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If what ICE is doing is about national security, why do research studies consistently show that immigrants (including those undocumented) commit fewer crimes than U.S.-born citizens?
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If what ICE is doing is about national security, why do research studies consistently show that immigrants (including those undocumented) commit fewer crimes than U.S.-born citizens?
We need this response to ICE in Burlington, MA, Waltham & Newton! If Minneapolis police can protect their residents, why can’t Massachusetts?
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We need this response to ICE in Burlington, MA, Waltham & Newton! If Minneapolis police can protect their residents, why can’t Massachusetts?
I saw this on live TV - I still can’t believe no other reporters react as Trump insults & demeans their peers, usually the women journalists!
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I saw this on live TV - I still can’t believe no other reporters react as Trump insults & demeans their peers, usually the women journalists!
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"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."
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October 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."
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As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
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Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country
August 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country
If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.
August 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Trump should be paying for every dime of this business vacation to Scotland, NOT the American taxpayer. Millions in clear waste, fraud, and abuse. More obscene corruption.
July 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Trump should be paying for every dime of this business vacation to Scotland, NOT the American taxpayer. Millions in clear waste, fraud, and abuse. More obscene corruption.
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Billy Kay celebrates the long legacy of claret wine: an ode to the Scottish and French alliance united against their auld enemy, England | Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social
Claret: bloodstream of the ‘Auld Alliance’ - Bylines Scotland
Billy Kay celebrates the long legacy of claret wine: an ode to the Scottish and French alliance united against their auld enemy, England
bylines.scot
July 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Billy Kay celebrates the long legacy of claret wine: an ode to the Scottish and French alliance united against their auld enemy, England | Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social
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Defund Air Traffic Control and planes crash.
Defund FEMA and you get needless deaths, including little girls swept away to their end from summer camp.
Defund healthcare and 51M+ Americans die each year.
Elect a career criminal and you get radical domestic terrorism.
Good job, MAGA
Defund FEMA and you get needless deaths, including little girls swept away to their end from summer camp.
Defund healthcare and 51M+ Americans die each year.
Elect a career criminal and you get radical domestic terrorism.
Good job, MAGA
July 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Defund Air Traffic Control and planes crash.
Defund FEMA and you get needless deaths, including little girls swept away to their end from summer camp.
Defund healthcare and 51M+ Americans die each year.
Elect a career criminal and you get radical domestic terrorism.
Good job, MAGA
Defund FEMA and you get needless deaths, including little girls swept away to their end from summer camp.
Defund healthcare and 51M+ Americans die each year.
Elect a career criminal and you get radical domestic terrorism.
Good job, MAGA
Horrifying, unbelievable
This is an enormous restructuring of our nation and what it stands for.
Beyond our ability to fathom….
Beyond our ability to fathom….
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Horrifying, unbelievable
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"It gets somewhat lost in all the other high octane dimensions of this story that a raid on a Home Depot is literally an effort to arrest people who are eager to work and whose labor is in great demand. It’s about as far as you can get from just going after the bad guys, as the WH routinely claims."
Digging Into Trump’s Attack on the State of California
National Guard troops are mobilized fairly frequently for domestic purposes, usually during...
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June 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"It gets somewhat lost in all the other high octane dimensions of this story that a raid on a Home Depot is literally an effort to arrest people who are eager to work and whose labor is in great demand. It’s about as far as you can get from just going after the bad guys, as the WH routinely claims."
From a Scot living in New England . . . 🏴
Just listened to analysis on an American news channel that you wouldn’t say is right wing biased yet their conclusion is the “optics” of LA are good for the governing party. Bizarre!
Reminder every day that I’m in this strange place far away and not in sane Western Europe.
Reminder every day that I’m in this strange place far away and not in sane Western Europe.
June 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
From a Scot living in New England . . . 🏴
Touchè
June 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Touchè
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Trump is deporting nonviolent immigrants while pardoning violent game members and letting them back into our communities.
June 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Trump is deporting nonviolent immigrants while pardoning violent game members and letting them back into our communities.
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Glad someone is saying this
Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
May 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Glad someone is saying this
Please sign this petition to return a new mother w a US husband & newborn, deported to Cuba. For zip code you can use 02111 if ur out of the U.S.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...
Bring Heidy Home to Her Baby and Husband
This is not just Heidy Sanchez Tejeda’s story — it’s a reflection of what can happen to any loving, law-abiding family caught in a broken system. Heidy was deported despite having no criminal record, ...
sign.moveon.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Please sign this petition to return a new mother w a US husband & newborn, deported to Cuba. For zip code you can use 02111 if ur out of the U.S.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...
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Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
April 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
True!!
It's clear the greatest national security threat is the president and his administration.
March 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
True!!
Frightening . . .
They disappeared a man right off the streets just like Putin for exercising his free speech. They won’t stop at immigrants. We are all targets now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
They are disappearing people in the U.S.
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is meant to send a message and strike fear
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Frightening . . .
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A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
March 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.
Agree!!
I'd rather we fund cancer research than Elon's exploding rockets.
I'd rather we fund critical services for our veterans than Elon's swasticars for our embassies.
I'd rather we stop oligarchs from using our treasury as their personal piggy bank.
I'd rather we fund critical services for our veterans than Elon's swasticars for our embassies.
I'd rather we stop oligarchs from using our treasury as their personal piggy bank.
March 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Agree!!
American writer Paul Krugman, recently of the NYT; news for my European friends, esp Billy & João Kay
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
It’s Up to Europe Now
Can Europe rise to the occasion?
open.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
American writer Paul Krugman, recently of the NYT; news for my European friends, esp Billy & João Kay
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...