Bill Shaner
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I like it when something bad happens and the cops trot out the reason the local schools don’t have air conditioners
Tactical response teams rolling out as the search continues for Robert Card.
Card is a “person of interest” in Wednesday’s mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine that killed 20 people
#WCVB
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Ok this is what you’re gunna do. You’re gunna rent a uhaul. The tallest one in the lot. You’re gunna drive it down the Pike. Eastbound. Take exit 18, then Soldiers Field Rd to Storrow Drive. Drive fast. Ignore the signs. It’s gonna fit. It always fits.
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The first scene of the 1978 Mad Max includes this highway sign to illustrate the cartoonishly dangerous and violent nature of its dystopian world. 57 deaths! In modern America the Mad Max death highway would come in 4th place behind three real life highways
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Market basket is for democrats, Stop and Shop is for republicans and Shaws is a grand socialist project hiding in plain sight.
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@allisongeroi
The dude was beaming with pride they named the operation to exterminate 700,000 people after him
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Today I quit Worcester Magazine and launched a substack on which I will continue the mission of making everyone in this city mad at me. I’m terrified!! Let’s go!!
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This image is sooooooo annoying how the hell did we fuck up so bad
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Today Gatehouse Media laid off Worcester Magazine’s editor and arts editor. I am the only editorial staffer left, with a full paper to put out next week. Pray for me.
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Workers are unionizing at the Starbucks on east central st in Worcester (across from the post office) 😎
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Libraries should reopen on Saturday nights from 9-2 and you can smoke weed in there and have a few beers
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By and away the best work I’ve done and frankly the scariest to publish. But last night we corrected the record on a story Heather was made to carry by herself since she was 9 years old. Worcester has protected a child rapist for decades.
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I love taking silly little walks on the silly little trails in Worcester for a lot of reasons but a new one I picked up today is sometimes you’ll just come across an unexplainable shrine
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“Student loan debt was invented to make sure the 60s never happened again” sounds like something id drunkenly drop into a political conversation without fully believing it just to see who else is crazy. It true tho lol
The success of Reagan’s attacks on California public colleges inspired conservative politicians and intellectuals — one worried free education “may be producing a positively dangerous class situation” by raising the expectations of working-class students.
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I love it when my landlord raises the rent by 200 dollars with one month notice and it’s totally 👌 fine by the state of Massachusetts. So sick
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I write about Worcester as a job 🤪🔫
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@ShawnMorris4
@MaxisDoctor
Oh so true that’s definitely what I should be asking 👍 great point very helpful
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This morning I hit 400 paid subscribers to my newsletter which more or less makes back my WoMag salary and that rules. A huge thank you to everyone supporting me and I promise I won’t let you down because I love you and I love Worcester despite how much I actively hate it ♥️
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When you hear someone “concerned about the makeup of the neighborhood” a fun question is to ask them what they mean by that
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Really didn’t expect the math to be so perfect but damn — the money the city is paying for ShotSpotter and body cams this year ($1.18m) is identical to the amount it’s underfunding the school district ($1.14m), contributing to 150+ teacher layoffs
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Worcester doesn’t feel like a college town because no one walks and we’ve went out of our way to make sure that applies extra to college kids
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It really is surreal that WPS teachers are locked loaded safety off finger on the trigger about to strike and tomorrow night the council will cut a $1300 check to every cop for wearing a thing that wouldn’t exist if not for the myriad crimes US police reliably commit
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HALF OF IT IS A DINER CAR AND HALF OF IT IS AN OLD FIRE STATION. THERE’S A VENUE ON THE SECOND FLOOR WITH NO AC AND THE WORST SOUND SYSTEM YOU’VE EVER HEARD. THEIR MOST POPULAR BEER IS REGIONAL TO A DIFFERENT REGION. THE BARTENDERS DONT CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE. IT’S THE BEST PLA
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Wrote a little something about Worcester for the New York crowd 💅
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Made relevant by Chief Sargent’s assertion he had “two beers” before driving to his neighbor’s house and screaming at him, it’s necessary to break down the Worcester vernacular on this issue:
“Wasn’t drinking” = 0-3 beers
“Had a beer” = 4-6 beers
“Had two beers” = 7-10 beers
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A Joe Kennedy campaign memorial tube top that says I put the chest in Worchester
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This is downtown Worcester and it would probably still look like this if we didn’t simultaneously stuff downtown with a bunch of car-centered mega projects and tear down all the apartment buildings like absolute morons
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At the end of this 5 hour meeting when everyone just wanted to go home
@Etel_Haxhiaj
, in light of the mill st collapse, stood up for renters in a fiery and entirely unprecedented way for a worcester councilor. I dont want it to get lost among everything else. Pt 1
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Worcester is going into 2022 with a god damn MANDATE from the left. LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOO
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Aidan Kearney, the man who once claimed to lead a media revolution, lost his bid for a small town school board by a vote of 1175 to 717.
🥲
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Ok hear me out…. A hardcore history style 4 hour podcast episode about the creation of I-290
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Wrote about the big disconnect between how problem pregnancy portrays itself online versus its obvious political project and pretty wild past for
@TeenVogue
!!
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My girlfriend has breast cancer. She started treatment today. It’s going to be a long expensive road, especially because she’s a self employed tattoo artist and won’t be able to work much for a couple months. Not something our country’s social safety net accounts for at all 👍
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Had fun with the “what is Worcester” slide in my journalism class presentation lol
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Very excited to start the program and build out the vision for an institution of gonzo local journalism bigger and more sustainable than worcester sucks!!
