Dr. Cara Berg Powers

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

We used to get a snack delivery that had these in them and they were delicious. Also every recipe I looked for involved corn syrup so I've never attempted to replicate.

I ran into an advocate who told me that the 9 men detained from Canal Street last month struggled to find legal representation. Historically, Black immigrants experience disproportionately *more* removals than any other group. Anti-Black racism fuels US immigration in *every* way.

Oh I have that too in my work email!

The other thing we have is the kitchen has a whole wall painted calendar with white board paint over it where we put big things and weekly meal plan. Sometimes analog helps

in addition to all of his experience, in 2011 someone tried to assassinate kelly's wife, former congresswoman gabby giffords. no way he's cowing to these ass clowns.

We're out of habit with this, but s weekly family meeting has helped. It may just be that @blackjew.bsky.social and I both were longtime nonprofit Executive Directors org management habits die hard.

Honestly I just started inviting my husband and daughter to all calendar events I need them to know about (kid just got a phone for first time because she has a glucose monitor now). We tried lots of apps over the years, but this has been most useful. I use Artful Agenda as an overall calendar app.

Letz Rage in Fitchburg is an excellent establishment and they are all ages fyi. We did the kid's 10th birthday party in their paint room and she got a half hour of smashing. Now 12, she's brought friends back for repeat visits.

Umbrella rule should apply to this.

The way the Tea Party has been memory holed is absolutely unconscionable.

A Nation at Risk (1983)

Or when the jobs you do have don't pay enough.

The middle school translator ring is fascinating.

My kid apparently takes "you need to hustle, you're going to miss the bus" to mean, "walk there at a very leisurely pace"

AI-Generated Images Are Spreading Paranoia and Misinformation. Can Art Historians Help? An art historian argues that provenance research—rather than connoisseurship—is our best tool for authentication.

These assignments encourage people to become DIY detectives, exacerbating a boom in conspiracy theories. The “permission structure of doubt” normalises suspicion as a default setting and suggests that another algorithm (like Google’s search) can discover the truth.

By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social:

Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.

Also TJs seltzers have some excellent fancy drink feeling options. And their champagne sparkling grape juice is a very solid not wine.

We've whittled it down to one small kallax single square cabinet.

Most of them are not driven by policy or even ideology. Honestly I don't even think they care about the power. They just like the status. They want a sash.

The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.

Our work is to remind everyone that 32 votes out of 26k is not a mandate and to not give him wind at his sails. This election was much more complex and door opening than a lot are giving credit for.

My Rabbi uses anti Jewish hate which I deeply dislike for the same reasons that renaming concerns me, which is that it mystifies further the function of conspiracy theories and scapegoating and other core mechanisms that aren't easily boiled down to dislike or even distrust of Jews.

He won't. He was running a poll in September to see if he had a chance at mayor.

It was very cool to see this democracy in action. It was really well run and I definitely feel like I gained more insight, personally, about the state of things.

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

“Shadowy organization is out to kill me I swear this isn’t an antisemitic dog whistle but there is at least one Jew involved and we all know Jews run all the shadowy organizations that try to kill truth speakers like me.”

As a Celtics/Eagles household it's a bit of whiplash

Bullshit is going on. Of assorted varieties