I'm sorry I know this is rude but Jesse Welles music feels very bluesky to me (pejorative)
05.12.2025 23:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@samjmintz.bsky.social
Editor at Brookline.News, a nonprofit news site covering the town of Brookline, MA. Before this, I was a reporter covering transportation and energy policy in DC and Boston.
I'm sorry I know this is rude but Jesse Welles music feels very bluesky to me (pejorative)
05.12.2025 23:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, but also it's a news outlet founded by Glenn beck so like
05.12.2025 14:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Blaze claimed they "adhered to professional journalistic standards" in the now-retracted pipe bomber story. But they did not appear to have ever contacted the woman they accused of a major crime, before or after publication, which is the most basic journalistic standard that exists.
05.12.2025 13:32 β π 264 π 47 π¬ 7 π 2And here's another fact that doesn't neatly fit the narrative: Wealthy people living in a town doesn't make the town wealthy, and it doesn't automatically translate to strong supports for less wealthy people who live in the town
05.12.2025 13:58 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0The wealth is there too. Obviously! But I think these facts (and the people behind them) get obscured and ignored often by Brookline's reputation
05.12.2025 13:53 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0I see the timeline is talking about Brookline. Your jokes are all great but here are a few facts that aren't making it into the conversation:
-700 families use the Brookline food pantry each week
-3400 people live in public housing (5% of town's population)
-More than 50% households are renters
NEW: Elon Musk posted today that a new update to Tesla's Full Self-Driving software allows drivers to text-and-drive in certain "context of surrounding traffic."
But that's just illegal. In like, essentially every state.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/m...
It's been an extremely newsy couple days in Brookline (five bylines in 24 hours for yours truly). Here's the nightcap:
05.12.2025 00:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is just popping up in local news today, here's just a few of the stories published including ours, Columbus,
04.12.2025 23:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Section 8 (voucher) tenants, who are low-income residents, are in theory supposed to be protected when the public housing agencies don't pay landlords on time. But it's possible there could be various trickle-down effects that harm tenants, especially if funding is delayed further
04.12.2025 23:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This story is going under the radar: hundreds of public housing agencies around the country are short on funds and were unable to pay some/all of their Section 8 landlords on Dec. 1.
It's a remnant of the shutdown. Here's our local take at @brooklinenews.bsky.social
brookline.news/bha-late-on-...
Even her political commentary β the thing she is allegedly good at β is fucking gibberish. We're supposed to overlook her execrable ethics for this?!
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
"These stories will be edited by a BI editor" is very funny to me.
Editor: "GPT, this is a great start. But where did this quote come from? I can't find the citation."
GPT, gobbling electricity and water: "That's a great question, Steve. Thank you for asking and your close attention to detail."
if you're trying to automate news for speed frankly you've already lost the plot, for a number of reasons. very telling that this has a lot of words about "how" and almost zero words about "why"
04.12.2025 18:55 β π 23 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0The tow truck was, in fact, towed from the scene, which unfortunately I don't have a photo of.
04.12.2025 19:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The death of Sarah Jane Hubauer, 40, who was found unresponsive in a holding cell at the Brookline Public Safety Building in July, was caused by a drug overdose, according to the Norfolk District Attorney's Office.
brookline.news/womans-death...
We have no choice but to stan a FOIA queen
04.12.2025 01:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretaryβ¦You had information that you could have sharedβ¦and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
The discourse around Boston property taxes is so deeply uninformed. I think today's Globe story does a great job explaining what's happening and why, and in particular unraveling the political forces that are almost as influential as the economics in this case.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/m...
The DA's office told Brookline.News this week that a police investigation found the driver, trooper Kyle Santoro, was not at fault.
03.12.2025 23:19 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The family of Margie Mendez, who died in April, three months after she was struck by a state trooper in a Route 9 crosswalk, has sued the Massachusetts State Police, alleging negligence and wrongful death.
brookline.news/family-sues-...
It's because you are not a bad person!
03.12.2025 15:23 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0personally I preferred the Atlantic's review
02.12.2025 18:38 β π 565 π 67 π¬ 12 π 2"In the book, Nuzzi rails against those who urge her to tell all. 'I do not wish to be understood,' she writes, 'which no one seems to understand.' This is a very good reason not to write and publish a memoir."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants on Tuesday during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting, calling them βgarbageβ he does not want in the U.S. as he sought to refocus public attention on his anti-immigration rhetoric.
02.12.2025 20:40 β π 200 π 84 π¬ 114 π 76Wow the latest Ryan Lizza gossip is absolutely crazy check it out
brookline.news/support-our-...
Great story about an interesting social services idea in Brookline, by student journalist Anna Albrecht
01.12.2025 17:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Totally exhausted by this framing in a country where cars kill 40,000 people a year. It's a classic failure of journalism (and VERY Times) to set aside an actual, horrific epidemic in favor of an infinitesimally smaller but flashier issue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
This comment on a Globe story about the possible storm next week is frying me
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