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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 4h

Local FOX affiliate: The same story as our hard-working tiny nonprofit @brooklinenews.bsky.social but with way less detail and nuance, and four days later (and no credit).

Find it hard to understand how some reporters can be so shitty about this. I guess you toss shame out the window to work in TV.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 9h

Trump threatens to pull World Cup games from Boston (and put them in Foxborough)

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 13h

“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr"

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

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 1d

Brookline Transportation Board chair Brian Kane on whether to allow Prairie Fire in CC to use 5 parking spots for outdoor seating:

"I think it's a lot better to have a beer garden than to store private automobiles.

You want to put your steel box somewhere? Okay. I'd rather have a beer garden."

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver on Bari Weiss and CBS is so good, and the perfect primer for those who might be thinking along the lines of "aren't people just mad at her because she's a contrarian female journalist?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 2d

Chestnut Hill Realty is planning to install automated license plate readers made by the controversial company Flock outside its Hancock Village development.

Read about why the company is doing it, how Brookline police will use them, and the implications for privacy.

brookline.news/chestnut-hil...

Chestnut Hill Realty plans to install AI-powered license plate reader cameras in South Brookline - Brookline.News

The real estate company will share information from the cameras with Brookline police and other local law enforcement.

brookline.news

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 7d

You can make basically anyone or any organization look bad with contextless screenshots of a few words. Consider if doing that is productive or if you're just making people mad to get your little social media dopamine hits

Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 7d

Folks it's a news article and a good one, it would be cool if people on bluesky would actually read the articles

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 8d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 7d

Loved this slice of life (death?) story from reporter Heather Beasley Doyle, which includes so many fascinating historical and contemporary facts about Brookline's public cemetery.

Like: Cremation is growing in popularity nationally, but most customers here still prefer full-body lots.

brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 7d

Brookline's only public cemetery turns 150 this month.

The cemetery, a burying ground for residents and town employees and a much-loved piece of nature in Brookline, is facing modern challenges -- including slowly waning space that requires careful management.

brookline.news/after-150-ye...

After 150 years, the keepers of Brookline's only public cemetery are trying to figure out its future - Brookline.News

As the Walnut Hills Cemetery marks a big anniversary this month, town employees and site trustees are brainstorming about how to stretch the cemetery's slowly waning space.

brookline.news

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 8d

2019 ✨

"I'm usually pretty appalled by the perspective and issues that Bari has decided to use her considerable platform to amplify," Rosner wrote to me in an e-mail.
"Even more, I find her apparent bafflement at being joked about and criticized-even as she has made her profession out of diminishing and criticizing people with whom she disagrees-to be cut from the same flimsy moral fabric as her public opinions."

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 8d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 8d

Saving money on these subscriptions is a nice silver lining to the collapse of our media institutions

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 8d

David Ellison saw the other news institutions collapsing because of cowardly reactionary decisions by their leaders and said "how do i get in on this"

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 8d

One of the more obsequious, facile and quietly unhinged statements I've read in a long time, which is perfectly aligned with the nature of this business decision

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 10d

Beyond infuriating to watch this serial misinformation account again take my reporting and skew it beyond recognition to suit a right wing agenda.

There is absolutely no indication that the man arrested shot "at" the temple or targeted jews, and our story does not state that.

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 10d

One of the odder crime stories we've covered in recent times

brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 10d

A 43-year-old Brookline resident was arrested after allegedly firing a pellet rifle near a Beacon St synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur, breaking car window.

The man, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, told police he was hunting rats.

brookline.news/brookline-ma...

Brookline man arrested after allegedly firing pellet rifle near synagogue on eve of Yom Kippur - Brookline.News

The 43-year-old man told police he was hunting rats near his Beacon Street residence.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13d

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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404 Media @404media.co · 13d

Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.”

🔗 www.404media.co/openais-sora...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

www.404media.co

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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 12d

I think the most appropriate response to the Bari Weiss CBS news is to double down on support for independent news outlets that aren't funded by billionaires and exist to serve communities and people, rather than those billionaires' ideological and financial gain

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brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 12d

ICE detained a 30-year-old man in Brookline last week, waiting for hours outside the police station after he was arrested for alleged domestic violence.

It's the third ICE arrest documented here since the start of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

brookline.news/ice-made-thi...

ICE made third arrest in Brookline, police official says - Brookline.News

The latest ICE detention came after a man was arrested by Brookline police on charges including domestic assault and battery, strangulation or suffocation and issuing threats.

brookline.news

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