What unfolded on Speedwell Avenue is not an isolated incident, but a case study in how dissent is being reframed—and disciplined—in the United States. As immigration enforcement becomes more militarized, the state increasingly relies not just on force, but on narrative: pathologizing resistance as hysteria, criminalizing documentation as violence, and recasting non-compliance as moral failure.

As states move to expand their role in immigration enforcement, federal agencies retreat from longstanding protections, and courts increasingly resolve disputes through emergency orders, the traditional boundaries governing immigration law are becoming less clear. This piece examines how that shift is unfolding—and what it means for constitutional accountability and migrant communities nationwide.

Across Massachusetts and beyond, an intensified Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence has reshaped daily life for immigrants, legal residents, and citizens alike—turning routine acts like leaving home, driving to court, or crossing the street into moments of calculated risk. Federal data and on-the-ground reporting reveal that the majority of those swept into detention have no criminal convictions, even as enforcement tactics have grown more aggressive, opaque, and vio

A dispatch tracing how the anti-protest apparatus built for BLM has now migrated into labor organizing, immigration solidarity, and Palestine-related dissent, allowing cities and states to frame nearly any disruptive action as a threat to national security.

The 2020 uprisings against police violence appeared to signal a rupture—a long-awaited challenge to racial capitalism, state violence, and U.S. empire. Yet rather than producing structural transformation, much of that revolutionary energy was absorbed into nonprofits, NGOs, and corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.

As winter approaches, families across the country are preparing for an impossible reality: shrinking grocery budgets, dwindling SNAP balances, and food banks with long lines and empty shelves. The administration’s newly expanded work requirements and reduced emergency funding threaten to cut assistance to millions who are already skipping meals to feed their children.

How the rollback of trans rights reveals feminism’s fault lines—and why intersectional solidarity is the only way forward.