I've seen a lot of posts here and elsewhere about ICE "coming to Massachusetts" but the reality is that they are here. We're not seeing massive action on the streets like during previous surges, but ICE has simply shifted its focus to courthouses where they are causing fear among immigrants.

we don't need any of this shit. I was a grown adult before they even had ICE. reduce the office to like 5 guys who stop weird oranges from coming over the border and fucking up our orange trees and throw the rest of them in jail

ICE training session exposed. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

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Dismantling DHS is an entirely achievable goal for Democrats at this point. You can have Fox yell at you for being a radical leftist or whatever, but you're going to have endless images of paramilitary goons assaulting people on TV, and voters will associate you with wanting to end that.

The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.

Think of how funny it is that humans love to pet their pets, the irresistible pull of millions of years of primate ancestors engaging in mutual grooming Every cat owner who feels honored when the cat starts trying to groom them, is feeling their ape ancestors go "ah yeah that's the life brother"

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

You can spread the word without watching traumatic footage. You can support causes and movements without subjecting yourself to harm in this way. You can’t fight for a better world by making yourself ill. You’re only hurting yourself. Please look after your brain. It’s the only one you’ve got.

You, an ordinary person reading this, likely have not been trained to handle seeing awful things. Even seeing something once is enough to leave an impact on you that will probably last a lifetime. Do not compromise your own health for the sake of ‘witnessing’. It helps nobody. It hurts you.

ACAB

Remembering John Singer Sargent on his birthday 🎂 Self Portrait, 1886 Aberdeen Art Gallery "Few artists in any era have had as extroverted a hand as his, and as keen an instinct for visual theater." - Holland Cotter

Sunset today, With Boston skyline

My mom sang me show tunes as lullabies and I had the obligatory trip to see Annie when I was ten but my favorite will always be Les Misérables which I saw at 16 in the West End with the original cast except Patti LuPone who’d left by then, my Fantine was Jackie Marks, 1st Factory Girl on OLC album.

ICE has a new tool to use location data from data brokers to identify the movements of protestors. Please remove your phone's Advertising ID and disable always-on location access forapps that sell your data (most of them). Instructions for Android and iOS from the EFF: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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I think it would behoove more Democrats to consistently refer to ICE as a paramilitary or secret police force to divorce what ICE/CBP are doing from any notion of immigration enforcement.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

half of the top few replies start with “brother”, “my friend”, and “homie”

I say it’s spinach and I say the hell with it

Nearly 15,000 unionized nurses at some of NYC's wealthiest private hospitals will go on strike starting at 6 a.m. today after hospital management refused to agree to a tentative deal to avert a strike

There is something in here about how women organizing literally everything else is fine and expected but organizing opposition to a fascist government is a problem. Like what do you think we’re all doing when we set up phone trees for the a PTA? That’s community organizing you doorknobs

Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this

My friend @fabredhead.bsky.social got Fluevog shoefies two days in a row! Attending the same party yesterday and tonight we saw the 40th anniversary screening of Labyrinth.

“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.” what the fuck have we tried turning the country off and back on again

In general, "fuck those kids" laws should be ended. But somehow "fuck this kid in particular" laws seem even worse.

"78% of Massachusetts voters support “allowing homes to be built on smaller lots,” and 72% support allowing the subdivision of large lots into smaller lots." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/10/o...

Apparently…. Open call to anyone who wants to kidnap anybody in Minnesota? Who knows if the dudes in masks are even federal agents - they can just say they are. Kidnapping has become legal under Trump. The idea that this is about public safety or law enforcement is a brazen lie.

This man was presumed innocent and killed in the custody of the Suffolk County Sheriff. While our elected officials speak out about what is happening elsewhere, they’ve remained silent about what is happening right here in Boston. State violence is unacceptable in all forms in all places.

the luddites would have beaten every ai server farm into small pieces with large hammers i can tell you that much

Song of the day. RIP Bobby. youtu.be/f2R7p8Ax3i8?...

Shocked but not surprised covers it, I guess

I think about this basically every day now.

It's amazing that these Hitler fanatics never learned that, much like Moscow, trying to take over Minnesota in the winter is a bad idea.

This morning in Minneapolis, an ICE vehicle got stuck on an icy hill in a residential neighborhood. Agents had to push the vehicles out, some almost slipping in the ice themselves.

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@mayorwu.boston.gov you too can pull support for the elon csam machine

(For those who are not aware, that is the relevant distinction. CBP is the successor agency to the old Border Patrol. ICE is *not* a border security agency. Its mandate is exclusively to enforce immigration laws in *other* parts of the country.)

push back and win

Similar situation out here in the exurbs: The schools are trying to rent vans for kids who used to get rides. A friend is mediating grocery deliveries. The city and nonprofits are having emergency meetings.

Think about how much easier it would be to expect, and make, see Jonathan Ross face literally any kind of consequences, if the US had literally any kind of track record of doing so.

After last year’s endless dark bank of clouds blocking the sun leading up to Inauguration, I am pleased to report a clear break of day over Boston this morning. Take heart. Be strong. Find joy. Appreciate beauty.

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

please more people be corny like this, it’s an antidote to doom

I can’t speak for the entire Jewish community, but personally I have been watching many of y’all under-react to ICE actions for the last year and suddenly understanding in a whole new way how my family ended up being rounded up and massacred in camps and y’all should think on that.