Neil Miller
@neilsmiller.bsky.social
Former federal gov. data scientist, urbanist, Neilchik
Your Friendly Neighborhood Puppet Master
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October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Your Friendly Neighborhood Puppet Master
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Freudian slip? "Chapter 40B has a long history of succession Massachusetts" - home rule must really be important in some places.
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July 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Freudian slip? "Chapter 40B has a long history of succession Massachusetts" - home rule must really be important in some places.
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Boston cares!
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social Blood Center sent out urgent need for platelets yesterday afternoon, and they've been full all day today.
Make an appointment to donate: www.bostonchildrens.org/halfpints
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social Blood Center sent out urgent need for platelets yesterday afternoon, and they've been full all day today.
Make an appointment to donate: www.bostonchildrens.org/halfpints
July 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Boston cares!
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social Blood Center sent out urgent need for platelets yesterday afternoon, and they've been full all day today.
Make an appointment to donate: www.bostonchildrens.org/halfpints
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social Blood Center sent out urgent need for platelets yesterday afternoon, and they've been full all day today.
Make an appointment to donate: www.bostonchildrens.org/halfpints
Powerful tour on Underground Railroad and abolitionist history in Boston @ Museum of African-American History. 1854: Bostonians stormed the courthouse where Anthony Burns was being held under the Fugitive Slave Act. May his legacy be a blessing for us today.
img: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burns
img: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burns
![A portrait of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 touched off riots and protests by abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 1854. A bust portrait of the twenty-four-year-old Burns, "Drawn by Barry from a daguereotype [sic] by Whipple and Black," is surrounded by scenes from his life. These include (clockwise from lower left): the sale of the youthful Burns at auction, a whipping post with bales of cotton, his arrest in Boston on May 24, 1854, his escape from Richmond on shipboard, his departure from Boston escorted by federal marshals and troops, Burns's "address" (to the court?), and finally Burns in prison. Copyrighting works such as prints and pamphlets under the name of the subject (here Anthony Burns) was a common abolitionist practice. This was no doubt the case in this instance, since by 1855 Burns had in fact been returned to his owner in Virginia.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d3pmbbtaeeepwr7qxmo6vuow/bafkreichkkibz5cgb7sfxpzfm6uwa7akedwxrapokg3xcei6perqo7ay5i@jpeg)
June 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Powerful tour on Underground Railroad and abolitionist history in Boston @ Museum of African-American History. 1854: Bostonians stormed the courthouse where Anthony Burns was being held under the Fugitive Slave Act. May his legacy be a blessing for us today.
img: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burns
img: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burns
I did the math, the most "damage" that can be done cancelling Harvard's contracts is half of that amount.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I did the math, the most "damage" that can be done cancelling Harvard's contracts is half of that amount.
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An anonymous Trump official said they were ending $100 million in contracts with Harvard. Dozens of outlets quoted them. I did the math, and that's not possible. The most "damage" that can be done to Harvard is half of that amount.
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June 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
An anonymous Trump official said they were ending $100 million in contracts with Harvard. Dozens of outlets quoted them. I did the math, and that's not possible. The most "damage" that can be done to Harvard is half of that amount.
New:
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New:
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It's deobligations (per the blurry forms DOGE posted). Money was "obligated" to these contracts (set aside, not spent) in case it was needed for servicing gov-backed mortgages. Home defaults are now rare thankfully, so the $ wasn't needed. The same deobligations happened under Biden.
February 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It's deobligations (per the blurry forms DOGE posted). Money was "obligated" to these contracts (set aside, not spent) in case it was needed for servicing gov-backed mortgages. Home defaults are now rare thankfully, so the $ wasn't needed. The same deobligations happened under Biden.
It's deobligations (per the blurry forms DOGE posted). Money was "obligated" to these contracts (set aside, not spent) in case it was needed for servicing gov-backed mortgages. Home defaults are now rare thankfully, so the $ wasn't needed. The same deobligations happened under Biden.
February 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
It's deobligations (per the blurry forms DOGE posted). Money was "obligated" to these contracts (set aside, not spent) in case it was needed for servicing gov-backed mortgages. Home defaults are now rare thankfully, so the $ wasn't needed. The same deobligations happened under Biden.
