For 133 straight years, no matter what, Boston Latin and Boston English met on Thanksgiving in the longest continuous high school rivalry in America — until 2020 finally broke the streak.
It’s not my practice to use insulting language to describe someone’s intellectual capacity. But even with my boundless imagination, I find this to be among the most dim-witted and self-aggrandizing behaviors fathomable.
Old enough to remember Very Serious Journalists who lapped up the Nuzzi piece on Biden last summer as gospel and if you think anyone in that category is going to offer a mea culpa you’ve got another thing coming.
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s not my practice to use insulting language to describe someone’s intellectual capacity. But even with my boundless imagination, I find this to be among the most dim-witted and self-aggrandizing behaviors fathomable.
Do I try to explain the Nuzzi-Lizza situation to my in-laws at Thanksgiving dinner or do I just pass the stuffing and keep screaming in my own brain hmmmmmmm
Beaucoup trop de gens pensent que cette situation est surmontable. Ils croient que nous reviendrons simplement à la normale après les élections de mi-mandat et présidentielles.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Beaucoup trop de gens pensent que cette situation est surmontable. Ils croient que nous reviendrons simplement à la normale après les élections de mi-mandat et présidentielles.
The US Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Labor Department and parceling out other core job duties to other federal agencies in the most sweeping effort so far to dismantle the agency. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/18/i...
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
…or maybe they found a way to turn the lights back on and preserve the filibuster w/o outright defying the WH. That means they effectively threw in the towel on healthcare. There is no road left to kick the can down.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
…or maybe they found a way to turn the lights back on and preserve the filibuster w/o outright defying the WH. That means they effectively threw in the towel on healthcare. There is no road left to kick the can down.
Senate Democrats had the power to do one thing: This shutdown. And this is what they did with it. Maybe this is some brilliant political calculus, in which case I'll happily eat my words. But right now, it feels like the beginning of the end of the party in its current form--and by its own hand.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Senate Democrats had the power to do one thing: This shutdown. And this is what they did with it. Maybe this is some brilliant political calculus, in which case I'll happily eat my words. But right now, it feels like the beginning of the end of the party in its current form--and by its own hand.