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New Hampshire reporter for @bostonglobe.com. Just assume we disagree. he/him

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‘Helping ICE effectuate mass deportations’: Ayotte releases info on Trump administration’s plans for detainment facilities across US - The Boston Globe The Merrimack warehouse plan is part of a $38 billion “new detention model” that would be operational by Nov. 30 and would expand ICE’s detention capacity to 92,600 beds nationwide.

‘Helping ICE effectuate mass deportations’: NH Governor Ayotte releases Trump administration’s plans for detainment facilities with 92,600 beds across US, report @reporterporter.bsky.social & @amandagokee.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/m...

13.02.2026 20:59 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ayotte releases info on Trump administration’s ‘new detention model’ for ICE facilities across the US - The Boston Globe The Merrimack warehouse is part of a $38 billion plan that would be operational by Nov. 30 and would expand ICE’s detention capacity to 92,600 beds nationwide.

By @reporterporter.bsky.social and @amandagokee.bsky.social -- Trump administration plans for massive detention system revealed
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/m...

14.02.2026 01:37 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
House Education Policy and Administration (01/21/2026)
House Education Policy and Administration (01/21/2026) YouTube video by NH House of Representatives Committee Streaming

Noble thanked Cornell for offering those remarks at the outset of the committee meeting. Noble added that they have "a wonderful working relationship" — to which Cornell replied, "We do. I agree." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIgg...

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Cornell: "No one on this committee should be advocating for segregation, which has no place in New Hampshire's educational system. Let's do the work we were elected to do, with respect and dignity, and work together."

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Cornell said 9 in 10 students attend N.H. public schools. "They rely on us to do our jobs with seriousness of purpose," she said, calling for respectful collaboration across economic, political, and cultural differences.

21.01.2026 15:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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‘Segregated schools’ comment sparks uproar; N.H. lawmaker says leaked message referred to politics, not race - The Boston Globe The chairperson for an education policy committee allegedly wrote “imagine the scores though if we had schools for them and some for us.”

Noble had said last week it was "funny to watch the Democrats feign outrage" over leaked messages that appeared to show her yearning for "segregated schools" (which she strongly implied she had made in reference to separating schools by political party, not race). www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/15/m...

21.01.2026 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

At this morning's education policy committee meeting in the N.H. House, ranking member Patricia Cornell (D) criticized chair Kristin Noble (R) for her recent "segregated schools" comments: "We cannot allow offensive rhetoric to deflect us from our vital responsibility as education policymakers." 🧵

21.01.2026 15:26 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level

“Nearly 250 years after American colonists threw off their king, this is arguably the closest the country has come during a time of general peace to the centralized authority of a monarch.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

21.12.2025 22:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Video: How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

21.12.2025 21:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics

“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people,” the statement said. “We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement. We pray that the Lord may guide the leaders of our nation ...” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

13.11.2025 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AP: Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at an event in Utah, President Trump says

10.09.2025 20:47 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

History shows such a policy risks disasters from bad intel: “in a 2001 incident, the C.I.A. told the Peruvian government that a plane was smuggling drugs, and its air force shot it down, only to find out that it had instead killed American missionaries.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

05.09.2025 02:57 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Karishma Manzur launches progressive campaign for US Senate in N.H., taking on Chris Pappas for Democratic nomination - The Boston Globe Manzur did not criticize Pappas by name, but framed her candidacy as an effort to “break the grip of big money” on politics.

Karishma Manzur, a progressive nonprofit leader and medical scientist from Exeter, N.H., launched a campaign for US Senate on Wednesday, making her the first to challenge Chris Pappas for the 2026 Democratic nomination. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/20/m...

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What we know so far about N.H. Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill’s official email outreach and how Republicans have responded. One state rep accused her of taxpayer-funded “political lawfare.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/15/m...

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Enrollment in N.H. ‘education freedom account’ program nearly doubles in one year, with universal eligibility - The Boston Globe The number of students approved for “education freedom accounts” in New Hampshire has nearly doubled since last fall, and even though the program hit its nominal 10,000-pupil enrollment cap, more appl...

If another 642 students are approved this fall for voucher-like "education freedom accounts" in New Hampshire (on top of the 10,000 already approved), then enrollment in the EFA program would exactly double what it was a year ago. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m...

06.08.2025 13:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Judge halts enforcement of Trump administration’s anti-DEI orders in education - The Boston Globe he ruling bars the administration from proceeding with its plans for a so-called “End DEI Portal” and a certification requirement.

