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Andrew Quemere
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MA-based independent journalist. Wrongful convictions, police misconduct, and public records. #mapoli

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Making one of these tomorrow. Here's a past example:
A pumpkin and vanilla ice cream pie
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/21/m...
Representative Seth Moulton’s campaign woke up this month to a pleasant surprise after posting a clip of him on MSNBC to TikTok: He had gone viral. In the video, Moulton claims President Trump is “obviously in the Epstein files" — “common sense be damned.” The video then plays singer Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red,” the lyrics “I said what I said” blasting. The TikTok racked up more than 2.7 million views in a matter of days — more than five times the reach of his next most-popular TikTok. Photo of the guy from the “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” meme
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Violating the Massachusetts Public Records Law can be a crime. Just saying.

malegislature.gov/Laws/General...
Section 15: Penalties Section 15. Whoever unlawfully keeps in his possession any public record or removes it from the room where it is usually kept, or alters, defaces, mutilates or destroys any public record or violates any provision of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Any public officer who refuses or neglects to perform any duty required of him by this chapter shall for each month of such neglect or refusal be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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love to put in writing that i plan to break the law

#Lexington #Massachusetts #mapoli #FOIA
In his story, he includes an incredibly blatant internal email sent to a school employee by Kristen McGrath, the executive administrative assistant for human resources: Attached is a spreadsheet and it looks like a pdf of the spreadsheet. The dates are 2019-2025. Can you over estimate the time it would take to compile/copy the invoices requested and let me know when you have a chance? Hopefully, when I let them know the cost they will not want to do it. Thank you! Kristen
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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hell yeah, bro
“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Glad to hear MassLive is no longer using "generative AI" for its crime reporting, but this excuse for not including names in the bylines of AI-generated stories doesn't pass the smell test.

Not telling us who is behind a story is the opposite of transparency.
MassLive Editor in Chief Ronnie Ramos told me that the outlet is “steadfastly committed to journalistic integrity” and urged the need for transparency with their audience about their use of AI. Ramos also said that MassLive is no longer using generative AI on its police and crime reporting. For stories attributed to MassLive Staff rather than a single author, Ramos said that this happens when the content being published has been entirely written by AI, before being edited and fact-checked. “We believe in fully disclosing how we use AI and being transparent with readers when we do use it, so I’m not going to have a reporter put their byline on a story that they didn’t write,” Ramos said.
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Steven Pinker blocked me on Twitter in 2023 for mentioning his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
A screenshot from Twitter showing Steven Pinker blocked me.
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I've been borrowing my partner's copy of New Pokémon Snap and posting more stupid pictures.
A Swalot wearing a black bowtie eating an ice cream cone. Three cupcakes are on the ground in front of it. There's a rainbow and hearts above it. A Murkrow wearing sunglasses. The picture has faded colors.
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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lmao
There is no honest way to tell the story of RFK Jr. and his recent, catastrophic rise to power without naming the brains behind the operation, or, rather, who was eating the brains behind the operation. Remember that RFK Jr. learned about the worm from a dark spot that showed up on his brain scans after he'd been experiencing memory loss. Remember that a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian called him to say that the spot was a dead parasite. [highlighted text] Remember that RFK Jr. relayed this information in a deposition where he said the dark spot "was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died," a sentence that might be more beautiful than any found in American Canto. [end of highlighted text]
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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some added context from julie k. brown, the investigative journalist who wrote a book about epstein
A November 15, 2025 post by Julie K. Brown on X the Everything App that says: "Dershowitz, who helped Jeffrey Epstein get this sweetheart deal, knows full well that there were almost three dozen dozen girls, ages 13 to 17, who were named in a list that accompanied this plea deal. The final plea PAPERWORK was manipulated to pick just one victim -- and his lawyers made sure they chose the oldest one so that it didn't look so bad. But the girl who came forward first to police was 14 -- and the list of other victims attached to that deal included many young girls."
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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chat is this good

apnews.com/article/pept...
WASHINGTON (AP) — [highlighted text] More Americans are injecting themselves with unapproved chemicals [end of highlighted text] that are pitched as ways to build muscle, rejuvenate skin and extend life, the latest example of the nation’s fascination with alternative therapies and wellness hacks.
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Why did it have to be this guy??
Facebook post by Seth Moulton from November 13, 2025, that says: “The GOP has become the PPP: the pedophile protection party. Their only agenda is protecting pedophiles, plutocrats, and Putin.”
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Ever since I learned that Noam Chomsky knew Jeffrey Epstein, discussed politics with him, and that they once had dinner with Woody Allen, I've wanted someone to turn it into a one-act play or Socratic dialogue.

