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The cruelty is the point: #ICE releases woman it had locked up for 10 days by shoving her out the door of its Burlington hole in the pouring rain, with no phone, 30 miles from home; she walked over to the Burlington Mall and begged for help at the Cheesecake Factory.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/08/mass-mom-detained-by-ice-for-10-days-over-decades-old-minor-marijuana-charge.html
#Massachusetts

The cruelty is the point: #ICE releases woman it had locked up for 10 days by shoving her out the door of its Burlington hole in the pouring rain, with no phone, 30 miles from home; she walked over to the Burlington Mall and begged for help at the Cheesecake Factory.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/08/mass-mom-detained-by-ice-for-10-days-over-decades-old-minor-marijuana-charge.html
#Massachusetts

Update. Laws like the one in #Connecticut are under consideration in #Hawaii, #Massachusetts, and #NewJersey. Big #publishers and the #AuthorsGuild are lobbying against them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/books/libraries-e-books-licensing.html

From Alan Inouye (@alansinouye), former director of public policy for the American Library Association (@alalibrary): “It’s really sad [that opposition limits libraries] to what we had [in the age of print]. In effect, we’re excluding the possibility of being better in the digital world.”

#Libraries

#Massachusetts picks of the day (continued):

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➡️ @massachusetts - Discussion group about Massachusetts, including news, events, people, places etc.

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#Massachusetts picks (continued):

➡️ @Boston_PM - Boston chapter of Perl & Raku group

➡️ @Fitnessfoundry - Award-winning personal trainer in MA, health equity

➡️ @TimKStanton - Hiking & outdoors enthusiast in MA

➡️ @cacheflowe - Art installations for public art etc

➡️ @janeadams - Data vis researcher, emergent media artist

➡️ @CapeCodAdventurePictures - Wildlife photographer in Cape Cod

➡️ @WEATHERISHAPPENING - Bizarre weather account for MA

➡️ @nwsboston_bot - Unofficial bot of Boston NWS

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#Massachusetts picks of the day:

➡️ @gbhnews - PBS/NPR public broadcaster, news for Boston & beyond

➡️ @universalhub - Independent local news service for Boston

➡️ @HorizonMass - Local news for MA, run by students & Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

➡️ @wmbr - University radio station from basement of Walker Memorial at MIT

➡️ @MassLive - Local news site for MA

➡️ @CycleMA - Promoting & sharing cycling events in Massachusetts

➡️ @hiveboston - Makerspace in southeastern MA

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