I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

As a lawyer who has done exactly one trial and sworn off it forever, I’m always in awe of trial attorneys who can distill arguments down in this kind of relatable, legally-devastating way.

Mainers have until tomorrow to reject a voter suppression effort pushed by Leonard Leo’s money and the unrelentingly deceitful Yes on 1 campaign. Vote No on 1 and help get out the vote. #mepolitics open.substack.com/pub/amyfried...

Today’s @massterlist.com email includes a MUST-READ regarding MWRA’s staggeringly short-sighted plans to dump raw sewage into the Charles River for years to come, and pushback arriving from @crwa.bsky.social. What a disgrace, MWRA. massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/courts-rul...

In Dorchester the city shuts down Melville Ave and surrounding streets and it is the most delightful mayhem. The whole neighborhood is out in the streets, best night of the year.

Seconded.

Wu: #Boston and the Boston Foundation starting a fund to help 140,000 Bostonians who get SNAP benefits to afford food. Starting with $1 million in seed funding. BPS, BHA will be alerting people how to get aid, 311 operators trained on resources. boston.gov/snap

A Defector post based on a close read of the Massachusetts Corporations Division database involving Boston sports and Dorchester real estate feels like it was created in a lab to appeal specifically to me.

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview. This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association. I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

Always a good time to re-up the work of Cathy O'Neil, who has been sounding the alarm about the dangers of algorithms and AI in exactly these ways for a decade: mathbabe.org

This is a really sweet story, it got me choking up in the office. Give this a read if you need a good dose of love and kindness today

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

Lia Smith, a transgender athlete who was on Middlebury's swimming and diving team, was just found dead by suicide this week. www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

Donate to the Greater Boston Food Bank if you can. They seed donations to smaller pantries across the region. When you help them, you help a lot of people.

Now we just need the MBTA…

Let today be a reminder that competition and diversity in the tech industry is extremely important.

In America’s first public park, where Bostonians came together 400 years ago to protect a common space for the common good, we told the Trump Administration that when it comes to freedom and our families, Boston doesn’t back down. #NoKings

pretty proud of my home state sometimes fack you, assholes

Friends! We’ll see you today for this emergency rally outside Fenway Health. Join us to protest their shameful decision to abandon Trans Youth!

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually. The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth. I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

CDC has been a global leader in public health & played a key role in smallpox eradication. Health depts in red states & blue states rely on CDC expertise & support. The CDC EIS program trains the next generation of public health leaders & disease detectives. They are burning it to the ground.

I like Josh’s jokes, but I cherish his incisive class commentary.

I don't want to get too precious about contract drafting, but commercial indem provisions are SUPER COMPLEX, and different industries have different terms, and drafting something comprehensible is a genuine skill, and this output is just nonsense that will get you dropped by your ins. provider.

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Memorizing this

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

So grateful he’s home, such an outrage he was ever gone in the first place.

brett kavanaugh should be manning a radar base in alaska

@universalhub.com Any idea what’s happening on the redline this morning? At least 15 min headway at Shawmut and the boards are just saying trains every 12-20 min. No @mbta.com alerts, and they’re not here to ask directly!

As someone who lives in this neighborhood, this is EXCELLENT news!

Insane to rollout your billionaire-backed "ditch the trannies and fuck the planet" think tank the same week the most influential voices on the right are calling for transgender people to be locked up and subjected to Nazi medical experiments

Events like these are a huge part of why my wife and I have committed to Dorchester for the long term. A joyful street party with all our friends, daughter's classmates, and our incredibly diverse community? This is the environment we want our daughter growing up in.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Rally for Rent Control, Town Field, Dorchester - Here until 2 pm, come out to support our neighbors!

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

Thinking about Dorchester Open Streets this weekend, will be making sure I have the LUCE info at the ready. Grateful to @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social and others who have made me aware of them!

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

Not comprehending how the same @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social who interviewed me wrote this. I support the instinct to turn down the volume. But you can't simultaneously warn that we're the brink of authoritarianism while valorizing one of authoritarianism's most influential architects and supporters.

Nice stat to put Wu's drubbing of Josh Kraft in context.

Holy moly.

Get Out And Vote for Boston Mayor Wu! @mayorwu.boston.gov

I'm still not sure if the "Boston" assault is going to be Boston proper or the easier-to-steal-people-from nearby towns. But the dew point's not bad so me, my nebulizer, and my iPhone are gonna go see what we see around our way tonight. LUCE Ice Watch Hotline: 617-370-5023 Protect your neighbors.

Please consider joining LUCE to help protect our neighbors. There is a huge need for people to help verify ICE sightings and warn immigrant communities. Visit their site to learn more: www.lucemass.org