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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.

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Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

06.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 1329 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 17
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This is why we need big newsrooms with lots of reporters who can dig into things. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...

05.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 254 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

05.03.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 6212 πŸ” 790 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 31

I love petty yet high stakes airline drama

03.03.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Town leaders debate override size as they weigh largest ask in state history - Brookline.News Town and school leaders have asked for a combined $24 million. If that number ends up on the ballot, it would be by far the largest municipal override request ever in Massachusetts.

Facing big financial headwinds, Brookline town leaders are wrestling with how to size an override for the May ballot.

The $24 million that town departments and schools have asked for would be the largest override bid in state history. Would voters say yes?

brookline.news/town-leaders...

03.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
β€œWhy a paper anywhere in the U.S. would want to draft an article that affirmatively states that someone who is a private individual is a child abuser, without doing enormous amounts of verification work and being certain that they are correct is beyond my understanding,” Ochs said. β€œAnd unfortunately, that’s what happened here.”

β€œWhy a paper anywhere in the U.S. would want to draft an article that affirmatively states that someone who is a private individual is a child abuser, without doing enormous amounts of verification work and being certain that they are correct is beyond my understanding,” Ochs said. β€œAnd unfortunately, that’s what happened here.”

Jackson, Wyo., newspaper settles $25m defamation lawsuit. What can be learned? #journalism wyofile.com/jackson-news...

03.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A third of town's public EV chargers to be temporarily shut off as demand fails to materialize - Brookline.News 24 of the town's 62 public chargers will be "bagged" for a year because of under-utilization, a business decision made by charging company Greenspot.

24 electric vehicle chargers in two Brookline parking lots will be shut down for a year, and the parking spots opened up again for general parking.

The Greenspot chargers have been under-utilized and the company made a business decision to temporarily close them.

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02.03.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i'm teaming up with kalshi to pick up a car battery, angle it so that one of its corners is pointed at the ground, and drop it directly on my toenail

02.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 2271 πŸ” 213 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 5

I thought this was the worst until I drove on Heath Street for the first time next to a green line train just rolling down the traffic lane

02.03.2026 11:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Platner says he’ll remove tattoo that resembles Nazi symbol His former political director said he "knows damn well" what the tattoo signifies.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

www.pressherald.com/2026/02/26/g...

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01.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If I had a nickel for every time Graham Platner had an unsettling Nazi connection I'd have 15 cents which isn't a lot but--

01.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is just Keefe from Righteous Gemstones

01.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was β€˜longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

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01.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The MA legislature has been frosty to local home rule petitions asking for rent control in the past.

But Brookline's current bid, passed by Town Meeting in 2023, is getting a friendlier reception than many expected.

Timing with a statewide ballot question coming in November not coincidental

01.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

01.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 13989 πŸ” 4445 πŸ’¬ 472 πŸ“Œ 358

Never let the facts get in the way of a good righteous skeet

01.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No, she's not. It's a completely different device called Whoop that tracks health and sleep metrics. No mic, GPS or cell data and approved by NSA for this use

01.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 2
Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas.
"There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

01.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 4898 πŸ” 990 πŸ’¬ 201 πŸ“Œ 181
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Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

01.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 2276 πŸ” 324 πŸ’¬ 118 πŸ“Œ 393

Prediction markets gleefully allowing bets on acts of war that go on to kill dozens of children, some of the most ghoulish shit imaginable and it's like number 50 on the list of awful things that have happened in the last week

01.03.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Polymarket defends the war markets: "After discussing with those directly affected by the attacks, who had dozens of questions, we realized that prediction markets could give them the answers they needed in ways TV news and 𝕏 could not."

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28.02.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 239 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 75

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

01.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 8824 πŸ” 2920 πŸ’¬ 189 πŸ“Œ 236
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28.02.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Only the second funniest joke he has made about war in the Middle East

28.02.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What more relaxing feeling could there be going into a Friday evening than having seven articles that need to be published next week and none of them started

27.02.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Letters to the editor Archives - Brookline.News Brookline.News welcomes letters that respond to a story or other item in Brookline.News. To write a letter in response to an article on the Brookline.News website, go to that article and submit your r...

We've published a bunch of letters to the editor this week, mainly focused on development and zoning. Read what your neighbors think about Brookline's future:

brookline.news/topics/opini...

27.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lawmakers say US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, members of Congress said Thursday, and the Federal Aviation Administration responded by closing more airspace near El Paso, Texas.

The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, members of Congress said Thursday, and the Federal Aviation Administration responded by closing more airspace near El Paso, Texas. n.pr/4sfXciR

27.02.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 272 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 32

Is this streaming somewhere in the US?? Been trying to figure out where to watch it

27.02.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weaponβ€”and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental stateβ€”set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

25.02.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 592 πŸ” 322 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 36
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Here's a map of the proposed new stations

26.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0