“The bill’s language allows scrutiny based on ‘views’ and ‘opinions’, a standard that echoes some of the darkest chapters of American surveillance history.”

City councillor Ayah Al-Zubi calls on Monday for Cambridge to gets its municipal accounts the hell off Twitter within 60 days of enactment. cambridgema.primegov.com/viewer/previ...

To my surprise, the State Police response to my public records request included more than an hour of video taken from the helicopter over the protest at the federal building on January 10. Potentially of interest, there were -four- people on the roof of city hall. They operated the drone. 1/?

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

In Minnesota, despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained by ICE for days or weeks. But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.

I posted about it a bit over the weekend, but everyone should listen to this @onthemedia.bsky.social interview with Daniel Suhr of the Center for American Rights where he flat out says government should push local & national media outlets toward a right-wing bias www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

On day 1, he was told to train recruits to enter homes without a judicial warrant. a direct attack on the 4th Amendment. He watched ICE cut 240 hours from a 584‑hour course, gutting classes on the Constitution, firearms, use of force, lawful arrests, detention rules, & limits of officers’ authority.

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party. I made the group and invited six people. SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house. ... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

Looking forward to Semafor's Feb. 25 panel on “Restoring Trust in the Media” with Trump's fascist lapdog at the FCC; a guy from Jeff Bezos' new Washington Post; the Axel Springer guy who told employees to pray for Trump; a Fox News person; and someone from the Nazi platformer Substack.

For whatever reason, ducks have invaded Davis Square.

life is like a box of chocolates: overpriced

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

ICE is operating in East Somerville this morning and I'm hearing that at least one person has already been taken. If you see them, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

GOOD NEWS FOR ÖZTüRK: An immigration judge (on Jan. 29) found that Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk's immigration removal proceedings are over, an immigration judge found the Government did not meet its burden.

Erotic/sclerotic

Any updates, pussycat? Wooooah woah woah!

I was watching a movie that started with a flashback, then showed a title card that said the setting had shifted to “present day.” I can't find any information on this holiday. When is it celebrated? Origins?

Bard, I’m worried about the weaver. (From ye olde series of plays, “Leave It to Weaver.”)

We have really cold weather and some snow again. This time it's start tomorrow, February 7. Here's some much needed public health humor from the National Park Service. So remember to layer, but no need for bug spray! www.mass.gov/info-details... @universalhub.com @cambridgeday.com

My top nine magazines in no particular order Squabble Goldblum’s The Pleader American Arguer Whinge Squibs The Puler Miniature Donkey Talk Vague Rant It's possible that this final one refers actually to Vagrant, the quarterly of hobo wisdom, opinion and fashion (since 1982). Can't read my writing

Have any of you guys tried Alfam Ale, the beer for real men

Lawmakers in Florida (a non-expansion state) are apparently considering a Medicaid work requirements bill. Except Florida's income eligibility thresholds are so low that forcing people to meet an 80-hour/month requirement would force them off of the program. floridaphoenix.com/2026/02/03/m...

Ah, yes, the well-known "but it's so inconvenient" exception to constitutional provisions, from the landmark case of Why vs. Because I Said So.

The opposite of assault and battery, it turns out, is batsuit and adultery

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

There was no mastermind or grand scheme, but there was a successful effort by wealthy men, including Epstein, to destroy a status quo that they feared was trending towards greater accountability.

The real vengeance served cold and brutal, oozing with steaming viscera torn from the living gut of your foes and still throbbing and oozing on the filthy ground, is the friends we made along the way

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

UPS cannot seem to deliver to my address without fucking it up, so I stopped in at the nearest UPS Store to ask if it takes delivery. The guy at the counter said yes, but there’s a $10 charge per package. I'd be paying the company for its incompetence and so I could do more of its work for it …

{the groundhog emerges from his cage} handler to the crowd: i declare, punxutawny phil looked down & indeed saw… man in the crowd talking into a tiny surveillance mic on his cuff: TAKE THE SHOT

Poet lariats

I'll repost this tomorrow, but if you're commemorating the Boston Mooninite Scare anniversary today, one of its heroes is nearing the end of his life, and you can let him know how much that moment meant to you and help his family out here @universalhub.com

Actor converts, wishes to be known as Islamic Slater

If trump and his DOJ and his other agencies continue to violate the Constitution, our laws, court orders, and states’ rights, then sovereign immunity needs to be abolished. The federal government cannot be allowed to kill us or take away our rights without compensation.

Vaganza? Extra vaganza, please.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen."

Wait, no, what? I mean … what?

The federal presence in Minnesota has been especially tough on our local businesses. Choosing to shop local, grab takeout, or visit a neighborhood store is one way we can stand with our neighbors and continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.

does anyone know when MELANIA 2 comes out

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Heads up, the Biden-Harris White House websites are now archived! If you have an old link that gives an error, you can delete the www . whitehouse in the link (be sure to remove the www) and replace with bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ [rest of your link] bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...

I love the conceit that calling for a violent overthrow of the government is now a life in prison offense to these people, whose hobby for my entire 47 years on this planet has been calling for the violent overthrow of the government

Schrödinger's Margarine When you both can't believe it's not butter, and simultaneously completely believe it's not butter.