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Photo by Matthew Asner:
âFirst day of school in 9th grade. I am nervous as hell because it is my first day of high school and itâs all new. I walk into my Social Studies Class and am greeted by the teacher who just happens to be Peter Tork of The Monkees. A guy I watched goofing around on TV religiously as a child was teaching me about the world. He was a tough teacher. We had a thing in his class where he would always think that I wasnât paying attention. He would always make a point of stopping what he was teaching and say to me, âWhat did I just say`â I would always answer him correctly and it always seemed to frustrate him. He was very smart and loved to read from Maoâs Little Red Book. I was truly happy for him when The Monkees started touring and he found success again. I took this picture in our schoolyard at New Dimensions High School.â - Matthew Asner (Ed Asnerâs son), Facebook, July 1, 2023
âSince September he has been teaching English, math, drama, Eastern philosophy and âRock Band Classâ at Pacific Hills, a private secondary school in Santa Monica, Calif. A college dropout, Peter got the job on the strength of his interview with Dr. Penrod Moss, the schoolâs director. âI like to hire people who are independent and creative,â Moss said. âI was impressed by his personality and his ability to speak.â [âŚ] While Tork the musician still has dreams of one day returning to the rock circuit, Thorkelson the teacher is happily planning his next course, âMao, Marx and Mama.â âIâm doing something important,â he says. âI never do anything less than important.ââ - People magazine, April 5, 1976
âFor some time, [Tork] said, the students in his high school classes had trouble forgetting their teacher was once a teen idol. âUntil I gave out a few Fâs,â he added, grinning.â - The Clarion Ledger, November 1, 1979 (x)
âI was a schoolteacher in Southern California, and I taught music as well as academics, and I really very much love to teach, and, and I think that if circumstances show me that I am not to entertain anymore or my entertaining career per se winds down, I would very, very much love to coach young entertainers.â - Peter Tork, Headquarters radio, September 1989
â[A]s a teacher, I realized that in order to teach something well you need to understand what your student is going through as they try to learn.â - Peter Tork, The Journal Times Online, August 12, 2005
On a 2018 blog post at the Monkees Live Almanac, one former student, Mark, commented: âBest high school teacher I ever had [âŚ]. Tremendous empathy.â (x)
âI taught English and social studies. And sure, the kids probably saw me as a Monkee, but they got over that in a hurry. Once I lost my temper at the kids, theyâd see I was just like all the others â and I probably lost my temper too many times, since I was in an angry state back then. I have a life now, thatâs the difference. I have a spiritual core. Iâm not Shirley MacLaine but I believe in greater or lesser worlds and consciousness. Most people think of themselves as cut off from each other; others know thereâs a connectedness that can be tapped into.â - Peter Tork, The Boston Globe, August 10, 1989
âIn the mid-â70s, Tork got jobs teaching English, social studies and music at two private schools in the Los Angeles area. The first job, which he enjoyed, was at âa radical progressive school in Santa Monica.â The second was at a school he describes as âa holding tank for budding fascists. I couldnât hack it. I found more integrity in being a singing waiterâ â his next job.â - Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1992 (x)
More about that next job here.
#Peter Tork#Tork quotes#Tork teaching#70s Tork#<3#long read#Matthew Asner#1975#1976#1977#1978#1979#also always so much respect for Peter's unflinching honesty in interviews#this photo... thank you Matthew Asner thank you#The Clarion Ledger#Los Angeles Times#the boston globe#Headquarters Radio#can you queue it
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Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning:
Over the last week, conservative influencer accounts have ignited a firestorm over cisgender boxer Imane Khelif, alleging that she is actually a âmanâ and suggesting she might be transgender. This is despite officials confirming that Khelif was assigned female at birth and has competed as a woman her entire life. The controversy has led to statements from Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and anti-transgender influencers, who are using the boxerâs participation to target transgender athletes. Now, the Boston Globe, a major American paper, has published and circulated into print the false claim that Khelif is transgender. The title reads, âTransgender Boxer Advances.â The headline was placed on an AP article written by sports journalist Greg Beachem, who asserts, âThat's not my headline. That word isn't in my story. My stories are syndicated worldwide, and customers are allowed to write their own headlines.â The use of alternate headlines is a common practice for wire services. The word âtransgenderâ does not appear once in the story, which was printed on August 2, 2024.
There is no evidence that Khelif is a transgender woman. Although transgender women are allowed to compete in the Olympics, there are no openly transgender women competing this year. Meanwhile, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has confirmed that Khelif is a cisgender boxer, calling disinformation about her gender âtotally unacceptable.â Khelifâs family shared pictures of her as a child, as well as identity documents showing her assigned sex at birth. Notably, gender transition is criminalized in Algeria, making it extremely unlikely that transgender people would be allowed to transition in the country.
The original claim about Khelifâs sex eligibility arose when the scandal-plagued International Boxing Association (IBA) ruled her out of competition, alleging she failed an unspecified gender test after defeating an undefeated Russian boxer. Notably, the IBA is presided over by Umar Kremlev of Russia, an associate of President Putin. In 2023, the International Olympic Committee voted to derecognize the IBA due to concerns about corruption, governance, and judging controversies.
