Good morning to everyone in Massachusetts who hasn't voted.
Early voting is under way and election day is November 3. There are nine statewide ballot questions. Here’s how I’m voting (see cheatsheet):
Read the official Information for Voters booklet for the full text and the arguments from both sides. Then vote your values.
Do you agree or disagree with how I’m voting on the 9 ballot questions?
If you want more affordability, accountability, transparency, and local control, vote Chester Tam for State Representative in the 9th Bristol District.
If you can’t see that, regardless of political affiliation, we need to stop with the electronic voting machines in our voting systems then I don’t know what to tell you. The difference between Democrats and Republicans is Republicans. Don’t trust the voting machines at all. Democrats only trust them when it goes their way. There has been issue after issue after issue in this midterm cycle alone and regardless of what party you side with this is a problem for everybody in this country. You have ballots being thrown away, which could have easily been tracked if you weren’t so fucking stupid on being against barcoded balance on the outside so they could be tracked. California has admitted that they cannot verify citizenship to vote in this country. They’ve also refused to put ballots off to the side that are suspected of being illegals that are participating in our elections. You have undercover reporters and journalist, exposing all of these election workers that are encouraging or allowing people to sign up while admitting that they are not American citizens and don’t have any way to verify their citizenship. And what’s even crazier is your seeing all of this other fraud welfare Medicaid, food stamps, hospice care, retirement homes being exposed in a lot of these states and someway somehow you think that there’s no such thing as election fraud when all of this other shit exists. @DataRepublican has put together the democracy files, which is insane in itself that people are emboldened enough to do this to our country, but please take your time to look into everything that she’s posting. It makes sense why everybody is coming after her now. I don’t need to remind you that participating and voting in our elections is the one responsibility and civic duty that you owe the country that you live. But the only way to take a stand improvement point is to show up in massive numbers like we did in 2024 resting on the hope that the president is going to be able to save us all without giving him the team to do it is dumb as fuck.
State Auditor @DianaDiZoglio: "Right now, they're blocking the audit of the legislature. They might be able to block me but that can't block all of us. That's why we need to go vote Yes on 1."
The overwhelming passage of the legislative audit ballot question in 2024 demonstrated that Massachusetts voters want more transparency from their state government. Question 1 represents another opportunity to move the Commonwealth in that direction by expanding the public records law, by making additional records of the Governor and Legislature subject to disclosure.
"Let in the Sun." Vote Yes on 1.
#transparency #Massachusetts
Hey, for those that don't know. I'm John Nagel running for Congress against ....well, formerly known as IIhan Omar.
Check out the website, go vote, and if you have any spare change at the end of the month, I could surely use it for the campaign.
And not for a legal defense fund, that other people may need it for.😆
@NagelForCongress
I would go back to this in a heartbeat. Notice the front door, wide opened without worries of intruders.
The phone mounted on the wall, that never rang more than a few times a day.
The TV that had only a few channels with wholesome programming and only 30 minutes of news each night.
Those were the days, my friends.
Just spoke to a 58-year-old nurse in Tampa.
She has:
- $340,000 in a retirement fund she can’t touch without a massive penalty
- A modest home worth $310,000 with $140,000 left on the mortgage
- A physical body completely wrecked by decades of 12-hour hospital shifts
- Seven agonizing years left until Medicare kicks in
She is not poor. She is not rich.
She is trapped between the illusion of "assets" she built and a healthcare system that forces her to keep breaking her back until she turns 65.
Millions of Americans are working themselves into an early grave because the math of modern survival makes retiring at 58 mathematically impossible.
We call this a personal budgeting failure.
It is a systemic ransom.
I wish I had understood the importance of involving a financial investigator and an attorney familiar with criminal financial exploitation while my father was still alive.
We were seeing repeated ATM withdrawals, sometimes the same amounts withdrawn more than once in the same month, and far more cash coming out of my father’s accounts than he needed each week.
His caregiver was making the withdrawals, keeping cash in a drawer in her bedroom and doling it out to him. Dad informed us of the cash drawer and that the caregiver was “helping him manage his cash”. He believed she was honest.
Then, quite by accident, we discovered something else.
