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  ❤️ Donate Friday, June 26, 2026 🌧️ Mostly cloudy, with showers this morning and a high near 81. Good Morning Boston, It's Friday. The final World Cup group stage match in Foxborough kicks off this afternoon — and it's the big one. France and Norway will play at 3 p.m. to determine the winner of Group I. In Cambridge, the city is holding a watch party for the game ahead of its annual public dance party in Central Square. (Click here to find other watch party options around Greater Boston.) But first, the news: Legal limbo: Local immigrant rights groups are urging the thousands of Haitians in Massachusetts living under Temporary Protected Status to talk to a lawyer ASAP, following yesterday's Supreme Court decision. The court's conservative majority ruled in a 6-3 decision that the federal government has the power to terminate TPS — which the Trump administration has been trying to do for migrants from Haiti, Syria and 11 other countries. The ruling means nearly ...

  Data Centers are coming to the Northeast. Are we ready for what comes with them? RSVP to join us! Since Trump's return to power, we've been talking about data centers as a point of linkage between big tech, fossil fuels, and fascism.  Data centers are growing like a second coal industry.  Each one can consume a city's worth of water and electricity – mostly generated by fossil fuels.   So far Data centers haven't exploded energy demand in New England like they have in other Electrical regions.  But in Lowell Massachusetts the problem has been spilling into community conflict: Sparking meetings, protests, and lawsuits. That's why the ISONE Consumer Liaison Group is holding our next meeting in Lowell, with a topic of Data Centers and Democracy.  Join us on June 2 in Lowell or online to join the conversation! Communities across America, and around the world, are fighting back against digital colonization and data centers in many forms. For example,  peo...