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Trouble is a brewin’ at this watering hole. A Massachusetts lesbian bar descended into a catty culture war and faces a potentially business-ending boycott from sudden enemies who flipped out when the owners lifted a longstanding mask mandate — for just one night a week. Greenfield’s Last Ditch Bar scrapped Saturday mask requirements on Aug. 31 in a bid to boost business — but the move completely backfired, sparking uproar from members of the small city’s queer community.

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating a Massachusetts school district over reports that officials worked to socially transition a trans-identified teenager without her Catholic parents’ consent and took steps to remove the girl from their custody after they objected. The Education Department’s Student Privacy Policy Office is investigating the Northborough-Southborough Regional School District to determine whether the district violated the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by working to socially transition a female student without informing her parents. “According to the student’s parents, school personnel at Algonquin Regional High School...

The governor of Massachusetts is promoting a new initiative that would have nurses visit new mothers at home in the days after giving birth. “Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you’re going to have a home visit within days, weeks, and that will be an opportunity for a healthcare provider to make an assessment to see if you need some additional support and resources,” Gov. Maura Healey (D) told Boston Public Radio during an interview last week. The initiative is part of the state’s plans to expand its Welcome Family program. Healey further proposed an additional $250,000...

…Wendy Murphy — “an impact litigator whose work in state and federal courts around the country has changed the law to improve protections for women’s and children’s constitutional rights” — further claims since the jury apparently voted 11-1 for a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict, it’s indicative of public opinion. … Murphy laments how “social media influencers” have created “carefully selected us vs. them narratives,” and offers the hypothesis that insurance company PR firms also have a stake in churning up controversy, especially the company representing the mental health professionals being sued by Clancy’s family. Invoking the novel “1984,” Murphy says PR firms...

Ninety-five percent of faculty who responded to The Crimson’s annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey said they were dissatisfied with U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office, more than a year into Harvard’s battle with the White House.Roughly ninety-two percent of respondents said they were “very dissatisfied” with the president’s second term, and another roughly four percent said they were “somewhat dissatisfied.” The combined figure marked a slight dip from last year’s survey, when 96 percent of faculty expressed dissatisfaction with the Trump.Trump quickly zeroed in on Harvard after taking office in January 2025, attempting to pull nearly...

A Catholic family is fighting Massachusetts for custody of their daughter, alleging that a public school socially transitioned their gender-dysphoric teen without their consent, securing a temporary halt to cross-sex hormone therapy. Joseph and Arlene Kutzko sued state officials after the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) took custody of their daughter, Sophie, in December 2024. The issue began when officials at Algonquin Regional High School started treating Sophie as a boy without the Kutzkos’ consent. The couple opposes transgender ideology on religious grounds.When the parents protested, state officials took then-15-year-old Sophie out of their custody, in part because...

The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has hired the lawyer for a friend of Nolan Wells. Edward Andrew Paltzik announced he is now representing the juror, whose identity has been sealed by the court following intense public backlash over the mistria Paltzik is calling his client a "courageous and heroic" American and a "champion of justice" ... while vowing to protect him from those who have publicly attacked him. The attorney says the juror is currently safe at an undisclosed secure location in rural Northern New England. Paltzik adds his focus is on his client's health,...

A Nigerian woman living in the United States as a permanent resident in Massachusetts illegally voted in at least two elections after lying about her citizenship, authorities said.Gladys Adaeze Okafor, 56, has been charged by the Justice Department with unlawfully voting as an alien for allegedly casting ballots in the 2024 presidential primary election and the 2022 midterm elections despite not being a US citizen. Okafor repeatedly falsified her citizenship status on official documents under penalty of perjury to gain access to the ballot, federal prosecutors allege. In July 2022, she submitted a voter registration card and signed her name...

Catholic parents in Massachusetts are fighting for custody of their trans teen whom they say authorities illegally snatched from their care for secret gender-affirming treatments. Joseph and Arlene Kutzko are completely cut off from their 17-year-old daughter Sophie, whom child protective services removed from their care in 2024 allegedly because they would not recognize the biological female as a boy, the couple told Fox’s Lighthouse Faith podcast. Staff at Sophie’s high school in the town of Northborough exposed their daughter to “LGBTQ teachings in topics that conflict with our Catholic beliefs” and eventually counseled her on her own gender transition,...

The brother of the now-notorious holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy's murder mistrial is speaking out, revealing why he believes his sibling voted the mom criminally responsible for killing her three children. "I don't think religion had anything to do with it," the anonymous juror's brother told the New York Post on Tuesday, September 15, disputing online claims that Catholicism impacted the holdout juror's decision. (The holdout male juror has decided to withhold his identity from the public following the high-profile case's controversial mistrial ruling.) "[He] looked at the case, and he made the call," the brother continued. "For me, that's...

