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Baker and Murphy signs were mounted on a public building on public land.

The public has been inured to believe that this behavior is acceptable.

It’s not acceptable.

To the men who are still explaining Wonder Woman to me in replies… you don’t quite get us, and that’s OK. We love you anyway.

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Headline Bartenders: New York City election a referendum on Michelle Wu

Funny, I would think the Boston Mayoral election is a referendum on Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, but the Herald’s Joey Batts has the Galaxy Brain take

Someone put "Zombie" by The Cranberries on this office Halloween party playlist.

dems have been having debates about "social issues" vs "economic issues" and how that interacts with class and education for my entire life, what i think is genuinely new is the prominence of climate change and the priortization gap on climate change between college+ dems and everyone else

Ooh I wonder if she’ll follow the President’s advice to refuse the infant H1-B vax

this is the crucial gap between pragmatic electoral centrism and Starmer-McSweeneyism

you have to understand, if pragmatic electoral centrism gets you a win, you build on it with good policy that makes people's lives better, not by using government as a means to do more pragmatic electoral centrism

Food stamps remind me of vaccines, we basically eliminated hunger like we eliminated measles, both incredible human accomplishments the GOP is determined to reverse.

i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman

Most directly.

Denethor would argue, not wholly wrongly, that Gondor has been protecting the lands west and north of it for centuries. But Gondor didn't do anything about Smaug or the orcs of the Misty Mountains, etc.

eep

the other thing that i miss in modern movies? actual explosions. they blew up that set!

It spends too much time being a zombie movie in the second half.

We have specific people, but I wouldn't address any older relative (much less a stranger) as uncle or auntie, which seems common in some other cultures.

I think of older American movies where someone will address an unknown old man as "grandfather", which is common in Japan.

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

Warner Brothers

I don't want to get into a fight with Literally Everyone about the Welcome PAC paper, but I do have an interpretive note

the people writing it are really, really mad at Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer

they are not writing it to defend those people but to castigate them

Can't tell you how happy I was that Richard Harmon was in the movie longer than it appeared he would be, and how that let him act afterwards.

support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

Megachusetts will rise.

You might wonder why the Newton Rep is telling a Maine candidate what to do, but in fact people in Massachusetts consider Maine to really still be part of their Commonwealth, temporarily granted statehood status to give New England more votes until the Sputh gets its shit together

Issue differences are important, but they can be addressed by adults with deft political touch. In practice what often happens is they lash out at one another in ways they’d never dream of if a sympathetic stakeholder pressed them on live TV. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-inh...

This is like, a genocidal meme expressed through the imagination of a 12 year old boy in 1999 bsky.app/profile/athe...

The movie invented misdeeds of the English to justify the Gibson character’s hatred of them, so I guess that tracks

Actually funny phishing email.

Will Lewis gets up every day asking: How can I get more suburban DC readers to cancel their subscriptions? It's called grindset and you wouldn't understand.

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I MUST share Mayor Wu's letter welcoming the ATA 66 Conference to Boston.
I was so excited with her words, truly directed to translators and interpreters from a person who clearly understands what language is and values our profession.
Thank you Mayor Wu ❤️

Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 #ata66