Robert David Sullivan

13 seems rather high

Twitter/X “fragmented the conversation across ideological lines, versus one protocol being able to host everything. Maybe that desire was just way too idealistic.”

For all its usefulness, Bluesky has helped prove that a social media national conversation is indeed unrealistic.

If I die in the next few days, it's because a truck just drove through a puddle and splashed street water directly into my face.

Opinion | Why America needs evangelicals on the Supreme Court — and more The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.

Not saying he's right, but the photo doesn't contradict him: "Evangelicals have excelled in politics... But they are all but absent from the leadership of prestigious universities, major foundations, Big Tech companies, leading financial firms and large media companies." wapo.st/4d0rIJ6

If it's worth commenting on, it's worth sharing. "Evangelicals have excelled in politics... But they are all but absent from the leadership of prestigious universities, major foundations, Big Tech companies, leading financial firms and large media companies."

wapo.st/4d0rIJ6

I'm sad to see cinemas closing, but this looks kind of disgusting. Cleaning up popcorn and spilled soda seems bad enough.

Haitian man who had been living in Mass. dies in ICE custody after untreated toothache U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren as well as U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent a letter on Thursday to the Trump administration demanding "a full investigation" into the man's death.

www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

The Boston Globe asks, "When did Southie get richy-rich?"

Want to know why Southie upscaled so rapidly? Why Southie's blue collar workforce (typically two units in each triple-decker) moved? Why current renters will be slammed?

It's not rocket science. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/n...

The next step would be deciding how to handle political opponents who can't be deported (i.e., American-born citizens), and there's no good outcome to that.

James Talarico, who just received the Democratic nomination for US Senate from Texas, was the lead sponsor of last session's successful single stair bill in the Texas House.

Yes, but I'm still glad that AOC and Ayanna Pressley beat more experienced incumbents to get into Congress 😉

I don't think Talarico is less qualified for being a state legislator rather than a U.S. representative. One of the Democratic Party's biggest flaws is its dogged insistence on the seniority system. (Nothing against Crockett, but there's no point to primaries if they just move people up the ladder.)

This is how the Boston Tea Party started

Mr. Eliason, who advocates allowing single-stair construction for small multifamily buildings as a solution to the housing crisis, said he learned how common the design was outside the United States while working in Germany in 2019. After seeing an 11-story tower his firm at the time had designed, Mr. Eliason recalled, he turned to his boss and said: "Something is wrong here. Where's your other stair?" "He's looking at me, and said: 'What are you talking about? If there was another stair, there wouldn't be any room for the homes'"

Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)

Stick to teacup alligators

Against Unjust and Unjustified War with Iran The Trump administration's reasoning not only fails to meet the criteria for military action in any formulation of just war theory or international law, it also fails the test of common sense.

The editors of America magazine: "The Middle East has once again been plunged into strife and uncertainty—and the primary culprit is the American president who promised to end the U.S. habit of engaging in “forever wars”: Donald J. Trump."

www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...

Which city would like to take center stage in the resistance movement against Trump? Ah, forget it, it would bring more traffic.

Though “Let me save you people from your own stupidity” rarely works anywhere

If there is one state where political advice from outsiders will backfire, it’s Maine.

It's true enough that since the rise of social media, editors are forced to recognize that people not longer see a difference between editorials and individually written columns. The result is, I fear, a dumbing-down of opinion sections.

Jill is correct. At my publication, we run opinion pieces and we obviously don't "support" everything expressed in them.

Newspapers and magazines want people to read everything they publish, but sometimes they just want to reveal or illuminate the thinking behind a particular political stand, not to endorse it.

They look like perfectly tidy whoopie pies

Lots to say about antirenter prejudice, how it serves to bundle & obscure deeper biases re race & class & age, and about the electoral assumptions required for a councilor of a majority renter city to take this stance, but the thing I keep coming back to is just: what an absolute dick thing to say

Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...

Alabama provides the greatest arguments against the death penalty | Alabama Reflector The state wants to execute a 75-year-old man for being present at a murder he did not commit. It's not justice. It's bloodlust.

My column from Monday. Alabama plans to execute a wheelchair-bound, 75-year-old man who did not kill anyone. There is no reason to do so except a cruel and pig-headed insistence on process, one that a daughter of the victim opposes. It’s another example of the injustice of the death penalty.

But doctor, sunlight is what makes me sad!

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

"Mayor Gary Christenson doesn’t understand why every storefront in downtown Malden is not occupied." Knowing the demographics of my hometown, I wouldn't invest there now because of the shut-off in immigration. Immigrants have been keeping the city alive for decades.

Sue!