Mary Patterson
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Important heads up: The feds have -publicly- subpoenaed Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta for information (names, phone numbers, email addresses) associated with accounts that are either critical of ICE or that are tracking ICE activities.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Important heads up: The feds have -publicly- subpoenaed Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta for information (names, phone numbers, email addresses) associated with accounts that are either critical of ICE or that are tracking ICE activities.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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That is precisely what the GOP game plan is.
February 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
That is precisely what the GOP game plan is.
Documents obtained by the ACLU show the Department of Homeland Security planned purchase and transform a vacant warehouse in Merrimack, New Hampshire into a Boston ICE processing center.
Documents confirm ICE plans for N.H. warehouse; state officials knew for weeks
Documents obtained by the ACLU show the Department of Homeland Security planned purchase and transform a vacant warehouse in Merrimack, New Hampshire into a Boston ICE processing center. While the dep...
www.wbur.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Write your letter.
February 3, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Write your letter.
Helpful for understanding both generally TPS status review procedures and specifically why the current govt is throwing things at walks to see what sticks (and getting called out for it again and again).
Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
February 3, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Helpful for understanding both generally TPS status review procedures and specifically why the current govt is throwing things at walks to see what sticks (and getting called out for it again and again).
Abolish ICE. To be such a weak person that you need to participate in tear gassing children to make yourself feel tough- it’s the most uncomfortable part of the American legacy to swallow. There’s so much work to do, but bravery in the face of evil is contagious too.
Federal agents launch tear gas at nonviolent anti-ICE protesters in Portland—including children
In Portland, federal agents launch tear gas at nonviolent anti-ICE protesters—Including Children
Portland, Oregon Mayor Keith Wilson said that it was a “peaceful daytime protest” that “posed no danger to federal forces.”
www.motherjones.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Abolish ICE. To be such a weak person that you need to participate in tear gassing children to make yourself feel tough- it’s the most uncomfortable part of the American legacy to swallow. There’s so much work to do, but bravery in the face of evil is contagious too.
Wow, this ruling and this writing. Worth reading. Apparently the date doesn’t matter on the doc, so it’s still legit.
Whew. Judge Biery (Clinton appointee) is not messing around, dropping on the feds the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Fourth Amendment, Ben Franklin, and the Bible.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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NEW ‼️ Judge has ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Ramos 🙏🏼
January 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Wow, this ruling and this writing. Worth reading. Apparently the date doesn’t matter on the doc, so it’s still legit.
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Whew. Judge Biery (Clinton appointee) is not messing around, dropping on the feds the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Fourth Amendment, Ben Franklin, and the Bible.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW ‼️ Judge has ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Ramos 🙏🏼
January 31, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Whew. Judge Biery (Clinton appointee) is not messing around, dropping on the feds the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Fourth Amendment, Ben Franklin, and the Bible.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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greater boston interfaith org is launching a campaign to challenge citizens bank’s role in financing private prisons & ICE detention centers. w/ many GBIO congregations holding accounts at citizens, we have leverage to demand change & stand in solidarity. boycottcitizens.org
Boycott Citizens Bank
Tell Citizens Bank to stop supporting the ICE detention companies CoreCivic and GEO Group.
boycottcitizens.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:20 PM
greater boston interfaith org is launching a campaign to challenge citizens bank’s role in financing private prisons & ICE detention centers. w/ many GBIO congregations holding accounts at citizens, we have leverage to demand change & stand in solidarity. boycottcitizens.org
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Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA until ICE murdered him today.
January 24, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA until ICE murdered him today.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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“This should be just another nail in what should be atrazine’s coffin,” said Lori Ann Burd, our environmental health program director.
“Despite all the mounting evidence, it seems nothing is happening to rein in this terrible chemical that’s banned in so many other places.” #Atrazine #Pesticides
“Despite all the mounting evidence, it seems nothing is happening to rein in this terrible chemical that’s banned in so many other places.” #Atrazine #Pesticides
EPA officials are dismissing a new cancer warning on atrazine from the IARC, echoing criticism from pesticide maker Syngenta.
Advocates including @biologicaldiversity.org point to research linking atrazine to non-Hodgkin lymphoma and other cancers.
www.thenewlede.org/2025/12/atra...
