Hi everyone! Got a community event we're really excited about. Cafe Reynard will be hosting a T4T Clothing Swap at the cafe on Thursday June 4th. Bring your old clothes and get some new ones! Open to all, totally free ❤️

Uhh @bostonglobe.com whut is this line? "A major difference between the Brown v. Board of Education era and today is there is no evidence the current segregation is motivated by racism or discrimination. Poverty and geography are now the driving forces." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/21/o...

A new lawsuit forces the state to confront racial segregation in schools - The Boston Globe

Because school assignments are largely based on ZIP code, the state’s schools reflect the state’s racial segregation. But separate is not equal.

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This article includes many, many horrifying details. Not least of which is that Figure AI is planning "to produce at least 100,000 humanoid robots in the coming years." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

This story gave me chills. Stunning illustration of how past is present. www.kpbs.org/news/living/...

Lemon Grove honors 95th anniversary of landmark school desegregation case

Lemon Grove City Council members on Tuesday night celebrated the “Lemon Grove Incident,” which was a precursor to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.

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New paper w/ @ashleyjcarey.bsky.social looks at how non-binary students are erased in state data sets. Basic arg is: When we have better data, we are better able to see students who are otherwise erased in the binary. We can also work to make things better for them. epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

⬇️⬇️⬇️. Important reporting on WPS school committee work. Here in Worcester or nationally reporting on our public bodies is increasingly important. Thanks @aislinn.bsky.social and @billshaner.bsky.social and all of other independent writers. Thank you for your work.

Aislinn Doyle (@aislinndoyle)

February Brief is up!

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Normally, it’d be strange for the federal government to bully a teenager by name (and laced with slurs) to the point that he’d have to leave the SOTU to find safety. But, here we are. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/25/m...

Milford teen Marcelo Gomes leaves State of the Union after targeted DHS tweet - The Boston Globe

Gomes met with members of Congress to discuss his experience in detention before attending President Trump’s speech as Representative Seth Moulton's guest.

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My latest for Neighborhood View. neighborhoodview.org/2026/02/19/i...

Investment inbound: Malden awarded coveted economic designation, $500,000 for roads - Neighborhood View

Malden has been selected as a MassDevelopment TDI District, launching a three-year partnership to revitalize the downtown economy

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@billshaner.bsky.social reporting is stellar. There are serious repercussions from this conviction & prosecution. Beyond the personal cost, this is about chilling community defense & police misconduct enabled by prosecutorial discretion. www.worcestersucks.email/p/convicted-...

Convicted of assault for getting assaulted

A timeline of political retribution in this city under the dome

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100%. Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira came into the United States as an asylum seeker. Won her asylum case and was NOT the subject of DHS's abduction. They used her daughters and the infant to lure her, violentely and unlawfully detain her and spread lies about her.

Wootownwoman Woman@wootownwoman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The DHS assistant secretary has apparently forgotten that the woman they were attempting to abduct was legally present, not a criminal, and not violent. In fact, that characterization was based on lies DHS inserted into their own public statement, released days before WPD addressed the issue.

Just another time when it would be good for city leaders like Eric Batista Joe Petty and the Chief to speak up about all Etel’s good work in the city.

Wootownwoman Woman@wootownwoman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The DHS assistant secretary has apparently forgotten that the woman they were attempting to abduct was legally present, not a criminal, and not violent. In fact, that characterization was based on lies DHS inserted into their own public statement, released days before WPD addressed the issue.

Major props to @billshaner.bsky.social for spending two days in court documenting the trial, the details and for also just being an outstanding G as my young son called him when Bill lent Danny a charger. We are fortunate to have Bill’s outstanding work & analysis.

Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 8mo ago

They showed they’re willing and able to selectively charge ppl for political purposes and the court showed us they’re active facilitators and collaborators in all of that, eroding any notion they administer a fair system or are concerned at all with justice. So who lost exactly?

@billshaner.bsky.social with a good quick rundown of day 1 of trial. www.worcestersucks.email/p/eureka-str...

