Jonathan Gerhardson
@jongerhardson.bsky.social
"Journalist" in "western Massachusetts."
https://jongerhardson.github.io
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https://jonathangerhardson.substack.com/
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https://jongerhardson.github.io
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https://jonathangerhardson.substack.com/
He/him's opinions
This bot is my fault: @massgovupdatesbot
If you've got a tip about police partnering with federal law enforcement in western Massachusetts I'd like to hear from you. Signal messenger
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West Springfield Police are part of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement task force, according to documents obtained by The Shoestring.
Reporting By Jonathan Gerhardson.
Reporting By Jonathan Gerhardson.
Records: West Springfield police partnered with ICE division
Westside police signed a partnership with Homeland Security Investigations last year. It's still active, but the city’s police chief says his officers haven’t been engaged in immigration enforcement.
theshoestring.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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New from me for @theshoestring.bsky.social theshoestring.org/2025/12/06/r...
Records: West Springfield police partnered with ICE division
Westside police signed a partnership with Homeland Security Investigations last year. It's still active, but the city’s police chief says his officers haven’t been engaged in immigration enforcement.
theshoestring.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New from me for @theshoestring.bsky.social theshoestring.org/2025/12/06/r...
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
It's so cold out right now that after having to crawl through my trunk to unlock my rear car door because the lock was frozen on the driver's door, when I then tried to open the unlocked car door the handle, it just snapped off instead
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It's so cold out right now that after having to crawl through my trunk to unlock my rear car door because the lock was frozen on the driver's door, when I then tried to open the unlocked car door the handle, it just snapped off instead
this is the last straw
December 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
this is the last straw
Is anyone aware of a non-LLM method of OCR-ing PDFs while retaining messy redaction marks? I keep getting lame-ass safety refusals on this.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Is anyone aware of a non-LLM method of OCR-ing PDFs while retaining messy redaction marks? I keep getting lame-ass safety refusals on this.
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
This rules www.wired.com/story/new-an...
A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This rules www.wired.com/story/new-an...
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Hi from Rümeysa Öztürk's hearing before Chief Judge Casper in federal court.
This is solely scoped to whether her SEVIS record should be restored, i.e. whether she can work and be a student.
This is solely scoped to whether her SEVIS record should be restored, i.e. whether she can work and be a student.
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hi from Rümeysa Öztürk's hearing before Chief Judge Casper in federal court.
This is solely scoped to whether her SEVIS record should be restored, i.e. whether she can work and be a student.
This is solely scoped to whether her SEVIS record should be restored, i.e. whether she can work and be a student.
Refusing to post my Spotify wrapped for political reasons and not because it turns out that in aggregate I actually have really embarrassing taste in music, I swear. Please believe me.
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Refusing to post my Spotify wrapped for political reasons and not because it turns out that in aggregate I actually have really embarrassing taste in music, I swear. Please believe me.
Thinking about how it's hard to spot what seems quaint now to call deepfakes, which are made in data centers bigger than football fields, and how big a prospective deepfake decryptor might be if size rules hold based on WWII enigma machine vs. collosus.
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Thinking about how it's hard to spot what seems quaint now to call deepfakes, which are made in data centers bigger than football fields, and how big a prospective deepfake decryptor might be if size rules hold based on WWII enigma machine vs. collosus.
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
According to a federal class-action lawsuit, Baystate’s website transmitted patients’ health care-related activity, including clicks, search terms, and appointment requests, to the tech companies for more than two years.
Reporting by Joe Douglass.
Reporting by Joe Douglass.
Lawsuit alleges Baystate shared patient health data with Meta, Google
Baystate denies wrongdoing and says data from its public website doesn’t qualify as protected health information.
theshoestring.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
According to a federal class-action lawsuit, Baystate’s website transmitted patients’ health care-related activity, including clicks, search terms, and appointment requests, to the tech companies for more than two years.
Reporting by Joe Douglass.
Reporting by Joe Douglass.
One original thought, 2025
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
One original thought, 2025
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.
More coming soon.
More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Good band and one time I slept in their bathtub
Thriving in their return, emotive math rockers Algernon Cadwallader have working through this daily dread of being alive thing figured out on 'Trying Not to Have a Thought'.
It's a Recommended Album. Listen: lnk.bio/s/3fcac
Out now on @saddlecreek.bsky.social
It's a Recommended Album. Listen: lnk.bio/s/3fcac
Out now on @saddlecreek.bsky.social
Recommended Album: Algernon Cadwallader – ‘Trying Not to Have a Thought’
Thriving in their return, the emotive math rockers have working through this daily dread of being alive thing figured out.
lnk.bio
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good band and one time I slept in their bathtub
Also this heehee
Let’s support shoestring who says they are paywall free!
@theshoestring.bsky.social is paywall free and just published a piece I wrote which is in some ways the culmination of 27 separate records request appeals filed over the course of a year. (opinions expressed here exclusively my own) theshoestring.org/2025/04/05/f...
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Also this heehee
Please consider donating to @theshoestring.bsky.social so they can pay me to keep doing things like send an email that prompts the Air National Guard to temporarily take the website for a multi billion dollar project offline.
theshoestring.org/2024/09/25/w...
theshoestring.org/2024/09/25/w...
Westfield’s “Sound of Freedom” about to get Louder
A fleet of F-35As, the military's newest fighter jet, could be flying out of Barnes Airport next year, at a higher volume and frequency than the airport's current fleet. But hardly anyone is paying at...
theshoestring.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Please consider donating to @theshoestring.bsky.social so they can pay me to keep doing things like send an email that prompts the Air National Guard to temporarily take the website for a multi billion dollar project offline.
theshoestring.org/2024/09/25/w...
theshoestring.org/2024/09/25/w...
I like this brandnof energy drink because it tastes like a Yankee Candle but carbonated protein energy drink is maybe a step too far
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I like this brandnof energy drink because it tastes like a Yankee Candle but carbonated protein energy drink is maybe a step too far
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
Can #Massachusetts prosecutors hide the names of cops who are charged with crimes?
My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no.
You can read about my pending lawsuit here:
My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no.
You can read about my pending lawsuit here:
NEW: On Monday, I asked a judge to order Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan's office to disclose the names of police officers who have been charged with crimes like possession of child pornography, assault and battery, and driving under the influence.
#Massachusetts #mapoli
#Massachusetts #mapoli
Mass Dump seeks ruling that Northwestern DA can’t hide names of cops charged with crimes
Northwestern DA David Sullivan spent tax dollars on private law firm to fight against police transparency in Massachusetts
andrewqmr.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Can #Massachusetts prosecutors hide the names of cops who are charged with crimes?
My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no.
You can read about my pending lawsuit here:
My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no.
You can read about my pending lawsuit here:
Fire in apartment building in Holyoke right now. @wmassfirebuff on Instagram "this fire will not be out anytime in the near future" #westernmass www.instagram.com/reel/DRvSt05...
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Fire in apartment building in Holyoke right now. @wmassfirebuff on Instagram "this fire will not be out anytime in the near future" #westernmass www.instagram.com/reel/DRvSt05...
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
It’s high time for a grown-up conversation which acknowledges that the drug laws are more harmful than the drugs themselves.
Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War
The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
interc.pt
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s high time for a grown-up conversation which acknowledges that the drug laws are more harmful than the drugs themselves.
Reposted by Jonathan Gerhardson
NEW: Last week an arbitrator ruled that Politico management violated key AI terms in its union contract.
The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds
The ruling marks one of the first major tests of an AI clause in a newsroom union contract.
www.niemanlab.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW: Last week an arbitrator ruled that Politico management violated key AI terms in its union contract.
The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...