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‘Catastrophic’: Mass. lawyers say new ICE policy will deny immigrants due process, strain detention facilities - The Boston Globe A July 8 internal memo directs ICE officers to detain people who entered the country without permission for the duration of their deportation proceedings.

“If people can’t get out of detention on bond, it means people are looking at weeks, maybe months, maybe years where their human rights are being violated on a regular basis,” Sarah Sherman-Stokes, a professor of immigration law at Boston University, said.
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Law360 mandates reporters use AI “bias” detection on all stories The policy was announced after an executive accused the newsroom of bias in its Trump administration coverage.

Law360 is requiring all stories pass through an AI "bias indicator" before publication.

The new policy came weeks after an executive from its parent company, LexisNexis, accused the newsroom of liberal bias in its Trump admin coverage. My latest for @niemanlab.org
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BPS closes its last middle school, following national trend of consolidating campuses - The Boston Globe Standalone campuses for grades 6-8 are becoming rarer across the country and Boston has undertaken a broad effort to shift students to schools for grades 7-12.

It’s a place where staff notice when a student got caught in the rain walking to school and offer them dry socks, where students insist as part of a “week of joy” on helping organize their teachers’ offices, and where many students and families wish they could stay longer. @bostonglobe.com

As questions linger, family and school grieve for Boston 5-year-old killed in April bus crash - The Boston Globe There have been few answers in the nearly two months since a Boston Public Schools bus struck and killed Lens Joseph on April 28.

This is heartbreaking, and so well-told, by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social

Autistic children denied schooling amid lack of federal funding The federal government has never fully funded special education, leaving schools across the country ill-equipped to teach children with severe disabilities. Today the US government contributes a mere ...

Fifty years ago, the United States made a pledge: No child, no matter how complex their disability, would be deprived an education.

That pledge never came true.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom says he’ll sue Trump over National Guard deployment to LA. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe Newsom said he believed the president was required to coordinate with the state’s governor before ordering such a deployment.

California Governor Gavin Newsom told MSNBC he plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration to roll back the National Guard deployment, which he called “an unconstitutional act.” Follow live updates.

Former Boston City Hall staffer claims Wu administration fired her in order to protect top aide - The Boston Globe The woman fired from her job at Boston City Hall last month amid a controversy over a domestic violence arrest alleges that her boyfriend’s supervisor, cabinet chief Segun Idowu, propositioned her.

The woman fired from her job at Boston City Hall last month amid a controversy over a domestic violence arrest claims Mayor Michelle Wu unfairly cut her loose in an attempt to contain an election-year scandal.

As housing costs rise in Boston, homelessness soars in the cities that surround it - The Boston Globe Boston’s housing crisis is rippling outward, hitting places like Brockton and other Gateway Cities and putting longtime residents there on the streets.

The number of people living on the streets and in shelters has risen sharply across Massachusetts over the past several years. Nowhere has that surge been more pronounced than in the mid-sized cities that ring Greater Boston.

‘A real cycle of debt.’ The RMV has marked millions of licenses for non-renewal due to unpaid fees. - The Boston Globe The state Registry of Motor Vehicles placed driver’s licenses in non-renewal status nearly 3 million times during a five-year period because of unpaid tolls and other debts unrelated to road safety, a...

Each year, thousands of Massachusetts drivers face the possibility of losing their legal authority to drive because of unpaid tolls and other debts unrelated to road safety. Sometimes the only fix carries an insurmountable cost.

21 state attorneys general, multiple universities, alumni to back Harvard in court battle against Trump - The Boston Globe Two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, plan to file an amicus brief, including six that joined the coalition in a filing Monday, court records show.

More than 12,000 Harvard alumni, 21 state attorneys general, and two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed or plan to file amicus briefs backing Harvard in its court battle with the Trump administration, court records showed.

British photojournalist hit by non lethal rounds during Los Angeles protests Nick Stern to undergo surgery for wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters

Journalism is not a crime
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Immigration authorities carry out enforcement activity across Los Angeles amid crowds of protesters Federal immigration authorities carried out enforcement activities in Los Angeles on Friday. Some clashes broke out as crowds gathered to protest the activity.

Federal immigration authorities carried out enforcement activities at businesses across Los Angeles on Friday, prompting clashes outside at least one location as authorities threw flash bangs to try to disperse a crowd that had gathered in protest.

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‘I was in shock, I didn’t know what was going on.’ Milford teen released from ICE detention after immigration judge’s ruling - The Boston Globe The arrest has unleashed outrage at federal officials and an outpouring of support for Marcelo Gomes da Silva and his family.

