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Lock them up and there's a whole new set of unhoused drug addicts growing up with poverty and poor education and opportunities right behind them. We simply can't have nice things until we don't leave so many behind.
It was fun to read, too.
Free botox, oyster shucking, a table draped in mortadella meat. (yes that's meat.) It takes a lot more than cheap wine to get people into your open house these days. Had SO much fun writing this.
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Are rising foreclosures really a concern? Redfin chief economist explains 🤔🏡 #Housing #MarketTrends
Great @BostonGlobe profile of Heather Cox Richardson bostonglobe.com/2026/08/11/m…
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The Jason Arday scandal/fiasco/tragedy is a prime example of "pluralistic ignorance." No sapient being could believe his ziggurat of whoppers, but each may have privately thought that everyone else believed them. This happens when the expression of an idea is stigmatized or punished, as obviously happened here: anyone expressing common-sense incredulity was tarred as a racist, ableist, and abettor of suicide (not to mention threatened by a barracuda law firm and questioned by the police). For more on pluralistic ignorance and other extraordinary popular delusions, see When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life (preorder paperback here; out in a few weeks). amazon.com/When-Everyone-Kno… nytimes.com/2026/08/15/world…
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State codes require Massachusetts landlords to maintain minimum indoor temperatures during winter months. No comparable standard exists for keeping temperatures down in the summer.
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Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.
After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
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The family of the pretty, white equestrian who died while riding her horse has my sympathy, but does anyone think a young, Black woman who died pursuing her passion would get anywhere near the same amount of coverage? bostonglobe.com/2026/06/10/m…
Rent control is a bad idea. Everywhere. Always. That's the one thing nearly all economists agree on. We had it and it didn't work. Let's not have it again. bostonglobe.com/2026/06/02/b…
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"The truth is ugly: The world’s richest men are crushing the world’s poorest children." nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opini…
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Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
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Shocking: Page Six releases new photos showing Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini in Dallas in November 1963, at scene of O.J. Simpson’s infamous police chase in 1994
U.S. condominium owners! Expect your monthly HOA fees to go up soon. bostonglobe.com/2026/04/16/r… @OnlyBuyers @AllcockMarcus @BostonGlobe @Bostondotcom @GlobeAddress
















