In a 9pm Tuesday message to @cambridgeday.com contributors, editor Michael Fitzgerald announces that founder Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social "has resigned effective immediately." I don't know any of the details nor the backstory.

Fifty-five people in line for #cambma City Council public comment tonight, so that's 2-hours of public comment (2 minutes each). Likely most about the Cambridge St. [and Mass. Ave] zoning proposals that could be adopted (or deferred) tonight, with or without modification.

Last night Kseniia Petrova's lawyers filed their discovery motion in her criminal case. Join me mid-thread for a few updates, including grand jury testimony and info on the forthcoming selective/vindictive prosecution motion:

Repeating this again. The Government HAS APPEALED. It is misleading and confusing to say it has announced it will appeal.

Just after her Calderon hearing, Judge Saris grants partial summary judgment in favor of the Guerrero Orelanna class, finding against mandatory detention in the Boston area on a classwide basis. Long long docket text + a PDF. 12:23pm:

Just out of a hastily scheduled 11:30am hearing before Judge Saris in the #Calderon settlement litigation. Yet another case of a noncitizen spouse of a US citizen who is protected from arrest in ICE Boston under the Settlement, who traveled for the holidays, and was arrested by another ICE office.

So, it was relatively clear going in (given the preliminary injunction and class certification) that Judge Saris was likely to grant summary judgment for the plaintiffs/petitioners here in Guerrero Orelanna, but that was now made quite explicitly clear by the end of the hearing. By Friday.

Hi from the Boston Federal Courthouse for summary judgment in Guerrero Orelanna v. Hyde before Judge Saris. I'm not sure this was my most recent thread on this case: bsky.app/profile/john... this is about mandatory detention, but limited to the Boston ICE field office area.

24 people in line for tonight's #cambma City Council meeting. 2 minutes of time per.

. @dankennedy.net reports on @cambridgeday.com's pivot away from Somerville weekly politics: dankennedy.net/2025/12/12/b...

Judge Xinis grants habeas for Abrego Garcia, ordering him released from ICE custody immediately. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So, I haven't spent any time here talking about Columbia St. LLC v. Cambridge, the lawsuit associated with Patrick Barrett challenging the City of Cambridge's inclusionary zoning ordinance…

Cambridge City Council will be CANCELLING its contract with mass surveillance company FLOCK – other municipalities should do the same. TAKE ACTION: mobilize.aclum.org/a/email-your...

Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang: "We're terminating the contract" with Flock Safety for automated license-plate reader cameras.

WAIT WHAT? Camb. Police Commissioner Elow just said that after the cameras were allegedly off, Flock came back and put up two more cameras because they had a "work order" in the system and didn't see functional cameras, so put up more. "Which we just found out about today." Wow.

LIVE NOW: The #cambma City Council's public safety committee hearing about Flock Safety's ALPR cameras. cambridgema.zoom.us/w/97895847144 I'm not likely to live-cover it.

My writeup of yesterday's Özturk decision for @cambridgeday.com www.cambridgeday.com/2025/12/09/t... Özturk's SEVIS database record is ordered restored in a preliminary injunction, so she can teach classes and do research for her graduate degree again, 8 months after her initial arrest by ICE.

43 people in line for tonight's #cambma City Council meeting. 2 minutes per. Starts at 5:30pm.

BREAKING: Chief Judge Denise Casper (D. Mass) grants Rümeysa Öztürk's preliminary injunction to adjust her SEVIS record in the government database so that she can do normal graduate student work like teach.

The CHC is unhappy with #cambma Transportation's revised presentation as to Brattle St. bike lane, but it seems to feel like there's little else they can do, other than extend the temporary approval for another 4 yrs rather than granting a permanent one. Oh, and make the flexposts black not white.

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.

The #cambma Election Commission meets tonight via Zoom at 5:30pm, cambridgema.zoom.us/w/85725295841 and perhaps they will discuss what went wrong on Election Night. Catch up to my threads from: Nov. 21: bsky.app/profile/john... Nov. 17: bsky.app/profile/john... Nov. 14: bsky.app/profile/john...

The #cambma Ordinance Committee is making decisions on the two zoning petitions, Cambridge St. and Mass Ave. It's vote time:

In case anyone was wondering, no #cambma City Council meeting tonight (presumably because of the holiday weekend, although the cancellation reason was not given explicitly). Plenty of stuff this week, though.

