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memsomerville.bsky.social
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Scientist. Lacemaker.

lacecouvige.com for Wikipedia project
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memsomerville.bsky.social
I was watching Harriet tonight.

Apparently there's something wrong in the film, according to the IMDB page.

There's something wrong, for sure. Very wrong.

www.imdb.com/title/tt4648...
At IMDB, here is the "Goofs" section of the page: After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, William Still gives a speech saying that it allows slave catchers to seek slaves in any state in the Union. Slave catchers were already able to retrieve slaves from the North, due to a law passed decades earlier. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 expanded the powers available to slave catchers, including forcing Northern law enforcement to aid them, and weakened the protections available to those accused of being escaped slaves, such as previous requirements that a suspect's status as a slave had to be verified in a jury trial.
January 18, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
Yup!
Mass. bakery says it keeps selling out of 'F— ICE' cookies, despite death threats
The cookies have led to threats of assault, rape, and death against the bakery’s employees and their families, but that hasn’t stopped them.
www.boston.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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scottjshapiro.bsky.social
CAN I HAVE YOUR LITTLE LEAGUE TROPHY?
Trump yelling at kid mowing WH lawn meme
January 17, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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rlspang.bsky.social
I don't know who the artist was, but I salute that person/those people. Borrowed from another social media site
Black and white image (made to look like a stenciled graffiti) An idealized 1940s-1950s very young "tradwife" mother figure with perfect hair, beautiful features, gingham dress and white apron looks down into mixing bowl where she is whisking eggs. The caption reads: NO, you can't have Greenland. You haven't even finished your Venezuela yet.
January 17, 2026 at 3:47 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
Oh god. #GrannyCore is not my favorite name for skilled ancestral craftspeople who passed along tremendous knowledge now known to have health benefits. But here we are.

#knitting #crafts

www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
Gen Z is taking up 'granny core' hobbies to unwind
A growing number of young people are getting involved in what are traditionally considered "grandma hobbies," like knitting, to relax.
www.npr.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
I was livid that "environmentalists" were working against the clean hydropower from #Canada and making us rely on natgas imports. But at least now we can reduce the fossil fuel burning.

www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...
A decade in the making, clean energy power line for Mass. is up and running
A major new transmission line that can bring renewable electricity from Quebec to Massachusetts is finally, after a whole lot of controversy and delay, starting to deliver power.
www.wbur.org
January 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
I have an article coming out in the spring #Rev250 theme issue of PieceWork, about #IpswichLace + stories of women who made or used the lace.

Another article about #AbigailAdams has a needlepoint of her house + a phrase on it.

#ReneeNicoleGood Patriots--the real kind.

#BobbinLace #embroidery
The cover of Piecework Magazine Spring 2026 issue. It has the big PieceWork title on the top. Below that it says "Celebrate American Needlework". Other side text says: "Hidden Stories of Revolutionary Lacemakers" and "Piecing Together the History of Seminole Patchwork". It shows some spools of thread around, a white one and two red ones. A blue woven shawl lays diagonally across the background. On the shawl a beige pillow sits. It's a needlepoint rectangular work with a small colonial salmon colored house on the left. One story with 2 small windows on each side of a center entrance door. Three small dormer windows are visible in the brown roof above. It says to the right of the house: "To be Good and To do Good" 1776 [needlepoint flag] 2026 A rose and vine embroidery is below the writing. My blue Swedish lace pillow with my Ipswich lace in progress. It has dozens of wooden bobbins around the front, wrapped with black silk threads, with my lace in progress on the roller part of the pillow. You can see part of the pattern, and the rest is covered with the pins in the completed lace section. To the back is my completed yardage rolled around a little tiny holder. To the upper left is my decorated pin box with a colonial woman wearing a black shawl and a cyanotype of a sailing ship that was turned into a lace pricking. A banner on the front has the PieceWork cover I described in the other image, and it says "I'm in PieceWork".
January 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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votealzubi.com
THREAD: This morning federal law enforcement raided a building at Lesley University in Cambridge. Here's what happened and what we're doing about it.
January 15, 2026 at 10:07 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
"Are we the baddies?"

