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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Raids and deportations tear our communities apart. This is not public safety — this is chaos. Organizations like Pioneer Valley Workers Center are stepping up to support immigrants with trainings, resources and reminding their neighbors: we are in this fight together. recorder.com/2026/10/05/p...

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‘Our community is paralyzed by fear’: Pioneer Valley Workers Center steps up support amid ICE surge - Greenfield Recorder

The Pioneer Valley Workers Center supports local immigrants amid surging ICE activity and increased fear following Trump's second inauguration.

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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MA has 9 statewide ballot questions this year. Be an informed voter! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/2026ballot/

This November, Massachusetts will see *9* statewide ballot questions, a historic number. But we’ve got you covered.

✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in.

✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception.

❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers.

✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout.

❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services.

⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones.

✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built.

❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies.

✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The situation in New Bedford and Fall River continues to be intense - donations are really helpful right now, as there is doing to be a lot of need following up on the ICE activity over the last several days.

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Major ICE operation in New Bedford, at least eight arrested - The New Bedford Light

A Light reporter videotaped an arrest near the waterfront. Another reporter saw a half-dozen vehicles and what appeared to be ICE agents huddling at the Dartmouth Mall.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay enough of the ugliness wrought by that other Sheeran, here's the Jens Lekman version, whose "Shirin" is also about the relationship of art and politics. youtu.be/WHjbnsC80_k

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Jens Lekman - Shirin

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Phantom Scribbler @phantomscribbler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Involuntarily shrieking "OH NO" so loudly that I flushed a flock of sparrows perched outside the open window. Thank you for teaching me how to see, Annie Dillard.

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Jonathan Paz @pazforthepeople.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mahmoud Khalil came to Katherine Clark for help - she told him to go speak with genocide supporters. It's unacceptable and morally bankrupt for our country's most powerful leaders to ask their most persecuted constituents to prove their own humanity. #AIPACCLARK

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Phantom Scribbler @phantomscribbler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hey #MAPOLI, @assignedmedia.org's reporting on trans issues is super-relevant and Evan's newsletter is well worth the subscription.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026

Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito should be impeached www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Did you know that every dollar invested in community health worker programs results in a $2.47 return for Medicaid??? They don't just save money for health care systems, they MAKE MONEY. And yet! I wrote a long feature about one CHW program that's been decimated by public health funding cuts.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Mini Popehat Signal in MA: a defamation defendant is seeking pro bono advice and perhaps representation. The defendant described sexual assault by another person in their community, and that person has sued them. Middlesex County.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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Phantom Scribbler @phantomscribbler.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This review is so good it might have incidentally restored my faith in the utility of criticism.

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