North Shore Progressives
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News & analysis for progressive activists living on the North Shore of Boston and beyond. Edited by @isaleshko.bsky.social, we publish AI-free content. 🏳️🌈 https://www.northshoreprogressives.org/
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Indivisible Maynard Area@indivisiblemaynard.bsky.social · 4d agoLearn about Flock and ALPR surveillance. Aug 6, 6:30 pm Framingham Library (or join online!). www.mobilize.us/metrobostoni... #FlockOff @indivisibleboros.bsky.social @metro-boston-ic.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social @aclum.bsky.social
ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
The Senate has five more days to vote on the CLARITY Act. Trump wants it. Techbros want it. Crypto conmen want it. But anti-corruption Americans don't! Contact Senators Ossoff (470-786-7800) and Warnock (770-694-7828) NOW. @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov
Stop Trump’s Crypto Corruption - No to CLARITY Act
The Senate will be considering the CLARITY ACT, a Trojan horse for deregulation that would only help Trump, billionaires, and foreign governments profit at our expense. We need senators to block them.
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Stories like these are why we asked the Salem Police Department to cover the city’s Flock LPRs after they terminated their Flock contract. I was told yesterday this has been done and I look forward to photographing one of these covered cameras soon. Bye-bye, Flock. 👋🏻
DeFlock@deflock.org · 5d ago"Thursday morning, police found that five of the town’s six cameras had been reactivated by Flock “with no notification to the town.” 😞 #Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff www.lowellsun.com/2026/07/31/l...
We must normalize being extremely rude to people with surveillance cameras on their faces. It is the moral duty of every citizen to make them feel extremely unwelcome everywhere they go.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last wk.Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon
"It is shocking that we have allowed for investors to make money off of child imprisonment, of kids who are as young as two months old." @connectwithjacob.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=citL...
Dem Rep SLAMS investors who profit from ‘child imprisonment’ at ICE detention center
YouTube video by MS NOW
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The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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The problem is bigger than Flock Safety. The problem is bigger than Axon. The problem is much, much bigger than automated license plate readers. Register at tinyurl.com/axonflock
How do surveillance, censorship, and technologies of control get weaponized—and how do we push back? I spoke with Jonathon W. Penney, author of "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age," about his roadmap for reform.
A Roadmap for Confronting the Chilling Effects of Censorship, Surveillance and New Technology
A conversation with Jonathon W. Penney, author of Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age.
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Everybody responsible for this violence and lawlessness must be held accountable and prosecuted. We demand ICE OUT and Justice for Lorenzo, Johan, Juan, and all victims of the ICE death machine. 🎥 @roanokeindivisible.bsky.social
Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...
After Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)
Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state...
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Statement from @indivisible.org here: indivisible.org/news/indivis...
Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2w agoThe horrifying video shows a straight-up execution of a Black man by police. It's a gutting demonstration of the continued, horrifying impunity with which police regularly treat Black life and none of us can accept this. wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madis...
"The systems that have called for your oppression don't want you to dream — because they know you can dream a reality they can't counter." Pastor DeShay Freemyer-Jackson at Good Trouble Lives On Mass's Preach event. 🔥 Full speech on our YouTube @mass50501 #gtlomass
We also want to thank the @aclum.bsky.social for their support with our campaign. We couldn't have done this without @gideonepstein.bsky.social and @onekade.bsky.social! 🙏🏼 Thank you also to @mass50501.bsky.social for creating a supportive community for #FlockOff activists in MA. 🙏🏼 #ItTakesAVillage
North Shore Progressives@nsprogressives.bsky.social · 2w agoSalem's announcement that it was severing ties with Flock Safety was most welcome, but it erased the role local activists played in the city's decision. Here is our statement about our campaign and the work that lies ahead: www.northshoreprogressives.org/salem-activi... #FlockOff #GetTheFlockOut
Salem's announcement that it was severing ties with Flock Safety was most welcome, but it erased the role local activists played in the city's decision. Here is our statement about our campaign and the work that lies ahead: www.northshoreprogressives.org/salem-activi... #FlockOff #GetTheFlockOut
Salem Activists Respond to City's Announcement Terminating Flock Contract
Salem's announcement that it was severing ties with Flock Safety was welcome, but it erased the role local activists played in the city's decision.
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YES!!! This essentially nullifies Ballot Question #5. If your Senator voted yes, please write them and thank them. And if they voted no, they definitely should hear from you!
Progressive Mass@progressivemass.bsky.social · 2w agoThe MA Senate voted 31 to 8 to revise the state's investment cap in order to better protect public services and ensure the state is able to respond to an economic downturn.
The MA Senate is voting THIS WEEK on its economic development bill. 📣Write to your state senator in support of key amendments.📣 #mapoli actionnetwork.org/letters/mase...
Tell Your State Senator: Fight for Economic Justice in the Economic Development Bill
Two weeks ago, the MA House passed its economic development bill, a policy and spending grab-bag bill that included some wins for affordable housing. The Senate is voting on their bill this Wednesday...
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The ACLU's @jaystanley.bsky.social on the privacy and constitutional concerns raised from the recent SFPD drone footage leak. www.wired.com/story/sfpd-d... "if you’re primed to be suspicious, even something as boring as trying to find parking in a big city can look shady."
Leaked Police Drone Videos Highlight Need For Independent Review of the Technology’s Usefulness | ACLU
And other takeaways from watching three hours of aerial police videos
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ICE killed two fathers in one week. Lorenzo in Houston. Joan in Maine, in front of his wife and toddler. Boston says NO MORE. Join the National Day of Action. 📍 Copley Square, Library Steps 🗓 Sat July 18 · 4PM Justice for Lorenzo. Justice for Joan. #StopICETerror
The formal legislative session in MA ends two weeks from tomorrow! Tell your state legislators to get the PROTECT Act and the data privacy bill across the finish line! #mapoli actionnetwork.org/letters/fini...
Get These Bills Over the Finish Line
The formal legislative session for the MA State House is ending soon: Friday, July 31. Both the MA House and MA Senate have passed important bills to protect our immigrant communities and strengthen...
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Trump must be impeached for undermining and subverting our free and fair elections. And when he sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table.
