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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
Facts can be awfully stubborn things. And they’re especially inconvenient for the Trump administration. Why bother with a debate over the facts when you can fix it so they don’t exist in the first place? It’s much easier to deem racial health disparities a myth if there’s no longer a massive reservoir of government data showing otherwise, for example. And it’s easier to suggest vaccines cause autism if you scrub the data suggesting that theory is a massive and deadly crock.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
When it comes to targeting immigrants, the second Trump administration — not yet 100 days old — has already achieved a level of sadism that makes its previous term look like a love-fest, family separations and all. In addition to detaining and disappearing students and migrants with valid visas and legal residency, Trump II is shredding constitutional rights and making a mockery of habeas corpus — assisted so far by the extremists on the Supreme Court who seem supremely disinclined to stop him.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
I see some of you are feeling queasy about the massive global trade war our great and glorious president unleashed on Wednesday. You’re worried inflation will skyrocket, and employment will crater. You’re angry about your tanking 401ks. You wouldn’t feel this way if you loved America more — if you truly wanted it to be Great Again. President Trump’s defenders keep telling you he knows exactly what he’s doing.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
The Trump administration could not give a rat’s behind about antisemitism. They’re just using it as a pretext to stifle dissent and dismantle the colleges they see as hostile to their worldview. Their threats against scores of schools aren’t really about protecting Jewish students on campus.
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3 weeks ago | 
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
Tufts graduate student detained by immigration authoritiesShareImmigration authorities detained Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national in the US on a student visa, on March 25 in Somerville. Democracy isn’t something we are. It’s something we do. And too few people in this country are doing it right now. “We’re the police,” they say — as if that could be any comfort — before cuffing her and marching her to an unmarked car.
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4 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
In his zeal to get Lindsay Clancy convicted of first-degree murder, the Plymouth County DA is trying to take an ax to the First Amendment. Clancy is awaiting trial for allegedly killing her three young children at her Duxbury home in January of 2023. Her attorney and those who love her say Clancy was suffering at the time from severe mental illness that came on after she gave birth to her third child.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
Five years ago, Chelsea was reeling. The pandemic had just begun, and the city was getting slammed by COVID-19. Its per capita infection rate was horrific, one of the highest in the country. For months it seemed like Chelsea would never get out from under the virus, as the sickness sped from one home to the next. The city’s lousy air quality and attendant respiratory illnesses, dearth of greenspace, and hugely overcrowded housing created perfect conditions for contagion.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
It would be funny if it wasn’t so terrifying. On Monday, my colleague Esmy Jimenez reported, letters arrived at two Boston Law firms from the Trump administration, demanding detailed and highly personal information – including on race – about all of their applicants, employees, interns, fellows, and partners, going back years. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says it wants to determine whether Goodwin Procter LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP have been practicing discrimination.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham
The federal government was doing something smart, wonderful, and cost-effective for kids, small farmers, and the wider economy in Massachusetts. Until March 7, the US Department of Agriculture gave grants to schools and food banks all over the country to help them buy fresh food from local farmers. The whole program cost about a billion dollars nationally. In Massachusetts, those local food grants would have totaled $12.2 million this year — a bargain for the good they would have done.
