US: Massachusetts (News/Activism)
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If ever you needed proof that X Community Notes is vastly superior to corporate “fact checks” as a way for real journalists to do real work countering “misinformation” rather than as a bludgeon to suppress dissident narratives, this is it. Lying about being a Native American for DEI leg-ups, it turns out, isn’t the only dishonesty Elizabeth Warren peddles. This lie, however, is much more consequential in terms of policy impact: “I don't take contributions from Big Pharma executives. I don't take any corporate PAC money,” Elizabeth Warren says in the Senate hallway when confronted over her smears of RFK...
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Just for fun, I went to look at the biggest corporate contributors to Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. And his expenditures. I was curious to see how he burned through $200 million.. thanks for bringing our attention to this Bernie. Turns out he’s not just a big pharma ... He’s a generalized big corporation ... too! ... US Postal Service ... $438,076 .. City of New York .. $397,513 .. US Army ... $290,892.. US Air Force $288,519.. State of CaliforniA .. $263,087.. Dept. of Defense ..$247,397.. ... What does it feel like to be proven liar before all of...
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and five Democratic governors pressed Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer during a phone call this week to slow the confirmation march of President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees and throw up roadblocks to his agenda, according to a published report. Healey’s office confirmed her participation in the Wednesday phone call to Politico, but did not offer details on the contents of the conversation. The New York Times reported details of the call, citing notes and conversations with participants. Both Healey and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told Schumer that Senate Democrats should not vote for Trump’s cabinet...
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The 24-year-old trans-identified male from Massachusetts who was arrested on Monday at the US Capitol with Molotov cocktails and a knife and intended to kill Scott Bessent has been revealed to have been planning the attack for a month and intended to "hurt big players" in Washington, DC, according to a court filing from the Department of Justice seeking pretrial detention. In the filing, the DOJ said that Ryan Michael English, also known as "Riley Jane English" and referred to by she/her pronouns in the document, bought an atlas around one month prior to the January 27 arrest. The atlas...
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The Massachusetts man who was arrested on Monday at the US Capitol armed with Molotov cocktails and knives was transgender. Local news outlet WWLP reports the man, named in the affidavit as Ryan Michael "Reily" English, was known as Riley Jane English, a 24-year-old transgender person. WWLP states that English is "a woman who lived in South Deerfield." English had told officers he was intending to kill Scott Bessent. WWLP had initially reported on English by given name Ryan, but in their updated report they state that "This story previously identified the defendant as Ryan Michael English, the name used...
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Three young people with prestigious, accomplished academic backgrounds are suspected in at least two brutal, connected killings. Maximilian Snyder, 22, and Teresa Youngblut, 21, sought a marriage license in Washington State in November. They have each been charged by authorities in separate January killings that claimed the lives of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont and an 82-year-old landlord in Vallejo, according to police and court records obtained by Open Vallejo, a California news outlet. Maximilian Snyder, a 22-year-old data scientist arrested in Northern California on Friday on suspicion of murder, and Teresa Youngblut, the 21-year-old computer science student charged...
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A Massachusetts man arrested at the U.S. Capitol with Molotov cocktails and a knife told police he was there to “kill” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Ryan Michael “Reily” English, who turned himself in to U.S. Capitol Police at 3:12 p.m. ET on Monday, said he traveled to Washington, D.C., initially planning to kill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and/or House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., a police affidavit said. But English shifted his target to Bessent after stopping at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and reading that the Senate was voting Monday on Bessent’s nomination...
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The state of Massachusetts is paying $42 per meal for migrants in hotel shelters, according to a public records request. In documents provided by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, Eliot Community Human Services, a contractor overseeing migrant shelter operations at three Massachusetts hotels, has a contract with the state to provide three meals a day to each individual staying in the hotel shelter.
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Elizabeth Warren, everyone's favorite senator from Massachusetts, appeared on CNN on Monday night to talk about, I don't know, maybe hunting and gathering? The first Thanksgiving? How the white man drove her from her land? Warren explained that poor Biden is just a kind-hearted old family man who had no choice but to make these pardons out of fear that Trump might try to use his sweet little family against him just because Trump doesn't like him.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a large-scale raid in Boston, targeting criminal aliens, including MS-13 gang members, murder suspects, and a Haitian gang member with 18 prior convictions. The operation led to the arrest of over 300 individuals. In an exclusive report from Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin, ICE Boston executed a targeted operation against egregious criminal aliens, resulting in eight high-profile arrests. The operation resulted in eight arrests, including multiple members of the notorious MS-13 gang, suspects wanted on Interpol Red Notices for murder and rape, and a volatile Haitian gang member with an alarming record...
