"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

Monique Nguyen, the director of the Mayor Michelle Wu’s Office of Immigrant Advancement, talks about the stunning rise of detention in the Plymouth County HOC due to ICE activity and the dangerous effort to expand them. We need the Safe Communities Act to end new collaboration agreements. #mapoli

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting

Never a good sign when a financial report analysis reads like a crime novel.

If you serve [or live in] 🇺🇸 💔

Dear Santa, Wishing for a scooter, a whistle, or a new government

ICYMI: Yesterday, the CDC updated its vaccine safety page to say that vaccines might cause autism (they don’t) and that the science isn’t settled (it is). For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr. www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

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“maybe the onus should be on [the administrators] to explain their mad plan to leave intellectually immiserated and stifled the students’ lives they ought to be committed to enriching.”

Just heard about this huge (49 state) long covid trial using tirzepetide (aka zepbound) one of the newer glp meds. It’s run by researchers at scripps, funded by the eric & wendy schmidt foundation. It looks like it is still enrolling, fully remote participation: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

“Those voters are the reason I cannot look my own country in the face and say that I am proud of it. I am not.”

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Glad I live in Massachusetts but it shouldn’t matter — food security should be a universal priority.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Imagine if these stories had been made public when Vanity Fair, NY Times, and ABC News were entrusted with them! Their cowardice and callousness has contributed greatly to this situation.

1/2 Jack Schlossberg, JFK's grandson and vocal critic of his cousin RFK Jr, is running for NY's 12th congressional district in the 2026 US House of Representatives election. The seat was Jerry Nadler's, but he is retiring. 📹 credit: Jackuno/IG; Jackschlossberg/Tiktok

All town departments in Marblehead are being instructed to create level-funded budgets with no additional spending for fiscal year 2027... That’s despite contractually obligated 3% raises for many town employees and rising utility, health insurance, trash and other costs. https://loom.ly/04tZal4

As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask: •Did men ruin safe workplaces? •Did men ruin domestic safety? •Did men ruin public safety? •Did men ruin global peace? Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Glad to see @markey.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov are not on this list. We expect our elected officials to fight not cave.

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT: Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board. For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.

It's not just New York. Here in Georgia, in a major upset, two Democrats flipped statewide seats on a simple message: keeping the lights on doesn't have to mean skipping groceries.

Zohran coming out soon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnM_...

More of this please 👏🏻 👏🏻

If Republicans were serious, they'd come back to Washington, sit down, and negotiate. But they're not. They're in a political witness protection program scattered all across the country.

Wicked Halloween

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Beverly didn’t wait for the state to tell them to do the right thing. New zoning in the 2010s unlocked 1,400 new homes, largely along a transit oriented stretch of Rantoul Street. They knew more housing options would make their community stronger & support new small businesses.

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Have Christian Nationalists banned The Bible? “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Voters who see what Trump is doing right now--the demolition, the extortion, the lying, the targeting of enemies, the weaponization of every branch of government--and support it only because Democrats hate it are failed citizens and bad Americans. They do not merit anyone's respect or outreach.

White House destruction funders 🇺🇸 💔

Senator Merkley holding the floor