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This week, a federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration can end a program that gives legal status to 60,000 immigrants nationwide from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. Now local immigrants here under that program — known as Temporary Protected Status — say they’re worried about what losing their status could mean for their future. Advocates said they expect to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Patricia is one Massachusetts resident who came to the U.S. from Honduras in 1998 under the TPS program, has been renewing her status for years, hoping to eventually obtain a green card. She said she’s terrified that losing her status could mean losing her job — something that’s already happened to other immigrants whose legal authorization was revoked. 

“It would be like, traumatizing for my daughter, coming home and not seeing nobody,” Patricia told GBH’s Sarah Betancourt. GBH News agreed to use only her first name because she fears being deported. “Ever since the first [Trump] administration she has always been like, ‘mom, are you home? Are you OK? Are you done with work?’ Things like that. She’s always been like that because she understands — in her own way, she understands exactly what is going on.” You can hear more from Patricia and other local immigrants here.

Four Things to Know

1. Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, accused of extorting a cannabis company for $50,000, pleaded not guilty to federal charges yesterday. 

“The facts will demonstrate that he was charged with a crime he did not commit,” said Martin Weinberg, Tompkins’ lawyer.

2. Students in Massachusetts are likely already interacting with AI — so officials with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released some guidelines informing how their teachers should talk about it. 

“AI already surrounds young people. It is baked into the devices and apps they use, and is increasingly used in nearly every system they will encounter in their lives, from health care to banking,” the new AI Literacy Module for Educators’ description reads. “Knowledge of how these systems operate — and how they may serve or undermine individuals’ and society’s goals — helps bridge classroom learning with the decisions they will face outside school.”

3. A Northampton High School teacher is challenging U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, the longest-serving House representative in Massachusetts and second longest-serving member of the state’s Congressional delegation (only Sen. Ed Markey has been in Congress longer).

Jeromie Whalen is taking a year away from his job, teaching journalism and media arts, to run for office. He said he has qualms about the Democratic party’s general direction and about where Neal’s campaign money comes from. “It’s big banks, it’s big pharma and it’s everyone I don’t want in my ear, so I can do this within my principled system and with my value beliefs,” he said.

4. No more free rides: starting Sept. 8, the MBTA will have employees in blue polo shirts with a yellow “fare engagement team” logo making sure people tap on and pay as they enter stations and board trains. A first offense will get you a written warning. Other offenses within a three-year period will get fines of $50-100. 

“We rely on each rider to pay their fare and support continued service improvements. Your fares are essential to delivering the levels of service you expect and helping us better support your community,” MBTA General Manager Phil Eng said.

Caitlyn Hana sits on the Somerville Community Path with a folding table, a tablecloth speckled with red hearts and a big red sign that reads “Free Dating Advice for Nerds.”

Hana started offering dating advice to her college housemates, who were all men, and she realized she had a knack for it. She kept it up as a side job while getting a master’s of public policy and working in public health. When she lost her job this year because of federal funding cuts, she decided to pay a bit more attention to her side gig, a dating coaching business called Enchanted Analytics. 

“I’d been working at Harvard until recently when, due to government funding changes, I was no longer able to work at Harvard,” Hana said. “I’d been doing this casually, one or two clients at a time, for like 7 or 8 years now. And I was like, you know, if I’m not in academia right now, I’m going to get a little weird with it.”

GBH’s Alexi Cohan spent two and a half hours sitting with Hana on a recent Friday evening, watching how passers-by on the Somerville Community Path reacted to her table and listening in on their conversations. A lot of people started the conversation by walking up to Hana and asking “what advice are you offering?”

“No pictures with fish. No selfies. No dead animals in general, actually,” she said.

Hana herself is an online dating success story, she said: she met her husband on the dating website OKCupid. But her table is also about getting together more in general: two women who stopped by the table ended up chatting with one another and decided to get coffee as friends.

“I really think that it’s important for us to be having a conversation about loneliness, and it’s really important for us to be having a conversation about social connection,” she said. “Over time, people have started coming out and having actually pretty deep conversations with me, really saying, ‘hey, I’m lonely’ or ‘I’m looking to get back into dating, I don’t know what I’m doing.’”

Her core advice: “You are great. You are wonderful. Don’t try to appeal to everyone, try to appeal to the right person for you.”

Watch Alexi’s full video here. If you’d like to hear Hana’s dating advice in person, check out her Aug. 30 workshop Debug Your Dating Profile: A Step-by-step Guide to Better Results at The Green Room, Somerville.