They are giving the raids on Charlotte the name of a beloved children’s novel about disparate members of a community working together to save someone vulnerable 🤬

we need a department of kerning

The directors of this season should get props for their excellent use of diegetic music

This just keeps happening that when a wealth tax is introduced, 1, the rich don't actually move out and 2, they are hoarding more wealth than people know. Tax the rich.

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:

New most universally despised Boston resident just dropped.

Of the many things that Trump--or really any president in history--ever could have been impeached for, I am starting to allow myself to believe that this attempted DOJ/FBI coverup has been so obvious, so corrupt, and about something *so universally toxic* that it could actually go to conviction

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856

We had a great time with Illinois Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social talking about her unique campaign, what ICE is doing to Chicago right now, and what it is going to take for Democrats not to suck. All kinds of hope in here, you won't want to miss this one! youtu.be/U7OEJJwsajA?...

no dem running in 2026 without a promise to abolish ICE and a to hold all involved (especially elected officials) accountable is a viable candidate.

Posting good Monday news not bc I did anything special here* but bc I need you to know that when we fight we win so let's all keep fighting -- *truly: New England judges are routinely granting release on habeas for ICE detainees being denied bond hearings under the latest ridiculous BIA precedent

This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines). For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.

While the government prosecutes this case “in some purported effort to keep law enforcement safe and free from food fights,” CBP employees “are joking about it.” The gov, she says, is trying to turn a “gag-gift worthy moment into a federal criminal offense. We ask you not to allow them to do that.”

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

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.

“Many of them, [the manager] said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents. ‘Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,’ he said. ‘I could bring it to them & get them released. But I don’t know where they are.’” 2/

With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory. The details are horrifying. 🧵 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...

Fight. Win.

The head of CBP proudly confirms under oath that he will continue to arrest Americans for Constitutionally protected speech in opposition to the most extreme and visibly public mass deportation operation since Operation Wetback (1954-1955)

The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.

TIL that the @mbta.com has a room full of beautifully painted pianos from a Newton public art project in the waiting room of the Lawrence commuter rail station. How did they all end up here? Why Lawrence? The T works in mysterious ways. But still grateful for some unexpected piano time #mapoli

One indication that career lawyers w/ subject matter expertise have been sidelined from the boat strike business is that the admin is citing irrelevant OLC opinions from 1984 and 1994 to supposedly bolster its argument for why US strikes are not "hostilities." 6/n www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

;We play the game With the bravery of being out of range We zap and maim With the bravery of being out of range We strafe the train With the bravery of being out of range We gain terrain With the bravery of being out of range" --Roger Waters youtu.be/9GlrU7h8E9Y?...

just another reminder if you needed it that this is exactly what they voted for. They saw this, they liked it, and now they are getting it

Ty to everyone who has told us about the ICE recruitment ads which have been running on the only general-interest US legal podcast co-hosted by a practicing deportation defense attorney. We trust that these ads are wasted on our listeners in a way that they would be wasted on few other audiences

"the President has tried as hard as he can to make it as un-painless as possible" is such a perfect accidental summary of the chaos, the cowardice, and the perfidy --- (also I can't wait to say "this is un-painless" the next time I stub my toe)

"the President has tried as hard as he can to make it as un-painless as possible" is such a perfect accidental summary of the chaos, the cowardice, and the perfidy --- (also I can't wait to say "this is un-painless" the next time I stub my toe)

Can't wait for our annual Halloween episode? Check out last year's, in which Matt and Thomas discussed the true legal horror story that was the Salem Witch Trials and what happens when a society lets paranoia drive policy podcasts.apple.com/pe/podcast/b...

An AI-driven mobile app which overrides hard documentary evidence to reach its own "definitive" conclusions of someone's citizenship sounds like an idea that didn't make it out of the Black Mirror writers room

Another insanely cruel move by Trump et al. Literally all the automatic extension did was extend your current work auth if yours expired WHILE YOU WAITED FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PROCESS YOUR RENEWAL. And you don't just lose work auth: I couldn't even renew my driver's license while mine was pending.

Awful news: employers are about to have to reluctantly fire 10s of thousands of workers going into the holidays for no good reason. Trump 2.0's record for intentionally doing as much harm as possible to our economy as quickly as possible remains undefeated www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Just so you know who you are following here, I am that Blackberry pervert who is keeping an unbroken 20-yr streak of keyboard smartphones going with both the Unihertz Titan 2 (Passport knockoff) and the Zinwa Q25 (Classic revamp) on preorder most of this year (and writing this from my Titan 1)

What is the current state of US immigration law? Where can we still find hope? The American Immigration Council's Aaron @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social watches these issues like no one else, & joins Matt for a unique conversation between policy & practice podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

By proceeding to plow through every stoplight before it had changed to green today, I forced the issue. It's a strategy I like to call "intentional driving."

The entire US economy is now being propped up by systems which are known to freely engage in fraud and blackmail *and* resist explicit commands to shut down and no one knows why. Which is fine obviously

My social life to this point would have been so, so much easier if there were Legos every bar, good going Portico Brewing

TONIGHT at Portico Brewing in #Somerville! I'll be on the keys 7-9:30, come by for a craft beer or two and one of our best sets yet

I have been wondering about this. Practicing immigration law full-time while trying to keep up with everything that it is being done to/with it leaves me with little bandwidth to track other federal policy topics, but no way every other silo isn't also quickly filling to the brim with horseshit rn

Hey Boston, my band is playing Portico Brewing in #Somerville this Friday (10/24)! Come on out and let's all forget about everything in the world i have ever told you about for a couple of hours porticobrewing.com/upcoming-eve...

look I fully understand that the US has been the protagonists of Starship Troopers for my entire lifetime, but as of now we are fully *living in Starship Troopers*

Habeas experts: any idea how ICE produces these precise times? Obviously they know the import of taking a detainee across state lines and I'm willing to believe that they record these things somewhere, but where and how?

Am I the only one for whom the @microsoft365.microsoft.com "Search My Files" function for Word files just... doesn't work? As in you can type pretty much anything into the search bar and it just randomly returns results from the cloud with no apparent regard for the search terms?

I was just talking to someone about the anti-ICE influencer who had their car rammed & was injured by ICE while trying to film ICE for a full thirty seconds before we realized that we were talking about different people who were recently rammed & injured by ICE while trying to film ICE

this is so obviously the correct thing to do that I have never cared less whether a court has any actual jurisdiction or authority to do anything

Another reminder that 98% of Antifa is just identifying local Nazis in your community

This is & so many other things I have been able to do in the past 18 months are exactly what I wanted OA to be when I joined, and I can't thank @seriouspod.bsky.social and @seriouslydiaonly.bsky.social enough for the vision and values which make this show something special. Pls support indie media!

Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:

Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" was 52 years ago today. It was a shocking breach of DOJ norms, and a major turning point for public opinion on Watergate. Trump already had one of these (on a Thursday) in February, and has had at least four more since then

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

it's no kings no way so vain you prob'ly think it's about ya well it is and it ain't and it ain't but it is youtu.be/j1yo1SG0hIE?...