Catholic parents in Massachusetts are fighting for custody of their trans teen whom they say authorities illegally snatched from their care for secret gender-affirming treatments. Joseph and Arlene Kutzko are completely cut off from their 17-year-old daughter Sophie, whom child protective services removed from their care in 2024 allegedly because they would not recognize the biological female as a boy, the couple told Fox’s Lighthouse Faith podcast. Staff at Sophie’s high school in the town of Northborough exposed their daughter to “LGBTQ teachings in topics that conflict with our Catholic beliefs” and eventually counseled her on her own gender transition,...

A black Tufts professor Boston officials hired to study the city’s “contributions to slavery” is out the door after the school accused her of plagiarism. Kerri Greenidge is blaming her ouster on Tufts officials who allegedly targeted her for being black. Greenidge’s departure from the faculty comes after a book on the history of slavery she placed with a major publisher came under academic scrutiny. The school is alleging the book, which W.W. Norton has now pulled from its website, contained several errors and lack of attribution. Amid Tufts’ investigation of the book, the city of Boston paid Greenidge $250,000...

The campaign to name and shame the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case is just 50 shades of disgusting and, frankly, un-American. As we reported, it started with some of the 11 other jurors, some of whom ran to the mainstream media at the first chance they got to complain about the fact that the holdout juror, who we were informed is a man, didn't see eye to eye with them "on acquitting Clancy (finding her not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility [i.e., insanity])." One of them was admittedly miffed over the fact that, in her...

A female juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has defended the lone male holdout – admitting that he “was not the only one that was unwilling to see things from the other side.” The woman, who spoke to WBZ-TV on condition of anonymity, served as juror No. 5 in the high-profile Massachusetts trial, which ended Friday in a hung jury with an 11-1 split. “At the end of the day, there was so much doubt,” she told the outlet.

It’s only fitting that Gloria Steinem died the same week the personification of her existence faced a hung jury. “You’ve come a long way, baby!” Women have gone from demanding abortion to performing extremely late-term abortions at home, and they’re celebrated for it. It’s like the baby murder Olympics. Steinem died exactly as she wanted – alone, surrounded by people unrelated to her having cheerfully bragged of her abortion(s) and soon to be forgotten, as any leftist woman under 40 likely thinks he’s some kind of Zionist monster, based on her name. She outlived her rich husband of three years...

Cora Clancy was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months. I started there because apparently somebody has to. Their mother, Lindsay Clancy, strangled all three in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. She admits it. This week a jury couldn't decide whether she should be held criminally responsible. Eleven jurors reportedly favored acquittal. One didn't. After 38 hours of deliberation across seven days, the judge declared a mistrial. And outside the courthouse? Pink. Hundreds of people in pink shirts and bows, holding signs reading "Believe," "She Needed Help," and "Peace For Lindsay." Pink was Cora's...

Lindsay Clancy supporters are flooding a fundraising page after her high-profile murder trial ended with a hung jury after an intense week of deliberations. A GoFundMe page set up for Clancy’s parents, Michael and Paula Musgrove, has raised over $1.1 million and counting – edging closer to the whopping, newly-increased $3 million target. In an update on the page Friday, the same day the mistrial was declared, organizer Brandee Mulligan announced that the financial goal would be going up. “I’ve decided to raise the goal of this fundraiser since this process has been extended, so is the time Paula and...

Lindsay Clancy was prescribed at least six different depression, anxiety and sleep meds, including several at the same time when she killed her three children — and told her husband she was on the antidepressant Zoloft four months before the murders, according to testimony on Monday.

So, maybe the Salem Witch Trials aren’t so bad. I will say that this video made the case that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote – I’m half-kidding. But I saw a tweet that pretty much said you can see why most religions and early social institutions of mankind kept a thumb on women, because these takes on the Lindsay Clancy case are insane. In less than a minute, you see a window into the modern American woman, and it’s a wasteland. This woman killed her kids, and we have to talk about how she’s sleep-deprived, how she’s paid enough...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that, with his walkback of his previous criticism of biological men in women’s sports, “the point is that we ought to be fighting forward on this. Where’s our legislation to enshrine protections into law so that they actually can be confident that they will have the healthcare that they need when the Trump administration is trying to take it away? Where is our legislation to enshrine protections into law so that they can’t get fired for just who they are or what they wear to...