Phantom Scribbler
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You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
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Really happy with how this site turned out.
Curious to see how the MA State House is following the new rules they adopted this summer? This site allows you to find out.
beaconhilltracker.org
Curious to see how the MA State House is following the new rules they adopted this summer? This site allows you to find out.
beaconhilltracker.org
Beacon Hill Compliance Tracker
Track Massachusetts legislative compliance with transparency requirements
beaconhilltracker.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Really happy with how this site turned out.
Curious to see how the MA State House is following the new rules they adopted this summer? This site allows you to find out.
beaconhilltracker.org
Curious to see how the MA State House is following the new rules they adopted this summer? This site allows you to find out.
beaconhilltracker.org
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What petty, cowardly bullshit. Send this one to the normies that insist the immigration debate is about “legality” www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... #Upstate
USCIS halts upstate naturalization ceremonies, leaving hundreds waiting
Clerks in seven counties say federal agency under Department of Homeland Security did not explain the sudden cancellations, which have left hundreds of lawful permanent residents in limbo.
www.timesunion.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What petty, cowardly bullshit. Send this one to the normies that insist the immigration debate is about “legality” www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... #Upstate
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Read our latest newsletter on the climate rollback bill being pushed by state house leaders and their friends in the fossil fuel industry. We cover:
- Background on the House's energy committee and Beacon Hill's "Old Boys Club"
- Breaking down the committee's 7-0 vote
- Why we need reform
#mapoli
- Background on the House's energy committee and Beacon Hill's "Old Boys Club"
- Breaking down the committee's 7-0 vote
- Why we need reform
#mapoli
11/15/2025 Saturday Scoop: Reps vote to roll back MA's climate laws in classic tale of Beacon Hill corruption | Act On Mass
Act on Mass is a non-profit organization that tracks what happens in the Massachusetts State House and the issues that matter to you.
actonmass.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Read our latest newsletter on the climate rollback bill being pushed by state house leaders and their friends in the fossil fuel industry. We cover:
- Background on the House's energy committee and Beacon Hill's "Old Boys Club"
- Breaking down the committee's 7-0 vote
- Why we need reform
#mapoli
- Background on the House's energy committee and Beacon Hill's "Old Boys Club"
- Breaking down the committee's 7-0 vote
- Why we need reform
#mapoli
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State leaders are trying to push through a major setback in our state’s climate laws, as reps were off work for the federal holiday.
The Joint Committee on TUE will vote on this bill today. Make sure your rep hears from you: protect our climate law! Vote NO on climate backsliding.
The Joint Committee on TUE will vote on this bill today. Make sure your rep hears from you: protect our climate law! Vote NO on climate backsliding.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
State leaders are trying to push through a major setback in our state’s climate laws, as reps were off work for the federal holiday.
The Joint Committee on TUE will vote on this bill today. Make sure your rep hears from you: protect our climate law! Vote NO on climate backsliding.
The Joint Committee on TUE will vote on this bill today. Make sure your rep hears from you: protect our climate law! Vote NO on climate backsliding.
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How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
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WARNING: The violence and cruelty is hard to watch, but impossible for families to endure.
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
WARNING: The violence and cruelty is hard to watch, but impossible for families to endure.
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Massachusetts needs to pass the Safe Communities Act so that we can limit such blatant police collaboration with ICE.
We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Massachusetts needs to pass the Safe Communities Act so that we can limit such blatant police collaboration with ICE.
We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
We can't stop everything ICE is doing, but our state and local law enforcement should no the making their jobs easier. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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A friend of ours, someone we've known for ten years, was recently abducted by ICE, is being detained, and will likely be deported. She is a mother of three, her kids were left behind while she's been detained. A go-fund-me has been started to help with expenses for her kids. Please help if you can.
Donate to Help the children of Eni Abreu to pay for housing and bills, organized by Amy Harris
Hello friends and friends-to-be. I am raising money to help the… Amy Harris needs your support for Help the children of Eni Abreu to pay for housing and bills
www.gofundme.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A friend of ours, someone we've known for ten years, was recently abducted by ICE, is being detained, and will likely be deported. She is a mother of three, her kids were left behind while she's been detained. A go-fund-me has been started to help with expenses for her kids. Please help if you can.
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Horrifying to think that there are people who see child kidnapping and harassment like this anc think “Go get ‘em!”
Truly evil
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...
Truly evil
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...
ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says
Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his Massachusetts home while asking, “Is that your daughter?”
www.nbcboston.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Horrifying to think that there are people who see child kidnapping and harassment like this anc think “Go get ‘em!”
Truly evil
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...
Truly evil
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...
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Hey Mass folks, I hate that this resource needs to exist, but it literally just came in handy.
You may know about LUCE from their ICE Watch Hotline (617-370-5023), but they also have a really comprehensive collection of other resources for immigrants at risk of ICE action. Maybe bookmark the link?
You may know about LUCE from their ICE Watch Hotline (617-370-5023), but they also have a really comprehensive collection of other resources for immigrants at risk of ICE action. Maybe bookmark the link?
Resources for Immigrants in Massachusetts
linkpages.pro
September 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Hey Mass folks, I hate that this resource needs to exist, but it literally just came in handy.
You may know about LUCE from their ICE Watch Hotline (617-370-5023), but they also have a really comprehensive collection of other resources for immigrants at risk of ICE action. Maybe bookmark the link?
You may know about LUCE from their ICE Watch Hotline (617-370-5023), but they also have a really comprehensive collection of other resources for immigrants at risk of ICE action. Maybe bookmark the link?
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Between Jan-July, ICE booked ~2,700 people into its Burlington field office.
~1,700 were transferred to detention centers within 24 hours.
But more than a 1,000 people had stays longer than that -- some as long as 20 days
www.wbur.org/news/2025/09... @wbur.org
~1,700 were transferred to detention centers within 24 hours.
But more than a 1,000 people had stays longer than that -- some as long as 20 days
www.wbur.org/news/2025/09... @wbur.org
Hundreds were detained in ICE's Burlington office for multiple days, data shows
ICE has said it's rare for people to be detained inside its Burlington field office for more than a few hours, but a new WBUR analysis finds that hundreds were detained for more than a day this past s...
www.wbur.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Between Jan-July, ICE booked ~2,700 people into its Burlington field office.
~1,700 were transferred to detention centers within 24 hours.
But more than a 1,000 people had stays longer than that -- some as long as 20 days
www.wbur.org/news/2025/09... @wbur.org
~1,700 were transferred to detention centers within 24 hours.
But more than a 1,000 people had stays longer than that -- some as long as 20 days
www.wbur.org/news/2025/09... @wbur.org
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Thank you @whipkclark.bsky.social for opening your heart & naming the truth: Israel's military is committing genocide in Gaza. You join the UN, ICJ, @amnesty.org, @msf.ca, and countless scholars & human rights groups in saying so.
That’s why it's so painful to see you step back from your own words.
That’s why it's so painful to see you step back from your own words.
NEW — Days after saying we have to “take action” to stop the “starvation, and genocide, and destruction of Gaza,” top Democrat Katherine Clark BACKTRACKS, says she wants to be “clear that I am not accusing Israel of genocide.”
August 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Thank you @whipkclark.bsky.social for opening your heart & naming the truth: Israel's military is committing genocide in Gaza. You join the UN, ICJ, @amnesty.org, @msf.ca, and countless scholars & human rights groups in saying so.
That’s why it's so painful to see you step back from your own words.
That’s why it's so painful to see you step back from your own words.
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“I hoped that, for once, Arab and Muslim writers might not be asked to grieve on tiptoe and only if it never makes others uncomfortable, or else that grief will be reframed as somehow threatening.”
I Wrote a Book About Being a Dad. Pro-Israel Protesters Showed Up to Object. I Asked Them Why.
My book, Becoming Baba, isn’t a polemic. It’s about raising Muslim kids. But for some people, that’s too much to handle.
slate.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“I hoped that, for once, Arab and Muslim writers might not be asked to grieve on tiptoe and only if it never makes others uncomfortable, or else that grief will be reframed as somehow threatening.”
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Politics in the US today is about as morally simple as it has ever been. The only relevant question is “Do you support totally eviscerating the already threadbare US social safety net to fund a system of concentration camps for immigrants and people of color, or do you not support that?”
July 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Politics in the US today is about as morally simple as it has ever been. The only relevant question is “Do you support totally eviscerating the already threadbare US social safety net to fund a system of concentration camps for immigrants and people of color, or do you not support that?”
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Today I'm reading:
19) Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman - younger YA, dragons, set in the same world as the Seraphina and Tess books
19) Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman - younger YA, dragons, set in the same world as the Seraphina and Tess books
June 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today I'm reading:
19) Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman - younger YA, dragons, set in the same world as the Seraphina and Tess books
19) Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman - younger YA, dragons, set in the same world as the Seraphina and Tess books
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"We’re back to tracking hurricanes like it’s 1999.
