Victoria McGrane
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Politics editor Boston Globe looking for a new social media addiction. Victoria.mcgrane@globe.com
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I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee
Hear Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me
Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene
She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream
Hear Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me
Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene
She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee
Hear Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me
Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene
She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream
Hear Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me
Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene
She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Larry Summers is stepping back from teaching as Harvard pursues its new probe into Epstein affiliations at the school
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Larry Summers to step back from teaching and Harvard Kennedy School post as university investigates ties to Epstein - The Boston Globe
Summers is also going on leave from his role as director of the Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Larry Summers is stepping back from teaching as Harvard pursues its new probe into Epstein affiliations at the school
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I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
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TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
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Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe
Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
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Urged on by survivors, Congress ordered the release of the Epstein files. But a potential hurdle remains.
Urged on by survivors, Congress ordered the release of the Epstein files. But a potential hurdle remains. - The Boston Globe
Rapid-fire developments Tuesday marked the surprisingly swift culmination of a months-long fight over Justice Department files about the accused sex trafficker.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Urged on by survivors, Congress ordered the release of the Epstein files. But a potential hurdle remains.
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Donald Trump has now officially passed Obama's eight-year total of rounds of golf — in less than five years. I've added a chart to my tracker of Trump's golf/property visits to show just how far past Obama he's getting.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Donald Trump has now officially passed Obama's eight-year total of rounds of golf — in less than five years. I've added a chart to my tracker of Trump's golf/property visits to show just how far past Obama he's getting.
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“The deep flaws in Larry Summers’ character were very clear to many of us back [when he was president] and Harvard should have cut ties with him then,” said one colleague.
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Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe
Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“The deep flaws in Larry Summers’ character were very clear to many of us back [when he was president] and Harvard should have cut ties with him then,” said one colleague.
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This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
The first big thing I'm doing in my new gig: Helping create a newsletter focused on ICE and Trump's mass deportation efforts in Massachusetts. Please sign up!
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Coming soon: ‘Immigration Unmasked,’ a weekly newsletter on ICE, justice, and our communities - The Boston Globe
This newsletter is for anyone who wants to better understand how Trump’s extraordinary immigration policy is playing out in Massachusetts.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The first big thing I'm doing in my new gig: Helping create a newsletter focused on ICE and Trump's mass deportation efforts in Massachusetts. Please sign up!
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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Is the government shutdown and the fact that air traffic controllers are no longer getting paid making you nervous to fly? @bostonglobe.com wants to hear from you!
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Tell us: How has the government shutdown changed your travel plans? - The Boston Globe
Are you worried about travel plans getting disrupted? Are you considering changing your travel plans as a result? Let us know.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Is the government shutdown and the fact that air traffic controllers are no longer getting paid making you nervous to fly? @bostonglobe.com wants to hear from you!
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Some editors (ahem) do what they can
it wouldn't fix everything but you could do a lot to improve journalism by simply straight out banning the passive voice
"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"
* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window
* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window
October 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Some editors (ahem) do what they can
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Silver Spring company demolishing White House wing faces online firestorm
ACECO, a Silver Spring construction company, is taking flak for its role in the demolition of the East Wing of the White House for President Donald Trump’s ballroom project.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Prince Andrew stripped of titles because of his participation in Epstein's sex trafficking
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Prince Andrew to stop using titles and honors, including the Duke of York.
October 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Prince Andrew stripped of titles because of his participation in Epstein's sex trafficking
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Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
This is lovely, especially for anyone who has lost a parent at any age
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The side of my father that I needed strangers to reveal - The Boston Globe
I wrote the book "Fairyland" to preserve memories of my father. It took a movie made by other people to make me realize what I had forgotten.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is lovely, especially for anyone who has lost a parent at any age
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It seems there are two main reasons things haven’t gone completely to shit in the US: 1. Lawyers and the courts; 2. Journalists and the media. Most of us can’t do anything about the first, but we can support journalism. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe to news & donate to public media.
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It seems there are two main reasons things haven’t gone completely to shit in the US: 1. Lawyers and the courts; 2. Journalists and the media. Most of us can’t do anything about the first, but we can support journalism. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe to news & donate to public media.
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Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.
By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
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October 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.
By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.
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As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”
Healey and Campbell are prepping in case Boston is next on the National Guard deployment front
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Mass. leaders in talks about potential National Guard deployment to state. ‘No one wants this,’ Healey says. - The Boston Globe
Democratic leaders have signaled they could move quickly to fight any effort to send troops into yet another Democrat-led state.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Healey and Campbell are prepping in case Boston is next on the National Guard deployment front
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Opponents of aggressive ICE enforcement are using a Supreme Court-inspired term to describe cases of racial profiling. Today's Starting Point explains.
Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe
The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Opponents of aggressive ICE enforcement are using a Supreme Court-inspired term to describe cases of racial profiling. Today's Starting Point explains.