Advocates including @biologicaldiversity.org point to research linking atrazine to non-Hodgkin lymphoma and other cancers.
www.thenewlede.org/2025/12/atra...
EPA dismisses new cancer warning on atrazine, echoing Syngenta criticisms
US regulators are dismissing new research by international cancer experts that warns of links between cancer and the widely used pesticide atrazine, deriding the team of cancer scientists and echoing ...
www.thenewlede.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“This should be just another nail in what should be atrazine’s coffin,” said Lori Ann Burd, our environmental health program director.
“Despite all the mounting evidence, it seems nothing is happening to rein in this terrible chemical that’s banned in so many other places.” #Atrazine #Pesticides
“Despite all the mounting evidence, it seems nothing is happening to rein in this terrible chemical that’s banned in so many other places.” #Atrazine #Pesticides
Nope.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Nope.
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Does this seem like a good idea?
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Does this seem like a good idea?
Having a blast at the mural unveiling and pop up art event at Arts Collaborative Medford. artscollabmedford.org
New mural alert!
New mural alert!
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Having a blast at the mural unveiling and pop up art event at Arts Collaborative Medford. artscollabmedford.org
New mural alert!
New mural alert!
I don’t even live in NYC, but this is really exciting.
Zohran Mamdani wins!
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I don’t even live in NYC, but this is really exciting.
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Zohran Mamdani wins!
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Zohran Mamdani wins!
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.
Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.
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What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
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FYI: The J.P. Morgan Chase Fireworks, hosted by Pyrotecnico Fireworks, have been lighting up the Boston Inner Harbor off Long Wharf for the past two nights.
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
FYI: The J.P. Morgan Chase Fireworks, hosted by Pyrotecnico Fireworks, have been lighting up the Boston Inner Harbor off Long Wharf for the past two nights.
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We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We are taking legal action to ensure Adelita Grijalva is sworn in. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)
BREAKING: A Ninth Circuit judge has sua sponte — on their own — already called for a vote on whether there should be an en banc rehearing (which means all active judges will vote on whether the matter should be reheard). Briefing is called for on that question, due by mid-week.
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)
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The marines wanted to fire live artillary over I-5; Newsom didn't want them to, but they said too bad; that it was safe.
Then, oh, look: a shell detonated prematurely. Good thing Newsom had shut down 17 miles of freeway (used by 80,000 Californians daily).
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Then, oh, look: a shell detonated prematurely. Good thing Newsom had shut down 17 miles of freeway (used by 80,000 Californians daily).
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The marines wanted to fire live artillary over I-5; Newsom didn't want them to, but they said too bad; that it was safe.
Then, oh, look: a shell detonated prematurely. Good thing Newsom had shut down 17 miles of freeway (used by 80,000 Californians daily).
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Then, oh, look: a shell detonated prematurely. Good thing Newsom had shut down 17 miles of freeway (used by 80,000 Californians daily).
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
On building social rapport and the importance of the folks who showed up to protest. It’s part of the whole.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
On building social rapport and the importance of the folks who showed up to protest. It’s part of the whole.
A travel recounting (with content warning) that is both personal (to the author) and widely relatable (to my eastern european jewish history and events of today). See also: VT young republicans callous texts
While traveling in Germany recently, I toured the Memorial Museum in Hadamar, "commemorating those who were persecuted and murdered during the National Socialist 'euthanasia' crimes of 1941 - 1945."
Content warnings on this thread, obviously.
www.gedenkstaette-hadamar.de/en/
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Content warnings on this thread, obviously.
www.gedenkstaette-hadamar.de/en/
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Gedenkstätte Hadamar - Internationaler Ort des Gedenkens
Wir erinnern an die Verfolgten und Ermordeten der nationalsozialistischen „Euthanasie“ und laden zur Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte ein.
www.gedenkstaette-hadamar.de
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A travel recounting (with content warning) that is both personal (to the author) and widely relatable (to my eastern european jewish history and events of today). See also: VT young republicans callous texts
This is devastating for trans kids in MA.
1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.
It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.
Community members are devastated.
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It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.
Community members are devastated.
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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump
“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”
www.erininthemorning.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is devastating for trans kids in MA.