[...] Update: The paper has issued a correction and apologized. âA significant error was made in a headline on a story in Fridayâs print sports section about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif incorrectly describing her as transgender. She is not. Additionally, our initial correction of this error neglected to note that she was born female. We recognize the magnitude of this mistake and have corrected it in the epaper, the electronic version of the printed Globe. This editing lapse is regretful and unacceptable and we apologize to Khelif, to Associated Press writer Greg Beacham, and to you, our readers.â
The Boston Globe should be ashamed of themselves for inaccurately describing Imane Khelif as âtransgenderâ. The paper did later, apologize for the insensitively bigoted headline but not the trans community as a whole.
#The Boston Globe#Imane Khelif#Transphobia#Transgender#2024 Paris Olympics#2024 Summer Olympics#Print Media#Newspapers#International Boxing Association#Umar Kremlev#Thomas Bach#Greg Beacham#Associated Press
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Fellow Travelers being mentioned as one of the Fall Shows to watch by The Boston Globe [x]
#fellow travelers#jonathan bailey#jonny bailey#matt bomer#showtime#paramount plus#paramount+#political thriller#mm romance#gay romance#queer romance#chris bauer#will brill#lgbtq#lgbtqplus#historical romance#the boston globe#NEW!
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Madonnaâs current âCelebration Tourâ is a dizzying trip through the singer and dancerâs career, incorporating dozens of songs from her gem-studded discography (and a few selections from her influences and followers) into its free-flowing, megamix-styled set list
#Madonna#2024#Celebration Tour#Boston#The Boston Globe#Madonna 2024#Queen Of Pop#The Celebration Tour
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Bi pride in June 11th's Boston Globe! Page B6, coverage of Boston Pride for the People parade.
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Bob Dylanâs love letters to his high school sweetheart are up for auction
My love, she speaks like silence â until now.
A never-before-seen batch of 42 love letters from a teenage Bob Dylan to his high school sweetheart are up for auction in Boston through Nov. 17.
There are early drawings and photo-booth shots â one appears to be among the earliest-known signed photos of his, according to Bostonâs RR Auction House.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/08/arts/bob-dylans-love-letters-his-high-school-sweetheart-are-up-auction/#:~:text=RR%20Auction%20House.-,Read,-full%20article
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Yeah.
Its the same thing I noticed with the assertions of Biden being medically unfit, etc.
We have now crossed a Rubicon to a place where not just tabloids or random bloggers or obviously fascist outlets, but even "mainstream", established news outlets, now feel comfortable blatantly lying in print. Not oversimplifying, or leaving things out, or implying things that aren't true. Just straight up, flatly stating easily-demonstrable lies as fact.
THIS
#Olympics#Imane Khelif#The Boston Globe#Transphobia#Intersexism#Misogyny#Ableism#White Supremacy#Propaganda#Misinformation#Psy Op#All Roads Lead To Russia#Post-Truth World
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Boston Movie Festival: Spotlight (2015)
In honor of Patriots Day Weekend, Iâm watching and reviewing movies set and/or filmed in my hometown, Boston, Massachusetts. Title: Spotlight Release Date: November 6, 2015 Director: Tom McCarthy Production Company: Participant Media | First Look Media | Anonymous Content | Rocklin/Faust Productions | Spotlight Film Summary/Review: The Spotlight unit at The Boston Globe â Walter âRobbyââŚ
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I was recently interviewed for the Boston Globe - check out the article here!
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He can't even make one speech and yet his base is fanatically cheering him on! Biden wasn't as bad as this when he dropped out! Why is the media just ignoring it?
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Photos by Henry Diltz.
âWeâre three separate individuals until we get an offer, then weâre the Monkees again. Weâve got our own lives, and Iâve been spending a lot of time getting to know my kids. What Iâd like most of all is to be an entertainer, to sing pop music. I want nothing more than to play rock ânâ roll for a long time to come.â - Peter Tork, The Boston Globe, August 10, 1989
#Peter Tork#Tork quotes#The Monkees#Monkees#80s Tork#1980s#1989#Davy Jones#Micky Dolenz#Hallie Iannoli#Ivan Iannoli#Henry Diltz#'I want nothing more than to play rock 'n' roll for a long time to come' <3#<3#The Boston Globe#can you queue it
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I love the Boston Globe so much this morning I picked up the sports section and said âI bet thereâs no football news today but thereâll be two articles about it anywayâ and I was RIGHT and I read them over breakfast
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My new cartoon for today's Boston Globe:
#ward sutton#sutton impact#illustration#editorial cartoons#boston globe#editorial cartoon#political cartoons#caricature#cartoons#political cartoon#ronald reagan#ron desantis#newt gingrich#lindsey graham#conspiracy theories#conspiracy theory#al gore#george w bush#dick cheney#stormy daniels#bill clinton#monica lewinsky#transgender#transisbeautiful#hillary clinton#scotus#republicans#trump#trump indictment#disney
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"When a white person commits a crime, only the accused is judged. But when the suspect is a person of color, people of color are treated as proxy suspects."
