Shaun Barnes

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

This is why Dems embracing bipartisanship and refusing to attack the Republican Party brand is such political MALPRACTICE.

Voters mostly vote on party brand, what it stands for.
One side deciding to abdicate fights over party brand is a recipe for losing.

"The Massachusetts Department of Correction... formally partners with ICE to transfer people who have finished their sentences."
Healey's office has also not responded to my calls about this (and why would they) BUT maybe if a lot more of us call and keep calling, they'll get the drift. 617-725-4005

Any collaboration with an agency that is systematically violating civil rights and brutalizing people is wrong and Maura Healey’s defense of this program is shameful.

In Boston, all BCYF and Boston Public Library branches will be activated as warming centers during their normal operating hours.

For more information on staying safe during extreme temperatures, visit shorturl.at/Ab14i.

#mapoli #bospoli

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During extreme winter weather conditions, warming centers are open and available to all. To find warming centers near you, call 211. If you see someone experiencing homelessness out in the cold, please call 911.

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More to come on this; the rule makes a number of other changes to the Board of Immigration Appeals process (such that it will exist should this rule go into effect in 30 days without a court order blocking it). But top line; it's quite bad! public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02326.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Executive Office for Immigration Review 8 CFR Parts 1003, 1208, and 1240 [Docket No. EOIR-26-AB37; Dir. Order No. 02-2026] RIN 1125-AB37 Appellate Procedures for the Board of Immigration Appeals AGENCY: Executive Office for Immigration Review (“EOIR”), Department of Justice. ACTION: Interim final rule; request for comments. SUMMARY: This interim final rule (“IFR”) amends Department of Justice (“Department” or “DOJ”) regulations to streamline administrative appellate review by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board” or “BIA”) of decisions by Immigration Judges by making review of such decisions on the merits discretionary, by setting appropriate times for briefing in cases that are reviewed on the merits, and by streamlining other aspects of the appellate process to ensure timely adjudications and avoid adding to the already sizeable backlog at the Board. Additionally, the Department is making various technical and non-substantive changes to its regulations. DATES: Effective date: This IFR is effective [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]

CORRECTION: This rule does not go into effect tomorrow, it goes into effect 30 days after tomorrow.

My apology.

The appeal to the federal circuit court ALSO costs $600. So now anyone who loses in immigration has to pay $1,000 to be automatically denied in nearly every case, and then $600 to seek an emergency stay of their imminent deportation.

AND THIS APPLIES EVEN TO PEOPLE IN DETENTION.

The goal is clear; mass deportations over due process.

An order of removal does not become "final" until the Board of Immigration Appeals denies an appeal. After that, ICE can deport the person unless they file ANOTHER appeal to a federal circuit court AND get an emergency stay.

The IFR will also change the deadline for filing an appeal with the Board from 30 to 10 days, except for cases involving certain asylum applications, as discussed in more detail in Section IV.B of this preamble. And, as explained in Sections IV.C and D of this preamble, the IFR adopts other measures previously adopted by the 2020 Appellate Procedures Final Rule, which were never fully operationalized, to streamline the processes for obtaining the parties’ briefs and assembling the record on appeal.

The Trump admin is ALSO changing the rules so that rather than 30 days to file a Notice of Appeal, people will now only have 10 days (in most cases).

That's just 10 days to find $1,000 and appellate counsel for an appeal the government says it will likely automatically deny!

Thus, rather than require such adjudications, the Department is changing its regulations to provide the Board more flexibility in reviewing appeals. Instead, for appeals taken from decisions issued after this IF becomes effective, as explained in Section IV.A of this preamble, the default will be summary dismissal unless a majority of current Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits. And such dismissals will occur quickly—within 15 days of filing the appeal—allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge decision.

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

Breaking on MS NOW:

Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests.

The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

With the final phase of the Whittier complete, Boston celebrates 472 new homes in Roxbury! The project includes 210 deeply-affordable and 262 mixed-income units + 14,000 sq. ft. of commercial space.

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.

Good piece that gets at an often underdiscussed issue -- of how much work in rebuilding state capacity (or denazification of remaining state capacity) will be necessary post-Trump

dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.

At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?

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Former governor Deval Patrick endorses Patrick Roath in challenge against Stephen Lynch - The Boston Globe Patrick is wading back into Massachusetts Democratic politics to endorse his former staffer.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/20/m...

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Historian here 2026 and we are back there.

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.

They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.

Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

Early ed and childcare advocate considers run for District 3 - Dorchester Reporter Latoya Gayle, a St. Mark’s area resident who works for a nonprofit focused on early education and childcare issues, is considering a run for the City Council’s District 3 seat. “I’m being encouraged t...

NEW: Latoya Gayle, an early ed and childcare advocate, has opened a campaign account for the Senate seat currently held by South Boston's Nick Collins

She previously considered a District 3 City Council run in 2023
www.dotnews.com/2023/early-e...

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Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

"The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race."