Treating users of super meth, the “monster” ravaging American society. Check out this important piece by Jan Hoffman nytimes.com/2023/11/13/hea…

My obit of Rosalynn Carter, who has died at 96. “A full 16 years before Bill and Hillary Clinton would offer themselves to the nation as a package deal with the slogan ‘Buy one, get one free,’ the Carters functioned as near co-presidents.” nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/…

This obituary by ⁦Bryan Marquard⁩ captures the spirit of a smart, big-hearted man who gave me much guidance when I was new to #masspoli. Condolences to his loved ones. edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynam…

Hooray for understudies, but why has Lindsay Mendez been absent so much?

How one town tries to move forward 5 yrs after the tragedy of a mass shooting has woven itself into the fabric of life. Jess Bidgood finds enduring sorrow as well as purpose. bostonglobe.com/2023/11/22/met… via The Boston Globe

A bow to Frank Phillips for his tribute to John Walsh, MA Dem operative whose smarts about grassroots organizing + emerging internet tools revolutionized #masspoli and served as template for Obama ‘08 politi.co/480vPyW via POLITICO

In a cab just now with a driver talking about how much he missed the late great Gwen Ifill. Couldn't agree more.

The Baltimore Sun's new owner, David D. Smith, met with staffers today for more than two hours. Many left on edge. He claimed he had read the paper just four times. He grew up here; his family's local TV empire - Sinclair - is based in Baltimore Co. Other highlights:

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.

Ken getting nominated and not Barbie is honestly so fitting for a film about a man discovering the power of patriarchy in the Real World.

Greta Gerwig: Made a critically acclaimed, culturally profound, feminist movie about Barbie and the patriarchy that made a billion dollars at the box office. Oscar nomination goes to … Ken. #Barbie  #Oscars2024

And you have to make a record-breaking $1 billion at the box office, but you won’t get credit for it bc hey, it was a hot summer and people just needed to be inside air-conditioned theaters

As someone who did my time writing about Congressional appropriations, my hat is off to Catie Edmondson⁩ for her smart, creative piece on how FDR secretly funded the Manhattan Project. nytimes.com/2024/01/17/us/…

Night watchman at the Gardner who buzzed in the thieves for the biggest art heist in history has died. Michelle has the deets. bostonglobe.com/2024/02/27/met…

Read this smart framing of the opioid crisis from STAT: Virtually every sector of society is obstructing the use of meds that could prevent thousands of deaths each year; these deaths "aren't an unavoidable tragedy but a conscious choice." statnews.com/2024/03/05/opi…

With the late Joe Lieberman, VPOTUS Al Gore and the great Katharine Q. Seelye, U.S. Naval Observatory, September 2000. Not sure why nobody else thought it was sunny out there.

The power of print, even in the absence of print. No digital equivalent.

Perhaps the mysterious @ksack wanted to stay incognito…

Let me know how that works out for you…

That makes YOU de Boss!