Answered.
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 3d
Here's a better look at the "challenge coin" ICE agents are awarded after kidnapping people

It's a skull with a crown surrounded by vultures.
Here's a better look at the "challenge coin" ICE agents are awarded after kidnapping people It's a skull with a crown surrounded by vultures.
January 15, 2026 at 2:35 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
It's not getting a lot of air because of other things underway, but the US administration admitted a mistake in kidnapping and removing a college student.

#Immigration #ICE #CBP

www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...
U.S. says it mistakenly deported a Mass. college student flying home for Thanksgiving surprise
The Trump administration has apologized in court for mistakenly deporting a Massachusetts college student, but still argued the error should not affect her case. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a Babson Coll...
www.wbur.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
When self-employed software engineer Nick Benson put out the call for dashcams online, he thought he’d get maybe 10 people to donate. More than 500 have shown up on his front porch. Here's how one guy crowdsourced 500+ dashcams for Minneapolis to film ICE www.404media.co/how-one-guy-...
How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE
‘We have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members.’
www.404media.co
January 14, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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onekade.bsky.social
“Honestly, I was one of those people that believed, ‘well, if you’re not doing anything wrong, what’s the big deal?’ But here’s a situation where I was doing absolutely nothing wrong, and I almost lost my entire career over this.”
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4d
New: I got body camera footage from a case in which a cop used Flock to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman of stealing a package: "Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it"

www.404media.co/cop-used-flo...
Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
"Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.
www.404media.co
January 14, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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404media.co
"Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.
Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
"Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.
www.404media.co
January 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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somershade.bsky.social
Heads up.
twasb.bsky.social Kay Tee @twasb.bsky.social · 6d
This is three truckloads of vehicles delivered this weekend to the ICE Detention Center in Burlington, MA. They're already here. youtu.be/7cdKqCCpzTs
Is an ICE surge coming to New England? 24 new SUVs delivered TODAY to HQ in Burlington, MA
YouTube video by Bearing Witness at ICE Burlington, MA
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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delightw2023.bsky.social
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normcharlatan.bsky.social Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 6d
Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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kcklatt.bsky.social
Journalists, please get quotes on the Dietary Guidelines from non-USA nutrition scientists. Not only because our guidelines deviate so heavily from them, but because there's a high risk of retribution for American scientists speaking up, and speaking up honestly.
January 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
"I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love."
tylerfromtheinternet.com Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 7d
Or ... or you'll ... shoot the babies?

DHS I don't know if you were all absent on training day but you can't shoot babies even if you don't like their parents. There is nothing that can be happening with a baby that makes it ok to shoot babies.
Leading Report @LeadingReport on twitter says BREAKING: Some Minneapolis protesters are showing up with their babies as "shields" from law enforcement. And DHS's official account quotes it with "do not bring your baby to a violent riot"
January 12, 2026 at 2:32 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
Wow, mid 18th-century. That's a LOT of intact lace.
January 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
Wow. This gets nastier by the minute.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …
January 10, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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somershade.bsky.social
I believe that if you -can- show up to protests without putting yourself at unacceptable risk (and please do take a hard look at the situation and make a sensible decision), then you have a moral obligation to do so.

I hope to see many of you downtown tomorrow at 2pm.
chrismartell.bsky.social Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 9d
ICE Out of Massachusetts Protest. This Saturday, January 10. 2 pm. JFK Federal Building (next to Boston City Hall). www.lucemass.org #JusticeForReneeGood
Justice for Renee Good ICE Out of Massachusetts Saturday January 10 2 pm JFK Federal Building A drawing of people protesting with Free Them All sign
January 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
Every news show I've seen has used this photo. It's not her, apparently.
politifact.bsky.social PolitiFact @politifact.bsky.social · 10d
Social media users shared a photo they claimed showed Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent Jan. 7 in Minneapolis. But the image is of another woman from a photo on a Facebook account of the university Good attended.

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Social media users shared wrong photo of woman killed by ICE
Social media users shared a photo they claimed showed Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent Jan. 7 in Minneapolis. But the image is of another woman from a photo on a Facebook account…
www.politifact.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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mluckovich.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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kgandersen.bsky.social
The fundamental difference - and the reason why Denmark can "get away" with fewer shots - is because it has universal healthcare, paid leave, and a homogenous population.

But, ultimately, they have decided that thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, RSV, rotavirus, etc. is okay. I disagree.
January 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM