Healey responded: "It's just funny, because I was a prosecutor and Attorney General, I put away a lot of bad guys, including people who are here unlawfully. Put them away for, you know, running drug cartels and gun cartels and the like. Massachusetts is not a sanctuary city. Just for information to folks. I continue to work with state, local and federal law enforcement when it comes to getting bad guys off the streets. Always done that always will.

And in terms of ICE, you know, we have an agreement when people are getting out of jail, prison here in Massachusetts and they are here unlawfully, notice goes to ICE. We have a regular working relationship with ICE. ... We have seen instances where the Trump administration is hurting a lot of people, taking a lot of people who aren't criminals off the streets, ripping them away from neighbors, their kids, work places, people who have been living here, working here, paying taxes for years.

Maura Healey still fails to grasp that dismantling ICE is the moderate position. Complete and utter condemnation of ICE is the only acceptable position for a Democrat in Massachusetts.

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"...and then I shout of how the world seems always to be inventing new ways to break the people and communities I love, but my heart burns with the flame of survival"

- Isaiah Newman (@newsaiah.bsky.social)

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Survivor Audition Video #3 by Isaiah Newman VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Survivor Audition Video #3" by Isaiah Newman We open with a stationary shot of me in my office, a pride flag on the wall behind me. An offscreen bonfire flickers in...

delighted and thrilled to have a new poem out today with @voicemailpoems.bsky.social - it’s about grief, survival, and Survivor (the tv show). I’m super proud of it and would be honored if you’d read and share!! 💜

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🌱 our spring issue is up! 🌱

ft. @lovefeeler.bsky.social, @colettelh.bsky.social, @birchwiley.bsky.social, @sandrapoetry.bsky.social, @newsaiah.bsky.social, @orowe.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @dekinesoul.bsky.social, & more!

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If you know Jews in the Boston/Massachusetts area, forward this to them!

#Massachusetts folks: Advocates are hosting an emergency rally for Rumeysa Ozturk in Powder House Square Park in Somerville this evening at 5:30PM.

Call Script for Rumeysa Call Script: Numbers: Ed Markey 202-224-2742 Elizabeth Warren: 202-224-4543 Maura Healy: (617) 725-4005 Hi, my name is ______ and I am a resident of _______( establish that you are a constituent). ...

Call your elected officials now! Our friends at @seiu509.bsky.social have prepared a call script you can use here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

thank you so much, this is so kind!!

Jennie!! likewise :) hope you’re taking care these days 💜

Isaiah Newman Sestina with the Year’s First Sunburn Hot days, I want to crack my body open like an egg, poach my heart in swirling vinegar. I watch men’s tank top straps slice their shoulders into fruit salad, musc...

lastly, here’s a sestina I had published last week with Diode Poetry Journal, about masculinity and bodies and unseasonably warm weather and how to take what you’ve been given in this fucked up world and make something better from it:

diodepoetry.com/newman_isaiah/

and then there’s these two poems that @anmlymag.bsky.social published last month, both of which I am immensely proud of and are inspired in part by some thoughts/feelings from organizing for Palestinian liberation in Boston over the past year. read on a laptop if you can!

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hi friends! been ~1 year since i’ve used this app, so i figured i’d make a thread of the writing i’ve had published in that time :) starting with this short story about a young grieving queer Jew who wants to make a golem that Joyland published in March!

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A Textbook Case of Genocide Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?

A Textbook Case of Genocide @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

"Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed. Perpetrators of genocide usually do not express their intentions so clearly, though there are exceptions."

Raz Segal, asso. prof of Holocaust & genocide studies @ SU

💜💜💜💜

friends, my first ever published short story is out with Waxwing!! it’s about family illness, doomed romance, and the fact that i am always craving a falafel sandwich 🥙🥙 would love it if you spent some time with it (and the other beautiful writing in this issue)!!!

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An image of the writer Ross Gay’s three collections of essays on top of a wooden table. Each book is open to its title page, displaying signatures from Ross Gay.

the collection grows:

i got to see Ross Gay last night and it was an utter delight - he remembered me from when i asked him a question on his last book tour!!! 😊 so excited to dig into some (more) delights 💫🌸

follow my cool friend!!

wasn’t on here when this was first posted, so sharing it now - i’m really proud of this poem and would be honored if you read it!!!