Remember this? www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

The federal government has upped its efforts to deport a Western Massachusetts father who has a pending visa application for labor trafficking. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Connecticut state Rep. Cara Christine Pavalock wearing a blazer that says "ICE IN" on the back.

New reporting from me: The Lenco BearCat armored vehicle—used in ICE enforcement operations, protest responses, and featured in the agency’s social-media hype reels and agent-recruitment videos—is manufactured in the Berkshires. Few want to discuss it.

Northwestern DA David Sullivan promised to prosecute hypothetical criminal activity by ICE in his district. But among his office's current caseload are assault charges against two Worcester rapid responders to an ICE raid in that city. By @billshaner.bsky.social: theshoestring.org/2026/02/03/n...

posting jonathangerhardson.substack.com/p/ransomware...

4th alarm struck at the Greater Nashua Mental Health Center at 440 Amherst St in Nashua, NH. Major explosion and now a gas fed fire. Multiple firefighters hospitalized. Massive response. Route 101A closed.

Navy awards Systems & Technology Research a $9.5 million contract modification ($20 mil total) "for the development of innovative payloads to conduct acoustic warfare." Work to me performed in Woburn, and Springfield, Massachusetts. www.war.gov/News/Contrac... #mapoli #westernma

theshoestring.org/2026/02/01/h... @dustyc123.bsky.social

That's BI2 Technologies, 488 State Road, Plymouth, Mass. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/m...

Posting. github.com/JonGerhardso...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Contemporary Poetry Queer Writing Hypertext fiction seminar "Nothing" (6 credits) Journalism 101

And on that note: the fuck is going on here? www.moltbook.com

I hate to anthropomorphize AI but honestly same

www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/29/m... "Jail staff moved to apprehend him, and he announced, “I have weapons in my bag,” the feds allege. Inside his backpack, jail staff found a barbecue fork and what looked to be a pizza cutter."

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=adfdf9&... [Chorus] God blesses with golden mountains and silver roads ahead God advises not to meddle in the rivers and lakes of strife God reminds me to hold onto goodness this lifetime God fears the thirty-six strikes that thunder in the fall (Yeah, ayy)

the @merriam-webster.com dictionary right now 2 is cool www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

An emergency motion was filed Monday in U.S. District Court to prevent the child from being forced to live in an unfamiliar country with her biological father. buff.ly/2FiXuY1

Broke: analyzing the mesoscale frontogenesis to identify where the heavy snow bands will set up within the storm Woke: mescaline

Actually hold up someone tell me if I am interpreting this wrong. H.R. 7147 is DHS Approprtations. Neal and most Dems voted against. But 7148 has a clause attaching 7147 to it upon passage, and that vote was 341 to 88. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Neal voted to allow billions to go to ICE literally two days ago so that tracks

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.

The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group arrived in the Arabian Sea today. Chinese satellite photos show a buildup of American F-15s at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. Israeli municipalities are preparing for an “emergency situation”. An attack on Iran this weekend looks increasingly likely.

Haitian TPS holders in MA face a Feb. 3 deadline that could put 5,000 people at risk of deportation, including many who’ve cared for older residents for decades. Advocates say losing them would harm lives and the state’s health care system. #TPS #Massachusetts #Immigration #HealthCare

New from me for @binjreports.bsky.social binj.news/2026/01/22/d...

For others who missed it, the @knightcolumbia.org folks have posted the Jan. 15 transcript of the AAUP v. Rubio remedies hearing last week: knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...

www.latimes.com/california/s... "A suspect in the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history was deported to Ecuador, halting his prosecution in the $100-million Brinks truck theft. "

New one from me for @theshoestring.bsky.social

Cannot stress enough that the current governor of #Massachusetts was the attorney general when the Attorney General's Office covered up one of the biggest criminal-justice scandals in the history of the United States, and barely anyone is talking about it. #mapoli

Our latest audit identified violations of state regulations at the Holyoke & Chelsea Veterans Homes, calling for better oversight & emergency preparedness. We’re pursuing legal action to access records the Governor unlawfully withheld. Our veterans deserve transparency. #mapoli

Almost Prescient m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ib...

US military intervention on Iran could come in the next 24 hours, European officials tell Reuters.

If anyone else can't make calls right now on Verizon and are confused you can't use a voip number either here's the setting you have to change (on Google Voice at least)

Anyone having issues with Verizon cellular in western Massachusetts right now?

When big news breaks, misinformation spreads fast. It’s often hard to filter fact from fiction. Our 2024 guide remains relevant today, outlining what to look out for when it comes to misleading analysis. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Telephones are beginning to work again in Iran. News getting out has been consistently telling of mass repression killings. 2/

I need to quickly look at the first page of a couple hundred PDF files does anyone know a good app for this for a linux based os? It is apparently not Okular, although to its credit my computer somehow didn't even crash when I accidentally opened one viewer per file just now

With two blazes leaving over 100 displaced in Holyoke last month, The Shoestring found that state law requiring the installation of sprinkler systems during apartment building renovations leaves much to be desired. By Joe Douglass: theshoestring.org/2026/01/12/n...

Damn what's up with this @theintercept.com ? libroot.org/posts/going-...