11 people in line for tonight's #cambma City Council meeting. (more than the three for the last regular meeting!) Relatively brief agenda.

Will @annabower.bsky.social rebrand her WITOAD quest as searching for "THE LAST DOGE ADMINISTRATOR?" inquiring minds, &c. www.reuters.com/world/us/dog... (l thought THE LAST (DOGE) EMPEROR was too much but maybe not? )

For everyone following personnel changes at DOJ OIL (all 2 of my followers, if that, I'm sure) — Office of Immigration Litigation: William Weiland is out as Assistant Director, he heading to the S.D.Va. US Atty's office (in what capacity I have no idea). (image is a collage to fit 2 pages into 1)

Further details on the Election Night mis-reporting of results from me in @cambridgeday.com . Perhaps more questions than answers, though? bsky.app/profile/camb...

Hi from the #cambma Election Commission where it is confirmed NO RECOUNT PETITION has been filed. Final election results from Nov. 14 are now *really* final!

No #cambma election recount petition was filed by 5pm today. Depending on who you ask that was the deadline or it may be Wed at 5pm as the City contends.

Well. If I didn't know better, I'd think nothing was going on at today's #cambma City Council meeting. Only 1 real person signed up to speak so far, it looks like.

Hello from the 4pm meeting of the #cambma Election Commission.

Echoes of Kseniia Petrova... apnews.com/article/chin...

Over at the #cambma City Council Ordinance committee, the committee votes 6-0-3 
to keep the two corridor zoning petitions (Camb. St, N. Mass Ave.) in committee, recessing the hearing until Dec. 2, w/ potential ordination by Dec. 22. BA y MM y PN absent SS y JSW bsent PFT y AW y EDS absent 6-0-3

Remember AAUP v. Rubio? Judge Young's opinion with the postcard? About Öztürk and Mahdawi and all the others? Remedies hearing set for December 15.

#BREAKING: Anthony Campbell will leave his post as Yale University’s police chief to serve as the next chief of the Harvard University Police Department, the University announced Thursday. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Just before midnight, my @cambridgeday.com article about the #cambma Election erroneous results disclosure followup posted: www.cambridgeday.com/2025/11/11/c...

No public comment for tonight's #cambma City Council meeting, which is a roundtable with the school committee "to discuss macro-economic trends in Cambridge and the City’s FY27 Budget."

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

My writeup of the #cambma Election clusterfuck for @cambridgeday:

BREAKING NEWS: David Weinstein replaces Eugenia Schraa Huh for the school committee.

Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf retired today. Among other things, his supervision of the Calderon immigration class action settlement (arrests at I130 interviews while adjustingstatus) is transferred to Judge Saris. (This seems so good for plaintiffs that I have to wonder if it is random or not!)

The #cambma Historical Commission votes 5-0-1 (GK abstaining, but "with you in spirit," as he missed part of the meeting) to recommend the City Council landmark the former Democracy Center at 45 Mount Auburn.

Judge O'Toole orders the release of MIRIAN XIMENA ABARCA TIXE.

Took your data and joined on funds raised per candidate (data from OCPF). Top 9 fundraisers were the 9 that won. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is my thread of #cambma Election Night live tracking results. Google Sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... So far no results, but the polls only just closed (8pm, or later if people are still in line), & mail-in ballots haven't all have been yet run through the machines at polling places.

Oh, miscellaneous premature #cambma election reporting. Over at 3-3 and 3-3A, City Hall, as of 4:17pm, the tabulators had read 477+517 => 994 ballots, which ÷3 is 331 voters. That includes mail-in ballots being deposited there throughout the day. Collectively they have 2345 voters, 1513 "active."

Just a reminder, I'll be attempting to collect realtime #cambma election results tonight. If you're available to grab photos of machine tapes after 8pm from your precinct's polling place, let me know, that'd be helpful.

At tonight's #cambma Council meeting, @pattynolan.bsky.social mentioned a 2.1% budget cut: bsky.app/profile/john... Here's the Manager's email about it, kicking off the FY27 budget planning season (FY27 budget is voted on in May 2026; needs several months planning which are starting off now-ish).