“Daniel Kennedy, of Billerica, was struck by a marked Lowell Police cruiser on Wilder Street outside the McGauvran Center where he was walking around 6:23 p.m. last Thursday, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said.”

NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️

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RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

#Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who is up for reelection this year, will forcefully criticize ICE and the Trump administration—what she won't do is stop working with them. My latest for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Hell World. #mapoli

More than three months ago, Seth Moulton said on TV that Donald Trump “took advantage of young girls with Jeffrey Epstein,” and the notoriously litigious Trump still hasn't filed or even threatened a defamation lawsuit. Odd!

The answer to xenophobic demagoguery is a full-throated defense of immigration, not capitulation.

De-escalation has become a buzzword police throw around to justify use of force rather than an actual thing they do.

#Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who is up for reelection this year, will forcefully criticize ICE and the Trump administration—what she won't do is stop working with them. My latest for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Hell World. #mapoli

insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

A MODEST PROPOSAL: A state law requiring all courts to replace their uncomfortable wooden benches with those electric recliners with drink holders and trays they have at AMC

I'm at #Worcester District Court for the second day of @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social's trial. Haxhiaj says she will be taking the stand in her own defense today.

This is what ICE looks like

BP agent Charles Exum bragged about his shooting skills and putting seven bullet holes in Marimar Martinez. Bovino emailed him the day of the shooting calling his service in Chicago “excellent.”

A MODEST PROPOSAL: A state law requiring all courts to replace their uncomfortable wooden benches with those electric recliners with drink holders and trays they have at AMC

Today has been a very long day—and I'm not even the one who was on trial

"unfortunately had to handcuff a 17 year old" and they very explicitly say it's not about what ICE was doing but what they don't say is that 17 year old was body slammed on the ground by WPD and has been torn from her family.

prosecutors gonna cop

Call it whatever. “I support them...What I don’t support is what ICE is right now in its current iteration. It is not fulfilling the mission it was set to fulfill.” “What needs to happen is that ICE needs to be pulled back right now and needs to be fixed. Call it reform. Call it whatever.”

Two good ones today at HW. First @andrewqmr.bsky.social writes on the discrepancy between the words and deeds of governor Maura Healey when it comes to partnering with ICE. Massachusetts remains the only Democrat-controlled state still contracting with these motherfuckers.

At #Worcester District Court for the trial of @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social. Huge crowd here.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

PBS News Hour is interviewing a Bad Bunny expert. This woman has been waiting for this moment for years.

A #Massachusetts State Police sergeant and three instructors will face charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the September 2024 death of trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia, an independent investigator announced Monday.

5 months ago

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

I’ve finally moved my newsletter from Substack to Ghost. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. It’s costing me a bit in the short run, but I hope it will pay off—and regardless, it seems like the right thing to do. Below are new links to some of the work I’m most proud of.

When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.

“Noam Chomsky … told Jeffrey Epstein to ‘ignore’ negative media attention as the disgraced financier was being accused of abusing women and girls, emails recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice show.”

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Super proud of my partner for submitting her first comic script to an anthology and getting really strong positive feedback even though it was rejected ❤️

NEW: A 4th grader from the same Minneapolis-area school district as Liam Conejo Ramos is now back home after spending a month locked up in a federal immigration detention center in Texas. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

“Two #Framingham police officers placed on administrative leave in September 2025 are no longer employed with the department. … [Framingham Police Lieutenant Rachel] Mickens did not identify either former Framingham officer, nor specify whether they were fired or resigned.” #Massachusetts

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Name them Trump is a Pedophile International Airport and Trump is a Pedophile Station.

perhaps the most cursed thing i’ve ever recorded just dropped on the ill conceived patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/150071...

“Paz, an immigrant from Honduras, had come to court after being arrested on a charge of raping a minor. His defense attorney and court records show ICE detained him at the courthouse before his arraignment — an outcome Suffolk County prosecutors say cuts off victims’ paths to justice.”

The Northwestern DA's Office is prosecuting a former #Worcester city councilor and another community member for allegedly assaulting Worcester cops who were aiding ICE while they used the children of a mother with a valid asylum claim as bait to lure her out and kidnap her. #Massachusetts #mapoli

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

The Northwestern DA's Office is prosecuting a former #Worcester city councilor and another community member for allegedly assaulting Worcester cops who were aiding ICE while they used the children of a mother with a valid asylum claim as bait to lure her out and kidnap her. #Massachusetts #mapoli

“A former #Gloucester police officer has been sentenced to four years in prison in connection with possessing child sexual abuse material. Alexander Aiello, 34, was sentenced Jan. 23 in federal court after pleading guilty in October to one count of possession of CSAM.” #Massachusetts

”Multiple sources allege that [now-former #Lowell police officer Dylan] DaSilva was investigated for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. While sixteen is the legal age of consent in Massachusetts, the circumstances of their meeting have raised ethical alarms.” #Massachusetts

Sharing this again after hearing the news that the creator of #StardewValley is working on a version 1.7 patch. www.polygon.com/stardew-vall...