“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

NEW: The Supreme Court will once again consider the legality of Trump's attack on birthright citizenship, this time (likely) on the merits.

I see the timeline is talking about Brookline. Your jokes are all great but here are a few facts that aren't making it into the conversation: -700 families use the Brookline food pantry each week -3400 people live in public housing (5% of town's population) -More than 50% households are renters

As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review! Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.

the boat was almost certainly not loaded with drugs, it was certainly not bound for the United States, even if it were that’s not an act of war, and the fight was entirely one-sided

Hey if you’re reading for #Nebula (and other) nominations this year, check out my secret twist-y summertime gothic novelette, When He Calls Your Name, at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and consider it maybe! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...

Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:

Be very careful Black ice out there just went down my steps @universalhub.com

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

Judge Howell just enjoined warrantless immigration arrests in DC without probable cause to believe the person is a flight risk. Great work by ACLU and Amica www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...

Heartbreaking and horrifying. This 6 year old boy needs to be in school and with his father. The administration official just deflects blame for the separation onto the father. And instead no one knows where this boy is.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

I REMEMBER. In 1981, nearly 100% of people with AIDS died, often rapidly. I remember weeping. I remember Ronald Reagan's refusal to say "AIDS". I remember the brave patients, loving caregivers, and the defiant power of ACT-UP. And finally the miracle of modern therapy. Rise up for World AIDS day.

Kobo has made The Body Keeps the Score a featured deal today and so I would just like to say that What My Bones Know is wonderful and not written by a creep, so I'd suggest picking that up when you can instead.

If a video has no captions, I don't watch If a video has no captions I don't watch I don't wanna have to listen It's hard work but have you considered That if your video has no captions I won't watch.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂🥧 Have some anti-vax family at your table? Here is a summary of 14 studies that found no association between vaccines and autism. h/t @drtomfrieden.bsky.social

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

As a result of destroying USAID, Musk is personally responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of people - so far. That should be pointed out EVERY time Musk is mentioned. He should be shunned for the rest of his existence.

BREAKING: “After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “

Relevant halachic discourse

There is no legitimate explanation to think Trump is good for anybody other than Trump unless you are willfully ignorant at this point. No room for benefit of the doubt. If you think he’s good for you, then you are refusing to accept the evidence of your eyes and ears.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.

Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah Is a SATIRE — a Music Theory multi-modal melody-lyrical interpolated SATIRE — of Christianity’s attitude towards Jewish people & Judaism.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

This is a pretty exhaustive takedown by Judge Ellis, going through DHS claims versus body cameras. Also, fuck ICE.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

October 7 was directly designed to target civilians and murder as many civilians as possible, especially civilians who wanted to live in harmony with Gaza. If you think murdering Vivian Silver hy”d was good for Palestine then you are a goddamn fool

Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first. Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California. The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children? A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

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:

I see your truuuuuuue colors... shining through! 🎨📚 Just pre-ordered via Bookshop. If it's anything like @korystamper.bsky.social's Word By Word, this promises to be a fantastic read!

Sarah Kendzior's response: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

This is the Challenger Disaster of ethics in media.

"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

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.