Bertrand

@bertrand.bsky.social

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Just another liberal attorney in the Northeast. Luddite.

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Tall Alf

Pretty sure this was the house used as the setting for Murder at the End of the World.

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Bertrand

I miss the days when I didn’t need to know or care about Chevron deference

government agencies don't get to decide on regulations, rando dumbass judges do, which means a lot of really dumbshit decisions and way more impediments to regulating things, which is awesome for evil corporations and really bad for people who like clean air and food that doesn't poison you

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version)

Saw this guy smoke a homer to dead center field at the WooSox game this past Sunday. Absolutely man among boys at AAA. Good for him.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭

We Boubas infiltrating the Kiki.

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Fibonacci Sequins

Bouba buddies band together

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Bertrand

Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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Seth D. Michaels

Look at the big brain on Brett!

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David M. Schulman

Oh! Well, that is good. Certainly not the headlines you see around here, where you hear that the sticker price at BU approaches $90k per year all-in.

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Faine Greenwood

Ah, ok. Gotcha. And I don’t doubt that these individuals exist in the wild - I just haven’t met them.

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Spencer Beswick

But tuition is going down, right? Right???

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Jane Ball (Battle Crow era)

True

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Jane Ball (Battle Crow era)

Yeah, we are not on a gas line, and it would be super expensive to have it connected, along with the permitting issues.

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FABLE ⛧

Haha yeah. A lot of the housing inventory is just old too, which leads to overreliance on heating oil (my small house has no gas option) and the houses weren’t built for ducting so few people have central air.

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FABLE ⛧

Oh god yeah.

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Garlax, The Weasel King

That was my thought too!

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FABLE ⛧

Yeah, I have lived in the NE, mostly in the Greater Boston area, my whole life and never met one of the AC haters Faine complains about. Maybe it’s a Cambridge thing.

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Josh Gondelman

Best of luck at the taping! Wife and I saw you in Pawtucket and you had us in stitches.

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Daniel Drezner

I enjoyed reading it very much. Thank you.

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Tofte

Can we get some Gadget Hackwrench love?

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Brendel

Ah, old Billy Bigot.

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journeyman folklorist

Interesting response from the anti-vaxx crowd that cared so much about their personal privacy being violated through alleged HIPAA violations.

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Timothy Burke

And the “halftime show” coverage consists of 30 seconds of surface analysis bookended by commercials.

Man, wtf with the beret he wore.

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Luke O'Neil

Wife and I had our first date there. Had a great meal and then went to see a terrible Anthony Hopkins movie at the Boston Common Loews. Sad to see it go.

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Lily Mason

Oh God, and if he did, I’m sure he would treat it like war reporting. Standing outside Nick’s Fish House wearing a flak jacket.

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Bertrand

This is a must-read piece making a vital point

Democrats need to make the Supreme Court - not just Dobbs, but the threat posed by the court itself - a bigger issue in the campaign. I make the case at MSNBC:

Opinion | It’s time for Justice Alito to face some consequenceswww.msnbc.com Democrats should make the Supreme Court more of a campaign issue

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Bertrand

"Has a neighbor, radio host, or family member older than forty said, 'It's a scorcha!'?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...

When to Turn Your AC on in New England: A Decision Guidewww.mcsweeneys.net - - -SEE ALSO: When to Turn Your Heat on in New England: A Decision Guide

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Bertrand

One of those rare it was 85 all day and not humid and now it’s 70 and not humid nights in MA. We get like 5 of them a year. Perfect.

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Bertrand

there's a fuckin *ocean* of money sloshing around at the top of society. one reason why we see so much investment into AI or crypto magic beans, it has nowhere sane to go (because the masses haven't had the spending power to justify investment in regular business until very recently)

The Massachusetts "millionaires tax" has vastly surpassed projections, bringing in more than $1.8 billion in revenue so far this fiscal year — with the prospect of a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on transportation and education

State’s ‘millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year, blowing past state projections - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The estimated haul is already $800 million more than what Governor Maura Healey and state lawmakers planned to spend from its revenue in fiscal year 2024.