I was in shock, I didn’t know what was going on.’ Milford teen released from ICE detention after immigration judge’s ruling www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/m...

When you went to the Iowa Writers Workshop but ended up in journalism

NEFAC's Justin Silverman and Gregory V. Sullivan recently spoke to @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social at @bostonglobe.com about why we're left in the dark about a bus operator who struck and killed a 5-year-old boy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/m... #opengov

Boston wanted tax-exempt institutions to chip in more to help pay for city services. Under Trump, it’s looking unlikely. - The Boston Globe Amid the Trump administration's cuts, top City Hall aides have indicated Boston is backing off from immediately asking nonprofits for substantially larger PILOT payments.

ICYMI: Boston wanted tax-exempt institutions to chip in more to help pay for city services, by reforming its 'payment in lieu of taxes,' or PILOT, program. Under Trump, it’s looking unlikely. #bospoli

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Immigration officials say they intended to arrest father of Milford teen instead - The Boston Globe Immigration officials said Marcelo Gomes da Silva was driving his father’s car on Saturday when ICE agents pulled him over.

ICE officials said they originally intended to arrest the father of Milford High School student Marcelo Gomes da Silva when they detained the teen over the weekend.

A few GBH updates:
- Layoffs heavily impacted the children’s media and education department, which suffered from the Trump admin canceling the Ready to Learn grant program
- Eight staffers from “The World” radio program were laid off
- Two newsroom employees were laid off

‘He’s just a kid’: ICE detains Milford High student on his way to volleyball practice, administrator says - The Boston Globe The student, a junior whose name hasn't been released, had been in the country since he was 5 years old, a school administrator said.

“I don’t care that they’re 18 — he’s just a kid."

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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst defends proposed Medicaid cuts: 'We all are going to die' Her comment came in response to an attendee who yelled that proposed GOP cuts to Medicaid would cost lives.

Sen. Joni Ernst was repeatedly pressed on cuts to Medicaid in the House's budget bill at a town hall in her home state, pushing back on an attendee who said the cuts would lead to deaths.

"People are not — well, we all are going to die, so, for heaven’s sakes," she said.

Personal wealth, outside spending take center stage as Michelle Wu and Josh Kraft compete in fiery Boston mayor’s race - The Boston Globe Outside spending and immense private wealth are hardly new concepts in Massachusetts politics. But the sums reported so far could set the city on a course to its most expensive mayor’s race yet.

There's no shortage of issues to debate in this year’s Boston mayor’s race. But so far, the one taking center stage is money: who’s giving it, who’s spending it, whose dad has a lot of it, and how much of it is funding attack ads.

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After George Floyd’s murder, Boston groups pledged $1 billion toward equity causes. Where did it go? - The Boston Globe Dozens of Boston organizations pledged to fund racial equity. The Globe tried to track the commitments down.

in 2020, dozens of boston group pledged to spend $$$ towards racial equity. but where did it go?

@vincedixon.bsky.social and i tried to figure out where a billion of those dollars went. but it’s painstakingly hard to do so.

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Trump cuts to medical research spark fears of ‘massive brain drain’ of young scientists - The Boston Globe Many students say they may leave the country or abandon scientific research entirely as their career options shrink.

The Boston Globe interviewed more than two dozen young scientists since March who say they are weighing whether to leave the United States — or abandon scientific research entirely — because of the Trump administration’s widening assault on scientific research.
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Harvard has a $53 billion endowment. Will that be enough to withstand Trump’s assault? - The Boston Globe The university endowment is an enormous asset, but tapping it isn’t as simple as withdrawing cash from an ATM.

Harvard has long said its $53 billion endowment is not a piggy bank to be tapped in emergencies. But as Trump's attacks intensify, will the university's budget crunch will be enough to warrant — or force — a change of course?

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Company involved in deadly school bus crash has history of personal injury claims in Boston - The Boston Globe Transdev has faced at least 15 lawsuits since it began operating BPS buses in 2013, court records show.

There are at least 15 personal injury claims against BPS's transportation contractor, Transdev, since 2013.

Among them: The driver who crashed a school bus while looking at a clipboard. The man struck by an unattended bus that rolled into him. A bus that hit another vehicle during a police stop.

Following fatal school bus crash, Boston launches independent investigation into transportation safety - The Boston Globe Boston will turn to a former federal prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation of its public schools transportation contractor.

Boston will turn to a former federal prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation of its public schools transportation contractor, 25 days after a 5-year-old was killed in a school bus crash in Hyde Park, Mayor Michelle Wu and Superintendent Mary Skipper said. @bostonglobe.com

thats now in the security office at south station

dear Boston, is this your iPhone? I'm turning it into MBTA Police at South Station.