A friend with Project HOME in Maine is asking for urgent help. With ICE descending on neighborhoods, people are afraid to go to work—cutting off income and putting families at immediate risk of eviction. This is a solidarity fund: 100% of donations go straight to rent.

Want to hear about the long awaited ArtFarm? There’s an update on February 9th from 6:00-7:30pm at Triangle Coffee (100 Chestnut Street, Somerville, MA). somervilleartscouncil.org/creative-pla...

After heavy snowfall like we’ve gotten over the past 24 hours, please be sure to check that the vents and flues on the outside of your home – and your car tailpipe – are clear of snow and ice. Blocked vents or tailpipes can trap carbon monoxide (CO) in your home or car and cause CO poisoning. 🧵

I'm trying to look at the bright side potential of a week-plus of freezing temps: this could do wonders to put a dent in the local rat population.

The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

I've had folks ask what resources they can pass along to friends and relatives in Maine and elsewhere now facing threats. LUCE Mass is great, but not the people to call for ICE sightings in Maine. Try this guide!

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

Our country was founded on restraining law enforcement. ICE in cities is repeating the situation that led to the Boston Massacre.

The nurses are pissed

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Somerville is declaring a snow emergency on Sunday, January 25. Beginning at 7 a.m., cars will have 4 hours (until 11 a.m.) to move to the ODD side of the street. Any exceptions to this parking rule will be noted by nearby signs. For more information, please visit somervillema.gov/snow.

ICE pinning a protestor to ground, he's shouting "YOU WANT TO KILL ME. YOU WANT TO KILL ME ON THE STREET." nearby a woman is sobbing violently.

Top two articles are about ICE abducting a 5 year old and a 2 year old. Below that, news about a historically large protest and general strike. Then articles detailing how ICE lies about their actions and how the White House makes/publishes fake images about the anti-ICE protests.

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

📚✏️WINTER HILL SCHOOL WILL BE REBUILT AT ORIGINAL LOCATION. Grateful to Mayor Wilson for this communication that was shared yesterday. Committed to doing everything we can to urgently advance this work 👇 @mayorjakewilson.bsky.social

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE. There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it. Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance. 24 hours. Go. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

Call your reps. Let them know that if they vote for ICE funding, you will not vote for them ever again. Representatives need to feel the heat. NO on ICE funding. No excuses.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.

Less speeding ✅ Less traffic ✅ More trees ✅ Safer for all ✅ Traffic calming efforts on Summer St are working: “Traffic volumes on Summer Street dropped by more than 30%, and speeding vehicles decreased from 55% to 19%.”

Extremely proud of Somerville High School students for a well organized walkout in protest of ICE.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”

The worst part of our current federal government’s behavior is that small-town goons see it and replicate it. Hate and fascism are infectious.

Cro-MAGA Man: The Latest on the Grok Nudify Scandal www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/grok-nu...

Winter is Coming! The City does not plan on calling a snow emergency, please note that with snow coming, we ask do not park within 20 feet of a corner to allow snow plows and emergency vehicles to clear corners & make turns. Cars parked too close to corners may be ticketed and/or towed.

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

“9 things the legislature should do in response to the ICE crackdown” - must read from Rep. @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social www.repmikeconnolly.org/9_things_the...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

The Winter Hill Community Innovation School is holding a fundraiser for our school. Submit your pet's photo for a donation of $20 and they can win a prize!

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

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“What is happening in Minneapolis is a fascist shit show, but there is also grassroots resistance.” I’m so impressed with the people of Minneapolis.

Protest above McGrath Highway in #SomervilleMA. Nonstop honking from the passing cars.

BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

“I find it breathtaking that I have been compelled on the evidence to find the conduct of such high-level officers of our government — cabinet secretaries — conspired to infringe the First Amendment rights of people,” Young said. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head. "I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️

The success of ICE watch interfering with ICE’s mission is almost certainly why DHS keeps sending more agents to Minneapolis. They used to execute their raids with just a few agents. Now they need 6-12 to even begin to disrupt the social pressure to be nonviolent.

abolish ice is the centrist position, the position moderates will take to appeal to the center

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The best antidote to doom and despair is getting out in your community if you are able to and working towards something positive. Not everything has to be about fighting fascism directly. Simply building better and stronger communities is a worthy endeavor.

This is the blueprint. Pay attention. When ICE shows up, neighbors alert neighbors with whistles, horns, voices cutting through fear. People come out of their homes. And when the community reaches critical mass, ICE is forced to retreat because occupation fails when the people refuse to disappear.

NEW: GoFundMe's rules forbid fundraisers tied to legal funds for violent crimes. One for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, currently nearing $500K, changed the language in its description after @wired.com reached out (but not in the images at the top of the page, oops) @dell.bsky.social reports:

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

The far right has become a parody of itself, inventing new culture “wars” because it has nothing to offer on real problems: jobs and stagnant wages, rising healthcare, housing, and food costs. They can’t govern, so they want to manufacture outrage and it shows.

This story ran in the @bostonglobe.com on the front page on New Year's Eve. How have @mayorwu.boston.gov @wutrain.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social and @massago.bsky.social still not publicly acknowledged a presumed innocent man killed in Boston by COs charged with his care? #mapoli #bospoli

Stop doing infuriating and objectively evil things like murdering people.