Except this isn’t a party. And people could die."
My latest column for @nbcmiami.com is about the latest blow in this country's incomprehensible affront to #science since January. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/j...
Except this isn’t a party. And people could die."
My latest column for @nbcmiami.com is about the latest blow in this country's incomprehensible affront to #science since January. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/j...
‘Lives and livelihoods at risk': John Morales' take on forecasters losing critical hurricane tool
The ability to peer under the clouds of a developing tropical cyclone is critically important for hurricane specialists.
www.nbcmiami.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"We’re back to tracking hurricanes like it’s 1999.
Except this isn’t a party. And people could die."
My latest column for @nbcmiami.com is about the latest blow in this country's incomprehensible affront to #science since January. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/j...
Except this isn’t a party. And people could die."
My latest column for @nbcmiami.com is about the latest blow in this country's incomprehensible affront to #science since January. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/j...
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This decision rubber-stamps the existence and expansion of an international network of concentration camps paid for and under the aegis of the US.
June 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This decision rubber-stamps the existence and expansion of an international network of concentration camps paid for and under the aegis of the US.
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A pregnant woman made to sleep on a concrete floor.
A woman denied menstrual products and given an extra bottle of water to clean herself up with.
These are just some of the conditions women in Burlington MA's ICE field office have been made to endure.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org
A woman denied menstrual products and given an extra bottle of water to clean herself up with.
These are just some of the conditions women in Burlington MA's ICE field office have been made to endure.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org
Women in ICE's Burlington office subject to 'inhumane' and unsanitary conditions, lawyers say
For some women, the conditions have been particularly grim. In one case, a woman who had her period was denied access to menstrual products. When she needed to clean up, a guard allegedly gave her an ...
www.wbur.org
June 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A pregnant woman made to sleep on a concrete floor.
A woman denied menstrual products and given an extra bottle of water to clean herself up with.
These are just some of the conditions women in Burlington MA's ICE field office have been made to endure.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org
A woman denied menstrual products and given an extra bottle of water to clean herself up with.
These are just some of the conditions women in Burlington MA's ICE field office have been made to endure.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/06... @wbur.org
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The ICE field office near the Burlington Mall was never meant to be a detention center. But amid a surge of immigration arrests in MA, ICE has been housing dozens of people there.
The conditions are "inhumane" and "a violation of these peoples' rights," lawyers say www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
The conditions are "inhumane" and "a violation of these peoples' rights," lawyers say www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
ICE holding immigrants in 'abysmal' conditions at Burlington office building, lawyers say
ICE is detaining immigrants in a Burlington office park building that wasn't designed as a holding facility. Lawyers say conditions there are "abysmal" and "unsanitary."
www.wbur.org
June 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The ICE field office near the Burlington Mall was never meant to be a detention center. But amid a surge of immigration arrests in MA, ICE has been housing dozens of people there.
The conditions are "inhumane" and "a violation of these peoples' rights," lawyers say www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
The conditions are "inhumane" and "a violation of these peoples' rights," lawyers say www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
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"With federal agencies transformed into tools of Trump’s censorship campaign, KOSA is an even more dangerous bill than it was before."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/o...
@markey.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov : you have the wrong position on this.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/o...
@markey.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov : you have the wrong position on this.
Democrats, don’t risk free speech in the name of protecting kids - The Boston Globe
The Kids Online Safety Act empowers the government to be speech police.
www.bostonglobe.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"With federal agencies transformed into tools of Trump’s censorship campaign, KOSA is an even more dangerous bill than it was before."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/o...
@markey.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov : you have the wrong position on this.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/o...
@markey.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov : you have the wrong position on this.
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It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We need to pass the Safe Communities Act and the Dignity Not Deportations Act to prevent state and local police from being deputized to ICE and push back against this reckless, unconstitutional behavior.
#mapoli
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
#mapoli
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Local groups report major spike in ICE detentions around Massachusetts
From people with no criminal records, claims of mistaken identity, to one person with a sex crime charge against a child: immigration enforcement is up. And locals are wary.
www.wgbh.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
We need to pass the Safe Communities Act and the Dignity Not Deportations Act to prevent state and local police from being deputized to ICE and push back against this reckless, unconstitutional behavior.
#mapoli
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
#mapoli
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...