After 17 Years, DNA Tied a Man to Her Rape. Under Massachusetts Law, It Was Too Late.
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Massachusetts has one of the strictest deadlines in the country for prosecuting rape. After the 15-year mark, no DNA match, testimony or even confession can give a rape victim a chance of facing their attacker in court.
https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Massachusetts#Law#Rape #Police#Crime#DNA

After 17 Years, DNA Tied a Man to Her Rape. Under Massachusetts Law, It Was Too Late.
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Massachusetts has one of the strictest deadlines in the country for prosecuting rape. After the 15-year mark, no DNA match, testimony or even confession can give a rape victim a chance of facing their attacker in court.
https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Massachusetts#Law#Rape #Police#Crime#DNA

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

Something for #silentsunday

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/massachusetts-coastline-on-a-cloudy-day-adam-gladstone.html

#stillersonntag #photography #ayearforart #buyintoart #fineartamerica #wallart #officedecor #homedecor #fedigiftshop #mastoart #massachusetts #coastline #newengland

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

Eastern Cottontail stretching his legs for a bite to eat at Mass Audubon's Allens Pond Sanctuary.

#photography #mammals #sillyrabbit #nature #fairhaven #massachusetts #naturalmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife

Eastern Cottontail stretching his legs for a bite to eat at Mass Audubon's Allens Pond Sanctuary.

#photography #mammals #sillyrabbit #nature #fairhaven #massachusetts #naturalmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife

#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #6

It's the #4thOfJuly so let's see which US states have a Mastodon for their area:

#Alaska
#Arizona
#California (3)
#Colorado
#Delaware
#Florida
#Georgia
#Illinois (2)
#Indiana
#Maryland
#Massachusetts
#Michigan (2)
#Missouri
#NewJersey
#NewYork (2)
#NorthCarolina
#Ohio
#Oklahoma (2)
#Oregon (2)
#Pennsylvania
#Vermont
#Virginia (2)
#Washington (4)

The Evergreen state coming in top with four servers!

https://jaz.co.uk/projects/startheresocial/shs-americas/

#StartHereSocial Fun Fact #6

It's the #4thOfJuly so let's see which US states have a Mastodon for their area:

#Alaska
#Arizona
#California (3)
#Colorado
#Delaware
#Florida
#Georgia
#Illinois (2)
#Indiana
#Maryland
#Massachusetts
#Michigan (2)
#Missouri
#NewJersey
#NewYork (2)
#NorthCarolina
#Ohio
#Oklahoma (2)
#Oregon (2)
#Pennsylvania
#Vermont
#Virginia (2)
#Washington (4)

The Evergreen state coming in top with four servers!

https://jaz.co.uk/projects/startheresocial/shs-americas/

Welcome to your Boston Weekend thread for June 27-29, 2025.
Leave the house if that's an option - enjoy, enjoy your Eastern #Massachusetts and the greater #Boston metropolitan region this summer
#BostonWeekend 1/?
#NewEngland#RhodeIsland#Vermont#NewHampshire#Maine#Connecticut

Vegetarians in #WorcesterMAhttps://www.vegfest.org
#Boston#Worcester#Massachusetts #vegan#Vegetarian#DinosaurTime

Massachusetts Poetry Festival @ #PeabodyEssexMuseum - Workshops, headline readings, a small press fair, poet meet-and-greets and other exciting events for all #poetry lovers.
https://youtu.be/ipgRxTD7TDY?t=23
https://festival.masspoetry.org
#boston#Salem #poems#Massachusetts #SalemMA

The account below is a discussion group. Follow the group to see its discussions in your timeline, mention the group to post to it. (More info about how to use Fediverse groups: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse)

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

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS PART OF THE THREAD, IT MIGHT SPAM THE GROUP.

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🌤️ Weather accounts for MA (cont.):
@new_bedford__massachusetts
@newton__massachusetts
@northampton__massachusetts
@pittsfield__massachusetts
@quincy__massachusetts
@revere__massachusetts
@somerville__massachusetts
@springfield__massachusetts
@taunton__massachusetts
@weymouth__massachusetts
@worcester__massachusetts

You can find more Fediverse weather accounts for cities & towns around the world at https://fedimeteo.com

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🌤️ Weather accounts for Massachusetts, follow a town or city to see its forecasts in your timeline:
@attleboro__massachusetts
@boston__massachusetts
@brockton__massachusetts
@cambridge__massachusetts
@chicopee__massachusetts
@fall_river__massachusetts
@fitchburg__massachusetts
@haverhill__massachusetts
@lawrence__massachusetts
@leominster__massachusetts
@lowell__massachusetts
@lynn__massachusetts
@malden__massachusetts
@medford__massachusetts

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➡️ @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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➡️ @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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