Boston 's Leslie Knope

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

I hate that I have to even wonder that if @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social's staff hadn't broke the news of a measles outbreak, would ICE have even acknowledged it?

If this data is right....holy mackerel

It's actually getting better, believe it or not. But the complaints will always be loud!

Infuriating

Train platform with people and blank arrivals board

The MBTA is, again, pretending there is regular service on the Blue Line when we have been waiting at Govt Center for 10 minutes and there are no trains on the arrival board.

Make no mistake, this is the National Park Service fighting for all of us. Support the NPS. #NationalParks #BlackHistoryMonth

Title page of "The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans.”

engraving of Boston Massacre showing Crispus Attucks

We’re kicking off #BlackHistoryMonth with a very cool Black History book. In 1855, Robert Morris, Boston civil rights leader and the country’s second Black lawyer, purchased a copy of “The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons"🧵

To add to this, one of my students who uses a wheelchair simply could not get to class last week because of the unshoveled sidewalks. They tried for over an hour and had to turn around and get home because their wheels spun in the snow and they couldn't get to crosswalks. Really awful.

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.

How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately. Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There's a section in the article that mentions there are questions concerning the legality around firing some of these endowed positions. I'm also really curious about that

MFA Boston Layoffs Thrust the Museum into a Credibility Crisis As names and positions of eliminated staff at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston begin to roll in, here’s what we know so far.

There is a lot that is very disturbing about these layoffs, but one question I have is "Does the MFA have a functioning archives after this?"

www.bostonartreview.com/read/mfa-bos...

We're told that power wealth & fame are the ultimate aphrodisiacs. But the Epstein files show they also stunt emotional maturity and infantilize the men who possess them.

And it's no coincidence these men took to victimizing girls at a time when women became their co-equals in other spheres.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

For the folks in the back:

OCR predates LLMs.

HTR software predates LLMs.

Digital Humanities predates LLMs.

Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs.

YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.

I want people to understand Columbia Heights as a first ring suburb of working class Minnesotans. It has my favorite Palestinian grocery, one of the best Mexican ones, a huge Indian grocery store, an East Asian store I haven't tried yet because there are so many, and a Palestinian sweets store.

Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders A federal judge said ICE had disobeyed more judicial directives this month than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

The chief federal judge in Minnesota excoriated ICE on Wednesday, saying it had violated nearly 100 court orders stemming from its aggressive crackdown in the state and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

love that early american colonial vinyl siding

You can't deport a citizen. Citizens don't get deported. God help me

The Franks were literally defying the law by hiding from the authorities rather than going to the camps. The people who turned them over to the Nazis were following the law.

A common Nazi accusation was that Jews were sex offenders and Nazis portrayed the holocaust as self-defence.

Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today. Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."

In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So I guess this signal issue never got addressed. Because the same thing is happening on my way home

The MBTA is lying about normal service on the green line. My train has been stopping for about 5 minutes at every station. @universalhub.com

Preach @adamserwer.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live."

That's a death threat.

If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

Hey, let’s go to Maine in the dead of winter, a time of year that certainly won’t make us more recognizable to a populace that has the ability to spot an out-of-stater from 500 yards away.