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This is really important reporting from @wbur.org about the scale of the kidnapping and deportation infrastructure across New England as well as the local and regional partnerships that have made it possible.
Map: How mass deportation happens in New England
Immigration arrests and deportations have shot up in New England, with the participation of federal, regional and local institutions.
www.wbur.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is really important reporting from @wbur.org about the scale of the kidnapping and deportation infrastructure across New England as well as the local and regional partnerships that have made it possible.
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
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(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
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WaPo interview with Vanity Fair photographer who took the White House photos
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
WaPo interview with Vanity Fair photographer who took the White House photos
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
December 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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Two leading health economists laid out the case: standard economic theory about consumption just does not apply well in health. Every other country has figured this out, but its such a point of dogma now in the US to insist that health is just another product.
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/o...
Opinion | We’re Already Paying for Universal Health Care. Why Don’t We Have It? (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Two leading health economists laid out the case: standard economic theory about consumption just does not apply well in health. Every other country has figured this out, but its such a point of dogma now in the US to insist that health is just another product.
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/o...
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Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
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Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
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This was *entirely* preventable.
December 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This was *entirely* preventable.
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It’s hard to describe the fury & heartbreak I feel over policymakers choosing over & over again to allow students & staff & families to go through what happened at Brown last night - & what has happened so many other places. We don’t have to live like this. It’s the guns.
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It’s hard to describe the fury & heartbreak I feel over policymakers choosing over & over again to allow students & staff & families to go through what happened at Brown last night - & what has happened so many other places. We don’t have to live like this. It’s the guns.
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The Trump administration: “RADICAL TRANS LEFTISTS ARE TRYING TO ERASE WOMEN”
Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’”
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Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’”
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December 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The Trump administration: “RADICAL TRANS LEFTISTS ARE TRYING TO ERASE WOMEN”
Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’”
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Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’”
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Once again I must shout: Philanthropy will never be a replacement for services the government is supposed to provide
Full article: archive.ph/tMZUz
Full article: archive.ph/tMZUz
December 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Once again I must shout: Philanthropy will never be a replacement for services the government is supposed to provide
Full article: archive.ph/tMZUz
Full article: archive.ph/tMZUz
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Great read for New England folks, as we have many areas within the CBP's 100-mile border authority.
ACLU has a guide about this. You can (and should!) remain silent.
www.aclutx.org/en/know-your...
This only "works" for them if everyone answers yes and is allowed to proceed. Simply say "am I being detained?" or "am I free to go?"
www.aclutx.org/en/know-your...
This only "works" for them if everyone answers yes and is allowed to proceed. Simply say "am I being detained?" or "am I free to go?"
Your Rights in the 100-mile Border Zone
This content is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice.The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary
www.aclutx.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Great read for New England folks, as we have many areas within the CBP's 100-mile border authority.
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MA needs to not treat all of these cuts as inevitable. We are a rich state. No one should go hungry here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
SNAP could end or be reduced for more than 150,000 Massachusetts residents. What can the state do? - The Boston Globe
Food pantries and advocates are worried that support will wane as the SNAP suspension slips from the headlines.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
MA needs to not treat all of these cuts as inevitable. We are a rich state. No one should go hungry here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/m...
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"It makes no more sense to want a large financial system than to have a hugely expanded trucking sector where many millions of people are moving goods around from place to place. " cepr.net/publications...
Jeffries’ Strong Floor and No Ceiling: We Need to Fix the Roof
Owen Libby promotes old policies, like UBI and patent monopolies, as new solutions that still favor the rich.
cepr.net
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"It makes no more sense to want a large financial system than to have a hugely expanded trucking sector where many millions of people are moving goods around from place to place. " cepr.net/publications...
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"The baseline is that millions of people don’t have attorneys, and then the ones that do, for the attorneys to even find their clients is incredibly difficult."
A fully inhumane system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
A fully inhumane system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
Legal teams are having to work ‘miracles’ to get immigrants out of detention - The Boston Globe
As more people await hearings behind bars and with a shortage of immigration judges, legal cases take more work and time.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"The baseline is that millions of people don’t have attorneys, and then the ones that do, for the attorneys to even find their clients is incredibly difficult."
A fully inhumane system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
A fully inhumane system
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
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“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Senator says ICE ‘attack dog’ caused ‘horrific’ injuries to unresisting man as he was detained
Patty Murray of Washington state said ICE agents lied to Wilmer Toledo-Martinez to lure him outside before dog attacked him
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.