Sam Mintz

You can make basically anyone or any organization look bad with contextless screenshots of a few words. Consider if doing that is productive or if you're just making people mad to get your little social media dopamine hits

Folks it's a news article and a good one, it would be cool if people on bluesky would actually read the articles

Loved this slice of life (death?) story from reporter Heather Beasley Doyle, which includes so many fascinating historical and contemporary facts about Brookline's public cemetery.

Like: Cremation is growing in popularity nationally, but most customers here still prefer full-body lots.

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

"I'm usually pretty appalled by the perspective and issues that Bari has decided to use her considerable platform to amplify," Rosner wrote to me in an e-mail. "Even more, I find her apparent bafflement at being joked about and criticized-even as she has made her profession out of diminishing and criticizing people with whom she disagrees-to be cut from the same flimsy moral fabric as her public opinions."

2019 ✨

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Saving money on these subscriptions is a nice silver lining to the collapse of our media institutions

David Ellison saw the other news institutions collapsing because of cowardly reactionary decisions by their leaders and said "how do i get in on this"

One of the more obsequious, facile and quietly unhinged statements I've read in a long time, which is perfectly aligned with the nature of this business decision

Beyond infuriating to watch this serial misinformation account again take my reporting and skew it beyond recognition to suit a right wing agenda.

There is absolutely no indication that the man arrested shot "at" the temple or targeted jews, and our story does not state that.

One of the odder crime stories we've covered in recent times

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.”

🔗 www.404media.co/openais-sora...

I think the most appropriate response to the Bari Weiss CBS news is to double down on support for independent news outlets that aren't funded by billionaires and exist to serve communities and people, rather than those billionaires' ideological and financial gain

ICE made third arrest in Brookline, police official says - Brookline.News The latest ICE detention came after a man was arrested by Brookline police on charges including domestic assault and battery, strangulation or suffocation and issuing threats.

ICE detained a 30-year-old man in Brookline last week, waiting for hours outside the police station after he was arrested for alleged domestic violence.

It's the third ICE arrest documented here since the start of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

brookline.news/ice-made-thi...

Shutdown comes to Brookline: The Navy Band Northeast's Jack Tar Brass Band performance which was scheduled for Saturday at Olmsted Park in Brookline has been cancelled.

FBI considered opening investigation into Jewish grocery store vandalism, emails show - Brookline.News An agent from the federal law enforcement agency was seeking to use a controversial "geofence" warrant for the potential investigation, according to public records.

The FBI considered investigating an act of vandalism at a Jewish grocery store in Brookline using a controversial investigative technique called a geofence warrant, public record emails show.

Ultimately feds did not open a case, and Brookline police have no leads

brookline.news/fbi-consider...

He discovered that the CoinEgg platform is a scam

Mouth fully dropping open at this story about Cambridge superintendent finalist

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/29/m...

The three Brookline area Starbucks locations that are closing all recently unionized (Coolidge Corner, Comm Ave, Cleveland Circle).

Several other Brookline locations (Brookline Village, South Brookline) which are not unionized are staying open

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

Lol, to be fair we already used a slightly more direct quote in a previous story

Update on this saga: state regulator says Brookline Town Meeting member Richard Nangle violated campaign finance law in May when he failed to disclose that he was behind local campaign spending done under the name of a dormant neighborhood association.

H/T to records hawk @gintautasd.bsky.social

Asked to name three politicians he admires or agrees with, Zohran Mamdani starts with Boston mayor Michelle Wu

Heroic here from Robert Decherd, who fought off a lucrative bid for his Dallas Morning News from Alden Global Capital, which as the story notes has a pesky habit of throwing newspapers in the wood chipper for profit.

Great write up and thanks for sharing some good news, @joshuabenton.com

Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

Chen's trial began on Tuesday, but the Norfolk District Attorney's Office said Wednesday morning that it would not continue with prosecution of the case, because the alleged victim did not want to testify.

She "maintains that her statement to investigators were true," the office said.

Prosecutors drop charges against former Brookline teacher accused of sexually assaulting student - Brookline.News The Norfolk District Attorney’s office said the victim stands behind her statements but does not want to testify, and that they are unable to proceed without her testimony. The charges against Larry C...

Breaking news: Prosecutors have dropped the charges against Larry Chen, a former Brookline teacher who was accused of raping a 12-year-old student between 2016 and 2018 at the then-Heath School.

brookline.news/prosecutors-...

Seth Moulton believed to be weighing 2026 primary challenge to Ed Markey - The Boston Globe The Salem Democrat has not made a final decision but is seriously looking at challenging the two-term Democratic senator, several sources told the Globe.

News—Rep. Seth Moulton is seriously considering a 2026 primary challenge against Sen. Ed Markey

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/n...