Renée Graham 🏳️🌈
@rygraham.bsky.social
Boston Globe opinion columnist and associate editor. Lego nerd. NY Mets fan. Rockfordphile. Occasionally seen & heard. She/Her. OUTTAKES newsletter. Subscribe: globe.com/outtakes
I think often of the time Trump needed a "cheat sheet" to remember to say things like "I hear you" to people who lost children and other family members in the Parkland school shooting in 2018.
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I think often of the time Trump needed a "cheat sheet" to remember to say things like "I hear you" to people who lost children and other family members in the Parkland school shooting in 2018.
Nancy Pelosi to retire at the end of her term.
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nancy Pelosi to retire at the end of her term.
A national disgrace, courtesy of Trump and the Republicans.
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A national disgrace, courtesy of Trump and the Republicans.
Here's when I knew De Niro was a real one. When Black children were being kidnapped and murdered in Atlanta in the early '80s, green ribbons became a symbol of remembrance and as a reminder. De Niro was the only person to wear one at the 1981 Academy Awards.
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here's when I knew De Niro was a real one. When Black children were being kidnapped and murdered in Atlanta in the early '80s, green ribbons became a symbol of remembrance and as a reminder. De Niro was the only person to wear one at the 1981 Academy Awards.
Repeated on CBS Sunday Morning, a detail about this sordid story that should never be forgotten:
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Repeated on CBS Sunday Morning, a detail about this sordid story that should never be forgotten:
Too soon an ancestor — remembering the incomparable D'Angelo. My latest OUTTAKES newsletter. Subscribe: globe.com/outtakes
October 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Too soon an ancestor — remembering the incomparable D'Angelo. My latest OUTTAKES newsletter. Subscribe: globe.com/outtakes
The incomparable @anntelnaes.bsky.social from her Substack, Open Windows.
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The incomparable @anntelnaes.bsky.social from her Substack, Open Windows.
Better headline: “Trump administration threatens to starve mothers and children.”
October 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Better headline: “Trump administration threatens to starve mothers and children.”
The 2022 Lego tribute set for Jane Goodall.
October 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The 2022 Lego tribute set for Jane Goodall.
This is from the Kindle edition of Kamala Harris’ new memoir, “107 Days.” This date is wrong. The debate was June 27, not July 27. (Biden dropped out July 21.) How does no one catch this? I blame Jeff Bezos.
September 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This is from the Kindle edition of Kamala Harris’ new memoir, “107 Days.” This date is wrong. The debate was June 27, not July 27. (Biden dropped out July 21.) How does no one catch this? I blame Jeff Bezos.
September 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Now I have to share my latest set: Space Shuttle Discovery and the Hubble telescope
September 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Now I have to share my latest set: Space Shuttle Discovery and the Hubble telescope
#OTD in 1963: Four Black girls — Denise McNair, 11, Addie Mae Collins, 14, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14 — were murdered when a bomb placed by white supremacists exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
September 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#OTD in 1963: Four Black girls — Denise McNair, 11, Addie Mae Collins, 14, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14 — were murdered when a bomb placed by white supremacists exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
This is blatantly illegal.
September 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is blatantly illegal.
Oh my God…Pfizer’s CEO trying to win over Trump
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Oh my God…Pfizer’s CEO trying to win over Trump
This needs more context.
Context: He's lying.
Context: He's lying.
August 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This needs more context.
Context: He's lying.
Context: He's lying.
Not a drag queen. Not a trans woman.
August 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Not a drag queen. Not a trans woman.
Make no mistake — this was always Netanyahu’s ultimate plan.
August 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Make no mistake — this was always Netanyahu’s ultimate plan.