Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $14,901
18%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 18%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

US: Massachusetts (News/Activism)

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • A Top Architectural Journal Planned To Center Its Latest Issue on Israeli 'Settler-Colonial Apartheid and Genocide.' When Its Publisher Said No, the Whole Board Resigned.

    04/21/2025 2:11:48 PM PDT · by Twotone · 10 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 19, 2025 | Jessica Schwalb
    The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), the field's premier scholarly journal, has dedicated past issues to topics like the "various nuances through which water and design mix" and the "relationship between stories and architecture." Last year, the journal landed on a different topic for its fall 2025 issue: The "ongoing Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza." The journal's "call for papers"—a prompt for essay submissions—was littered with anti-Semitic rhetoric. It lauded "siege and prison breaks" as methods of "anti-colonial life- and land-protection" and justified Hamas's Oct. 7 attack as "the rupture of settler containment." The fall issue, the journal...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Leader’s Campaign Bankrolled By Dem Power Broker Tied To Chinese Intel Agency

    04/20/2025 2:29:00 PM PDT · by DFG · 18 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 04/14/2025 | Philip Lenczycki
    Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Gary Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads. However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter...
  • After Canceling Passover Seder, Boston Hotel Welcomes Anti-Israel ‘Squad’ Member Rashida Tlaib

    04/19/2025 12:31:01 PM PDT · by Twotone · 18 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | April 17, 2025 | Kassy Akiva
    A Boston hotel owned by an infamous slumlord cancelled two Passover meals at the last minute. It hosted anti-Israel Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib instead. The Iris Hotel Boston in Brookline — a Boston suburb with a large Jewish population — was supposed to host two Passover Seder meals on Saturday evening. But just two days before the dinners were set to take place, the hotel canceled, a source involved with coordinating the events told The Daily Wire. The Seders had been referenced on a schedule for staff posted in the hotel, which was reviewed by The Daily Wire. After canceling the...
  • Salem (MA) Becomes 'Sanctuary City' For Transgender, Nonbinary Community

    04/16/2025 6:23:18 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 23 replies
    MSN ^ | April 14, 2025 | Scott Sousa
    City Councilors voted unanimously to declare Salem a "sanctuary city" for transgender and gender non-conforming people with the adoption of a resolution that condemns the Trump Administration's rollbacks of trans and non-binary rights and that calls for proactive work to protect students, teachers and other city employees who foster an environment of trans acceptance and support. The resolution states that the city "recognizes the importance of gender-affirming healthcare as a matter of health, privacy and equality" for all residents and visitors to the city, while resolving that Salem will "ensure a safe and supportive environment for all students regardless of...
  • CREEPY: Fears Growing That New England Towns Are Being Hunted by a Serial Killer

    04/15/2025 8:27:14 PM PDT · by bitt · 40 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | Apr. 15, 2025 | Mike LaChance
    Is there a serial killer hunting in small towns across New England? A growing number of people believe this is happening. Human remains have been discovered in various places in the region and there is enough evidence to suggest that the crimes are connected. It’s creepy to think that there is some evil person out there stalking and killing people for no reason but studies have shown that there are serial killers operating in the country at any given time. Every once in a while, law enforcement connects the dots on certain cases and speculation grows. The Daily Mail reports:...
  • Massachusetts parents ‘livid’ after schools give survey on sexual activity, gender identity to students who opted out

    04/14/2025 9:13:14 PM PDT · by bitt · 34 replies
    https://web.archive.org/web/20250413124837 ^ | April 12, 2025 | Rick Sobey
    They’ve filed complaints with the Department of Education Local parents who opted their kids out of a student survey about sexual activity and gender activity are “livid” after the district still gave the survey to them. Burlington parents have now filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education in the wake of survey-gate, claiming the district violated the “Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment” by giving the questionnaire to students against their parents’ wishes. The controversial survey last month that was given to both middle and high school students in Burlington Public Schools had questions about: sexual intercourse, sexual orientation, gender...
  • Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2 billion for Harvard after university rejected request for policy changes

