore and the great @kseelye, U.S. Naval Observatory, September 2000. Not sure why nobody else thought it was sunny out there.
With the late Joe Lieberman, VPOTUS Al Gore and the great @kseelye, U.S. Naval Observatory, September 2000. Not sure why nobody else thought it was sunny out there.
Read this smart framing of the opioid crisis from @statnews: Virtually every sector of society is obstructing the use of meds that could prevent thousands of deaths each year; these deaths "aren't an unavoidable tragedy but a conscious choice." https://t.co/6ZxgwespEV
Night watchman at the Gardner who buzzed in the thieves for the biggest art heist in history has died. @shellymurph has the deets. https://t.co/6e8QK1CG1i
A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.
As someone who did my time writing about Congressional appropriations, my hat is off to @CatieEdmondson for her smart, creative piece on how FDR secretly funded the Manhattan Project. https://t.co/ipXQE9TN5t
And you have to make a record-breaking $1 billion at the box office, but you won’t get credit for it bc hey, it was a hot summer and people just needed to be inside air-conditioned theaters
You have to be a leading lady but you can’t be nominated for best actress. You have to be a strong female director but you can’t be nominated for best director. You have to have a wildly popular dance song but you can’t be nominated for best original song.
Greta Gerwig: Made a critically acclaimed, culturally profound, feminist movie about Barbie and the patriarchy that made a billion dollars at the box office.
Oscar nomination goes to … Ken.
#Barbie#Oscars2024 https://t.co/mQ8xlYPzc3
The Baltimore Sun's new owner, David D. Smith, met with staffers today for more than two hours. Many left on edge.
He claimed he had read the paper just four times. He grew up here; his family's local TV empire - Sinclair - is based in Baltimore Co.
Other highlights:
A bow to @GlobeFPhillips for his tribute to @JohnEWalsh14, MA Dem operative whose smarts about grassroots organizing + emerging internet tools revolutionized #masspoli and served as template for Obama ‘08 https://t.co/HbnuQSkOpE via @politico
How one town tries to move forward 5 yrs after the tragedy of a mass shooting has woven itself into the fabric of life. @jessbidgood finds enduring sorrow as well as purpose. https://t.co/gh6xsHPqtP via @BostonGlobe
6/ It was one of the most spontaneous and beautiful acts of kindness I have ever witnessed. Radcliffe and Groff stood there applauding the generous theatergoer, and everyone there--who had just seen a masterpiece of a show already--was transported from the theater in joy. /END
This obituary by @BryanMarquard captures the spirit of a smart, big-hearted man who gave me much guidance when I was new to #masspoli. Condolences to his loved ones.
https://t.co/W1Vmbas9AB
My obit of Rosalynn Carter, who has died at 96. “A full 16 years before Bill and Hillary Clinton would offer themselves to the nation as a package deal with the slogan ‘Buy one, get one free,’ the Carters functioned as near co-presidents.” https://t.co/Z5WAX3rG7g