My father had asked my son to fix a paper shredder. When my son opened it, he found financial documents jammed inside and called me into the room. Among them were the caregiver’s bank statements and employment payment records. I photographed what we found.
Those records appeared to show cash deposits into her personal account that exceeded her earnings. As the funds accumulated to approximately $2,000, she would write a check to Fidelity for her IRA.
I could see a pattern, but proving where that cash came from was another matter.
Looking back, there are two things I wish I had done much earlier.
First, hire an experienced accountant to examine the transactions. Finding a forensic accountant isn’t easy, but even a qualified CPA familiar with financial investigations might have helped us establish what was happening and what additional evidence we needed.
Second, consult an attorney experienced in criminal financial exploitation. I wish I had understood the difference between pursuing a probate or civil case and exploring whether suspected financial wrongdoing warranted a criminal investigation.
We spent years trying to address what happened through the legal system. I often wonder what might have been different had we pursued those two avenues while my father was living.
That’s why I’m sharing this information from #NCEA. Families need to know these options exist before they become overwhelmed by legal proceedings, mounting expenses and the challenge of trying to reconstruct what happened years later.
Recognizing suspicious activity and knowing how to investigate it, preserve evidence and get the right help is another.
I hope sharing what I wish I had known helps another family act sooner.
#Aging #ProtectOurParents
The deadline to submit pubic comments on the proposed decennial census rule change that would prohibit noncitizens from being counted, is in 10 days! If you have not yet submitted your comment, do so today! Comments are due by November 2, 2026!
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It’s literally the Wild West in Massachusetts
Zero oversight of any Government agency while citizens are under complete scrutiny for daily living
We need average residents to take over these jobs
Teach Black children their history? ABSOLUTELY! But teach them ALL of it, not some carefully curated historical narrative designed to leave them perpetually angry, resentful, and convinced that their future is imprisoned by their ancestors’ past.
You want to teach them about slavery? EXCELLENT! Then let’s teach them about the African kingdoms and merchants who captured, enslaved, and sold other Africans. Let’s discuss the Kingdom of Dahomey, the Asante Empire, and the role African intermediaries played in the transatlantic slave trade.
Let’s teach them about the Arab slave trades, which operated across centuries, and the indigenous systems of servitude that existed in Africa before Europeans arrived.
And absolutely teach them about European colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, the barbarity of plantation slavery, and the laws that systematically deprived Black Americans of their liberty.
But don’t you dare selectively edit history to manufacture an eternal racial grievance.
Let’s teach Black children about Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and the extraordinary accomplishments of Black Americans who refused to let oppression define the boundaries of their existence.
Let’s teach them that African history did not begin with slavery and that Black American history did not end with emancipation.
Let’s teach them about African civilizations, scientific achievements, entrepreneurship, intellectual independence, family formation, and the extraordinary resilience of our ancestors.
And while we’re examining historical culpability, let’s examine the American political institutions that defended slavery, enacted Jim Crow laws, and resisted civil rights. Let’s name the politicians, examine their party affiliations, and acknowledge how those parties and their coalitions changed over time. No selective amnesia for anybody.
Here’s where I fundamentally disagree with you.
You appear more interested in teaching Black children whom to resent than teaching them what they can accomplish.
My ancestors endured extraordinary suffering. Their suffering deserves historical accuracy, reverence, and remembrance. It does not require me to surrender my intellectual independence or teach my children that their destiny is controlled by people who lived centuries before them.
History should produce knowledge, not inherited animosity.
Teach the entire historical record, including the uncomfortable chapters that contradict your preferred narrative.
Because a child who knows only the atrocities committed against his ancestors knows only a fraction of his ancestry.
And that is an egregious intellectual disservice.
I will teach my children what happened to their ancestors. But I will also teach them who their ancestors WERE before captivity, what they accomplished afterward, and what they themselves are capable of becoming.
My God did not create my children to spend their lives shackled to the grievances of yesterday.
Teach history. Don’t manufacture helplessness.
#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks
New York City banned the 150 year traditional horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park. Supposedly because of a single death by a run a way horse. But the city and @NYCMayor won’t ban illegals that killed multiple men, women and children. It’s a sanctuary city for illegals. Make it make sense?