Eureka Street trial open notebook

Haxhiaj on trial, police's relationship with ICE on the stand

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers@clbergpowers.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My entire feed is just the most dystopian ICE news on a loop. Meanwhile I spent all day in court with a blue state DAs office trying to convince a jury that a police officer who was not even injured was the only victim when a mom was kidnapped by ICE and her teen daughter violently arrested.

Will we see justice in Worcester tomorrow? 🙏🏼. Thanks to @bill_shaner @EtelHaxhiaj and Ashley fighting charges, that should never have been brought, stemming from ICE’s visit to Worcester on MAY 8. May justice be yours. ❤️🙏🏼 open.substack.com/pub/billshan...

Litigating a deficit in fealty

Plus: Gary Rosen's magical realism, "tentage and a guard shack may also be installed"

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New Mexico just banned 287(g) collaboration agreements with ICE. MA needs to start playing catch-up. #mapoli www.aclu-nm.org/press-releas...

Governor Signs Immigrant Safety Act into Law - ACLU of New Mexico

New Mexico Becomes National Leader in Protecting Immigrant Families

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From the article: “I was dreaming that my mom was hugging me,” she said on Sunday, wrapping her arms around herself as she remembered. But she woke up and realized that her dream was not real. “And then, it was scary.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m...

‘I want my mom’: Kindergartner left without her mother for several days as ICE detains parents in Maine - The Boston Globe

A growing number of children across Maine have been left without a parent as immigration enforcement surges in the state.

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“Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready. It started with rapid response preparation in the park’s recreation center and legal observer trainings at a church. Small networks that formed in 2020 were reactivated.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

ICE vs. Everyone | Erin West

What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced u...

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Something I hope for -- naively, I know -- is for Minnesota's Republicans to understand this is an attack on THEIR people, on THEIR community, and speak against it.

Join us and allies tonight for a rapid response webinar! #mapoli us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Massachusetts Fight Back Table hosting a Rapid Response Webinar tonight at 6pm. Register here. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Silvero Villegas Gonzalez (38) Keith Porter (43) Jamie Alanis (57) Jocelyn Rojo Carranza (11) Renee Nicole Good (37) Roberto Carlos Montoya (52) @latinomuslimunity

...that proves the opposite point: a robust and inclusive comment process is necessary because there is significant public interest in the subject matter of this rulemaking. Anyhow, folks should submit comments (though the regulations.gov portal will not be up until tomorrow). 12/12

...deference than Chevron deference, but it isn't the total absence of deference. Also, HUD purports to justify only allowing 30 days for public comment on the grounds that many comments have been submitted in past comment processes for the same overarching issue. One could easily argue... 11/

What else of note is going on here? Well, HUD claims that agency interpretations of statutes are entitled to no deferential weight after the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright. That's just wrong. Loper Bright reinforced the existence of Skidmore deference. That's a lesser form of... 10/

...how HUD will apply the Act when it is exercising its statutorily mandated enforcement role. Of course, civil rights and housing justice advocates have ample reason to be concerned that HUD will act lawlessly, if it even bothers to accept jurisdiction over disparate impact complaints. 9/

...it is the role of the courts to interpret statutes, but that doesn't answer for how HUD will interpret and apply the Act in its own administrative enforcement proceedings. The field is left with - or will be left with if the proposed rule is finalized and takes effect - uncertainty about... 8/

...the standard rather than it being its role. The Department is seemingly aware that it is constrained from following in the CFPB's footsteps in light of a 2015 Supreme Court decision holding that the Fair Housing Act allows for disparate impact claims. At the same time, it isn't bucking the... 6/

In a proposed rule published in November, the CFPB articulated the position (contrary to mountains of legislative history) that ECOA did not allow for disparate impact claims. The position HUD is staking out here is essentially a dodge. The Department is saying it is the courts' role to set... 5/

It would have maintained the pretense that the disparate impact framework endured while making it functionally impossible for a plaintiff or complaint to ever prevail. Also, HUD isn't taking the route taken by the CFPB with respect to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. 4/