    04/14/2025 5:18:05 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 30 replies
    Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2 billion for Harvard after university rejected request for policy changes
  • Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands

    04/14/2025 4:30:02 PM PDT · by KingofZion · 53 replies
    The New York Times ^ | april 14, 2025 | Vimal Patel
    Harvard University said on Monday that it had rejected policy changes requested by the Trump administration, becoming the first university to directly refuse to comply with its demands and setting up a showdown between the federal government and the nation’s wealthiest university. Other universities have pushed back against the administration’s interference in higher education. But Harvard’s response, which called the Trump administration’s demands illegal, marked a major shift in tone for the nation’s most influential school, which has been criticized in recent weeks for capitulating to Trump administration pressure. A letter the Trump administration sent to Harvard on Friday demanded...
  • Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Leader’s Campaign Bankrolled By Dem Power Broker Tied To Chinese Intel Agency

    04/14/2025 6:41:20 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 26 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 4/14/25 | PHILIP LENCZYCKI
    Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Gary Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads. However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter...
  • Feds Arrest Massachusetts Democrat State Lawmaker For Wire Fraud, Falsification of Records – Faces Up to 40 Years in Prison

    04/11/2025 5:04:52 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    X.com ^ | Apr. 11, 2025 6:40 pm | Cristina Laila
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/feds-arrest-massachusetts-democrat-state-lawmaker-wire-fraud/A Massachusetts Democrat state lawmaker was indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.Christopher Flanagan, a state rep for the First Barnstable District, was arrested for using stolen funds for personal and political expenses. “Massachusetts State Representative for the First Barnstable District has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly orchestrating a multi-faceted scheme that defrauded a local trade association of tens of thousands of dollars, used to fund personal and political expenses and falsifying records to conceal his alleged conduct,” the DOJ said.“Christopher...
  • DOJ Arrests Democratic Lawmaker

    04/12/2025 6:35:25 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 36 replies
    msn ^ | 4/11/25
    Flanagan, a 37-year-old Dennis, Massachusetts, resident, was arrested Friday morning after a federal grand jury indicted him on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records.
  • First Muslim Illegal Alien Boston Councilwoman Comes to Work After Pleading Guilty to Corruption Charges

    04/11/2025 12:27:41 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 12 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | April 10, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield
    You just can’t keep Boston’s first Muslim illegal alien city councilwoman down. Not even being arrested by the FBI or pleading guilty for taking kickbacks inside a city hall bathroom was going to keep Tania Fernandes Anderson from going to work each day.Some members of Congress are complaining that they can’t come to vote in person, but they have no excuse. If the first Muslim illegal alien criminal councilwoman can still come to work after pleading guilty, then so can anyone. (Until they’re locked up.)But a politician who was accused of planning to “use the money from the scheme to...
  • Leading Palestinian-American resigns from Harvard after lawsuit claims he aided Hamas

    04/11/2025 8:50:32 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 11 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 04/11/2025 4:42 AM | Luke Tress
    A prominent Palestinian-American businessman, Bashar Masri, quits his position at Harvard University after a lawsuit alleged he abetted Hamas with development projects in Gaza. Masri served on the dean’s council at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The school confirms to The New York Post that Masri has resigned. “The lawsuit raises serious allegations that should be vetted and addressed through the legal process,” a spokesperson tells the news outlet. …
  • Rabid, anti-Trump Massachusetts AG’s brother accused of raping at least 9 women…

    04/11/2025 5:06:47 AM PDT · by george76 · 28 replies
    Revolver News ^ | April 10, 2025
    By now, Americans have grown painfully familiar with the new breed of soft-on-crime, far-left attorneys general. They’re everywhere—installed in one liberal hellhole after another like little ticking time bombs, handpicked to do one thing: dismantle law and order from the inside. They let violent criminals walk free, ignore looters, and go after political opponents instead of real threats—because that’s the whole point. These AGs aren’t just soft on crime; they’re part of the plan to destroy US cities. ... But the AG in Massachusetts? Well, she takes the cake. This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill Soros-style puppet. We’re talking about a...
  • Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl

