Jennifer Weeks

Fist bump from Boston, another great but not-as-big city

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits, according to people familiar with the plans. Gift link: wapo.st/4qa8yoq

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Support politicians who will fight for you the way Ramses attacks this ribbon wand #caturday

There was a fun NYT op-ed years ago by a mom about listening to classic rock on the car radio with her young kids. A Four Seasons song played and her toddler was sure that Frankee Vallee was Elmo

Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign got their hands on Mikie Sherrill’s unredacted military records illegally.

She has nothing to hide, but that’s not the point.

If they’ll violate a Navy vet & Congresswoman’s privacy, no one is safe from their dirty tricks. #VoteNJ

And I've seen you on the corners and cafes, it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme

Offering gifted programs is one way to keep advanced learners from leaving for private schools.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Illinois

Minnesota: Split bipartisan legislature.

Kept the government open. Invested in improving lives. Responsible budget cuts.

Washington: Republicans control House, Senate, Oval Office.

Government shutdown. Driving up health care costs by thousands. Skyrocketing national debt.

Now teach ChatGPT to consume itself, like the vacuum monster in Yellow Submarine

Way to use the Force

New Yorkers are so timid and reticent, this should work well.

All that body armor can slow you down.

Opinion | Meet us on the rail trail A place to gather as Americans, not partisans.

Just rode 20 miles today on rail trails in west suburban Boston. If you build them, they WILL come. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Andy McCarthy: "The indictment almost fails as an indictment in that it doesn't give you notice of what Comey has actually done. But factually there's nothing there. So this smacks of wanting to put Comey through the process, which is what lawfare is."

List of people who underestimated me and how that worked out for them In this notebook, we celebrate the glorious moments when others underestimated you, only to witness your epic triumphs. Spoiler alert: they regretted it.

There's a company called WTF Notebooks that has a whole line of these, although I don't think they're explicitly political wtfnotebooks.com/products/lis...

We replaced a couch and armchair 3 or 4 years ago, and every major supplier was like "You can have this floor model in a random color or wait 6 months for us to get it made in Asia in your color."

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Silly Putty

Each year in Boston, student move-ins lead to loads of bulky furniture on curbs—HKS students provided the city with solutions. Naomi Carolan MPP 2025 and Nora Cahill MPP 2025 tackled “Allston Christmas” for a culminated HKS project.

Amid all the bad news about higher ed, smart people are still doing good work. Here, two @harvardkennedy.bsky.social students worked with Boston agencies to reduce waste from the city's yearly student moving day, aka Allston Christmas (IYKYK) www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

HUD's annual count of people who are homeless, which happens yearly in January, will probably be ditched next. www.hudexchange.info/programs/hdx...

Titanium Dan
Supersonic Youth
The Self-Driving Cars

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: < A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

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Large coral-hued dahlia flower in full bloom

Large purple dahlia flower in full bloom

A house in my neighborhood has dahlias that are dialed up to 11, and I wish I could give them to everyone everywhere.

Exactly this

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Robert Frost

One of the great rewatchables -- terrific cast, a script full of twists, fantastic period sets and costumes and a score that's a couple decades out of place (ragtime was big in the early 1900s, not the 30s) but works. Hollywood at its best.

Wind turbine parts for offshore projects still staging in New London, in spite of the Trump admin trying to kill it all off

Not the first time that Never-Trump Republicans have been much clearer about where things are going and what needs to be done than current Dem leaders.

Mud season, otherwise it's pretty good