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Massachusetts must give $2.1 billion to the federal government due to an apparent mix up with federal pandemic funds. Officials said the state will be required to pay the sum over the next ten years after former Gov. Charlie Baker’s (R) administration “mistakenly” used the money to cover unemployment benefits, WHDH reported Monday. Baker was succeeded by Gov. Maura Healey (D) in 2023 “and her deputies unveiled details of a settlement they reached with the outgoing Biden administration Friday in which the Bay State will repay most but not all of the amount it owed due to the error committed...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stuck her foot in her mouth while trying to attack defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth during his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday. Hegseth has criticized military generals for entering the lucrative defense industry to make money from their military service. Warren tried to make Hegseth look hypocritical by saying he has not pledged to not enter the defense industry. She said, “You are quite sure every General who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years but you’re not willing to make that same pledge?” Hegseth retorted, “I’m not a General, Senator.”
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Pennsylvania's Democratic Sen. John Fetterman on Wednesday said that he would meet with President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on Thursday. Trump nominated Hegseth, a former Fox anchor and military veteran, to lead the Pentagon last month. But the nominee could face trouble in the confirmation process because of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman years ago, and has a heavy drinking problem. The Pennsylvania Democrat, who is largely considered a political outsider, said he has not ruled out confirming Hegseth as Defense Secretary. “He could theoretically become the head of the Defense Department,” Fetterman told...
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) met with President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, for a meeting that brought together two distinct political perspectives. The meeting marked the first Democratic senator to meet with the former Fox News host to find common ground between the two party’s policies. Known for his progressive views and relaxed style, Fetterman’s meeting with Hegseth was a rare bipartisan exchange considering the nation’s polarized political landscape. The Pennsylvania Democrat said he suspects that he and Hegseth will have things in common regarding the military on issues such as China, Russia, Israel, or Ukraine. Critics...
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Boston authorities confirmed they rejected all 15 immigration detainer requests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the city last year, according to a new report. Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox filed a letter to the city council, revealing that the city’s police department did nothing with all of ICE’s detainer requests for the last year... ICE maintains it files detainer requests once probable cause is established that a migrant can be removed from the country. This happens "typically after a court has convicted them of one or more crimes... Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan blasted Wu’s rejection of...
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Wokeness is clearly causing much of the military’s recruiting problems.. ... A venerable aphorism is “an army marches on its stomach.” An equally valuable observation is that amateurs talk tactics, but professionals talk logistics. A military that can’t get its troops where it they need to be on time, and that can’t provide them with the food, water, munitions and other gear they need to fight is going to lose. ... the former Ft Hood (now Ft Cavasos) in Texas soldiers weren't being fed. ... The base had only two of its 10 major dining options open every day ......
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The Trump transition team is promising a broad deportation operation.. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested a Dominican illegal immigrant charged with sex crimes and kidnapping in Boston, after he was released from local custody despite a request by the agency to hand him over. In a statement, ICE said it had arrested Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla, a 46-year-old, who is charged with assault to rape, kidnapping, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older, and intimidation of an official, witness, or juror, was arrested Dec. 17 in Boston. Pena-Casilla entered the U.S. illegally near...
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From the radio discussion site:RIP longtime WMWM, Salem DJ Bob Nelson aka "raccoonradio" at 62QuoteAccording to posts relayed to Facebook by friends from his sister Barbara, Bob Nelson passed away at 62 yesterday, following hospitalization and suffering from multiple health issues including two heart attacks and other problems since just over two months ago. Bob was a DJ, host, and producer at the Salem State University volunteer radio station WMWM 91.7 FM for over 40 years. He hosted several music programs of many sorts, but his main focuses were blues music, and local blues and roots-rock music shows on which...
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Daniel Joseph Maldonado, a former Houston resident who convereted to Islam and admitted training with terrorists, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and given a $1,000 fine. Maldonado, 28, pleaded guilty in April to training with al-Qaida in East Africa. He is the first American charged with joining the terrorist organization in Somalia. The charge carried a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a fine up to $250,000. He admitted his association with terrorists in exchange for no further prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston. Maldonado came to the attention of federal investigators in late...
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According to a federal survey of school leaders, 40% of students in the nation’s public schools were behind grade level in one or more subjects at the beginning of the school year. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) announced its findings this week that the percentage of students school leaders estimated to be behind where they should be was down 7% from the 2022-23 school year but still 8% higher than before the pandemic. School leaders told the federal education statistics agency in October that over a third of students were behind entering the 2024-25 school year. NCES data...
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