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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Massachusetts people are crazy. It’s a nice enough day on the Cape to get my toes wet, but the number of people swimming in the frigid water boggles my mind.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching them rebuild the Citgo sign, which is a block from my work, has been cool.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The CAANN competition ran this summer, with many universities across the country applying and results to be announced September 15. Instead, after running the whole competition, Trump claimed that foreign language education is part of a "woke" agenda and harmful spending.

Text from White House Press release speaking against "woke international education"

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I always love when the zinnias and dahlias are in full bloom in my garden.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Boston Public Library courtyard would be a little oasis of peace in the midst of the city … except for the hundreds of tourists who have heard that the Boston Public Library courtyard is a little oasis of peace in the midst of the city and rush through to take a picture during their city tour.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

After you’ve spent the afternoon canning, there’s something very satisfying about the “plink” sound the jars make as they vacuum seal.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is pretty much how I want to react to the news of the day too.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Nice to see the annual beginning of the school year ritual in the Boston area begin — trucks getting Storrowed.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The idea that this group thinks children are always better off with their biological parents, even if they are abusive or negligent is an attack not just on gay and lesbian parents but on all adoptive families, single parents, divorced parents. These bigots are dangerous.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

They all rested just fine, but I was never able to fall asleep.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m not sure that having all three animals lying on top of me actually helps me nap.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Some days, biking to work is the best kind of therapy.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Scots are gone but the orange cones are still here.

Statue in Arlington Center wearing orange traffic cone

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Interesting how Maine has dropped off of the Democrats’ latest Senate map.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Waiting for the Boston fireworks show on the Cambridge side.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The top 4 trending topics on Bluesky are about sports today, and I’m not sure what to make of that.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

M daughter is off vacationing on the Mediterranean with friends in Saint Tropez, while I’m busy getting ready to teach a summer class next week. Is it okay to be jealous of your children? 😆😆😆

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Seth Moulton’s support for the Trans rights popped up on my feed, & the comments are fascinating. Mostly awful transphobes claiming trans people face no discrimination but others calling Moulton out for throwing trans folks under the bus after the last election. Doubt this won many voters over.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Out late in Boston, and there are so many men in kilts after the Scotland Haiti game!

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My daughter asked me to go to Chipotle because of a 2-for-1 World Cup deal, and the line is like for a Disney ride. Does this earn me dad points?

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hey, Democrats, sending me funding requests from Skeletor (AKA James Carville) is NOT going to make me give you money. If anything, it's going to make me think that you don't understand my interests and concerns at all and make me less likely to donate. Please stop!

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The governor of Indiana declared June “Nuclear Family Month,” and I have thoughts. First, I wonder what percentage of Indiana’s families have one husband, one wife, and biological children living with their parents. I’m guessing it’s not a majority, considering death, divorce, adoption, gay parents.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The DoD’s consolidation of religions was clearly done by someone who doesn’t know much about America religion. Imagine a Church of Christ chaplain for someone from the UCC! And putting Reform Judaism in the Reformed Christian tradition is just pure ignorance.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My kid and Ayanna Presley at Pride. How cool is that?

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

For five decades, the Title VI program funded less commonly taught languages, especially African and Asian languages. The Trump administration is now replacing it with Centers Aligned with Areas for National Need. The languages they list are ALL European languages, clearly revealing their priorities

Webpage on Centers Aligned with Areas for National Need

"This program provides grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) or consortia of IHEs to address one or more of the following areas of national need by teaching modern foreign languages, such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Czech, and other languages; providing instruction in fields needed to provide understanding of areas, regions, or countries in which the language is used; supporting research and training in international studies and the international and foreign language aspects of professional and other fields of study; and providing instruction and research on issues in world affairs in areas such as Latin America, Europe, and Russia."

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

People are not making enough of the increasingly blatant racist (and misogynistic) policies of the Trump administration. I mean, we're all aware that MAGA has a white supremacist agenda, but the level of outrage at the daily affronts to equality and dignity are way too muted.

US to drastically slash the number of embassies in Africa that can process visas

Hegseth strikes female and Black navy officers from promotion list

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The “pro-family” party hates children.

Hospitals see diseases resurge as vaccinations decline

Two million fewer children on Medicaid since Trump took office

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Ceclia Vega's denunciation of CBS news is truly damning.

In recent months, my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories. Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions.

Let’s call this what it is: censorship, both imposed and self-driven. It is dangerous for the show and dangerous for democracy.

I held the line and refused to incorporate suggestions that offend the conscience, a phrase I borrow from a colleague who has also fought to keep questionable editorial suggestions away from the facts. I know from many conversations with colleagues that many producing teams and correspondents working on the show today have had to fight to maintain editorial independence with regularity. I am far from the only 60 Minutes correspondent who has asked herself, “What is my personal red line? How much can I push back before I pay the price?”

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Working on a paper, I’ve gone back to notes from a USAID mission I did in 2020, and I’m struck that the first note on the first page of the notebook says USAID’s #1 priority in Congo was “ending Ebola outbreak.” This was under Trump. Too bad USAID isn’t around to save us anymore.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It’s a cozy kind of Memorial Day weekend. Last fire of the season?

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Getting a coffee at The Central Perk on Newbury Street. Great coffee, but I still think it’s weird that Boston has a “Friends” themed coffee shop. I thought we were supposed to hate all things New York?

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It’s hard to screw up the World Cup, but the Trump administration and FIFA leadership seem determined to make 2026 a disaster: hostile policies keeping foreign tourists away, empty hotels, clunky coordination with local communities, widespread public indifference … just one failure after another.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Maybe it's just me, but if I were president, I might be concerned about this trend. Perhaps starting unpopular wars, building monuments to yourself, setting up slush funds for your friends, and terrorizing your own population are not such great ideas?

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Every year for his birthday, I make my husband a Lady Baltimore cake. This year, at my daughter’s urging, I made the traditional 7-minute frosting from scratch. I’ve never made cooked frosting before and … it’s actually not that hard and SO much better than store-bought frosting!

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I know that this is supposed to be a photo of pastors blessing a Trump statue, but it looks an awful lot like pastors praying to a golden idol of Trump. Am I wrong?

Pastors raising their hands to worship their Lord and Savior, Trump

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

When my parents downsized, they gifted their children most of their China. For Mothers Day I decided it was appropriate to use the China for serving Mom dinner. When you’re serving in Haviland and HS Prussia and the like, it makes you very careful!

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I think my Mothers Day lilac bouquets came out quite nice.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

We are living through the stupidest time line.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It’s hard to see how this could possibly be a comfortable way to sleep!

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I was listening to Noah Kahan's "Staying Still," and these lyrics jumped out at me, since my bicycle commute home runs along Storrow, where I have certainly passed a lot of stuck trucks and an occasional track teams.

Noah Kahan lyrics:
But the Charles meets the sun
And the Harvard track team runs
Past my truck, stuck on Storrow
And I never ask for much
But I hope that Logan crumbles and gets hit by a tornado

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This could be a post from Jimmy Carter circa 1978, except for the part about driving downhill. Carter was never that stupid.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Can we start calling this the Calvinball Court? Because they’re just making up the rules as they go along.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Markey was fantastic at the latest No Kings march. He was energetic, funny, charismatic, and his leftist politics were much more in tune with Massachusetts than Moulton. Despite the fact that I believe that Democrats need a new generation of leaders, I will be voting for Markey.

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