Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Trump & ICE are terrorizing our communities to the point that students are too afraid to go to school. Absolutely shameful. Criminalizing immigrant families does nothing to keep our communities safe, and our students, parents, & educators deserve better. www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Massachusetts folks: Regular reminder to please call LUCE at 617-370-5023 if you suspect ICE is in your area. Even if you see someone get snatched, call and report vehicle details and plate numbers. Cataloging vehicles used by ICE can make future verification and warning easier.

I was interviewed by @wbur.org about this really critical issue - border policy and ICE has caused a 300-student drop (5%) in Chelsea Public Schools' enrollment, which could mean losing $6 million in state funding next year. We desperately need the state to use Fair Share funding to fill this gap.

Chelsea City Councilor @robertoj.bsky.social talks about how our voter registration cutoff disenfranchises renters. No eligible voter should be turned away. #mapoli

The current #ICE surge in #Massachusetts hit #Milford hard this weekend when #GustavoOliveira, a 16 year old boy with no criminal record, was abducted. His #community showed up for him! If you live in MA, please consider getting #LUCE trained and if you see ICE, call 617-370-5023.

Why in gods name was this important enough to send me a push notification Boston Globe

According to @massgovernor.bsky.social Healey, the Democratic Party is all about cutting taxes. What world is she living in? This is why we fail and the GOP keeps cutting into our numbers. Meanwhile when we come up short what gets cut is programs helping low and middle income families. 😡

I hate how the prevalence of AI makes me judge acquaintances for writing social media posts that I suspect to be AI. It’s not even that I’m annoyed that they’re using AI, I’m annoyed that now I’m always thinking about the possibility

🚨🚨🚨 "The Trump administration is preparing an immigration enforcement blitz in #Boston in the coming weeks, according to a current administration official and a former administration official. … The clampdown could come soon after a similar surge in Chicago in September." #Massachusetts #bospoli

Hey @pressley.house.gov, I couldn't resist. I know you got our backs and I hope you like the rubber duck. #standupforscience

Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism

RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya must resign

Has anyone heard if grant making has been paused again due to this EO?

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

In 1930 President Hoover held a conference with the newly formed leader of the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social and created the Children’s Charter. Almost 100 years later not only have we failed to meet these goals but we are now going backwards. Some day we will #PutKids1st 

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

Thousands of young victims of abuse, abandonment, or neglect have been granted legal protection called Special Immigrant Juvenile status – now they are under attack from the Trump Administration. This is a threat to the fundamental right to seek safety in the U.S. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Just want to give a shoutout to the journal BMC Public Health for their extremely reasonable review criteria

NASW MA PACE is proud to support Sarah Neville in her election for Chelsea School Committee. Sarah knows her community and has worked to ensure transparency and engagement for families in Chelsea. @sarahneville.bsky.social @naswma.bsky.social

WGBH building in Boston today

To borrow a posting structure from @jonathancohn.bsky.social : @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : I want everyone to have access to healthcare. #MAGA : we are decimating access to healthcare @repauchincloss.bsky.social : these, to me, are equally bad #MA04 #mapoli

Are you connected to the international development sector? Do you want a quick dose of depression? Just open your LinkedIn!

Andrew Cuomo, in the hallmark of an abuser, refuses to believe that no means no.

Why are Democrats still pretending that they need to hide from this as an issue?

My study started out in 2022 as the first that I could identify that was looking at X issue in X country Submitted it in 2023. 1.5 years later in late 2024 a reviewer told me to incorporate a study published in 2023, which also looked at X issue in X country, so I did. (1/2)

HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

Imagine the utter cruelty of making this decision; the people who decided, yeah, let's make it so that those toddlers here without legal status can't learn.

Cuts to federal research will harm my majority-immigrant Environmental Justice community, Chelsea MA. Dr. Madeleine Scammel of @busph.bsky.social and I wrote op-eds in our local paper about the crisis. #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social chelsearecord.com/wp-content/u...

A different way to protest. Researchers presented posters on how their terminated projects would have benefitted society. Many of the scientists presenting were a few years into their projects before their funding was cut — wasting money already spent. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It was the Catholic church in the '80's which provided sanctuary for people fleeing the US sponsored wars in Guatemala and El Salvador. It was a Catholic nun, Sister Rose Marie Cummins, who founded Centro Presente in the Boston area.

Catholic activism, with its preferential option for the poor, was why Bishop Oscar Romero was assassinated as he celebrated Mass in El Salvador. That option is a requirement.

New story up on STAT this morning... www.statnews.com/2025/07/06/h... 1/n

But Delaney added that the courts are limited in what they can do, and scientists, who have largely been reticent in the past to be politically active, need to press Congress to act. 13/n

What the Mandani discourse is missing is that Columbia admissions office does a close enough review of every accepted student that they would absolutely figure out that he was ethnically Indian before accepting him

A moment of silence please for #USAID, which is officially shuttered after months of dismantling. Why a moment of silence? Not only for the employees. But also for the estimated 14 MILLION deaths by 2030 predicted without the agency. @altusaid.altgov.info www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

When did they change the rainbow? My son is obsessed with indigo and violet lol

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Mass Health, that’s what Medicaid is called in Massachusetts. And many of our neighbors will lose it once this horrible bill passes the House today. Nursing homes & hospitals will close. And many of our seniors, veterans, kids and unhoused neighbors will lose their ability to eat.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

I'm so angry

It’s hard not to read this as overtly eliminationist rhetoric and it’s frankly terrifying to me. I condemn this. I condemn this. I condemn this. And I condemn everyone who believes in anything like it.

I’ve used this exact analogy lol What are we even doing??!

Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.

HomeBASE is a critical tool to transition families from homelessness into stable housing. Pausing this assistance will have significant human costs, especially with new restrictions on shelter access and our deep housing crisis. #mapoli buff.ly/7I2iFVI

We have destroyed USAID and NIH while pumping money into a Nazi's hobby that has regressed from "blew up spaceship before reaching orbit" to the even bigger failure of "blew up spaceship on the ground."

USAID was one of the best things we, America, ever did. There is not really room for dispute on this unless your moral calculus is so different as to be alien.