    04/10/2025 9:43:35 AM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    Watts Up With That ^ | 4/9/2025 | Robert Bradley Jr.
    Large-scale solar farms, wind turbines, and associated infrastructure are touted as solutions to the climate crisis, but their development comes at the cost of native forests and critical habitats.” “Until conservation charities disentangle themselves from government funding and corporate influence, they risk becoming complicit in the very destruction they were created to prevent.” ... One of the great ironies of our age is the double standard of Big Environmentalism toward wind and solar, which commit numerous eco-sins that would not be tolerated otherwise. Dilute, intermittent, and thus inefficient? Yes. Energy sprawl requiring service roads and transmission lines in the wild?...
  • DEI forces Harvard to now offer ‘high school’ math courses to its students…

    04/09/2025 7:41:43 AM PDT · by george76 · 52 replies
    Revolver News ^ | April 8, 2025
    There’s a price to pay when you go all-in on DEI—and the piper always comes calling. You can’t lower standards, abandon merit, and inject politics into everything, then act shocked when the results go straight into the toilet. Life doesn’t work that way. Businesses don’t work that way. And elite universities certainly don’t work that way. ... DEI, much like its cousin “woke,” turns everything it touches into complete and total crap. Just ask Disney. They threw their brand under the bus to chase a progressive agenda—and now they’re dealing with the wreckage, most recently with their disastrous Snow White...
  • Crimson Slide: Harvard Students Offered High School Basic Math Course

    04/08/2025 9:41:43 AM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | April 8, 2025 | Jonathan Turley
    According to The Harvard Crimson, Harvard will offer high-school-level math courses to its students. The remedial assistance has rekindled criticism over Harvard’s move away from standardized tests in making admissions decisions. For years, Harvard has been accused of lowering admissions standards to achieve “equity” goals in its classes. The school opposed efforts to uncover its admissions data. When that data was ultimately revealed, sharp differences emerged based on race. The differences led to the historic decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023) barring the use of race in college admissions. As court decisions made it...
  • More than 100 Wellesley non-tenure track faculty are on strike

    04/08/2025 9:28:20 AM PDT · by Salman · 17 replies
    Boston.com ^ | April 7, 2025 | Molly Farrar
    More than 100 educators at Wellesley College are striking, causing credit confusion for students while the college is calling on the union to sit down with a mediator. The union voted to authorize their strike to begin on March 27 after nearly a year of failed bargaining. Now, it says the administration has been “surface bargaining.” Non-tenure track faculty at the small liberal arts college initially voted to unionize as the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, or WOAW with the United Auto Workers, in January of last year. Annie Brubaker, a senior lecturer at Wellesley and a member of the WOAW...
  • ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Outside Boston Courtroom as City Defies Feds – Now Judge Slaps Agent with Contempt

    04/02/2025 9:25:07 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 65 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 02, 2025 | Staff
    A Boston judge has held a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in contempt for executing his duty to detain an illegal immigrant during an ongoing trial. On Thursday, March 27, 2025, ICE agents, ICE agent Brian Sullivan apprehended Wilson Martell-Lebron, a Dominican national illegally residing in the United States, as he exited the Boston Municipal Court. Martell-Lebron, a Dominican national residing illegally in the country using fake identity, was on his second trial for charges related to falsifying information on a driver’s license application. Despite the gravity of his alleged offenses, Boston’s lenient policies had allowed him to...
  • Penske cargo truck hits multiple pedestrians in Boston, developing.

    04/01/2025 11:01:58 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    Twitter / X / Citizen's Free Press ^ | April 01, 2025 | Staff
    Driver of rented Penske truck hits multiple pedestrians in Boston.Story is developing.pic.twitter.com/M27GG6AREw— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 1, 2025