"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville

Sudbury, MA
Joined March 2010
Wow. This hurts. As a kid that summer I ran down to the 7-11 every morning to quickly scan the Boca News sports page to see if Pete Rose got a hit during his 44 game hitting streak. I remember the feeling that day I got there and saw the headlines. "Rose Stopped."
RIP Pete Rose Another player than should be in the HOF
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Saw this on FB. Hope to get a little awareness here. Steelers fans. Get this man his hat back. That’s not what we do. We’re better than that.
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🇺🇸 HERO! The armed man who RAN AFTER and NEUTRALIZED the Bend, OR elementary school shooter has been identified as Kaylub Giamanco, his brother tells NBC This man should receive the PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM! Kaylub was reportedly driving by the school on his lunch break when he saw the gunman enter the school, deciding to bolt after him and take him down before police were anywhere close. This private citizen risked his life to save other people’s kids. Just incredible. Very American.
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"34 hours after he was vaccinated, he passed away in his bassinet." "The aluminum level in his blood was 95 micrograms per liter. Anything over 50 micrograms per liter in an adult is toxic." SIDS is a cover-up term to protect the guilty... Big Pharma.
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Every time Charles Wolf goes to the 9/11 memorial he kisses the name of his Wife Katherine Wolf who worked on the 97th floor of the North Tower. He last saw her at 8:06 a.m."If someone looks at me when I kiss her name, I say, ‘It’s my wife.’That’s when everything changes,” says Wolf.
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Maura Healey (D)... now Governor of Massachusetts... was Attorney General of Massachusetts, the state's top law enforcement officer from 2015 to 2023. In 2026, Alvin Campbell Jr., brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D), was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of raping multiple women while posing as a rideshare driver. While he was raping, Boston police sat on the evidence. A WBUR investigation found reports from 2016, 2017, and 2018, including DNA, went unacted on for years until his 2020 arrest... right in the run-up to Healey and Campbell's campaign announcements for governor and AG. During that entire failure, his sister sat in Boston City Hall... a sitting Boston City Councilor from 2016 to 2022, and Council President from 2018 to 2020. And over them all sat Maura Healey (D). Years of rapes. Years of ignored evidence. With the suspect's sister holding city power and Healey holding statewide law-enforcement power. That is why so many are asking whether Andrea Campbell (D) used her official City Council position to interfere with or slow the investigation... questions the Democratic establishment in Massachusetts has still never fully answered. And Massachusetts is the only state in the country where all three branches of government exempt themselves from public record laws... so they never have to answer.
Governor Maura Healey (D) wants Massachusetts voters to remember that she is a former attorney general who “prosecuted and put away bad guys. Drug traffickers, human traffickers.” Meanwhile, a Healey staffer is facing drug-trafficking charges, and the state somehow managed to mistakenly pay him $30,000 of taxpayer money after he was fired. You cannot script this level of government incompetence. Healey campaigns as the tough former prosecutor while the government she runs apparently cannot even prevent a fired employee facing serious criminal charges from receiving an erroneous taxpayer-funded payout. Massachusetts does not have an accountability problem because taxpayers are not paying enough. It has an accountability problem because one-party government has become so insulated from consequences that even spectacular failures are treated like routine administrative errors, And Healey wants four more years.
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The camera zoomed in on the survivors. Image hanging out a window, 100 stories off the ground w/a fire behind u. I yelled 2 my husband “Can’t a helicopter w/ a basket get them!!” He said a helicopter couldn’t get close enough. “What then, there’s got to be another way!” Al Qaeda didn’t just murder these people, Americans trying to do their jobs, terrorists tortured them to death. In the survivors’ last 30 mins on earth they had to CHOOSE whether to die by fire, or jump 100 stories to their death. Which is the quickest death? When @ZohranKMamdani says “3,000, died & I mourn all the people who died in wars afterward,” I’m infuriated. These Americans didn’t just “die,” they were tortured to death. & there would have been “no wars after” if not 4 Al Qaeda’s actions. I’m still mad Zohran choose #RamziKassem (lawyer of the WTC plotter!) as city’s top legal advisor. So disrespectful. @NYCCouncil @NYDSA @MicahLasher @RitchieTorres @DarializaforNY @claireforny @RepJeffries @RepTenney @lawler4ny @Grace4NY
I remember seeing people hanging on2 windows pleading 2be rescued. I screamed 2my family, “Someone has to save them!They are alive, save them!” When I saw the fire behind them, the survivors jumped. Some were holding hands 💔 . I was still screaming(as if that was going to help)
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🚨THIS IS INSANE!!! A 25-year-old suffered a catastrophic brain injury in a motorcycle crash and UnitedHealthcare is REFUSING to pay for the treatment that could help him wake up... ...because they decided it was "NOT MEDICALLY NECESSARY" even though his doctor's said it was!!! His name is Peyton Alvarez, he's 25 years old. Back in April, Peyton was riding his motorcycle near Greenville, South Carolina, when he veered off the road and hit a tree. He was wearing his helmet, but. the impact left him with a traumatic brain injury so severe that doctors call his condition a "disorder of consciousness." His mother Trina got the call every parent on earth prays they never get. "We have your son Peyton, and he's been in a motorcycle accident." There is a place that specializes in bringing people like Peyton back. The Shepherd Center in Atlanta, one of the best brain injury rehab centers in the country. And it wasn't just his family who wanted him there. His DOCTORS recommended it. The people who actually examined Peyton said this is the care he needs to recover. And UnitedHealthcare said NO. Their reason, in writing: Peyton's condition "does not meet the criteria" for the rehab his family requested. In plain English? They called the treatment that could help this young man wake up "not medically necessary." Not one person at that insurance company has ever laid eyes on Peyton. His doctors have, but UnitedHealthcare overrode them anyway. Instead, they offered a NURSING HOME. Yes, you read that right... a nursing home.
