The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates met yesterday to discuss an ordinance aimed at further restricting ICE operations on Cape Cod.
This man said what millions of Americans are thinking but are too afraid to say out loud:
“I am not an uncompassionate individual. But my generosity has been abused, and I am sick of it! I am sick of being treated as an indentured servant to foreign nationals in my country and in my community. And I don't give a damn whose feelings that hurts.”
There was a whole lot of pear-clutching afterward.
@HAD_ENOUGH_22@mrp035@Dan142160151137@TownofDennis@Yarmouth_MA@CapeCodGov@BarnstableMA@EROBoston@DHSgov@RealTomHoman
Today, the House passed a bill that applies a public records request process to the Legislature and establishes a framework for legislative audits. This bill will ensure greater transparency, while preserving the separation of powers principle established in the Constitution.
@WallStreetApes And that right there explains why Massachusetts implemented state regulation 760 CMR 74.00 (Residential Home Inspection Waivers) to make it more difficult to sell a home even if the buyer wants to waive the inspection.
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?
Boston Public Library under fire for scheduling drag queen story hours for kids: ‘Demonic assault on the innocence of children.’ https://t.co/ZPXcp9ZaQo
The party that never stops talking about "progress" just gave 74% of today's convention vote to @SenMarkey, the politician who has been in Congress since the Bicentennial in 1976.
Think about that. As America approaches its 250th birthday, Massachusetts progressives are rewarding a man who has spent a full ONE-FIFTH of our nation's entire history in Washington.
Looks like Seth Moulton's much-hyped "Moulmentum" (his phrase, not ours) sputtered out at 26%.
Vote @DeatonforSenate in November!
#Breaking: Senator Ed Markey @SenMarkey has earned the @MassDems endorsement in his bid for reelection, taking home 73.94% of the vote with support from 2,744 delegates at the state #Democratic Convention to challenger and Congressman @sethmoulton’s 26.06% on 1,018 votes. Both Markey and Moulton have made it past the 15% requirement to qualify for the ballot.
#Massachusetts #Democrats #politics #mapoli
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A bite from the Lone Star tick can trigger alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy. On Martha’s Vineyard, the problem has become so common that some restaurants now mark menu items “AG” for Alpha-Gal friendly. This is starting to sound like a Twilight Zone episode.
RFK Jr. says HHS is working to find a cure for Alpha Gal.
The tick disease that can make you allergic to red meat for life.
“One bite from a lone star tick, and you could have a lifetime allergy to red meat.”
“50% of the population of Martha’s Vineyard now has alpha gal.”
“We’re also working on medicines that can prevent Alpha Gal and have the promise of actually curing it.”
“One of those medicines is almost ready.”
“We’re fast tracking it.”
“We’re doing the studies over the next two years to see if we can actually reverse this devastating disease.”
@diane_revere@dippity_dee@CournanJane The thing about Democrats is that they find ways to conflate all issues. Our fight is focused on illegal immigration, but then Wu comes out with this. 🙄
The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates met yesterday to discuss an ordinance aimed at further restricting ICE operations on Cape Cod.
This man said what millions of Americans are thinking but are too afraid to say out loud:
“I am not an uncompassionate individual. But my generosity has been abused, and I am sick of it! I am sick of being treated as an indentured servant to foreign nationals in my country and in my community. And I don't give a damn whose feelings that hurts.”
There was a whole lot of pear-clutching afterward.
@HAD_ENOUGH_22@mrp035@Dan142160151137@TownofDennis@Yarmouth_MA@CapeCodGov@BarnstableMA@EROBoston@DHSgov@RealTomHoman