NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

This paired with reducing food assistance and criminalizing homelessness is cartoon villain levels of cruelty. It’s a war on low income and vulnerable people.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

The casual cruelty is shocking both in its depth and breadth. So many of these ICE officer seem to revel in seeing the pain of others.

“Complexity in medicine cannot be reduced to a billing code. A patient with hypertension, diabetes, or depression may look “routine” on paper, yet the visit may involve reconciling medications, coordinating referrals, addressing side effects, screening for complications, and navigating barriers…”

Filling classrooms with computers didn't have the huge and positive impact on learning that was promised. Filling them with tablets hasn't done it either. I know this might sound absurd to many (especially politicians) but what if we filled them with highly skilled and properly supported educators?

Whatever country you are from, the officially approved way to avoid getting grabbed off the street is to have pale enough skin. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Food insecurity is a serious problem, affecting nearly 2 million adults in Massachusetts. This number is expected to go up, as many federal and state programs are seeing budgets cut or outright cancelled this year.

If you want to help support my coverage of ICE, please subscribe to my newsletter. And maybe if you have a recommendation for a lawyer if I get arrested tonight, that would also be good. They were definitely physically targeting press yesterday.

"This was an outrageous and unlawful assault on a 79-year-old American citizen in his own place of business…If this can happen in broad daylight to an American senior citizen who committed no crime, it can happen to anyone." abcnews.go.com/US/79-year-u...

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Yesterday I had to wait while an MBTA bus ignored the pedestrians in the crosswalk a few hundred feet from my kid’s school. The driver was reading a book. But sure... Let’s reflect on what the people walking could do better to escape injury and death when people driving abdicate responsibility.

Sure. Just like Roe v Wade was settled.

One more reason (in a list of many) not go to Starbucks, is that it has been fighting dirty against unions for ages now.

"Casey...says the pressure has never been so intense. 'This year, in training, they explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story.'" "It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

He is literally being deported for live streaming a ‘no kings’ protest. So much for freedom of speech, peaceable assembly, and the right to petition for the redress of grievances. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends. Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

If we are able to pull out of this fascist tailspin, we are going to need a much stronger set of laws partitioning core concepts like free speech from would-be dictators. Obviously, that also implies needing a court system that isn’t deeply corrupt.

Great opening by @sangernyt.bsky.social "Imagine for a moment that the [DoD's] new demand for a 'pledge' from Pentagon reporters...existed during the botched evacuation of American personnel from Afghanistan... Reporters would have been under pressure to cover...as the Pentagon would have wanted"

This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

The Trump administration has canceled grants for street safety, pedestrian trails, and bike lanes in communities around the country. One official wrote that a project was canceled because it created "a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Are you passionate about assisting high school students as they pursue higher education? The City of Somerville is seeking one new volunteer member to join the Somerville Municipal Scholarship Committee. All Somerville residents are invited to apply.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Affordability in the US across the board is increasingly worse. We’ll have to depend on others now to tell us how far we are sinking while our government denies it all. Setting up yet another abject failure of basic care for those in need in our communities.

Always be rude to ICE.

A Billionaire is a kind of financial black hole. There's some critical mass of wealth well below $1B beyond which money will keep falling into their accounts & out of circulation. Thomas Picketty's hit book says that r > g, return on investment > general economic growth; we should grapple with that.

The “starter home” ballot question makes loads of sense.

Per NYT, the “BAG OF CASH” $50,000 cash payment Homan took from undercover FBI agents was inside a bag from Cava. Trump’s DOJ made the investigation go away. A wildly corrupt regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

House Republicans, with Some Fossil-Fueled Democratic Friends, Vote to Make America Pollute Again jonathancohn.medium.com/house-republ...

Every single day he has more scandals than like any 20 Presidents combined. It’s unreal.

Holy heck, Somerville pulled in an absurd number of people for Fluff Fest this year. Union Square Main Streets did such a good job making this thing happen.

Enough of this. We need a bigger response to these goons so that they think twice about terrorizing our community.

They stated they had no probable cause. This would appear to be an unlawful, unconstitutional kidnapping — based on racial profiling.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

He’s really going full fascism now, openly threatening American citizens while attacking both the press and basic democratic freedoms. Once again, Trump tried to glorify his deployment of the National Guard in

Whooping cough cases are rapidly rising in Louisiana. The vaccine-preventable infection has already caused 2 deaths of infants. State leaders say it's the "worst whooping cough outbreak in the past 30 yrs." There has been no public health assistance from the CDC, which is now controlled by RFK jr👇

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Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago:

As a grad student, I taught a class called Campus Diversity. One of the hardest recurring themes was “we already solved X” (where X was racism, xenophobia, homophobia, chauvinism, etc). They thought victories and progress meant we could stop worrying about it. I think about that a lot lately.

Somerville people (or people who enjoy our community path). The city wants your input. I love the path, but I can't help but think of how much better it could be. I'll be calling out the School St intersection and lack of shade, among other things.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

The results of the Somerville preliminary were amazing. I had hoped to do well, but I ran the race I wanted to. I believe good people don‘t need tons of money to get started. I also didn’t want to create plastic yard sign waste. A little money and no signs. 12 people running—I came in fourth.

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

NEW: RFK Jr. has dubbed fluoride “industrial waste,” and federal agencies are reviewing their approaches to fluoridation amid a backlash that has seen state and local governments upending a decadeslong public health success story. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

ICE has said it's rare for people to be detained inside its Burlington field office for more than a few hours, but a new WBUR analysis finds that hundreds were detained for more than a day this past spring and summer.