Chris Lovett
@clovettboston.bsky.social
Journalist based in Boston.
October 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This afternoon. Boston Common. #nokings #nokingsboston @50501movement.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This afternoon. Boston Common. #nokings #nokingsboston @50501movement.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social
Addressing supporters in Roslindale Village, @mayorwu.boston.gov celebrates first-place finish in yesterday’s preliminary election. As of early this morning, with 69.82% of the vote reported, @wutrain.bsky.social had 70% of the vote, with co-finalist @joshforboston.bsky.social receiving almost 25%.
September 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Addressing supporters in Roslindale Village, @mayorwu.boston.gov celebrates first-place finish in yesterday’s preliminary election. As of early this morning, with 69.82% of the vote reported, @wutrain.bsky.social had 70% of the vote, with co-finalist @joshforboston.bsky.social receiving almost 25%.
Via @dotnews.bsky.social: as part of a series on mayoral candidates, this week's profile of @wutrain.bsky.social. #bospoli dotnews.com/2025/tracing...
August 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Via @dotnews.bsky.social: as part of a series on mayoral candidates, this week's profile of @wutrain.bsky.social. #bospoli dotnews.com/2025/tracing...
From my visits to "Peter" (up to 2019), I detect parallels between the transition from post-Soviet to neo-Monarchist and the ongoing "очищение" in the US, from procedural state to military-corporate absolutism, anchored in pseudo-religious "народность" + servility not squeezed from our veins.
July 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
From my visits to "Peter" (up to 2019), I detect parallels between the transition from post-Soviet to neo-Monarchist and the ongoing "очищение" in the US, from procedural state to military-corporate absolutism, anchored in pseudo-religious "народность" + servility not squeezed from our veins.
Exam schools are a micro of a larger problem: how a steeper income divide makes the "best" education even more exclusionary. While Boston tries to recalibrate, the federal government has other ideas. dotnews.com/2025/policy-...
July 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Exam schools are a micro of a larger problem: how a steeper income divide makes the "best" education even more exclusionary. While Boston tries to recalibrate, the federal government has other ideas. dotnews.com/2025/policy-...
"All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war" (Walter Benjamin). So it appeared in 2019 from the Hermitage annex in the "General Staff Building," as I trained my cell phone on the spectacle on the former site of an uprising in Palace Square.
July 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war" (Walter Benjamin). So it appeared in 2019 from the Hermitage annex in the "General Staff Building," as I trained my cell phone on the spectacle on the former site of an uprising in Palace Square.
From yesterday's Dorchester Day Parade. @dotnews.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
From yesterday's Dorchester Day Parade. @dotnews.bsky.social
Former Boston Mayor and US Ambassador to the Vatican, Ray Flynn, speaks during tonight’s book launch for “The Battle for Boston,” by his former senior side, Don Gillis.
May 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Former Boston Mayor and US Ambassador to the Vatican, Ray Flynn, speaks during tonight’s book launch for “The Battle for Boston,” by his former senior side, Don Gillis.
Don Gillis, former senior aide to former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn discuss the change of Boston’s political track through the 1983 election. Titled “The Battle for Boston,” the book describes a number of contributors to the transformation, including mayoral co-finalist Mel King.
May 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Don Gillis, former senior aide to former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn discuss the change of Boston’s political track through the 1983 election. Titled “The Battle for Boston,” the book describes a number of contributors to the transformation, including mayoral co-finalist Mel King.
via @dotnews.bsky.social: New book on Ray Flynn by former aide Don Gillis examines how Boston was reshaped by the "change" election of mayor and district representation in 1983. dotnews.com/2025/battle-...
May 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
via @dotnews.bsky.social: New book on Ray Flynn by former aide Don Gillis examines how Boston was reshaped by the "change" election of mayor and district representation in 1983. dotnews.com/2025/battle-...
Via @dotnews.bsky.social: City officials try to square FY26 budget with declining growth and mounting uncertainties.
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April 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Via @dotnews.bsky.social: City officials try to square FY26 budget with declining growth and mounting uncertainties.
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April 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This afternoon. Tremont Street, Boston. #handsoff. @mass50501.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This afternoon. Tremont Street, Boston. #handsoff. @mass50501.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
via @dotnews.bsky.social: Boston Public Schools get "mixed" grade as state focus shifts from outcomes to process--and as new challenges loom from federal actions. www.dotnews.com/2025/mixed-r...
April 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
via @dotnews.bsky.social: Boston Public Schools get "mixed" grade as state focus shifts from outcomes to process--and as new challenges loom from federal actions. www.dotnews.com/2025/mixed-r...
via @dotnews.bsky.social: It's been 76 years since an incumbent Boston mayor was voted out of office, but there was a close call amid the upheavals of 1975. A look at a Boston political norm--and the makings of a near-exception. dotnews.com/2025/parade-...
March 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
via @dotnews.bsky.social: It's been 76 years since an incumbent Boston mayor was voted out of office, but there was a close call amid the upheavals of 1975. A look at a Boston political norm--and the makings of a near-exception. dotnews.com/2025/parade-...
via @dotnews.bsky.social :It's been 76 years since an incumbent Boston mayor was voted out of office, but it came close to happening amid the upheavals of 1975. A look at a Boston political norm--and the makings of an exception.
March 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
via @dotnews.bsky.social :It's been 76 years since an incumbent Boston mayor was voted out of office, but it came close to happening amid the upheavals of 1975. A look at a Boston political norm--and the makings of an exception.
via @dotnews.bsky.social: how affordability depends on the growth that makes housing less affordable--and the limited power of policy. dotnews.com/2025/afforda...
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
via @dotnews.bsky.social: how affordability depends on the growth that makes housing less affordable--and the limited power of policy. dotnews.com/2025/afforda...
This afternoon. Boston Common. "Stand with Ukraine" rally observing third anniversary of Russian invasion.
February 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This afternoon. Boston Common. "Stand with Ukraine" rally observing third anniversary of Russian invasion.
When it comes to regulating development in Boston, all parties try to advance agendas, whether to boost housing supply or minimize displacement. A look, via @dotnews.bsky.social, at the CityCouncil's airing of the tussle over Mayor Wu's "Squares + Streets" initiative. dotnews.com/2025/council...
January 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
When it comes to regulating development in Boston, all parties try to advance agendas, whether to boost housing supply or minimize displacement. A look, via @dotnews.bsky.social, at the CityCouncil's airing of the tussle over Mayor Wu's "Squares + Streets" initiative. dotnews.com/2025/council...
January 12. Jamaica Pond.
January 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
January 12. Jamaica Pond.
The second coming of the Kelly Rink? Hockey this afternoon on Wards Pond in Jamaica Plain. And, no, I would not want to ride over it between periods on a Zamboni.
January 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The second coming of the Kelly Rink? Hockey this afternoon on Wards Pond in Jamaica Plain. And, no, I would not want to ride over it between periods on a Zamboni.
via @dotnews.bsky.social: data prompts small changes and more analysis of admissions policy for Boston exam schools. dotnews.com/2024/new-dat...
January 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
via @dotnews.bsky.social: data prompts small changes and more analysis of admissions policy for Boston exam schools. dotnews.com/2024/new-dat...