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ICE has shot another person dead. THANK YOU SENATOR ED MARKEY FOR SPEAKING OUT!

     

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SENATOR ED MARKEY IS ALWAYS ON THE RIGHT SIDE PROTECTING PEOPLE! 

UNTRAINED ICE GESTAPO KILL, MAKE FALSE ACCUSATIONS AND LIES! 

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GESTAPO KILLINGS AND DHS LIES!

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REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT ABOUT THE KILLINGS OF INNOCENT VICTIMS! 
THIS DEFINES THE MORAL DEPRAVITY OG THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!

Headline: ICE Officer fatally shoots Mexican man in Houston during traffic stop

Another death at the hands of Trump’s ICE thugs.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a husband and father who has lived in the United States for nearly 35 years, working in construction and building homes in the Houston area. He was heading to work on Tuesday as he always does when he was stopped by ICE.

ICE says that Lorenzo “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense.” This is almost identical to how ICE described their unjustifiable murder of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis. It was a lie.

Lorenzo’s family is calling for an investigation, and I am joining them in that call. I have zero trust in ICE to provide an accurate description of what happened, or why legal force was justified. They are counting on us not to seek the truth. We need an investigation, accountability, and justice.

This is now the 10th person shot dead by ICE during Trump’s second term. That’s an absolutely despicable statistic that will leave a shameful scar on our nation’s history.

We need to abolish ICE. And as we build the movement to make that happen, we need to pass my bill to end Qualified Immunity for ICE officers, so victims and their families can sue these violent thugs and get justice.

If my bill were to pass, Lorenzo’s family could take these officers to court. But right now, federal law makes them immune to accountability. That’s why I’m asking for your help in fighting for this common sense idea:

Add your name as a citizen co-sponsor of my bill to end Qualified Immunity for federal law enforcement. ICE has turned into an unaccountable gang of violent thugs, and it’s time to push for serious consequences for those who terrorize our communities with this senseless violence. Please, add your name:

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I have voted continuously to block funding for ICE under Trump, and if Democrats take the majority in November, I will do everything in my power to push to abolish ICE once and for all — and hold these officers accountable for wrongdoing.

The American people are sick and tired of waking up to headlines like this. It has to stop. It must stop.

In solidarity,

Ed Markey

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The tricky calculus of designing a ballot with nine questions

    

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MARIJUANA CHALLENGE, AGAIN: Don’t call it nine ballot questions just yet. At the eleventh hour, a cannabis advocacy group leader filed a new legal challenge alleging problems with signatures collected by the campaign seeking to repeal recreational marijuana legalization. Chris Lisinski details the complaint.  

FOSSIL FUELS: For an illustration of how tricky it is to achieve a transition away from natural gas, look no further than the 10 cities and towns running a “fossil fuel free” pilot program: Utilities still spent $100 million on natural gas infrastructure in those communities despite local bans on fossil fuels in new construction. Jordan Wolman dives into the expenses, largely to fix leaky pipes, and what they reveal about the complexities of the current climate moment.  

NO NOTES: Gov. Maura Healey signed into law a $63.4 billion annual state budget without making a single change – neither a veto nor a policy amendment – from what the Legislature sent her. Alison Kuznitz unpacks the highlights of the megabill for State House News Service. 

Sometime in the coming weeks, Secretary of State William Galvin’s office will announce what number each of the big field of ballot questions will be assigned for the November ballot. That number will assume a prominent place in the campaigns, ads, and debates urging voters to support or oppose a measure. 

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So how is it determined which issue becomes Question 1, or Question 5, or Question 9? 

It’s all in Galvin’s hands. And it turns out the answer draws more on the skills of a magazine or newspaper layout designer than those associated with someone charged with overseeing state elections and election law. 

Galvin said the overarching goal he employs in determining the order of questions is having each one remain entirely on one side of the paper ballot and not spill over to the next side or to the next page of multipage ballots. That sometimes involves a bit of trial and error. 

“When I’ve done it, that’s the main thing,” Galvin told CommonWealth Beacon. “We do a mock-up sometimes to see, especially where you have lengthy translations, ‘Where will the question appear? How many questions can we fit on this side of the ballot or on this card?’” 

This time around, however, the job will not fall to the Brighton Democrat who has overseen every state election since 1995. Galvin is, in addition to his work as secretary, also the chief architect of a ballot question that would allow voters to register on Election Day, one of the nine set to go before voters. 

To avoid the appearance of favoritism or any other conflict, Galvin will delegate the job of choosing which question receives which number to Michelle Tassinari, a top deputy who leads his office’s elections division. She’ll approach it with the same goal, according to Galvin: picking an order that’s easiest for a voter to comprehend, and avoiding any measure’s text from being split between multiple pages of the paper ballots now used statewide. 

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LEGISLATURE: House lawmakers passed a grab-bag economic development bill on Wednesday, including authorizing hundreds of millions of dollars in borrowing and housing and zoning reforms. Katie Castellani at State House News Service has the rundown of everything lawmakers put on the table for consideration.   

OPINION: Merging the best of both the House and Senate versions of energy affordability legislation can combat both high prices and the risks posed by climate change, write Erin Baker and Jared Starr from the Energy Transition Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

SPORTS BETTING: Hundreds of underage users have been caught using sports betting websites in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and one expert thinks that figure is “an extraordinary undercount” as the risks of youth gambling addiction rise. (The Boston Globe – paywall 

RAIL GENTRIFICATION: Has the long-awaited arrival of South Coast Rail in New Bedford fueled a rise in housing costs as some worried? Not particularly, according to an extensive project interviewing people who closely watch the city’s housing market. (New Bedford Light

ENERGY: Between heat waves, data centers, and electric vehicles, New England consumers are displaying an “insatiable” appetite for energy that the region’s aging grid might struggle to meet. (MassLive) 

OPIOIDS: The city of Revere is using money from national settlements with opioid companies to train businesses on the use of overdose reversal drug naloxone and to install naloxone cabinets on public streets. (WBUR) 

PFAS: Environmental groups are concerned that state government is not doing enough to regulate PFAS, often referred to as “forever chemicals,” as the Trump administration moves to delay or roll back federal limits on the substances in drinking water. (GBH News) 

 
 
 
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