Scott Beggs

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work.

And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

www.lucemass.org

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. 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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In. A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

I love headlines about the Nobel that only name the winner.

Hosting more @dreamfoundry.bsky.social Flights of Foundry panels soon. Tonight it's using tabletop gaming/chance as a creative engine. My full schedule here: www.scottbeggs.com

Veterans Who Work in Texas VA Health System: ‘The Dam’s Gonna Break’ Some vets say they’re being hurt as both workers and patients by Trump administration staffing decisions.

Our top story, from @josephinekee.bsky.social: Deep cuts at VA health care centers leave both veterans and workers suffering, especially the 45% of workers who also served. www.texasobserver.org/veterans-tex...

This is an utter disgrace and should be fought tooth and nail. Shame on the Air Force.

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

The more I write historical fiction / historical romance set in what's now Central Mexico during the 1400s, the more I think about the misconceptions about the Nahuas (in the "Aztec Empire" and surrounding nations) that have been embraced by the general public.

Here are some of the biggest:

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The Texas democrats who left the state are patriots.

PseudoPod 986: The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs In the predawn dark, Annie found herself in a bed, holding onto another hand beneath the cool weight of the pillow. Floral case, it was the trailer—her trailer—and slowly she came back to herself…

My deepest thanks for @pseudopod.org's care and treatment of my story herein—for @alasdairstuart.com's commentary, for @batzpajamas.bsky.social's reading. What a wonderful treat—it's Octobler in July. 🖤

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The most aggravating thing about the Epstein scandal coverage is that we've learned nothing new. It's all been public knowledge since before the first time this traitorous criminal was running for President. Why couldn't it have been this big a deal then?

This story is lushhhhhh. A lovely new fave.

It's not?

Correct opinion.

Just updated my website because the STRANGER anthology is now (drumrollloading) an audio book! This is so very, very cool, and I love so many of the stories in this collection. Links to buy this weird delight (cheap!) are on my page.

www.scottbeggs.com

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Sophomoric. Mischief.

A plush Jean-Luc Picard next to a 5-pack of lightbulbs showing only four bulbs in the illustration

oh no

NonBinary Review Issue #40: Epiphany — Zoetic Press

My satirical riff on God commanding a very different Abraham to kill his son is out now in the latest NonBinary Review! Klaxonklaxonklaxon.gif!

Conveniently priced for the discerning reader (with tons of other great stories, too):

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2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award Announcement Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for…

2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award Announcement: Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and As…

At long last, I invite you to come meet Gladys, my ageing lady werewolf! @strangehorizons.bsky.social has been my dream mag since I started writing SFF, and I'm especially delighted to have a story in their Ageing and SFF Special Issue--and with amazing art as well 😍

Death and Dream Subs are open for my issue of Deadlands! Plus I’m GoH at Flights of Foundry 2025.

I'm editing an issue of @thedeadlands.com and subs are now open! Please do send me things.

Plus! I will be one of the Guests of Honour at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social this year, along with Sheree Renée Thomas and Anna Martino. #Flights2025 will be in September. vajra.me/2025/04/02/d...

Senator Booker did amazing work with his filibuster.

Who’s doing theirs today?

MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant.

This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.

@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social

Told my daughter the person I was calling “didn’t pick up.” Kid asked what “picking up” was. It took me a second to think of how to explain….

What to know about this week's 'blood worm moon' total lunar eclipse This total lunar eclipse — the first in three years — will feature a "blood worm moon," so named for the reddish hue of its glow and the time of year it's occurring.

Coming soon: Blood Worm Full Moon. Really. I am not making this up. In two more days. www.npr.org/2025/03/11/n...

The Seattle Worldcon 2025 logo over the Hugo Rocket in a circle that says Hugo Award Nominations Now Open, all over a wavy blue and gold background.

Only 10 Days Left to Nominate for the 2025 Hugo Awards!

Get your nominations in for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award & the Astounding Award. And, don't forget about the 2025 Special Hugo Award for Best Poem!

🔹 Deadline: March 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PDT

Learn more & nominate: buff.ly/3QcUTw6

HAPPENING NOW: A giant LGBTQ Pride flag has been unfurled on the south lawn of the Utah State Capitol in protest of the flag bill banning “non-sanctioned flags from classrooms and government buildings.” #utpol