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🌂A chance of showers, with highs in the 70s. Sunset tonight is at 7:51 p.m.

If you’re looking for something to do tonight, check this out: GBH is hosting a conversation with Sugata Bose, a former member of India’s Parliament who now teaches at Harvard. He’ll talk about India’s role in global affairs, navigating between the U.S., China the Global South, and more. The event starts at 6 p.m. at the Boston Public Library. Both in-person and virtual tickets are free. 

A note: we are keeping a close eye on the local impacts of escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. Early this morning, the Indian military launched attacks into Pakistan, killing 31 people, according to The Associated Press.

Four Things to Know

The case of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts graduate student detained by immigration officers after co-writing an op-ed asking her school to acknowledge the war in Gaza as a genocide, is now before a panel of three federal appeals judges. Those judges are considering whether to order federal officials to move her from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Louisiana, where she has been for about six weeks, to Vermont.

Öztürk has not been charged with a crime. In court on Tuesday, one of the judges asked an attorney representing the federal government whether he believes Öztürk’s op-ed is “protected speech” — covered under the First Amendment. The attorney said he didn’t have the authority to take a position at this time. 

Workers at Blank Street Coffee in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline have voted to unionize. The coffee chain, backed by millions in private equity funding, runs with just two or three workers per shift, and a super-automatic coffee machine that’s supposed to do the bulk of espresso shot pulling, milk steaming and more. But those machines don’t always work like they’re supposed to, workers said, and employees are not allowed to fix them themselves.

“In reality, on the floor, we’re reporting back so many technological issues and concerns and hazards that ultimately are not responded to, are not resolved, and we’re not allowed the agency to resolve it ourselves, despite the responsibility put on us to run the daily operations and make the sales,” barista Nicole Hill said. The new union is represented by the New England Joint Board of Unite Here, the same organization representing coffee shop workers from Pavement Coffeehouse and Diesel Café.

What’s in the Mass. Senate budget? The chamber’s proposed spending plan is 6% higher than last year’s budget. Most of that money — 65% of spending growth — would go to MassHealth.

“Think nursing homes, long-term care for seniors,” said Senate Ways and Means Chairman Michael Rodrigues, a Westport Democrat. “Think health care for seniors, for disabled, for low-income individuals. That’s the driver.” The rest would go to things like cost increases in health and human services and school funding. The rest of the increases add up to about $59 million, 0.1% of the budget.

Massachusetts nurses are worried about understaffing and violence from patients, according to a survey from the Massachusetts Nurses Association. The union found that 78% of nurses said they believe the quality of care in the state’s hospitals has worsened over the last two years.

“These are not new issues,” said Katie Murphy, the union’s president. “We’ve been conducting these surveys for years and we consistently see the same responses and patterns.” The union is asking legislators to increase staffing levels at hospitals and limit how many patients one nurse can care for at a time. The legislation is similar to a measure voters rejected in a 2018 ballot question.

Before the American Revolution, these Massachusetts publishers rebelled in print

Isaiah Thomas was 26 when he packed up his printing press and fled from Boston to Worcester. It was 1775, and Thomas was the printer of The Massachusetts Spy, an anti-crown newspaper. His name was on a list of people whom British troops wanted to arrest when they took control of Boston — and they were closing in.

So Thomas headed 40 miles west.

“Between Boston and Worcester, that’s all hostile territory to British soldiers,” said Vince Golden, curator of the newspaper collection at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester. “So he felt safe out here; that the British couldn’t just easily march up to Worcester and get him. He was able to set up a shop here.”

His reporting, days later from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, is considered among the earliest examples of war reporting in Colonial American history.

“AMERICANS! Forever bear in mind the BATTLE of LEXINGTON! – where British Troops, unmolested and unprovoked, wantonly, and in a most inhuman manner fired upon and killed a number of our countrymen, then robbed them of their provisions, ransacked, plundered and burnt their houses!” he wrote.

Thomas, and other publishers like him, played a vital role in American independence from the British.

“This press was the most lethal weapon of the American Revolution,” said Frank Romano, director of the Haverhill Museum of Printing. “It was the newspapers and the pamphlets that really riled up the population. When you get right down to it, it was the printing press that created the hue and cry for American independence.”

GBH’s Chris Burrell has more of Thomas’s life story here. 

Read more: From Colony to Commonwealth

For the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War, GBH News is looking for local lesser-known stories about that moment in history. Do you have a story about Massachusetts’ role in the American Revolution that you’d like us to cover? Reply to this email or send a message to our reporters at daily@wgbh.org. We are already following up on some tips for future stories.