Victoria McGrane

By my count we now have TWO Bushes voting for the Democrat in Texas Senate race www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

@bostonglobe.com doesn't just have stories about lesbian bars we also have stories about fancy towns drowning in their own sewage because... town character www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/21/m...

UNITED CEO Scott Kirby: “.. Wealth inequality has become a danger to our society, .. We should have a national wealth tax ..” @nytimes.com $UAL www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/b...

sure, why not

I had two kids in the NICU which produced a $10k bill because two insurers both said "not me!" for 36 hours of it. I fixed it by applying the full scope of my skills as civil litigation attorney. It would've cost >$10k to hire me to do it; as a policy matter, I consider that wholly unacceptable.

it would be ironic if the end result of all this is the end of mercantilism being a populist idea

It's the championship matchup for Best Boston Movie: Spotlight v Good Will Hunting for you journalism nerds out there, Spotlight is currently losing, so go VOTE www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/09/a...

'The Departed' turns 20 this year. But is it really the most Boston movie out there? You tell us! We're doing a movie bracket baby www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/02/s...

This is what we lose with the death of local papers. bsky.app/profile/suga...

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

I repeat, the Wall Street Journal

Remember back in April when the president of Cornell allegedly ran over a student with his car? The Cornell Sun broke that story too. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

US consumer confidence fell in September to the lowest level since 2014 as pessimism grew about the economy and the labor market

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

What a sweet portrait of a loving family.

“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social

JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”

A well-preserved bird feather from the age of dinosaurs has been found inside a fossilized piece of dinosaur poop — revealing how some bird species may have escaped extinction.

Nick Cage has angered the gods somehow

DOUBLED www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

Incredible sentence.

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this is why I take commuter rail

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Headline from....the Daily Mail.

This is a really telling line in NYT story about AES: "In Dearborn, which swung sharply away from Democrats in 2024, he received more total votes than Kamala Harris did there in the 2024 presidential election"

Opens Bluesky Sees this post Closes Bluesky

E.g. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/m...

Meanwhile if colleges and universities didn’t take gender into account in admissions women would vastly outnumber men in higher education

This is still one of my favourite photos, mainly because he told the government "you'll have to arrest me" and FDR went "fine" and literally told the press where and when he was going to arrest him

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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so much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran

Brazilian authorities blocked two senior U.S. officials from traveling to the country next week, concerned that the visitors planned to sow doubt about the security of the nation’s voting systems, according to U.S. and Brazilian officials.

given the last decade Imma gonna have to go with NO

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

New from Sophie Schott, in our magazine: "But when your baby is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly, we cannot help you. Not because we lack the training or the skill. Because the law forbids it."

VIDEO: Maine Governor Janet Mills tried to visit a memorial site for the man killed by an ICE agent. Protesters chased her away. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/15/m...

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Really love how often @mbta-cr.bsky.social makes me late for work. Incredible stuff

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“.. one of the most remarkable examples of state capitalism in recent memory ..” @wsj.com $INTC www.wsj.com/tech/the-whi...