A federal judge in New Hampshire just issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from following through on threats to defund schools that defy its anti-DEI directives. The judge's order is 82 pages. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/24/m...

24.04.2025 17:15 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge questions ‘Kafkaesque’ argument in dispute over status of Dartmouth student from China - The Boston Globe Xiaotian Liu’s case illustrates a much broader situation affecting thousands of international students across the country.

A government lawyer presented such a dizzying argument about the status of an international student at Dartmouth College that a federal judge suggested it sounded like something out of a Franz Kafka novel. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/24/m...

24.04.2025 15:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The DOJ has been fairly clear about its intentions of enabling the president to exert more authority over these administrative law judges (who are employees of the executive branch, not the judicial branch). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/m...

23.04.2025 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump fires more immigration judges in what some suspect is a move to bend courts to his will Congressional members warn that bottlenecked courts will be hurt as Trump administration fire immigration judges, demand that Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi explain

The L.A. Times reported this morning that four immigration judges from California were among those let go: www.latimes.com/california/s...

23.04.2025 18:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Union leader slams Trump administration for firing three more immigration judges in New England - The Boston Globe At least eight more immigration judges were abruptly fired without cause, including three at the Chelmsford Immigration Court, which handles cases from northern New England and parts of Massachusetts.

Three more immigration judges at the Chelmsford Immigration Court (which handles cases from northern New England & parts of Mass.) were fired abruptly by the Trump administration.
The head of their union warned about the risks of undermining due process. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/m...

23.04.2025 18:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes … but the only things I’m allergic to are penicillin and bullshit.

12.04.2025 22:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Immigration agents tackled man inside N.H. courthouse, preventing him from attending his arraignment - The Boston Globe The two agents, who told a local police officer they came to apprehend people on behalf of ATF and ICE, haven’t been publicly identified. It’s unclear where the man they detained was taken.

Almost everything that's publicly known about this federal apprehension came from state/local authorities. The N.H. Judicial Branch released video & Hudson PD released an incident report from an officer who happened to be at the courthouse. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/11/m... @globenh.bsky.social

11.04.2025 12:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Agents who detained man at Nashua courthouse were working with ICE, News 9 learns News 9 Investigates obtains video of agents tackling man in courthouse

h/t @wmur9.bsky.social for a report earlier this week calling attention to this incident: www.wmur.com/article/agen...

11.04.2025 12:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Immigration agents tackled man inside N.H. courthouse, preventing him from attending his arraignment - The Boston Globe The two agents, who told a local police officer they came to apprehend people on behalf of ATF and ICE, haven’t been publicly identified. It’s unclear where the man they detained was taken.

The two federal agents, who told a local police officer they came to apprehend people on behalf of ATF and ICE, haven't been publicly identified. It's unclear where the man they detained was taken. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/11/m... @globenh.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com

11.04.2025 12:54 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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He made it to the courthouse in time for his arraignment on state-level misdemeanor charges, went through security, and rode the elevator to the third floor. But he never made it into the courtroom. 🧵

11.04.2025 12:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

By the way: Remember those two EOs that I mentioned Trump signed in January? They are specifically cited in the "General Assurances" document that school leaders are now supposed to sign by June 1. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

10.04.2025 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Several N.H. public school districts are bucking the Trump administration’s anti-DEI directives - The Boston Globe They are joining a lawsuit to push back against funding threats and orders that critics contend are vague and unconstitutional

In the meantime, the parties are preparing to be back in federal court in Concord, N.H., next week to argue over whether the judge should impose a preliminary injunction before the April 24 deadline.
So, uh, watch this space.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/10/m...

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Several N.H. public school districts are bucking the Trump administration’s anti-DEI directives - The Boston Globe They are joining a lawsuit to push back against funding threats and orders that critics contend are vague and unconstitutional

After some back-and-forth, parties reached a short-term agreement. What happens next? An ACLU attorney told me schools have two weeks to decide whether to sign/amend/rescind their certifications. Notices to that effect must be distributed to the states today. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/10/m...

10.04.2025 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A tight deadline prompted the ACLU and NEA to file an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order, as @globenh.bsky.social reported yesterday.
[They filed our news report as an exhibit: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... ]

10.04.2025 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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About 100 schools across N.H. signed certifications in recent days, as directed, according to the state. The certifications include anti-DEI language and threaten False Claims Act liability.
You can see them listed on the state's website. www.education.nh.gov/who-we-are/c...

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