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Travis
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Bostonian by choice | BPS parent | Public Ed enthusiast | Bike rider | Occasional organizer | Personal Chef to three | Broadcast editor & colorist Exclusion ≠ Excellence https://letterboxd.com/travtufts
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 16d
Last night @bostonschools.boston.gov made recommendations to the school committee that will double down on exclusionary policies for the city's "exam schools".

We are *addicted* to the idea of merit – because it's easier to pick "winners" than provide an equitable education for all students.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable. " Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 15h
I found this because I have been struggling to write something about how horrific this is, and looked for a follow-up on an earlier story.

who-cester.blogspot.com/2025/10/orga...

I don't think I can.
organizing against a Blackhawk helicopter
From Friday's Chicago Sun-Times :  Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a ...
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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 15h
Hey @massgovernor.bsky.social , what are you doing about this?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 14h
Nothing says a nation irredeemably gone to hell like its government kidnapping children and whisking them out of state.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 15h
I’m speechless.
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 15h
“The 13-year-old’s mother said her son has called her crying from the Virginia facility, where he’s sleeping on concrete with an aluminum sheet as a blanket, she said”
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 15h
"A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 15h
"A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d
Taney 2.0.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 1d
Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg.

Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.

This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.
What Is Colonial Williamsburg For?
Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.
www.theatlantic.com
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d
Incredible work in post to emulate the true crime tv doc vibe.
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 1d
It’s an excellent read.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jul 15
Some people don't seem to know.

... In "How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States", Daniel Immerwahr knits together dozens of disparate, harrowing stories into a larger, eye-popping narrative of U.S. imperialism; his exhaustive account of this hidden history is a revelation."
HOW TO HIDE AN EMPIRE | Kirkus Reviews
America extends far beyond the mainland.
www.kirkusreviews.com
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d
What if you had to take your drivers test at least every 10 years?

A lot changes over time. Including knowledge/memory of the road rules, driver skills and ability, and the size and deadliness of vehicles.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 2d
Short thread about how DHS, ICE, and cops in general just freely lie.

First, the lie:
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 2d
UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."
Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin: “U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer. “This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 2d
Was just gonna go to bed here on the east coast and you drop that…
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 2d
Sarah Roberts & her father Benjamin fought the first battle for school desegregation in Boston. Ruth Batson continued the fight over 120 years later in a coalition of activists.

Today BPS is still segregated by race and income, & announced plans to resegregate its three exam schools in 2025.
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 2d
"The war on drugs" took a hatchet to 4A search protections.

acting too calm
acting too nervous
dressing casually
wearing expensive clothing
being one of the first to deplane
being last to deplane
deplaning in the middle
cash in large bills
cash in small bills
traveling alone
traveling with someone
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thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 5d
Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 3d
I am not voting for anyone for Governor of Massachusetts whose response to the detentions of Marcelo Gomes Da Silva and of Rümeysa Öztürk is "the government didn't execute well"

Just to be clear
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 3d
I’m reminded of old DEA guidance for IDing drug traffickers:

acting too calm
acting too nervous
dressing casually
wearing expensive clothing
being one of the first to deplane
being last to deplane
deplaning in the middle
cash in large bills
cash in small bills
traveling alone
traveling with someone
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 3d
(Flats white?)
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 3d
Plus coffee has become bougie-coded and no upstanding volk outlet cares if coastal soy boys pay $8 for their flat whites.
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 3d
That’s a brutal way to end the series. Oof.
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 3d
Perfect parody of elite centrism. The insistence on means testing every bowl 🤌
Alan Partridge volunteers at a soup kitchen - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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