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The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

This is one of the things I've said about MAHA all along. RFK, Jr. is pushing *massive* regulation of business which is in direct conflict with the administration's attempts to destroy the administrative state.

Also, everything he argues here has been said by people who aren't unhinged eugenicists.

All the best to what's left of the GOP in New England

NextDoor first made me realize I lived among people who would have turned in Anne Frank and her family.

For our town it was the local pizza place.

mr ed teaches us that in a pinch you can use peanut butter as a substitute for broca’s area

Worcester mentioned.

every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"

Trump won in 24 because goods were too expensive and he promised to implement higher taxes on imports.

Some digital hand lettering swooping out into extruded 3D shapes from the right to left and angled down a bit. It’s colored in very mites tones of grayish-blueish-pinkish with some faint yellow glow behind. Of course it reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Yucko

Further, it's not like there's only ONE American culture

Roses are red.
The sky is red.
The seas are red.
It is the prophecy.

Either Wally Lamb (author) or Edwin Land (Polaroid founder)

An opinion piece in today's USA TODAY by a woman who was arrested by ICE for observing their activities in Minneapolis

This is very powerful and I hope it reaches a lot of people

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I do think it’s interesting that the NFL — an organization that arguably profits off the physical and mental exploitation and abuse of men of color — has two years in a row now hired men of color to do explicitly political halftime shows calling for the liberation of their people

"[H]e applied one of the greatest lessons you learn as a part of an oppressed group: Joy is resistance. Pride in your heritage is protest. Being unapologetic about it all is radical."

Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer:
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.

And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.

Bad Bunny's music is very useful if you want to learn how to say things like "I want to [redacted] your [redacted] in the [redacted]" in Spanish

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Statement on this morning’s ICE Abduction in Rozzie Square.

Please report any ICE sightings to the LUCE hotline at 617-370-5023.

Totally second this. Nothing seems stable right now, but doing something positive helps with the deep anxiety and seeing all the other people wanting to help gives tremendous hope

why is it always thinking cat but with a heart and it says feeling instead

ahhhhhhh

A digital illustration of David Lynch (we miss you) from the little concrete walled, cluttered office space he used to do his odd little weather reports from. Everything is rendered in a strange combination of textures and line halftones and muted cool colors. Cruddy lettering at the bottom of the frame reads 'Maybe it will happen today'.

A black and white cartoon style digital drawing. From left to right: a pelican wearing a knit beanie with his beak wide open; coming out from the pelican’s beak bag is a crab holding a big top hat in one claw with the opening of it up like a bucket; the top hat is full of water and a smiling fish is popping out of it sticking out his long cartoon tongue; on the tongue is an open scallop shell showing the grinning scallop inside; and flying out from the scallop shell is a little ghost wearing a pirate hat with a skull and crossbones on it. A series of speech bubbles follows this progression with each participant speaking one word of the phrase ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else.

newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

Ugh. The main anti-ICE group in Washington which has 44k followers on Facebook and has been going around to communities promoting classes is now promoting this anti-whistle nonsense for "harm reduction" reasons as well.