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Harm reduction doulas are challenging our preconceived notions of who is "worthy" of being a parent. New from @thesundaylongread.bsky.social: sundaylongread.com/2026/08/06/h...
Harm reduction doulas want you to ask: What makes a good parent? - The Sunday Long Read
Editor’s note: This story was written by Celeste Hamilton Dennis, with photography from Florence Middleton, and was published alongside a photo series as part of a project about harm-reduction doulas ...
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CALEB DURBIN DENIES HISTORY AND WALKS IT OFF AT 4 HOURS AND 23 MINUTES
Céspedes Family BBQ@cespedesbbq.bsky.social · 2w agothis Sox/Sox circus is trending towards the longest regular season game of the pitch clock era current record: 4 hours, 24 minutes Cubs at D-backs on 9/16/23 D-backs won 7-6 in 13 innings
Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/
NEW COLUMN: Once "The Worldwide Leader in Sports," ESPN's latest layoffs cement its new identity www.nytimes.com/athletic/746...
Once the ‘Worldwide Leader in Sports,’ ESPN’s latest layoffs cement its new identity (Gift Article)
ESPN is still a destination spot in sports media, The Athletic's Andrew Marchand writes, but it has not been a utopia for a long time.
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Water, water, everywhere (and AI isn't drinking all of it, but it is sometimes drinking a lot of it, but actually the combustion plants powering the data centers probably are the bigger problem, and it's all very nuanced) by @matteowong.bsky.social
Nobody Is Getting the Data-Center Water Question Right
How thirsty is AI, actually? And why does everyone care so much?
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“There are streets you cross that are safer because of Louisa."
The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · last mo.A cycling advocate and transportation planner for the city of Boston was identified as the cyclist who was struck and killed in a crash near Roxbury Crossing this morning.
for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in confounding attempts to explain the mystery
“Charging tenants a fee for the privilege of being able to pay rent instead of charging landlords a fee for the privilege of being able to collect rent is really lopsided." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/18/b...
Massachusetts finally banned broker fees. Why are renters still stuck paying them? - The Boston Globe
As apartment hunting season enters full swing, the Globe identified dozens of online listings that include tenant-paid broker fees, oftentimes equivalent to one month of rent.
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Ex-NYT restaurant critic Pete Wells and I have invited Chappaquiddick ferry captain Peter Wells to the group chat www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/08/m...
The Chappaquiddick elite are in a struggle with the captain of their ferry. They are losing. - The Boston Globe
After 18 years, ferry captain Peter Wells is ready to sell. Chappaquiddick residents are worried about who will buy.
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Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged
Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.
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“There was nothing, and he had a vision, and then it became something." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/15/m...
Bob Hall, first wheelchair champion of the Boston Marathon, dies at 74 - The Boston Globe
Considered "the father of wheelchair racing," Mr. Hall joined runners at the Boston Marathon starting line in 1975, inaugurating a new era of inclusion in athletic competitions.
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Legend @emilysweeney22.bsky.social brings the accent and brings joy to all! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s...
Why Is Everyone Wicked Obsessed With This Boston Globe Reporter?
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Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...
Brigham and Women's Hospital allegedly disposed of fetal or newborn remains against the family’s wishes five times in 18 months, according to lawsuits. One mother said her baby "was discarded with medical waste. I will never get justice for that.” trib.al/kOjQQj6
America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year www.statnews.com/2026/03/09/d... via @statnews.com
America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year
With the drop in overdose deaths, “we're celebrating: a death toll that exceeds total American combat fatalities in Vietnam, every single year,” writes addiction researcher Wayne Kepner.
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Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered. President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero: “In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”
Why is soccer’s most famous scoopster doing PR work for Saudi Arabia?
Why Is Soccer’s Most Famous Scoopster Doing PR Work For Saudi Arabia?
From the man who brought you questionable journalistic focus on a player accused of rape, comes an outright #ad for Saudi Arabia. That’s soccer scoopster Fabrizio Romano, taking a break from many…
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The last good day on the internet? A case can be made that it was February 26th, 2015, when llamas on the loose and Buzzfeed's "The Dress" debate pulled the world into a trance. So how did the internet get quite so bad?
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
“If you’re looking around and wondering who’s going to help, you should probably look at yourself” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/11/m...
East Boston man was ‘so angry’ about space savers that he shoveled neighborhood himself - The Boston Globe
“If you’re looking around and wondering who’s going to help, you should probably look at yourself,” Sam McGillis said.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
My latest investigation, and first in a series for @towcenter.bsky.social : How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA In the past year, we found a news-appearing network called Metric Media filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states.
Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn the past year, Metric Media filed more than 9,000 FOIA requests across all 50 states, according to an investigation by Miranda Green and the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
