Ruth O'Meara-Costello
@ruthcostello.bsky.social
Solo lawyer in Cambridge, MA practicing criminal defense, Title IX, education law. Mother of 3. Enthusiastic amateur runner and baker.
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All that time
I thought I’d see a school friend
You said “I know how this ends
He’s not a flute you can learn (don’t take the chance)
Stay in Wittenberg
I hear he’s fighting in graves”
Saved my heart from the fate of
Guildenstern (and Rosencrantz)
I thought I’d see a school friend
You said “I know how this ends
He’s not a flute you can learn (don’t take the chance)
Stay in Wittenberg
I hear he’s fighting in graves”
Saved my heart from the fate of
Guildenstern (and Rosencrantz)
October 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
All that time
I thought I’d see a school friend
You said “I know how this ends
He’s not a flute you can learn (don’t take the chance)
Stay in Wittenberg
I hear he’s fighting in graves”
Saved my heart from the fate of
Guildenstern (and Rosencrantz)
I thought I’d see a school friend
You said “I know how this ends
He’s not a flute you can learn (don’t take the chance)
Stay in Wittenberg
I hear he’s fighting in graves”
Saved my heart from the fate of
Guildenstern (and Rosencrantz)
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This Is Just To Say
I have read
the poems
that were in
the screenshots
and which
you were probably
hoping
would entice
Forgive me
I cannot read more
so gross
and so wrong
I have read
the poems
that were in
the screenshots
and which
you were probably
hoping
would entice
Forgive me
I cannot read more
so gross
and so wrong
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This Is Just To Say
I have read
the poems
that were in
the screenshots
and which
you were probably
hoping
would entice
Forgive me
I cannot read more
so gross
and so wrong
I have read
the poems
that were in
the screenshots
and which
you were probably
hoping
would entice
Forgive me
I cannot read more
so gross
and so wrong
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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So James Comey has been indicted for testifying, in essence, that he didn't authorize Andrew McCabe to be an anonymous media source about the Hillary Clinton email investigation—which McCabe disputes.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
![INDICTMENT
COUNT ONE
False statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government
[18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)]
1. On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES
B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the
Government of the United States, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not "authorized
someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports" regarding an FBI
investigation concerning PERSON 1.
2. That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding
an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1.
3. All in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreig64rkqqi3z5ssu66f2fy6nimwfxyaymydwqfrhxveid6skd36m7m@jpeg)
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
So James Comey has been indicted for testifying, in essence, that he didn't authorize Andrew McCabe to be an anonymous media source about the Hillary Clinton email investigation—which McCabe disputes.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
But a DOJ IG report examined all the circumstantial evidence and concluded McCabe was lying.
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Heard this report this morning on WBUR. Great journalism.
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Heard this report this morning on WBUR. Great journalism.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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On the plus side, a bunch of people on the left who have not yet grasped it are about to viscerally understand why some of us, despite despising bigots to our very core, keep insisting that allowing the government to prosecute "hate speech" would be a bad idea.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On the plus side, a bunch of people on the left who have not yet grasped it are about to viscerally understand why some of us, despite despising bigots to our very core, keep insisting that allowing the government to prosecute "hate speech" would be a bad idea.
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the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously
September 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously
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In an address on Sunday, Pope Leo responded the the horrific shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minnesota: “Stop the pandemic of arms”
September 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In an address on Sunday, Pope Leo responded the the horrific shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minnesota: “Stop the pandemic of arms”
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“But since June, Harvard has negotiated with the federal government behind closed doors — without publicly commenting on or even acknowledging the talks — in hopes of restoring funding...”
In the name of all that is good and democratic, do not capitulate.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/m...
In the name of all that is good and democratic, do not capitulate.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/m...
As Harvard nears deal with Trump, some on campus feel left in the dark - The Boston Globe
Harvard, some students, professors, and alumni argue, needs to be much more transparent about what exactly is on the table in its discussions with the White House.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“But since June, Harvard has negotiated with the federal government behind closed doors — without publicly commenting on or even acknowledging the talks — in hopes of restoring funding...”
In the name of all that is good and democratic, do not capitulate.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/m...
In the name of all that is good and democratic, do not capitulate.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/m...
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Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...
August 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...
I would like to know first why the Cambridge School Committee outsourced the superintendent search in the first place, and why to this firm. Picking the superintendent is pretty essential and seems like what we elect the Committee itself to do. www.cambridgeday.com/2025/08/06/s...
