Ed Lyons
@mysteriousrook.com
US+MA+Boston politics posts. Carnivorous #NeverTrump ~GOP moderate, Charlie Baker fan, writer, programmer, mad scientist, chess, father of 4 little kids; pro-LGBT+ordain-women+Gothic+Latin Catholic; public radio pundit.
Today will be the largest protest in America’s history. You can feel where this is all going. Join us in saving the country!
October 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Today will be the largest protest in America’s history. You can feel where this is all going. Join us in saving the country!
Hallelujah! Someone listened to my call to stop hyperlinking and return to footnotes. The Washington Post in this investigative story has little footnotes that expand to show you a citation without leaving the story. 👏👏👏 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
October 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hallelujah! Someone listened to my call to stop hyperlinking and return to footnotes. The Washington Post in this investigative story has little footnotes that expand to show you a citation without leaving the story. 👏👏👏 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
As of today, another rich, white, middle-aged conservative Trump supporter with no political experience seeks high office in Massachusetts. He has money and reads the WSJ, so he will do well, right? #mapoli
October 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
As of today, another rich, white, middle-aged conservative Trump supporter with no political experience seeks high office in Massachusetts. He has money and reads the WSJ, so he will do well, right? #mapoli
We've been suffering through the angry and foolish testimonies of these drawings for almost two years, the dutiful acts of masochism for the enlightened voter. So it is a sign of Nero's faltering support that even these people are now deserting The Emperor. Thank God. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We've been suffering through the angry and foolish testimonies of these drawings for almost two years, the dutiful acts of masochism for the enlightened voter. So it is a sign of Nero's faltering support that even these people are now deserting The Emperor. Thank God. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Kasparov is right! The autism and UN speeches are a reminder that this mentally broken, confused and angry old man is not running the comprehensive, 24/7 reign of terror we are seeing. Who is?
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Kasparov is right! The autism and UN speeches are a reminder that this mentally broken, confused and angry old man is not running the comprehensive, 24/7 reign of terror we are seeing. Who is?
Ms.Hajjar of the Boston Globe continues to go with the tired Trump-is-messing-up-his-righteous-plans narrative. She cannot accept that what we are seeing is real. That his minions are not making mistakes. This is the plan. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/o...
September 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ms.Hajjar of the Boston Globe continues to go with the tired Trump-is-messing-up-his-righteous-plans narrative. She cannot accept that what we are seeing is real. That his minions are not making mistakes. This is the plan. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/o...
A younger, less committed mind would have seen that the blacklists were not an opportunity to call for restraint from those creating them, but for others to adjust their thinking around what we are seeing. And boy, was this ending so very weak:
September 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A younger, less committed mind would have seen that the blacklists were not an opportunity to call for restraint from those creating them, but for others to adjust their thinking around what we are seeing. And boy, was this ending so very weak:
As usual, The Globe's political reporting disappoints. This mis-framed piece (it didn't 'fall apart', it never existed) - was better than others, but was sometimes silly. I laughed when they listed his advantages, which were just three different ways of saying he had money. #bospoli
September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
As usual, The Globe's political reporting disappoints. This mis-framed piece (it didn't 'fall apart', it never existed) - was better than others, but was sometimes silly. I laughed when they listed his advantages, which were just three different ways of saying he had money. #bospoli
Boy, The new Washington Post Editorial board can be childish at times. The idea that this level of running around grabbing innocent people does not have to be cruel? Dear Lord, the people who would do this have no intention of being anything else.
September 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Boy, The new Washington Post Editorial board can be childish at times. The idea that this level of running around grabbing innocent people does not have to be cruel? Dear Lord, the people who would do this have no intention of being anything else.
The Globe’s coverage of the mayor’s race continues to be an embarrassment. It now says @wutrain.bsky.social only winning the prelim by a landslide and not a history-making margin - so close to the final would be a “sign of weakness” that could help Kraft gain “momentum.”
Dear. Lord! #bospoli
Dear. Lord! #bospoli
September 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Globe’s coverage of the mayor’s race continues to be an embarrassment. It now says @wutrain.bsky.social only winning the prelim by a landslide and not a history-making margin - so close to the final would be a “sign of weakness” that could help Kraft gain “momentum.”
