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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

617-370-5023

As ICE ramps up activity in Mass., this group bears witness

Activists connected through an immigrant advocacy group called LUCE are documenting arrests throughout the state. The "ICE watchers" record the names of those detained to make sure they’re accounted f...

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 2d

Don't forget that you can help six families & a displacement camp with one link. The needs—for literal survival—are very high, but we meet this with every boldness and hope in our hearts. The despair can't be ours.

Anything helps. 666/3500 by Saturday afternoon. chuffed.org/project/hope...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 1d

When the moon is so large and beautiful, I am incapable of saying much more than "I really like tha moon."

A harvest moon rising over the Charles River and the Boston skyline

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Cambridge Public Health Department @cambpublichealth.bsky.social · 2d

We're alerting residents of a cyanobacteria algae bloom in the Charles River downstream of the River Street/Cambridge Street bridge.

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Health Advisory: Cyanobacteria Algae in the Charles River (Update) - Cambridge Public Health Department

The Cambridge Public Health Department is alerting residents of a cyanobacteria algae bloom in the Charles River downstream of the River Street/Cambridge Street bridge.

www.cambridgepublichealth.org

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 2d

Person struck and killed by shuttle bus on Albany Street - The Boston Globe

The pedestrian was hit near Boston Medical Center and the Boston University Medical Campus.

www.bostonglobe.com

Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

We went on a Boston architecture cruise this morning! Good buildings, great infrastructure, and WE SAW A HARBOR SEAL IN BOSTON HARBOR!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

I was considering that since I have a second piercing in each ear, I COULD get two pairs and be symmetrical, but that seemed like it was probably over the top.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Happy anniversary!! This looks excellent!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

I am very pleased with them!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Brookline Booksmith!!!

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Frog and Toad Are Earrings.

A selfie of a smiling white lady with black glasses and brown hair, wearing earrings with classic children's literature characters Frog hanging from one ear and Toad hanging from the other.

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 4d

The point of these raids is not "arresting criminals" and pretending it is gives them validity and implies that there is a number of suspected criminals they could have arrested that would make this worthwhile. The point is demonstrating power and impunity and terrorizing communities.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, they did all that and got *two* suspected gang members? Suspected? Wow. And two of them? Wow.

Plus a guy with a previous charge of marihuana possession? Wow.

Wow, that is impressive. Wow, when are we throwing these heroes a parade? Wow.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 4d

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh I'll see if I can get down to Union Square!

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 10d

gonna collect the various links into a thread I hope to never post to again :

Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 11d

regular-posting for those with reposts turned off: contribute for the Somerville neighbor who was kidnapped for “matching the description of the problem” gofund.me/fd3a45829

Donate to Fighting an Unlawful ICE Kidnapping in Somerville”, organized by Family And friends

On September 20th at 11:15am, Magdaleno Pineda Avelar(Walter ) … Family And friends needs your support for Fighting an Unlawful ICE Kidnapping in Somerville”

gofund.me

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for coming out to Brookline - we had a really wonderful time and are very excited to consider monsters.

Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

This community garden in the South End is astonishing.

A garden practically exploding with dahlias

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 5d

It seems like today was a good day to be mostly disconnected from the news and the Internet, and thinking about ways to be better connected to and accountable to my communities 🐏

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 5d

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

www.wabe.org/family-says-...

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 6d

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 6d

Several years ago, I watched the National Geographic "Jane" documentary, and wrote a Twitter thread about it, then rewrote it in blog form for the @peopleprimate.bsky.social. And I'm dismayed to see so much of her memorials repeating this narrative (2/10)

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Neocolonial Narratives of Primate Conservation 25th May 2020 Michelle A. Rodrigues, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Twitter: @MARspidermonkey Website: Recently, I watched the Jane Goodall…

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 6d

The kid sitting next to me at Yom Kippur services this morning had a small magic kit with him and spent most of the services practicing coin tricks. I was chatting about golems with friends elsewhere. I think this is the universe telling me I'm due for a reread of Kavalier and Clay.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6d

"The memo demands that schools ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions, freeze tuition for five years, cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%, require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test, and quell grade inflation."

Lol now why do you think they want the SAT required?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

this article shows how critical local partnerships are for ICE to hit their numbers, which is why you should keep the pressure on your local city governments to refuse cooperation with them

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 7d

ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data.

We detail how that happened:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

www.nytimes.com

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 6d

There is lots to critique about the way primatology has developed, and things right now are very challenging as conservation and ecology become tougher to fund. But I know I'm not the only person set off on an extremely interesting path by Dr. Goodall. I really, truly thank her for everything.

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