Search process for a superintendent stumbled onto a candidate who'd stumbled even harder - Cambridge Day
Facing continued criticism even from within its own ranks for a superintendent search process that has seemed secretive and scattered, School Committee members moved Tuesday toward releasing more info...
www.cambridgeday.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I would like to know first why the Cambridge School Committee outsourced the superintendent search in the first place, and why to this firm. Picking the superintendent is pretty essential and seems like what we elect the Committee itself to do. www.cambridgeday.com/2025/08/06/s...
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surprising nobody, the real campus antisemites are the right-wingers www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Poll: Right-Leaning Faculty Likelier to Be “Hostile” to Jews
On the other hand, non-Jewish faculty who identified as “extremely liberal” were more likely to be hostile to Israel, a survey found. But 90 percent of all non-Jewish faculty were hostile to neither J...
www.insidehighered.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
surprising nobody, the real campus antisemites are the right-wingers www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Okay, this actually made me laugh out loud.
WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if I told you they fully intended to show it to people? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
July 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Okay, this actually made me laugh out loud.
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Yeah historically POTUS would have their pick of any top 20 firm.
Trump hires a guy whose website has to announce it’s “prestigious”
Trump hires a guy whose website has to announce it’s “prestigious”
July 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Yeah historically POTUS would have their pick of any top 20 firm.
Trump hires a guy whose website has to announce it’s “prestigious”
Trump hires a guy whose website has to announce it’s “prestigious”
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I thought the press descriptions had to be at least slightly off. But they are completely accurate.
America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”
America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”
July 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I thought the press descriptions had to be at least slightly off. But they are completely accurate.
America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”
America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”
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I'm old enough to remember when the prevailing argument against affirmative action was that it failed to consider the "real" form of unfairness, which was income disparity
July 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm old enough to remember when the prevailing argument against affirmative action was that it failed to consider the "real" form of unfairness, which was income disparity
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Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference.
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
“Johns Hopkins has not merely preserved its discriminatory DEI framework — it has entrenched, expanded and openly celebrated it as a cornerstone of its institutional identity,”
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
Conservative group files complaint against Hopkins medical school
America First Legal is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a formal investigation into diversity policies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference.
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
Since I know at least a few Cambridge folks follow me, I want to say that I am excited that Eugenia Shraa Huh is running again for the School Committee. I met Eugenia as a fellow daycare parent. She is passionate about excellence in the schools, detail-oriented and energetic. www.voteeugenia.com
Eugenia Schraa Huh for Cambridge School Committee
Vote Eugenia Schraa Huh #1 in November. Cambridge schools need to focus on improving the achievement gap and improving the well-being of students. They need to start asking for feedback (and using it)...
www.voteeugenia.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Since I know at least a few Cambridge folks follow me, I want to say that I am excited that Eugenia Shraa Huh is running again for the School Committee. I met Eugenia as a fellow daycare parent. She is passionate about excellence in the schools, detail-oriented and energetic. www.voteeugenia.com
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Totalitarians, feeling power, demand to use that power it to enforce totalitarianism in academia. Never let a single one crawl back to respectability outside their grubby circle of thugs.
manhattan.institute/article/the-...
manhattan.institute/article/the-...
The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education
America’s colleges and universities have long been the bright lights of our civilization. For nearly four centuries, they have pioneered new fields of knowledge, brought the arts and sciences to new h...
manhattan.institute
July 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Totalitarians, feeling power, demand to use that power it to enforce totalitarianism in academia. Never let a single one crawl back to respectability outside their grubby circle of thugs.
manhattan.institute/article/the-...
manhattan.institute/article/the-...
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It should be a massive scandal that indigent criminal defendants in #Massachusetts can't get lawyers because the state won't pay them fairly even though they've been asking for raises for years and the response from top Beacon Hill Democrats is to blame the lawyers. It's shameful.
#mapoli
#mapoli
July 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It should be a massive scandal that indigent criminal defendants in #Massachusetts can't get lawyers because the state won't pay them fairly even though they've been asking for raises for years and the response from top Beacon Hill Democrats is to blame the lawyers. It's shameful.
#mapoli
#mapoli
It is enraging to see legislators claim that bar advocates aren't engaging directly with them. MACDL hired a lobbyist for this issue at least as early as 2021. Legislators have just been ignoring the attorneys and refusing to address the issue for years. Blame is squarely on them.
If the right to a fair trial is so important, then stop complaining and pay the bar advocates more so that they will continue taking cases! No one is obligated to do this work for shit pay.
www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/09/m...
www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/09/m...
July 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It is enraging to see legislators claim that bar advocates aren't engaging directly with them. MACDL hired a lobbyist for this issue at least as early as 2021. Legislators have just been ignoring the attorneys and refusing to address the issue for years. Blame is squarely on them.
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In a handicraft moment, I made this little list for you. I hope you enjoy it.
July 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a handicraft moment, I made this little list for you. I hope you enjoy it.
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I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)