Yesterday, the House voted 134 to 21 for the PROTECT Act, which restricts communication and collaboration between state and local law enforcement and ICE and expands protections for our immigrant communities. TY to the 134 who voted yes! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/ma-house-pas...

This is good fun and you should go, Worcester!

Is my mother in law secretly Governor Shapiro’s comms director? I tend to think handwriting is good for memory and various other things, but good lord, if today’s 3rd graders ever have to sign a check, it’s because we have failed to modernize banking.

“At this junction, the Court takes Respondents' counsel at her word that such an agreement actually exists and is not some post hoc figment of ICE's imagination or worse, a cloak for chicanery.”

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Reporting in from Logan Airport in Boston. Only federal employees are TSA (two of whom told me to have a nice day) so far as I have seen.

“Books save lives. They have saved mine. Books are safety nets for so many of us, and right now those nets are being cut.”

Don’t need Nazis; don’t need homophobia; don’t need “just asking” on trans kids…c’mon, Democrats. What are you doing here?

Ghana has been in the news recently as they have submitted a draft resolution before the UN declaring the Atlantic Slave Trade the gravest crime against humanity. In the spirit of that, March 25 is also International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

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For months, families lived in fear, children were separated from parents, and two of our neighbors were killed by federal agents. I’m establishing a council to document the impact of Metro Surge and create a public record of the harm Minnesotans endured. We will not forget.

NEW: Massachusetts House votes 134-21 to pass the PROTECT Act laying out new legal protections in the face of heightened federal immigration law enforcement. #mapoli

UPDATE: The ACLU of NY has responded to this unreal admission — noting the "far-reaching" implications, "including a possible motion for reconsideration of" Judge Castel's September 2025 decision in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

News --> More than 100 Jewish faculty and staff members at Harvard write an open letter saying Trump's attacks on the university, done in the name of fighting "antisemitism," are actually contrary to the interests of Jewish people:

Reading “House” and “Among School Children” was like watching a Wiseman doc, masters at seeing the material for all its layers and nuance.

I’m in an airport today wearing a clerical collar. An older #TSA agent, a Black man, asked me to pray for him. I asked how he was holding up. He said- and this is a direct quote: “I thought they banned slavery in 1863. I’m working without pay. Pray for me, Rev.” God help our country.

it is a lovely afternoon to be taking a train

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

this is not okay www.propublica.org/article/norf...

thanks but I don't need that sort of advocacy www.k12dive.com/news/white-h...

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

I am sponsoring a racecar in Vermont, driven by a young woman from my town. The entire hood and back bumper have been reserved for whatever pro-library message I'll put on there. $600 total. 🏎️ I crowdsource this fun project every year. Chip in? Venmo: @iamthebestartist or DM me for other options.

NEW: After we documented children crawling through trains to get to school, the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, said train company Norfolk Southern pledged to help fund an overpass. Now the project is dead after the company reneged, he says. Norfolk Southern denies making a commitment.

Raul Rivera yelling outside Mamdani presser. Mamdani: “I want that man to be able to afford to keep living in NYC, because the day that I don't hear him yelling at me, it means he got priced out of this place.” “We need to make this a city where it's affordable enough to yell at your politicians.”

so they're not coming, right? Like how is this possible?

I get wanting to identify LaRosa by that now significantly former job every time he does something like this on X — but it's also key to note that he now works for Ballard Partners, a Trump team-linked lobbying firm.

never compare yourself to a man that has Someone Who Cleans And Manages The House For Him. As a rule.

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

The @blockclubchi.bsky.social story is extremely credulous, despite Charles's efforts to clearly describe why this is a bad thing. Some related reporting:

"An alpha school student wrote on a feedback form, "we are not computers or algorithms, we are people, who don't like being watched through their computers" "

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.”

If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire. The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.

as per so often, the new conditions on USDA grants are an incoherent mess, and I'm glad states are calling them out on it www.k12dive.com/news/21-stat...

Wrong answers only. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

gift link that worked for me: www.ft.com/content/cd59...

ICYMI www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-57... City budgets are taking the hit, on top of the impact to the local economy more broadly.

Due to the fire on Union Street, the old carriage entrance has been opened up to provide an alternative way into Central Station in Glasgow. This gives a chance to see some of the massive girders which support the station's main concourse. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #centralstation

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

Worth repeating this as the trailer for the new series is apparently due to drop soon. If you pay for Harry Potter stuff, you're directly funding violently anti-trans organisations.

No Kings Unfamiliar with the rights protestors have under the Constitution? Here's a recorded ACLU training - & even if you don't need it, please share widely! 3/

Precise words matter in journalism. There’s just no excuse for using misleading, passive and vague words and headlines that lead to sensationalistic and false conclusions. Come on.

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

…which, as it’s only across the river, you’d think @bostonu.bsky.social admin might be familiar with…

For those contemplating the ballot question in Mass, this is about as tidy an explanation as you can get of the challenges this system would bring. It can benefit the party with fewer candidates, not more support.

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Kory has a book coming out! Can’t wait for my copy to arrive!

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.