#and worcester

[ambrosial-sunshine]

let’s kill this asshole with mama

[dropdome]

Deshler, Ohio tornado from the Flint-Worcester Outbreak, 1953

[beardedmrbean]

[technofeudalism]

I'm driving five miles across the city to check out a tip that there's an ICE rendition ongoing. I've got the scanner on the car stereo as I'm about to pull onto the street in question. It’s a quiet neighborhood, small houses on small lots, people walking dogs, the mailman waving, the lawnmowers running, and I hear the dispatcher: "We have an ICE officer over there who's allegedly being surrounded." "On our way," the officer responds.  As a local reporter for a decade now, I've learned that you can hear the cops at their most honest on the scanner. And as I'm hearing that “surrounded” comment I remember what the city's police chief told the city council in January: "We do not do civil detention arrests," Police Chief Paul Saucier said at the time, reassuring them that they wouldn’t be party to the ICE assault Trump was about to unleash. The police, he said, "do not have the authority to affect a civil arrest."  What he didn't say is that if you try to stop the civil arrest, the police will stop you from stopping it.  This morning a few dozen of us here in Worcester Massachusetts got to see that unstated fine print in action firsthand. A woman was led by federal agents in cuffs away from her family, through a throng of community organizers trying to stop it, and into an unmarked car. The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it. I park my car on the edge of the scene and all I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter's baby. Wordless screams. And then I see the mother, a young woman in a green shirt, wailing, crying, held on either side by menacing white men in tactical vests, black neck warmers pulled over their noses in the style du jour for our secret police forces. Surrounding them are a few dozen community members who were tipped off about the ICE raid and got to it before the police did. Before I arrived, they demanded to see a warrant. The ICE agents refused to provide one, so they created a human chain, which the ICE officers eventually broke through.

[ ... ]

Maydee, still confronting the officers, says "Where is the warrant?" Officer Lugo, according to his nameplate, says "Ma'am we are trying our best but they are federal." Morales again asks for the warrant. "They're federal." "They still need a warrant." Another officer, frustrated, says "They don't need a warrant." Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they're concerned with. The deportation must proceed. Trying to stop it is the unlawful thing. At this point an ICE agent starts pushing me away, but not very hard. Lazy jabs, his mind elsewhere. Too many people, too much pushing to be done. I return to my pre-push position. I keep filming. I don't know what else to do.   A cop pulls his cruiser behind us—we're boxed in now—and from the intercom says "This is the Worcester Police Department. This is an unlawful assembly, I'm warning you to disperse right now or you will be subject to arrest." On the other side of me, a crackle of the scanner from an officer's vest-mounted radio: "Do I have a car to escort the marshals out of here?" They don't need a warrant but they do need an escort.

i am reposting this without the video because i feel like it needs a post on it's own. look at the images, read the article and then go here to see the videos which are heartbreaking and violent and almost made me sick. this is horrifying in every way imaginable. the community tried to stop this and the police (as expected) straight up stopped them from doing so. this is full blown fascism on your streets.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WatercolorWednesday:

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Muddy Alligators, 1917

Watercolor over graphite on paper

H 34.3 cm (13.5 in) x W 52.1 cm (20.5 in)

Worcester Art Museum 1917.86

[beepiesheepie]

had a dream that jerma985 for whatever reason became a huge celebrity in worcester, massachusetts. yes i know he's from boston. every restaurant had a framed picture of him and every dunkin donuts had a bunch of pictures of him, like all the wall decor was photos of jerma. there were photos of him on poles and all the hospitals (we have like a billion here) had a photo of him in the various common rooms, something to calm down anxious patients. UMass and WPI students had tiny jerma shrines as a joke and ironically prayed to jerma before exams. Also photos ranged from nice looking ones you get when you google 'jerma' and meme ones like the sus image and him coughing weird. restaurants made jerma themed food (not really themed but more like they just named it after him) and people named their pets after jerma (no kids. cause this was all semi ironic). jerma visited one day and he needed an escort and people were on the streets- not just young people who knew who he was but older folks as well- celebrating his visit like it was a parade. he also showed on stream the kind of fame he was getting via going on google maps and social media and seeing all the jerma love he was getting in worcester. jerma didnt know why worcester was treating him like this but after questioning it for a bit he decided to just roll with it. he gave a speech at his visit (i think in the park in downtown) but words are always garbled in dreams so i didnt understand what he said, but he definitely said something like 'i dont know why this is happening but im not gonna question it' and doing that laugh he does when he's bewildered

[shiftythrifting]

someone pointed out the child looks like they're rescuing the fireman and I can't unsee it

[formulanni]

Swimming with the Sharks

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[vintagehomecollection]

Looking through to the bedroom, the walls are decorated with china from a Worcester dessert service with painted landscapes. On the ebonised and black lacquer cabinets, a pair of Chamberlain's Worcester vases with covers.

The Englishwoman’s Bedroom, 1985

[massachusetts-official]

how do you pronounce worcester? (im going to wpi for college and i dont wanna sound like an idiot)

Wooster, or Woostah if you're being pretentious about and insist on the Boston accent

[victusinveritas]

My man John Leguizamo out here just saying with his full chest to get these fascists and never give them a moment of peace and can I just say I've always been a fan of his.

[dropdome]

The Wood County, Ohio tornado crossing Route 235, 1953

[forest-of-snakes]

Yay Worcester!!!!!! Now we have a sanctuary city!!!

[remixteaching]

From my Facebook memories today, just in time for a snow storm tonight:

The woman on tv just said that in Worcester County "we get slammed early and we get slammed often."

[wgm-beautiful-world]

ART NOUVEAU - Style garden gate "Angel gate" at Birtsmorton Court, Worcestershire, ENGLAND

[westernmassposting]

Let's settle this once and for all.