Dear. Lord! #bospoli
Dear. Lord! #bospoli
Brian Shortsleeve just texted all registered Republican likely voters in #mapoli and opened with, “Maura Healey has destroyed Massachusetts.”
I mean, the election is more than a year away. Where do you go after saying *that*? 🙄
I mean, the election is more than a year away. Where do you go after saying *that*? 🙄
August 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Brian Shortsleeve just texted all registered Republican likely voters in #mapoli and opened with, “Maura Healey has destroyed Massachusetts.”
I mean, the election is more than a year away. Where do you go after saying *that*? 🙄
I mean, the election is more than a year away. Where do you go after saying *that*? 🙄
Risks? Dear Lord. Good journalism organizations need something better than “critics say….” when the action in question is 100% against the public interest. Maybe, “Experts see corruption, tyranny, and mass suffering”
August 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Risks? Dear Lord. Good journalism organizations need something better than “critics say….” when the action in question is 100% against the public interest. Maybe, “Experts see corruption, tyranny, and mass suffering”
The Globe app and website have a banner (below) asking you to go to google and change your source preferences so that the Globe comes up higher in your results. How strange!
August 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Globe app and website have a banner (below) asking you to go to google and change your source preferences so that the Globe comes up higher in your results. How strange!
The Boston Globe blows it again. Headline and story should have gone with, “American dictator tries to wipe out dissent across private sector.” Instead we get the strangeness of The Emperor with too little fear.
August 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Boston Globe blows it again. Headline and story should have gone with, “American dictator tries to wipe out dissent across private sector.” Instead we get the strangeness of The Emperor with too little fear.
The City of Lynn police department has a summer event today where kids can bring water guns and shoot the police, who apparently... will shoot back. OK! #mapoli
August 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The City of Lynn police department has a summer event today where kids can bring water guns and shoot the police, who apparently... will shoot back. OK! #mapoli
Uh... @nytimes.com - what exactly does "friendlier economic data" mean? I get this headline was not easy. I'd have said, "Trump, looking for opposition to economic data, names new statistics chief."
August 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Uh... @nytimes.com - what exactly does "friendlier economic data" mean? I get this headline was not easy. I'd have said, "Trump, looking for opposition to economic data, names new statistics chief."
Important media story examining the latest case of Republicans manufacturing Democrat positions and then weaponizing them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...
August 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Important media story examining the latest case of Republicans manufacturing Democrat positions and then weaponizing them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...
Good morning! Time for educated Americans to volunteer for another beating, as the NYT's 2024 sequel to 2017's "Diners with MAGA" tour has yet another installment exploring the philosophies of our least informed citizens. (Please move your face into the path of the oncoming two-by-four.)
July 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Good morning! Time for educated Americans to volunteer for another beating, as the NYT's 2024 sequel to 2017's "Diners with MAGA" tour has yet another installment exploring the philosophies of our least informed citizens. (Please move your face into the path of the oncoming two-by-four.)
Any major-office MassGOP primary becomes a purgatory. Lately I keep getting bonkers messages from some odd anti-Shortsleeve group. Who would attack a guy with zero chance of becoming governor? #mapoli
July 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Any major-office MassGOP primary becomes a purgatory. Lately I keep getting bonkers messages from some odd anti-Shortsleeve group. Who would attack a guy with zero chance of becoming governor? #mapoli
Back at Sherman’s, checked to see if @scotlehigh.bsky.social’s book is still available - and glad to see it is! 👍
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Back at Sherman’s, checked to see if @scotlehigh.bsky.social’s book is still available - and glad to see it is! 👍
Dear NYTimes, have you considered that Emperor Nero is not a strategic thinker, but a deranged maniac who has no idea what he’s doing and changes his mind on a whim? You refuse to believe your own reporting of who he is.
June 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Dear NYTimes, have you considered that Emperor Nero is not a strategic thinker, but a deranged maniac who has no idea what he’s doing and changes his mind on a whim? You refuse to believe your own reporting of who he is.
In fact, one of the best father movies of all time is about an unmarried criminal who has to learn to be a father in “Despicable Me”!
June 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In fact, one of the best father movies of all time is about an unmarried criminal who has to learn to be a father in “Despicable Me”!