Mary Lewis

Town Meeting Approves Belmont Center Overlay District Belmont Town Meeting approves the Belmont Center Overlay District after lengthy debate, paving the way for new zoning and development downtown.

Proud to have been part of this reform to increase housing and foot traffic in Belmont, MA town center.

belmontvoice.org/town-meeting...

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

This is unhinged.

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Speaker at a podium gesturing enthusiastically in front of a projection

Graduating students: apply by 3/8 to be part of this year’s Dissertation Showcase on 5/11. Present your research in a brief TED-style talk. Participants receive coaching, honorarium. Apply now: gc.cuny.edu/dissertation... Pictured: Miguel Rodriguez (Social Welfare) at the 2025 showcase

I admire Jasmine Crockett and wish she hadn’t had to step down from running for the House in order to run for Senate. I hope we’ll see more of her in politics. The straight talk has been refreshing.

Talarico is very impressive, and I hope he beats his opponent (still pending) decidedly.

ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care.

ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study. Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false.

Pete Hegseth's crazed rants at reporters reveal that Trump's rationales for attacking Iran are incoherent, confused, and based on lies. Dems don't have to take refuge in criticizing Trump's war on purely procedural grounds. They can go much harder. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2072...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

Columbia Tried Compromise. Harvard Should Choose Principle. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Appeasement will not neutralize hostility. Rather, it invites escalation. This is not a dispute that can be settled with a check and a handshake before parting our separate ways. Harvard is part of a ...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Frame from campaign ad by Rep. Dan Goldman. His face full on center frame under which is the caption in all caps “ABOLISH ICE”

Public pressure means something. Primaries can change policies. In NY-10, Dan Goldman has been running ads for months.
Primaried from his left by @bradlander.bsky.social, Goldman’s ads have gone from “Agents should have to carry ID” in January, to big bold graphics this month that say “Abolish ICE.”

Alumni Interviewers Say Harvard’s Ban on Mentioning Race Has Created Confusion in Write-Ups | News | The Harvard Crimson Alumni interviewers said Harvard College’s policy barring them from mentioning applicants’ race or national origin in their written reports has created confusion over what they can include in their ev...

Calling George Orwell.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?

ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed

AYMAN: Where?

LUNA: Are you serious right now?

AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation

Totally!

I really wish these things weren't on Prime. I have been boycotting Amazon for over a decade and even great movies are not going to get me to change that practice. I know I'm just a drop in Bezos' bucket, but I refuse to add to his fortune.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Want!

They took down the stats, which they used to share annually, because they showed improvement. And the Feds construed that as active discrimination against white men & opened an investigation.

Instead of saying “we have nothing to hide,” they hid it.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

How Many Women Teach in FAS? Harvard Won’t Say. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Nothing has changed in the composition of Harvard’s faculty to justify abandoning our commitment to racial diversity. The gender ratio in FAS does not suddenly warrant eliminating a modest seminar pre...

Very much appreciate this from my colleague @visualizingbroadway.com

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Beyond how stupid this already is, it’s not like animals only come with livers. Someone is eating the rest of the animal.

Also liver is very high in cholesterol and high in certain minerals and vitamins that, when ingested in excess, can be harmful, esp to pregnant women or T2 diabetics.

Yes but how large is the audience?

We’re 23 HBS Professors. This Is the Cost of Silence. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson We urge business leaders to recognize that there is no conflict between their responsibilities as CEO and their responsibilities as citizens. The cost of silence is incalculable.

I’d like to see these emeritus profs publish this somewhere with a larger readership.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Historians’ Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citi...

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

And @amyklobuchar.com

After what happened in Minnesota!

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake.

And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone.
And lied about it.

They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid.
And lied about it.

What does this tell you?

Holy shit.

This Columbia president was seen as a tool of the wealthy business board that doesn’t care about Columbia academics.

For her to make this video now calling out the Trump administration explicitly is huge. My first reaction is it reflects how far Trump public support has fallen.

Interviewer: "What's your take on how he's framing the economy?"
Me: "It's that he's lying."