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the announcement | The Boston Globe, December 9, 2025

the poster | A24, December 9, 2025

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For today's Boston Globe, the cartoon I'd wished I'd never have to draw:

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I was recently interviewed for the Boston Globe - check out the article here!

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A federal judge appointed by Reagan rules that many of Donald Trump’s cuts to grants for the National Institutes of Health are now “void and illegal” and declares: “Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"

And he was just getting warmed up…

"I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination,” said District of Massachusetts Judge William Young. “And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

Many of the cuts were aimed at diversity, equity, and inclusion programs which the MAGA movement has condemned as “woke.” In practice, the Trump administration is entrenching discrimination against people of color and the LGBTQ community — red meat for the white nationalists and Christian nationalists who helped elect him.

In total, Young has ordered the NIH to move forward with disbursement on funding for 357 grants that Trump was trying to kill.

Judge Young condemned the administration’s racist agenda and stated that it’s “palpably clear" that the grant terminations were "designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here — the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community.

“That’s appalling,” he added, stating that he’d "never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable."

"I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?" he said according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney.

Judge Young said that he is Constitutionally protected in speaking out against this discrimination but wondered if he would have stood “against all this” if those protections weren’t in place.

“Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” said Young. “The Constitution will not permit that," he said.

“Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?" he added.

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2 Harvard Men Replacing Cupid With Computer

Sunday March 14, 1965 by TIMOTHY LELAND The sign on the door—written in big bold letters—advertised: YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR PLEASURE. YOUR PLEASURE IS OUR BUSINESS.

And inside, Saturday, two Harvard juniors were busy masterminding the cleverest business enterprise since J. D. Rockefeller invested in oil.

“We’re just about ready to get off the ground,” Jeff C. Tarr, ’66, told the Globe. “We should begin mailing by Tuesday.”

Jeff is co-founder of what could be the biggest moneymaking venture since Pres. Pusey launched the university’s Centennial fund drive.

It’s called Compatibility Research Inc., with headquarters in room G-35 of Winthrop House.

The business of this business is an item with a limitless market—love.

The Harvard entrepreneurs have captured Cupid. Or, to be more exact, they have computerized Cupid.

“For three dollars and five minutes of time, we’re going to provide any boy who takes our service with the name and telephone number of his dream girl. And for the same price, we’ll provide a girl with her ideal guy. It’s as simple as that,” Jeff said.

This is the way it will work. Each person who takes the service will be sent a questionnaire to fill out and return post haste to Compatibility Research.

These will then be coded onto IBM cards and whisked through a computer, which will analyze all the personality profiles and match the couples up scientifically in less time than it takes to blow a kiss.

“A computer,” observed Jeff, “can find the right date for a person in a split second, when it might take him or her three years to do it alone.

“People have too little time as it is these days, without spending a lot of it unnecessarily searching around for someone they have something in common with. Why waste the time?”

Some of the questions on the questionnaire, to the layman, might seem a little far off the mark, but Jeff—a social relations major—says each one has its own “special significance.”

One, for example, asks: What kind of men’s aftershave lotion do you prefer?

English Leather

Old Spice

Royal Lyme

Canoe

Presumably, two people who feel the same way about Old Spice may hit it off pretty well together.

Jeff and his co-partner—Vaughan Morrill III—incorporated the company last week with a total of $1250 invested in it. Since then, it has been operating with smoothness.

“We’ve got salesmen selling the service at between 50 and 60 colleges in the Boston area and we’ve already received over 1000 letters in response to our posters,” said Jeff happily.

Tuesday is D-Day for Compatibility Research Inc. That’s the day the first batch of questionnaires will be sent out.

By Apr. 9, we’ll start processing them in the computer, and within a couple of weeks after that, there should be a lot of happy new couples in the Boston area,” he said.

Does he plan to run his own questionnaire through the cupid-computer?

“Darn right I do,” he answered the Globe’s inquiry. “Two or three times at least. That’s the beauty of being a company president.”

