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Bolts reported in February that Massachusetts is only blue state where a state agency has a 287(g) contract with ICE. Massachusetts passed a new law this summer that bans 287g contracts in the state... but the law exempts the one agency anywhere in Massachusetts that actually had such an agency.

Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts@plsma.bsky.social · yesterday

The PROTECT Act bars MA law enforcement from entering new 287(g) agreements with ICE but leaves the one that already exists with the DOC. "People are more willing to ban a hypothetical 287(g) with a hypothetical police department than a real one with the DOC." boltsmag.org/massachusett...

I like watching a lot of videos on WWII organization and tactics including the less glamorous bits about logistics and it's difficult for me to believe this is nominally the same organization that bodied Germany and Japan simultaneously. World record century of humiliation shit.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...

1: Means testing looks like it would save money but ends up being bloated by administrative overhead. 2: It's a worse service overall because now people need to fill out forms before receiving anything 3: non-universal programs are vulnerable to political opposition from demos who do not benefit

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hear me out. What if instead of selling food below cost to all comers at taxpayer expense, then using more taxpayer dollars to subsidize private companies that can't compete, we had a program targeting nutritional assistance just to the people who needed it, as a sort of supplement?

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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As a plumber/handyman there's nothing I love more than driving my rusted out Chevy sprinter in the passing lane 5mph below the speed limit. Don't worry my ladders are secured with 99¢ harbor freight bungee cords. Now stop honking so I can finish texting my ex wife!!

In Ep 241, "The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future'," we breakdown the "inevitability" line AI companies use to bulldoze over democracy and how "inevitability" arguments have been used to sell everything from Manifest Destiny to "free trade deals".

Ep 241: The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future'

In this episode we breakdown the popular "inevitability" argument "AI" companies are using to bulldoze over democracy and how the "inevitability" line has been used to sell everything from Manifest De

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During the primary debate for the Democratic nomination to the Massachusetts Senate, Senator Markey stood on his trans rights record and slammed Congressman Seth Moulton, his opponent, for throwing trans kids under the bus. "The Supreme Court agreed with you." Subscribe to support our journalism.

Markey Tells Moulton He Threw Trans Kids "Under the Bus" In MA Dem Senate Primary Debate

“The Supreme Court of the United States of America just last week took the same position that Congressman Moulton took last year,” Senator Ed Markey said.

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