🌟Bill Shaner (
@bill_shaner
) is an independent journalist, pens a newsletter “Worcester Sucks and I Love It,” and is co-founder of The Worcester Community Media Foundation. He is based in 📍Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Reminder that we never had a lockdown we had rich people hiding while poor people brought them things
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Fun little Worcester connection to the events of the world our police chief went to Israel to learn how they do crowd control 🙃
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Old pictures of worcester are so annoying we really have been fucking this place up on purpose for decades
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Real life I Think You Should Leave bit
#BREAKING
: The blogger behind the popular blog Turtleboy being led into court handcuffed in Stoughton under unusually heavy security.
Charges to be officially announced soon after a special prosecutor’s investigation.
@NBC10Boston
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I was pulling out of the bank up in North Worcester and this old guy waves me down and asks how to take the bus to the RMV. It was so confusing and hard to explain that I just gave him a ride lol
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Trick or treat! On this Halloween, give in to your most racist and classist impulses! Let us know what you think about “those kids”! The nightmare continues!
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I sort of wish there weren’t so many more important things to focus on because i could write 5,000 words on how funny it is that the WPD tried to steal a civilian’s valor then had to own up to it.
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Somebody hit the Union Station Chris Columbus statue last night with a big bucket of blood and tagged it with a nice big “genocide.” Oh well!!!
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If you don’t think wheelie kids are objectively sick as hell you’re a rube
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How i described worcester to a non-worcester audience in my recent story for Welcome To Hell World
@lukeoneil47
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Here you see me on the cover of a newspaper in an article about Worcester's political inner circle and I'm directly between City Manager Ed Augustus and Congressman Jim McGovern which is exactly where I deserve to be in every way
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Guys I finally found it. The most Massachusetts sentence. Try it out:
“The market basket was a freakin parkin lot.”
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This is the footage of
@KateToomey
on her phone like a kid in school while the rest of the council closes their eyes for
@Sarai4Worcester
’s prayer for Black lives. After this Toomey held all items filed by King, a Black councilor, on police accountability.
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Woah that’s crazy too bad there’s nothing office buildings could be swiftly converted into to meet a genuine demand reaching crisis levels across the country
Remote work risks wiping $800 billion from the value of office buildings in major cities worldwide by 2030 as the post-pandemic trend pushes up office vacancy rates and drives down rents, according to a new report
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They’re flying a space force flag in the Lincoln st Stop n Shop lmao. Welcome to Worcester
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Our school lunches look like this so the F-35 can look like this
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Andrew Marsh with my favorite Mill Street comment last night. “Balderdash of the highest order” lmao iconic
@WiiFan2009
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This is me and Wayne making the best of Worcester’s failure to provide the bare minimum useable public transit 👍
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The cheeseburger sub of the New England townie Greek pizza place variety is such a god damn delicacy
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HUGE crowd out for teachers union demonstration at city hall
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My grandfather died yesterday. He was one of my first role models and I loved him to death. When he was a kid he shot pistols out moving cars at stop signs. When he was an old man he took his wife’s ashes on a cross country trip in a camper van. Rest In Peace Pap.
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This is so much more insulting than what a republican would say lol
Parents giving up shifts to save on child care.
Recent grads looking for jobs in other states.
Renters who can’t save for a down payment.
Seniors struggling to stay in lifelong homes.
We’re cutting taxes for them — for everyone feeling the squeeze of high costs.
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Getting a new run of merch together, including this amazing drawing Katie did of one of Worcester's most iconic moments. Shirts? Prints? Tote bags? What do we think
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The fact polar park hasnt had a single concert despite city officials promising dozens a year might be the most frustrating part of a frustrating story. And then to read that it may be due to design flaw… 12 foot ceiling when they needed 13.. jfc
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The state demolished a 17-tent homeless encampment behind the Worcester Walmart on Wednesday 👍
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Have to go to the courthouse so I made myself an extremely high effort and professional press pass
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Buncha local MAGA chuds trying to figure out how to get me fired jokes on you buddy I don’t have a job
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I am rich in local journalism honors and poor in every other way
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Looks like the obnoxiously long St V’s nurses strike against the craven vampires at Tenet Healthcare is over!!! If you’re a St Vincent nurse or you know a St Vincent nurse, DM me please! If you’re Tenet management suck it from the back!!
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Just sat in on the housing court hearing for the collapsed mill st building. If you’re a landlord and you take your tenants to court after your building collapses on them, you are evil. There is no nuance of the situation which changes that fact. You are evil.
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Today in grim details we have the anti-suicide plexiglass retroactively installed on the fifth floor of a for-profit hospital
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The school committee race went better than I could have ever imagined it going. This is amazing
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A wholesome ass tale
Here's Faiz Sobhani and his wife, Sanaa, outside their Modoc St. home in
#Worcester
this afternoon. Faiz, who immigrated here 3 months ago from India, had never seen snow fall in his 30 years until Sunday. "Pure bliss," he said.
@telegramdotcom
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Re-upping my suggestion on this day of days that the city replace the christopher columbus statue at union station with the bust of tony soprano, thus satisfying the whole community
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Worcester is city that depression naps
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The most Massachusetts thing you can do is go through the dunkies drive thru with a lit cigarette
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The Worcester police department employs the same tactics which led to the murder in Memphis but here the encouraged and sanctioned brutality of ‘plain clothes’ unit has so far only resulted in more quiet horrors
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I liked it when
@jjgtheauthor
ripped the city apart on Tuesday night for making it suspiciously difficult to hold the annual Caribbean American Carnival. Well said
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If Kennedy wins Worcester we have to change our slogan to Cuck of the Commonwealth I don’t make the rules
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