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I love the Boston Globe so much this morning I picked up the sports section and said “I bet there’s no football news today but there’ll be two articles about it anyway” and I was RIGHT and I read them over breakfast

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One Year of Trump Two

Trump, and his critics, are finally living out the presidency they both imagined.

Gabe Fleisher at Wake Up To Politics:

Back in April 2016, the Boston Globe’s opinion section published a satirical front page imagining what the first few months of a Donald Trump presidency would look like. At the time, Trump — against all odds — was steamrolling his Republican opposition, increasingly poised to seize the GOP presidential nomination. Trump was an unknown quantity in the political world, and to the extent he was known, it was for being erratic, chaotic, and bombastic. Nobody knew what would come next; here was one editorial board’s best guess:

Then, Trump became president, and — as dramatic as his first term seemed at the time — it wasn’t this dramatic. Trump did emphasize deportations, as the Boston Globe predicted, but the annual number of illegal immigrants removed didn’t move much from the Obama era. He did impose new tariffs, but they never reached the levels imagined by the Boston Globe nor did they rattle the markets quite that much. There were never accusations that Trump gave the military illegal orders, and he never made a serious governmental push to crack down on the media. He didn’t name anything after himself (see the box in the bottom-right referencing “Trump National Park”). Not yet, that is. The Boston Globe just ended up being eight years ahead of its time. Even if many of their predictions were not borne out in Trump’s first term, they haven’t been far off for his second, which turns one year old today.

In the last 12 months, Trump has pushed far beyond even his own actions from his first term, actually enacting much of what was only threatened in his 2016 campaign and from 2017 to 2021. The Justice Department, under his direct orders, has prosecuted several of his critics and political rivals. He has deployed the National Guard to Democratic-controlled cities against the wishes of state and local leaders. He sent U.S. forces abroad to capture another country’s leader, proclaiming himself the new “acting president” of that country. Deportations have skyrocketed. He has claimed unbounded power to impose tariffs on every country in the world. He has sought to undermine central bank independence by trying to fire a governor of the Federal Reserve. He has knocked down parts of the White House and declared that existing buildings in Washington, D.C. should henceforth be named after him. He has extracted huge sums of money from major news organizations, received a new Air Force One from Qatar, and lined his pockets with a crypto venture, enriching himself to the tune of $1.4 billion over the last year. He is actively trying to expand America’s borders, potentially by force. The Oval Office has turned gold. Pardons seem to be available to the highest bidder, in addition to those who committed violence on his behalf.

If Trump’s first term was an uneasy way-station between the old American presidency and the Trumped-up version, his second term has been full, unvarnished Trump — much closer to what one might have imagined a Trump presidency would look like when he was first shocking the political scene in 2016. In fact, there have been times in the last year that I’ve thought to myself, “that’s a Boston Globe headline,” meaning: that’s something that’s so completely and cartoonishly Trump-like that it probably wouldn’t have even ended up in a satirist’s most wild ravings about what a Trump-run United States might look like.

This weekend, as if to celebrate the one-year anniversary of his return to the White House (arguably even more improbable than his initial arrival, coming, as it did, after two impeachments, four indictments, and another round of being abandoned by most of the top officials in his party), Trump made sure to enact at least two stories of this beyond-the-Boston Globe variety: 1) He threatened to invade an ally’s territory because he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and promised to impose tariffs until the territory became his. 2) He demanded that other countries pay him a $1 billion tribute in order to join a rival United Nations that would be controlled entirely by him. Let’s take them one at a time.

[...] Trump’s second term has been governed completely by impulse: a president fully unleashed, though importantly only in terms of everything that comes before a decision is made. What happens after — in the courts, and in the court of public opinion — has not always been as firmly in his control. There are some presidents for whom that might be humbling. For Trump, it likely means a Year Two where the remaining guardrails will try to assert themselves, which will make him try to buck up against them even harder, seeking to push the limits of his power ever farther.

Today was the one-year anniversary of the Dementia-Addled Pedo Dictator-in-Chief’s 2nd term. The Boston Globe’s “satirical” front-page cover dated “Sunday April 9th, 2017” from 2016 has been proven to be the disturbing reality 9+ years later.

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