andrewqmr.bsky.social
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Would you rather have actual healthcare or an LLM deny your insurance claim and tell you you're fine?
Would you rather have an actual house or a fake house in the Metaverse?
Would you rather have a retirement account or lose your savings to a crypto scam?
No one wants any of this shit!
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I found the city clerk's email address and sent my records request to her instead.
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I'm trying to request reports about these arrests, but the Holyoke Police Department does not have an email address for its records access officer on its website, which is a violation of state law. Instead, it says you're required to sign up for an account and use a web portal to request records.
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According to data from the state, the school the two boys attended is only 10 percent white, with 80 percent of students identifying as Hispanic/Latino.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect these boys were not white, and I wonder whether the police would have arrested two white kids for having toys guns.
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Also, the story does not say the race of the two children who were arrested, but the #Holyoke Police Department has a history of racist and violent policing, including violence toward students — and Holyoke cops are free to use force without fear that they will be held accountable.
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Also what's up with this headline, @westernmassnews.com?
"2 teens arrested after gun call at Holyoke school" — except they were 12 and 13 (not "teens") and they had toy guns. Both factually inaccurate and alarmist.
How about "Holyoke police arrest 2 kids for allegedly bringing toy guns to school"?
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Thanks for sharing your memories. Please send me a message sometime.
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The contact information for Chuck Schumer's office is here. Leave him a message and tell him what you think.
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Is he a coward or does he just not give a shit?
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Not on X the Everything App.
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Yup.
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Any comment on Massachusetts state officials collaborating with ICE? What about ICE handcuffing a US senator or arresting an elected official in NYC? Do you care that the country is rapidly turning into a fascist police state?
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Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald's office has taken 545 ICE detainees to the Hanscom airport since President Trump took office. The detainees were then flown out of state.
The #Massachusetts legislature could stop this at any time by banning sheriffs from working with ICE.
#mapoli
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Is @massgovernor.bsky.social going to say anything about ICE arresting Brad Lander, the elected NYC comptroller and a mayoral candidate? She still hasn't said anything about ICE handcuffing Senator Alex Padilla. Does she think she can just ride out fascism and hope for the best?
#mapoli
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ICE is straight-up targeting elected officials.
#AbolishICE
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If you're counting this incident, then obviously your "413% increase in assaults" on ICE agents is a fake-as-shit figure no one should take seriously.
#AbolishICE
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You haven't lifted a finger to oppose Trump. Fuck you for having the gall to claim you're one of us, you phoney piece of shit.
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All elected officials and candidates for public office must unequivocally condemn ICE for its lawlessness and call for its abolition.
#AbolishICE
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Brad Lander is also a mayoral candidate. Arresting candidates for public office on trumped-up charges is election interference and not acceptable in a country that believes in free and fair elections. We can't allow this to continue.
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Would be nice if, at the very least, the headline writers would focus on pointing out that ICE is lying.
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No doubt they all share a big laugh while typing up these bullshit statements. "Catered sandwiches." Give me a fucking break.
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Maura Healey recently praised Trump's border crackdown and said she told former President Biden to shut down the border.
Did she only mean the southern border? Is it only non-white people she wants to keep out of the country?
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Why did you tell former President Biden to shut down the border? Did you only mean the southern border? Is it only non-white people you want to keep out of the country?