www.businessinsider.com/noam-chomsky...
The Journal reported that months later, according to the calendar, Epstein scheduled a flight with Chomsky and his wife for a planned dinner with movie director Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, who is also the adopted daughter of his ex-partner, Mia Farrow. "If there was a flight, which I doubt, it would have been from Boston to New York, 30 minutes," Chomsky told the Journal. "I'm unaware of the principle that requires that I inform you about an evening spent with a great artist." Chomsky said he discussed politics and academics in his meetings with Epstein. Epstein donated at least $850,000 between 2002 and 2017 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Chomsky taught for decades.
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Asking a convicted pedophile for dating advice isn't a crime, but you have to admit that it's pretty weird!
In dozens of emails, Summers — corresponding from his personal account — also appears to have written to Epstein with ease about his personal life. At times, he confided in Epstein about his relationship with an unnamed woman, referring to the topic and his requests for advice as the “dear Abby issue.” He recounted a conversation between himself and the woman to Epstein, telling him that at one point it had turned tense. At one point, he told Epstein, the woman brushed him off with the phrase “I’m busy.” Summers told Epstein that he responded to the woman by telling her “awfully coy you u are.” Summers then asked her, “Did u really rearrange the weekend we were going to be together because guy number 3 was coming,” he wrote to Epstein. “I dint want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits,” Summers recounted to Epstein, adding that “she must be very confused or maybe wants to cut me off but wants professional connection a lot and so holds to it.” Epstein supported Summers’ response, saying that the woman was making Summers “pay for past errors” but “no whining showed strength.”
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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If this isn't a good-faith basis to call Donald Trump a pedophile, then what more do you need?

www.vox.com/identities/2...
Trump said 17-year-old Ivanka made him promise not to date anyone younger than her On The Howard Stern Show in 1999: “I have a deal with her. She’s just 17 and doing great, Ivanka. And she made me promise or swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her. So, Howard, as she grows older, the field is getting very limited. To deal with, you know.” “The nerve of her,” Stern joked. “Now you can’t go out with 16-year-olds.” Trump just laughed.
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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You can do it, Chuck!
A photo of Senator Chuck Schumer pointing with an open speech bubble added to the bottom of the picture.
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This is Natasha, and she is a very bad cat. Tonight, she jumped on the kitchen table, knocked over some lettuce, and ate from a bowl of shredded cheese that was only intended for humans.
A beautiful long-hair tortie cat lying on a chair.
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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this might be the funniest possible way they could have characterized it
Dunn’s lawyers have claimed the case is “selective and vindictive prosecution,” arguing he was singled out for prosecution “not because of the nature of his alleged conduct — throwing a soft object that caused no injury — but because his outspoken, viral critique of the current administration’s policing and immigration policies made him a political target.” Federal prosecutors opposed Dunn’s lawyers’ motion to dismiss the charge, writing that Dunn was “recorded throwing a sandwich at a federal officer [highlighted text] at point-blank range [end of highlighted text].”
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Tonight is the fifth annual Jammin’ for Justice benefit concert in #Somerville, which raises money to send #Massachusetts exonerees to the Innocence Network Conference in Chicago.

Some of the musicians are exonerees or lawyers for exonerees.

www.newenglandinnocence.org/innocence-bl...
A flyer with information about the concert. The same information is available by clicking the link included in this post.
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Ted Kennedy died 16 years ago.
"I want to tell you how much this means to me, to receive an award that honors the legacy of my friend Teddy Kennedy, who was [highlighted text] by my side for every consequential moment of my political life [end of highlighted text]," Biden said at the event. "He made such a profound difference in my personal life."
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Mainstream publications like PBS are treating it as an open question whether it's legal for Trump to mass murder Venezuelans, so why wouldn't a right-wing propaganda outlet like TFP do the same?

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Nick Schifrin: As those two arguments indicate, the Trump administration's use of the military to combat drug cartels has sparked a debate over whether it's an appropriate and legal use of force. [highlighted text] So we have our own debate now. [end of highlighted text] Retired Lieutenant Colonel Rachel VanLandingham had a 20-year career in the Air Force and is now a law professor at Southwestern Law School. And Nicholas Creel is a law professor at Georgia College and State University.
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Even PBS is treating it this way.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Nick Schifrin: As those two arguments indicate, the Trump administration's use of the military to combat drug cartels has sparked a debate over whether it's an appropriate and legal use of force. [highlighted text] So we have our own debate now. [end of highlighted text] Retired Lieutenant Colonel Rachel VanLandingham had a 20-year career in the Air Force and is now a law professor at Southwestern Law School. And Nicholas Creel is a law professor at Georgia College and State University.
October 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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“As soon as we get close to our homes, bullets start flying from every direction, and sometimes small drones, the quadcopters, hover above us, watching every move,” he said. “Yesterday, I was with my friend when we suddenly came under heavy gunfire. We threw ourselves to the ground and stayed there until the shooting stopped. I couldn’t reach my house. “It feels like the war hasn’t really ended for me. What’s the point of a ceasefire if I still can’t return home?” He added: “It breaks my heart to see people on my way going back to their houses while I remain stuck between hope and fear. But what worries me most is the idea that this line might stay, that no decision will ever allow us to return.”
October 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Look at this shit.

#AbolishICE
A Boston federal judge today ordered the immediate release of an Ecuadorean national living in Framingham who was detained by the Border Patrol in Maine on May 14, handed over to ICE, shipped to Youngstown, OH, ordered released on July 1 on payment of a $15,000 bond, grabbed by Homeland Security in New Hampshire on July 25, shipped down to the Plymouth County jail and ordered released again by an immigration judge in Chelmsford on Aug. 4, on just $1,500 bond. Only this time ICE refused to let him out as it appealed his bond to the Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church, VA. In a ruling this afternoon, US District Court Judge Indira Talwani said enough.
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Bart Simpson chanting “More asbestos! More asbestos!”
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM