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Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

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Hey Jivan, I just wanted to clarify because I thought we had just voted to eliminate the mayor as the head of the school committee this last election. Is the mayor going to be ahead of the School committee again?

I ran into on the other day. It was much bigger than what I imagined a coyote would be.

If I ever go on a murders rampage, please know it was likely triggered by a boomer’s ringtone set to old-fashioned phone.

When the city announced the closure of a homeless shelter, she worked with impacted residents to empower them to advocate for their needs at council. ✊

Ayah’s platform to support the working class ranges from housing to racial justice.

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Democratic Socialists of America endorses Ayah Al-Zubi, running for Cambridge City Council. Ayah is pictured wearing a slightly edgy black dress shirt and gold necklace and grinning confidently.

We are excited to announce our endorsement of Ayah Al-Zubi of @bostondsa.org for Cambridge City Council! 🌹
Ayah's experience as a young Muslim woman and renter uniquely positions her to understand the struggles of immigrants in Cambridge, young people, renters, and more. 🤝
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Elon Musk tweets: "Just saw this in a conference room at Tesla Global Engineering HQ in Palo Alto" The attached photo shows a dripping graffiti-style spray-painted text on a wall, which reads: The Future is Autonomous

kind of annoys me when people use the aesthetics of graffiti to show they're edgy and cool while also calling for more punitive laws, which punish the graffiti artists who give that aesthetic its cultural meaning

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Community is how I was raised. Our whole campaign is built on it. And if elected, we will take that spirit to City Hall.

The amount of work I’ve done & the school has done with them on how to read social cues and work on their executive functioning is something even neurotypical kids would benefit from.

As the parent to an autistic kid, I really hate the current framing in the media like it’s a curse or a death sentence. My kid is such an awesome person. They have friends. They do great in school. They’re engaged with the world around them. They are empathetic and kind. 1/

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park. Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

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Let's Change Cambridge Cambridge, MA politics makes your life worse in many ways, from high rents to bad transportation to childcare costs (turkeys are probably not impacted by politics, but who can say, really.) But we can...

Cambridge friends, if you’re not already subscribed to Itamar’s newsletter, do so asap. Today’s newsletter is about City Council candidates and the language they use to obfuscate their actual ideas/intentions w/r/t specific issues, like housing and bike lanes. buttondown.com/letschangeca...

Climate change is happening NOW, which means more flash floods. Cambridge needs to get more proactive in addressing our sewer overflows, which expose residents to dangerous untreated wastewater. I support better infrastructure in Alewife Brook + other climate solutions to address this. #mapoli

@votealzubi.com is a great person and a really special candidate and I so hope she wins

Someone is yell-singing “is this love” by Bob Marley in traffic, and honestly I’m here for it.

Every headline is a wild ride these days. You truly don’t know how it’s going to end. Truly the most unhinged of times.

it’s legit radicalizing stuff that people are being arrested for these beliefs while the political establishment is, at the same fucking time, starting to agree with them

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

This is NOT “America First.”

This means that if a city or state decides to boycott investments in Israel, if its citizens are suffering from a disaster, the federal government will not provide FEMA funds to those cities.

Completely unacceptable.

me driving to get lettuce because i can't afford a home in a walkable neighborhood after an american knife maker voted a certain way without realizing he needs swedish steel

Maine can do much better. Rooting for you to vote her out next election.

Did Susan Collins finally actually do a good thing???? Has hell frozen over? I am amazed.

How every senator voted on the reconciliation bill See how each senator voted.

Three Republicans voted against the Senate's version of President Trump's tax and immigration bill.

See which ones broke from the fray: