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Maura Healey is calling on the Trump administration to release data about people ICE has arrested in #Massachusetts — but her office won't answer my questions about who the state has turned over to ICE and provided no documents in response to a records request.
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“Three days later, on Feb. 19, the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission suspended Hayes' law enforcement certification effective immediately, banning him from performing any police duties and functions.”
“In what the family said is a first step to justice, Hayes was arrested Monday, Feb. 16 on a felony charge of leaving the scene of personal injury or death. He posted a $10,000 cash bail and was released, according to the police report.”
“The crash is estimated to have occurred shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, and Alves’ body wasn’t discovered until 12:30 a.m. Monday by a neighbor who spotted his body lying in the snow.”
“Already devastated by the 23-year-old’s death, [Alfredo] Alves’ family was shocked and angered to learn the driver of the vehicle had been identified as off-duty Hanover Police Officer Thomas Hayes, who had allegedly spent the hours before the crash drinking at a Brockton strip club.”
“[Presly] Nelson believes staff at the facility did not take his brother’s complaints seriously, even though he had a treatable condition. Nelson said he would expect such a death in countries with less access to health care, but not in the United States.”
“A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months died at a hospital Monday after a tooth infection was left untreated, the man’s brother said. Emmanuel Damas, 56, had been living in #Massachusetts and was seeking asylum prior to his detention.”
Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, questioned why Noem wasn’t fired officially today during a press scrum. “I mean look, Kristi Noem has done a great disservice to the Department of Homeland Security, to what it has stood for, to what has it meant historically,” she said. Healey said Noem, who also oversaw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was an “absolutely terrible appointment.” “Under her watch, ICE has made us less safe, not just in Massachusetts, but all around this county. She had no business being in that role in the first place, and I’m glad she’s gone,” said Healey.
Even when criticizing Kristi Noem, Maura Healey can't help but reveal her inner cop.
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I'm not disputing that. I'm calling the framing of your editorial nonsensical and irresponsible.
Sue, this is what FactCheck.org actually says.
www.factcheck.org/2026/03/asse...
"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
Quite the headline from People.com
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I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
The day after the press conference, Healey appeared on the program Boston Public Radio, where cohost Jim Braude asked her whether she supported abolishing ICE. “Customs and Border Patrol and ICE have had an important mission,” Healey replied. “I support them, what was the mission of CBP and ICE. What I don’t support is what ICE is right now in its current iteration. It is not fulfilling the mission it was set to fulfill.” After Braude pushed her on whether she supported reform or abolition, Healey said: “What needs to happen is that ICE needs to be pulled back right now and needs to be fixed. Call it reform. Call it whatever.”
Maura Healey's whole thing is that she wants the government to be cruel and violent—but not like THAT.
She wants enlightened cruelty and violence. The exact amount of cruelty and violence that the median voter can live with.
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The famous Norman Rockwell painting "Freedom of Speech," which depicts a man speaking at a public meeting.
The Department of Homeland Security has always been bad.
Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, questioned why Noem wasn’t fired officially today during a press scrum. “I mean look, Kristi Noem has done a great disservice to the Department of Homeland Security, to what it has stood for, to what has it meant historically,” she said. Healey said Noem, who also oversaw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was an “absolutely terrible appointment.” “Under her watch, ICE has made us less safe, not just in Massachusetts, but all around this county. She had no business being in that role in the first place, and I’m glad she’s gone,” said Healey.
Even when criticizing Kristi Noem, Maura Healey can't help but reveal her inner cop.
www.wgbh.org/news/nationa...
Reminder that Governor Maura Healey is helping to send people to these out-of-state ICE concentration camps where people are being killed.
“Damas is among at least nine people who have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year. … CoreCivic, a for-profit corrections company that runs the Florence facility, deferred comment to ICE.”
“[Presly] Nelson believes staff at the facility did not take his brother’s complaints seriously, even though he had a treatable condition. Nelson said he would expect such a death in countries with less access to health care, but not in the United States.”
“A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months died at a hospital Monday after a tooth infection was left untreated, the man’s brother said. Emmanuel Damas, 56, had been living in #Massachusetts and was seeking asylum prior to his detention.”
The power went out at my partner's apartment. The universe is conspiring against me getting work done.
Pervert Glasses
I’m trying to imagine what would happen if a Democratic senator literally broke a military veteran’s forearm, which appears to be what happens here.
1. Did Iran’s nuclear program pose an imminent threat? In a Feb. 28 video announcing that the United States attacked Iran, Trump stated that Iran had “attempted to rebuild their nuclear program” and that the strikes will “ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.” But when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, there was no evidence that Iran was engaged in nuclear activities that would pose an imminent threat to the United States. Neither U.S. President Donald Trump nor Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented any evidence of an ongoing weaponization effort and, in a March 2 press conference, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said “we don’t see a structured program to manufacture nuclear weapons” in Iran. The following day, in an interview with CNN, Grossi was asked if “the Iranians were days or weeks away from building a bomb.” His response was "no."
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Where is Sue O'Connell getting her info that Iran has the ability to build a nuclear weapon in “potentially just a few weeks”?
The nuclear deal was not some sort of check on Trump. Him pulling out of the deal is not the cause of him attacking Iran. Both have the same cause: that he's a warmonger.
Sue, Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program and your analysis has the causality all mixed up. The same person pulled out of the nuclear deal *and* started the war: Trump.
He pulled out because he *wanted* to escalate things. Have you already forgotten that he bombed Iran during his first term?
“The #Massachusetts police oversight board has decertified four former State Police troopers and two municipal officers, revoking their licenses to work in law enforcement over a range of misconduct both on and off the job.”
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“Perry had been at nearby Rafferty’s Pub from about 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where he had two bourbons, two pints of beer, and ordered pretzels and pizza, the police report said. The crash happened about 10 minutes after Perry left the pub.”
“The driver of the Honda, Grace Owen, 24, of Marshfield, was trapped in the car with her legs pinned under the dashboard. Rescuers used mechanical tools to cut and pry her free, a police report said.”