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Donate to Hernan's Family Fund: Unjustly Detained by ICE, organized by Felicia Valeri On September 17th before 6 AM, ICE, FBI, and Homeland Security were foll… Felicia Valeri needs your support for Hernan's Family Fund: Unjustly Detained by ICE

Please donate and/or share widely. gofund.me/63acd2980

Ben & Jerry’s corporate activism is the real deal - The Boston Globe Nearly half a century after they started their brand, cofounders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who resigned this week, have held to their progressive values.

I deeply appreciate companies like @patagonia.com and @benandjerrys.bsky.social that take things like corporate responsibility seriously in ways that set shining examples for American society www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/b...

Video shows Salvadoran man being detained by ICE in Malden The wife of a Salvadoran man says he was violently taken into custody by immigration officials on his way to work in Malden, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning.

This is completely unacceptable.
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

Question for anyone — but I’m seriously curious about how this is framed in professional dialogues: what #evolutionary role does an experience of #disillusionment play in human existence if at all? Is it simply part of learning? Is it maladaptive when we get stuck in that state?

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#internationalcatday

Don’t they have better things to do than gripe and strategize over district lines to game the system? Do actual content work. Change hearts and minds, not lines #republicans #democrats #uspolitics

Watertown library receives backlash over Palestinian children's book Librarians in Watertown have been flooded with emails requesting they remove a picture book, "A Map for Falasteen," from a suggested summer reading list for second graders.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/08... Watertown library receives backlash over Palestinian children's book. I appreciate the library staff / trustees who support including it in defense of First Amendment rights and fostering a spectrum of ideas w a well reviewed and recognized book

I’m reading about #Patagonia (company). It’s the perfect thing to motivate & inspire amidst upheaval in America. For those who can take time to see the importance of caring for the planet because humans are part of its interconnected biodiversity, do read this! Great perspectives / scope!

@patagonia.com can you make sustainably sourced and ethical cat/dog food? I feed my cat salmon from cans and have such a limited understanding of what natural food I can actually give my indoor only pet. It’s a black box to me with vets just recommending processed options.

How do we donate to PBS - better to support local station or the PBS foundation? #supportPBS #PBS

Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸
This Independence Day, Americans are reflecting on our founding ideals and where we stand today.

Read more from the Cato Institute’s 2025 4th of July National Survey: www.cato.org/blog/53-dont...

How many Congresspeople and Congressional staffers are using AI to do their daily close reading work I wonder...

Tell your Lawmakers NO to Public Land Sell Offs TAKE ACTION! Senator Mike Lee is back with a new proposal to sell off more than a million acres of public lands, focusing on close-to-home recreation in the West. The outdoor community stopped land s...

Stop the sale of public lands! Write your senators here! action.outdooralliance.org/a/reconcilia...

I am sick of thinking about it and him, but of all the obviously wrong things that people have believed about Donald Trump, the idea that he wouldn't instantly be into dropping bombs on brown foreigners in order to look tough or just more or less for yuks has to be the dumbest/wrongest.

I’m pretty sure Israel just screwed over Ukraine. And we helped. 😣 worse than Iraq over WMDs

The Rump administration has a personality disorder and no idea how to form meaningful, productive attachments. I’m sorry and ashamed, everyone-else-in-the-world.

Let’s not bomb Iran. No rip tides into foreign wars. This scenario feels even flimsier than WMDs in Iraq.

⚠️ DC CONSUMER ALERT ⚠️

Multiple companies are using deceptive tactics to trick or pressure DC residents into changing energy providers — then charging higher rates.

We are alerting residents about this third-party energy company scam and how they can avoid becoming a victim.

AOC backs Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor The progressive standard-bearer endorsed the DSA upstart as he closes the gap with front-runner Andrew Cuomo.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed fellow Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as her first choice for New York City mayor.

Mamdani makes me wish I still lived in NYC so I could rank choice him first.

🚨Heard about this earlier today; ICE is expanding to arrests at ATD (alternatives to detention) case management check-ins. Dozens of people got texts to show up weeks in advance of their normal check-in, and ended up detained.

Three women let go were told to come back tomorrow with their kids.

ICE Turns Required Check-Ins Into Arrest Dragnet in Lower Manhattan Reporters for THE CITY witnessed vehicles hauling away 16 people in handcuffs from an office where immigrants in deportation cases were summoned to sudden appointments.

Here is the article. It makes clear that these operations are causing people to be terrified to attend their court hearings or ICE check-ins.

This is actively damaging the rule of law. ICE’s actions are encouraging people to not comply with the law. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/03/i...

DOGE tried assigning a team to the Government Accountability Office. They refused An attempt by DOGE to assign a team to the independent Government Accountability Office was rejected Friday. The GAO is part of the legislative branch and not subject to DOGE's request.

An attempt by DOGE to assign a team to the independent Government Accountability Office was rejected Friday. The GAO is part of the legislative branch and not subject to DOGE's request.

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JUST IN:

SCOTUS, in a per curium opinion, finds that the Trump Administration violated the due process rights of migrants who were summarily removed in the dead of night to El Salvador.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Public lands are held in a public trust for a reason: They maintain their value when they’re well cared for, not exploited. 


Act now to block a bill that will allow developers to drill, mine and pollute irreplaceable ecosystems, cultural landscapes and recreational areas. pat.ag/B/S25/Public...

The Trade War Isn’t Over Look at the numbers, not the vibes

“the reality is that all we’ve seen is a modest retreat from complete, destructive insanity to seriously harmful madness” -Krugman on recent tariff policy changes. More here open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

or maybe it was today(!)... mega session

Thank you to @degette.house.gov and her staff. Her words supporting women's health and her advocacy for including the Guttmacher report in the markup yesterday are so appreciated