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RFK Jr says our kids will no longer be given junk food in schools, we will be switching to “real food” “There are 30 million school lunches every day that we pay for, 15 million school breakfast, and the top item on school lunches has been Pop-Tarts and pastries and donuts. And we're now changing that and taking those things off the menu, and we're gonna give kids real food” RFK Jr says all these items are being removed: - Pop-Tarts, pastries and donuts - Fruit juice used as a stand-in for fruit - Refined-grain products - Ultra-processed foods that he says currently make up 70% of the calories kids get at school - High added-sugar items Here’s what’s being added - Protein like eggs, poultry, beef, pork, seafood - Beans, nuts, seeds as plant proteins - Protein targets for kids were raised - Whole milk - Whole fruit, not juice - Vegetables - Whole grains instead of refined - Scratch-cooked meals instead of heat-and-serve ultra-processed items
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If everyone watched Ted Lasso the world would be a better place.
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🚨WOW!!! A lady in Tennessee is being hailed as a HERO after she rescued a KIDNAPPED 12-year-old girl as she came running out of the woods, barefoot and covered in scratches, and collapsed into a ditch on the side of the highway, attempting to escape. Cars kept driving past her. One woman looked in her rearview mirror and thought: somebody will stop for that baby. ...BUT NOBODY DID!!! So she turned around. 🇺🇸 Her name is Jennifer Maxwell. She was driving home from her job as a healthcare caregiver on Sunday afternoon, on US-421 in Erwin, North Carolina. That's when she saw a little girl come out of the treeline, run down the embankment, and drop into the ditch, sobbing. Jennifer slowed down. She watched her mirror. She waited for somebody else to do something. Not one car stopped. So she turned her vehicle around, pulled up, and rolled down her window. "Baby, are you okay?" And the little girl said: "No. I've been kidnapped." Jennifer asked if she was serious. She was serious. She had no shoes on. Just a big T-shirt and shorts. Her arms and legs were torn up with scratches from running through the brush. She had been walking in those woods for TWO HOURS. Investigators say the man kept pushing her, grabbing her by the shoulder, forcing her to keep moving deeper into the trees. That 12-year-old girl got away from him ON HER OWN. She ran. She made it to the road. And then she needed one adult in America to stop the car. Jennifer got her inside, locked the doors, and called 911. She drove her straight to the Erwin Police Department. Then she took deputies BACK to the spot where she found her, so they could search the right woods. They found him in the treeline that night. Daniel Francis Gear, 38. Charged with first-degree kidnapping and assault on a female. Bond set Monday at $2.5 MILLION. She won't take the word hero. "I just thank God that I was there, cause if it was my daughter, I'd want someone to be there also." BE THE ONE WHO TURNS AROUND!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Before his first at-bat since undergoing brain surgery, every opposing player and coach lined up to shake his hand. A moment bigger than the game ❤️🥹
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Found inside the provider fact sheet for the Moderna shot... "increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, with the onset of symptoms typically in the first week following vaccination. The observed risk has been highest in males 12 years through 24 years of age." We don't know if it's causing myocarditis in babies because they aren't being tested for it. What is the justification for putting anyone at risk for this very serious heart condition, especially since the shots don't work?
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WTF. This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever read The MA Department of Children & Families (@Mass_DCF) sent a letter to convicted s*x offender Michael Carr, asking him if he wanted to be the foster parent for a 2-YEAR-OLD. It gets WORSE... The 2-year-old toddler belongs to the now-adult VICTIM that Michael Carr s*xually abused as a minor six years ago. How does this happen?!?!
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