No bill would be needed in Massachusetts if there was nothing to hide.
The Massachusetts House passed controversial bill H 5469, gutting the voter approved 2024 legislative audit and rewriting public records rules, with zero public hearing and barely 24 hours for anyone to even read it.
The final vote was 125-28.
Vast majority of Democrats voted yes.
Only three Democrats voted NO: Reps. Michael Connolly, Steve Hawkins, and Alan Silvia.
As Rep. Connolly said: “I mean, the headline almost writes itself, right? ‘Legislature passes transparency bill out of the cover of darkness.’”
The Governor’s office, Legislature, AND Judiciary are all exempt from public records laws. This bill gives the Governor’s office some access… while the Legislature keeps protecting itself from real oversight.
Look, the only way we’re ever going to get the full audit we voted for is to start replacing every single one of them who voted for this garbage.
As I stated yesterday, this vote went almost entirely along party lines. I would have been another vote against this bill.
The people voted for a full audit. Not a partial audit. Not a politician-approved audit. A full audit.
Nothing has changed. The Legislature is still trying to avoid fulfilling the will of the voters. 72% of Massachusetts voters demanded transparency. Beacon Hill's response? More loopholes. More carveouts. More games.
If they have nothing to hide, why are they working so hard to keep auditors out?
If Massachusetts was a business, it would be bankrupt and the CEO would be fired.
The Perrina brothers, co-owners of Nutre and Toscana Forno, and I talked about what business owners already know: Massachusetts is losing its competitive edge because of the government overspending, overtaxing, and over regulating.
We can do better.
There is a reason the fight over the audit law has dragged on for over a year, despite being approved by 72% of voters.
The original ballot question was clear and it passed overwhelmingly.
Massachusetts voters did not ask for a negotiated audit, a limited review, or for the Legislature to define its own terms.
The people approved an independent audit of the Legislature.
Now, the response from Beacon Hill is a bill that:
• Narrows the scope of what can be examined
• Allows the Legislature to decide what records will be provided
• Prevents courts from stepping in when disputes arise
Who has ever heard of an independent audit where the entity being audited gets to decide what can be investigated?
At the same time, lawmakers are presenting this as a “transparency package.”
But even they acknowledge that many of the “new” public records provisions simply codify documents that are already available today.
So what is actually changing? The audit.
And that is exactly where the restrictions are being added.
As Auditor @DianaDiZoglio warns in this clip, this is not an expansion of transparency. It is a restructuring of a voter mandate into something Beacon Hill can define, limit, and control.
For the people of our state, the core question is straightforward:
Should the Legislature be able to redefine a law that 72% of voters already passed when it becomes inconvenient?
To everyone in Massachusetts who doesn't need a wake-up call and is still waiting for the Legislature to finally face a real audit.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell is now giving State Auditor Diana DiZoglio the OK to hire outside counsel and sue the Massachusetts Legislature over audit records.
This isn’t really a victory for taxpayers.
Now more of our money will be spent on lawyers just for the possibility of getting records turned over for an audit the voters already approved.
More time. More money. More delays.
And still no audit.
Massachusetts residents deserve transparency and accountability, not another drawn-out legal battle funded by taxpayers.
In Massachusetts, you can shoot at a cop while on probation for a stabbing, get half the sentence, get out in five years, and be back on the street firing 60 rounds at random drivers
FAUCI CAUGHT ON TAPE: "When you make it difficult for people in their lives, they lose their ideological BS and they get VACCINATED."
"You want to come to this college, buddy? You're going to get VACCINATED."
ONE WEEK LEFT TO PROSECUTE HIM.
The decision should be EASY.
The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history.
He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough.
RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.
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Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
This is what happens with one party rule. You can't tax your way to prosperity. Those businesses supporting the state thru tax dollars will just fold up and leave. This is what is happening in MA. We are losing our tax base. When Healey took office Charlie Baker (R) left a $ 6.5B surplus. We are now more than $3B in the dink. We need a regime change. It is clear Healey is a spend thrift who needs to be reined in!
Charlie Kirk wanted blockchain technology applied to the federal government. Full transparency. Every dime of spending tracked in real time on a public ledger.
His framing was simple: "It is not the government's money. We are the sovereign. We earn the money and the government extracts it from us with our consent."
If that's the relationship, then taxpayers have a right to see where every dollar goes. Day by day. Department by department.
The technology already exists. Bitcoin proved a public, tamper-proof ledger works at global scale. Nobody can edit it after the fact. Nobody can hide a transaction.
Apply that same infrastructure to federal spending and waste doesn't survive long. Nobody overspends when the ledger has an audience.
The question was never whether we could do it. It's whether the people spending the money want you to see it.
GREGORIO CASAR: “When somebody’s health insurance cost goes up $500 a month because of Donald Trump’s policy…”
RFK JR: “The health insurance companies’ stocks rose by 1000% after Obamacare was passed.”
“The money was not going to Americans. It was going to THEM, and it was YOU who did it.”
[See chart at end of video]
🚨 Exposing California's corrupt "Stop Nick Shirley Act", instead of going after the fraudsters California is now going after the people exposing the fraud.
This bill AB 2624 will:
- Criminalize journalists with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown
- Let immigrant based NGOs' funding be confidential
- Take away freedom of the press from journalists
- Protect any "immigration support services" information from being public (healthcare, legal services, etc)
This bill was created by the Attorney General's WIFE Mia Bonta to stop fraud from being exposed. Please like and share this video everywhere! By trying to silence and intimidate journalists, they are trying to hide the truth from you. EXPOSE ALL THE FRAUD.
I built https://t.co/R1jAMUfNTv — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities.
You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free.
I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded.
It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇
Numbers don't lie, but criminals do.
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Mike Rowe shares the reality that the college scam is over. For far too long, the elites have sold us a lie that a four-year degree and a mountain of debt were the only paths to success.
Gen Z are finally waking up to the truth as 60% are now looking towards Trades for eduction.
"we're realizing that the act of paying for your degree and attending the school itself is in no way commensurate with the speed with which you might attain an enlightenment. It's just the way it is. And now you throw on this preponderance of real opportunities in the real world that don't require that four-year degree or that crushing cost, the way is clear."