One of the major ongoing disputes my wife and I have had is whether to raise our daughter pronouncing it as scone or scone.

Having your psyche casually dissected by JCO, tweet by tweet, just when she feels like it, on your own platform in front of millions of your followers — true nightmare material.

Shutdown was over Inflation Reduction Act ACA marketplace tax credits, which will expire in Dec. The credits are for people who buy their own insurance (aren’t on Medicaid, don’t have employer insurance, usually moderate income). Separately, OBBA slashes Medicaid. Shutdown focused on IRA credits.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

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.
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Opinion | The MAGA Right’s Antisemitism Problem By failing to draw a clear line, JD Vance and the Heritage Foundation put conservatism in jeopardy.

I’ve been thinking the same. One of the only mainstream media op-eds that I’ve seen on this angle - explicit calllouts of white supremacy, racist fantasies, racial hatred - is this WSJ piece. (The editor gave it a headline that references only antisemitism tho.)

www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Every adult resident of the U.S. is three or fewer hops from a drug trafficker. We’re all eligible to be blown up in a boat under this policy.

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.

Frequency of Tuberculosis Screening and Testing for Health Care Personnel All U.S. health care personnel should be screened for TB upon hire (i.e., preplacement).

I think Alice was trying to be helpful, you weren’t that detailed in your first post, no need to snark at an ID doc. CDC has this: www.cdc.gov/tb-healthcar...

For me, it’s International Institute of New England. Tons of volunteer opportunities — help immigrants get jobs, learn the T, learn English, find community, survive, thrive. You can dive in, sponsor a family. Or give 2 hours occasionally. It all helps. There are orgs like that all over the country.

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.

Until this year, when I visited the Alamo museum in San Antonio, I did not know the Battle of the Alamo/broader Texas Revolution was explicitly spurred by Texians’ defiance of Mexico’s abolition of slavery.

He posted hours of videos of himself scrolling through his conversations with ChatGPT on social media in the months before he died.

The Whom.

Not exactly disagreeing but - the first movie I saw Leo in was This Boy’s Life and he blew me away. One of the few times I’ve seen a very young actor and thought “this kid will be a star”and been right. It’s the only movie I’ve ever really loved him in.

Take a 5 minute cab ride to Eddie C’s (neighborhood dive bar) or Rose’s (nice tapas bar) in East Boston or a 15 minute ride downtown to the Wig Shop. All open until 2.

Always thought would be fun to have movie/novel purely on Clark from POV of rest of resentful newsroom - vanishes into phone booths for hours, sloppy source greasers on Superman, ties Jimmy up when he could be on other assignments, has weird effect on Lois, always wears dumb necktie. What an ass.

Shawn Mendes and the Rhythm of Rhyme Podcast Episode · Switched on Pop · 07/16/2019 · 34m

Declamation! @switchedonpop.bsky.social did a cool episode about it once - mentioning Sandcastles among others. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I sometimes sub apricots for plums in Marian Burros’ torte, also subbing ~1/4 cup cornmeal for some of the flour and ~1/4 cup olive oil for some of the butter and use about 1/2 cup sugar instead of a whole cup. Fast, easy, delicious, everyone likes it warm with vanilla ice cream.

What a sweetie. My current favorite names for a dog are Sammy, Frankie and Chuck.

Sign in Dunkin pink and orange reading America runs on Immigrants

Sign with symbols for equality is greater than division

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.)

Thief in the Botanical Gardens. Flowers are disappearing and the bunny garden keeper starts accusing all his friends. He’s obsessed. Then he rigs up a surveillance camera and SEES HIMSELF sleepwalking and night snacking on the flowers. He is his own villain! Incredibly disturbing to 5 year old me.

How about SNAP, CHIP and Medicaid?

Excellent. good to know, I will be trying this without ever mentioning the exact ingredients to my child.

That sounds and looks amazing. No bitterness from the eggplant?

Also a long way short of “the US will no longer bomb Yemen.”

I was wondering if they maybe chased him from a different era? The Klan couple kept saying there hadn’t been Choctaw in the area for years. And Sammy’s music bridges time…

Way to go! Can’t wait to see what you do in the new gig.

I saw that tour in Somerville, MA, two nights (one for each record), sold out in an old theater. Stephen Merritt commented midway through that the way the crowd knew each song so well that they waited until the very very end to cheer and clap was actually freaking him out. Truly unforgettable show.

I would have gone back to bed as soon as the orange beads started dropping on me.