This is a dynamic of racism.
Reaction to Laken Riley's killing highlights racism of Republicans
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Promises Kept.
January 5, 2024
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
When Joe Biden declared his candidacy for president in 2019, the nation was bruised, battered, and divided by three years of Trump's unrelenting chaos and carnage. During Bidenâs year-long campaign, Trump plunged America into darker waters as he tried to extort Ukraine into fabricating lies about Joe Biden and his son. Trump then engaged in gross dereliction of duty by mishandling the nationâs response to Covid, ultimately resorting to lies and quackery as the death toll mounted.
Biden stepped into the breach, promising âto restore the soul, honor, dignity, and decencyâ of America. In word and deed, Biden has kept those promisesâdespite virulent and violent opposition by MAGA extremists who sought to prevent the peaceful transfer of powerâand who still seek to destroy our democracy today.
Historians may view Bidenâs greatest success as the restoration of normalcy, decency, and rationality to the executive branch of the US government. Bidenâs legislative accomplishments are historic and will be an enduring legacy standing alone.
Identifying Bidenâs legislative successes is easy; identifying the depth and breadth of Bidenâs restoration of decency and rationality is more difficultâbecause living in a normal frame of reference is subtle and ineffable. It infuses every aspect of democracy and political discourse. It is the absence of chaos, it is not waking up every morning thinking, âOh, God. What has he tweeted now?â, and it is not hearing every governmental action re-interpreted through Trump's lenses of narcissism, delusion, and insecurity.
Joe Biden acts within a rational political framework. His policies can be praised or criticized because they exist (in writing) and reflect the reasoned judgment of Biden and his staff after a period of reflection and debate. They are not made up âon the flyâ in response to reportersâ questions shouted over the noise of helicopter rotors.
The return to normalcy, decency, and dignity is neither sexy, compelling, nor âmade for TV.â But it was precisely what the nation needed after the chaos of Trump's tenure as president. Joe Biden kept his promises. For that, we owe him a debt of gratitude that we must repay in 2024.
On the eve of the third anniversary of January 6, Biden is launching his 2024 campaign in earnest. In a political ad previewed on MSNBC, Biden said that he is making âthe preservation of democracyâ the centerpiece of his campaign. In the ad, Biden says, in part,
All of us are being asked, âWhat will we do to maintain our democracy?â History is watching. The world is watching. Most importantly, our children and grandchildren will hold us responsible . . . .
A campaign theme of âpreserving democracyâ is neither sexy, compelling, nor âmade for TV.â But it is precisely what the nation needs as it stares into the abyss of a second Trump term as president.
I have heard from dozens of readers this week who are disappointed with Bidenâs responses regarding immigration and the war in Gaza. Some have suggested that they will not vote or will vote for a third-party candidate. Both of those options are the functional equivalent of voting for Trump.
The freedom to criticize the president is a privilege of our democracy guaranteed in the Constitution. We can debate presidential policies only if we have a democratic frame of reference within which to hold those debates.
That democratic frame of reference will exist under a second Biden term. Under Trump, the democratic frame of reference will be replaced by a simple test: Does speech praise Trump? If not, the speaker will act at their peril. Trumpâs vigilantes will threaten the speaker, and state and federal agencies will pretend the threats are harmless jokes or over-exuberant expressions of loyalty to Trump.
The threat of vigilantism to punish speech is not hyperbole. As we approach the third anniversary of January 6, elected officials who criticize Trump or apply the law to his unlawful conduct are being deluged with death threats. They are being âswattedâ by sick individuals who call 9-1-1 to make false reports of crimes in progressâresulting in the deployment of armed emergency responders to the elected officialsâ homes.
Like Joe Biden, Trump has made promises. He has promised his followers that, if re-elected, âI will be your retribution.â He has also promised that he will be a dictator âon day oneâ if he is elected to a second term.
Joe Biden has kept his promise âto restore the soul, honor, dignity, and decencyâ of America. We should take Biden at his word that he will work to preserve democracy if re-elected in 2024.
As with Biden, we should take Trump at his word: He will exact retribution and act as a dictator on day one of his second term.
The competing promises of Trump and Biden tell us everything we need to know about the choice we face in the 2024 election.
Concluding Thoughts.
The choice between presidential candidates in 2024 could not be starker. There is no ambiguity, nuance, or grey area. We must help Joe Biden communicate that fundamental difference and help people understand that the choice in 2024 is not about policies or the economy. It is about democracyâand whether we are for it or against it.
#Robert b. Hubbell#Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter#Biden Administration#Democracy itself#the threat of vigilantism#preserving democracy#Boston Globe
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"Hello." "Hello." BOSTON LEGAL 4.01 "Beauty and the Beast"
#THE EARTH MOVED!!! THE GLOBE SHIFTED ON ITS AXIS!!#watching this after night court feels like a fic. it feels like something wil and I dreamt into existence. they know each other omg...#james spader#alan shore#boston legal#*#carl sack#john larroquette#I forgot what a hard-ass carl starts off as. he's such a jerk <3
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