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[Brian Shortsleeve for Massachusetts @ShortsleeveMA]

If the Legislature hasn’t complied with a full audit by the time I’m governor, I will veto the budget line items that fund lawmakers' salaries.

If they don’t do their jobs, they don’t get paid.

It’s time for state government to be accountable to its boss: YOU.

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[Cape Aerial 🇺🇸 @CCAerial]

171 Child care facilities in one city alone. 171 in one SMALL city!

Could #Brockton Massachusetts be the #Fraud capitol of MA? Is this place the next Minneapolis?

Who wants to show up at some of these addresses and see what you find? @nickshirleyy where are you?

#Mapoli

[Brian Shortsleeve for Massachusetts @ShortsleeveMA]

I’m not messing around.

If the legislature doesn’t comply with the audit that 72% of Massachusetts voters approved, legislators aren’t getting paid when I’m governor.

Today, I made that clear on the State House steps.

Link in the replies.

[John Deaton @DeatonforSenate]

When you've been a politician for 50 years, the playbook never changes: distract, label, divide, repeat.

Meanwhile, families are worried about housing, affordability, healthcare, and energy costs.

Massachusetts deserves a debate about solutions, not another rerun.

#Massachusetts #MApoli #MAPolitics #HousingCrisis #Affordability #WorkingFamilies #CostOfLiving #AmericanDream #JohnDeaton #USSenate #MASen

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Texas Rangers are the only MLB team not acknowledging pride month.

Support them when you can. They will receive lots of negative sht from the fake news and the mentally ill section.

Way to go Rangers.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Give Ella a follow. She’s a brave voice.
Girls shouldn’t have to defend their sports and spaces on their own!

[Brian Shortsleeve for Massachusetts @ShortsleeveMA]

If Massachusetts needed another reason to reject rent control, here it is!

A new study found statewide rent control could raise property taxes on the average Massachusetts homeowner by hundreds of dollars a year. That's on top of reducing housing investment and making our housing shortage even worse.

Property taxpayers are already being squeezed by Maura Healey and Beacon Hill Democrats’ failure to properly fund local aid. Cities and towns are being forced to raise property taxes just to balance their budgets. The last thing we should do is make that burden even worse by passing rent control. Read more here: https://t.co/blLkewQiIt

[Jeff Kuhner @TheKuhnerReport]

Wake up MA voters! Democrats in the state House just passed H. 5469. It essentially negates the 2024 ballot initiative passed by 72% of voters demanding an audit of the state Legislature. Dems are refusing to allow an audit. They're covering up their corruption & fraud! #mapoli

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Nothing about this should be remotely controversial.

Pass the Save America Act!

[Brian Shortsleeve for Massachusetts @ShortsleeveMA]

No matter what bill reaches Maura Healey's desk, she has an obligation to the citizens who elected her.

Massachusetts needs a governor who is accountable to the people and willing to hold the legislature accountable as well.

The governor should have been demanding compliance with the audit the day voters approved it. Any bill that falls short of delivering the full audit authority approved by the people must be vetoed.

[Brian Shortsleeve for Massachusetts @ShortsleeveMA]

Residents are fleeing Massachusetts in droves, and Maura Healey wants to pretend it’s because they’re going to Paris or London. I have some news for the governor: we’re competing with other states, not European cities.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

INBOX: Zeus Cafe is reportedly selling a drink called “Trump bullet in the head.”

Sickening

Make sure everyone who lives near a Zeus location sees this!

[Cape Aerial 🇺🇸 @CCAerial]

Welcome to Maura Healey's Massachusetts, where criminals walk the streets of New Bedford, attempting to steal from and/or steal cars with zero concern that they'll ever be held accountable.

Whitey Bulger & Joseph The Animal Barboza certainly weren't good people but these things didn't happen when they were in charge of this city & everyone who was around back then knows it.

Avoid modern democrat ran cities accordingly...

#CityLife #NewBedford #WinterHillGang #crime #decay #massachusetts #decay #3rdWorld #Whaling #fishing #MobyDick #urban #democrat #mapoli

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

California Gov candidate Tom Steyer (D) just posted a video promoting and supporting men in girls’ sports.

AB Hernandez is a male athlete who invaded female sports and stole multiple medals from girls.

Tom Steyer hates women and girls. PASS IT ON!

[Maine Wire Jon @MaineWireJon]

EDITORIAL: Graham Platner’s Victim Act Is Collapsing Under the Weight of His Own Words

By Jon Fetherston

Graham Platner is in free fall,  and the excuse, making is getting uglier by the day.

For weeks, Platner has tried to sell Maine voters a story: that U.S. Senator Susan Collins “sent him to war” and “sent him and his friends to die.” It is a cheap, manipulative political line designed to turn his own voluntary decisions into someone else’s moral burden.

The problem is simple.

It is not true.

Platner enlisted after the Iraq War had already begun. He reenlisted. Then, after his military service, he went back again as a Blackwater contractor.

Those were not Susan Collins’ choices.

They were Graham Platner’s choices.

And that is exactly why his own reported Reddit comments are so politically devastating.

In a 2020 Reddit reply cited by the New York Post, Platner reportedly wrote that he “wanted to have an adventure and kill some people.” He said he “joined up in ’04,” served in Fallujah and Ramadi, and called it a “hell of an excellent experience.”

So which is it?

Was Platner a helpless victim dragged into war by Susan Collins? Or was he a grown man who knowingly joined during wartime, went back again, and later bragged online about seeking adventure and killing people?

He cannot have it both ways.

That is the fraud at the center of Platner’s campaign. He wants the sympathy of a victim, the swagger of a warrior, and the immunity of a candidate who thinks military service should make him untouchable.

It does not.

No one is disrespecting veterans by questioning Graham Platner’s hypocrisy. Platner is the one disrespecting veterans by using service as a political shield while refusing to own his own words, his own choices, and his own record.

And the pattern keeps getting worse.

The comments involving a Purple Heart recipient were bad enough. The porta potty story was embarrassing enough. The reported SS Totenkopf tattoo controversy should have been enough to send any serious campaign into panic mode. Add the Blackwater history and the Reddit comments, and Democrats are left with a nominee-in-waiting who looks less like a public servant and more like a walking opposition research file.

If Platner becomes the nominee and loses to Collins, no one on the left should pretend this was bad luck.

They did not have to run a candidate accused of lying about his own choices. They did not have to rally behind a man carrying this much baggage. They did not have to make a mercenary contractor with a reported SS Totenkopf tattoo the face of their Senate campaign.

They chose this.

Platner’s problem is not Susan Collins. It is not one reporter’s question. It is not voters being too sensitive or critics being too mean.

Platner’s problem is Graham Platner.

His campaign looks less like a movement and more like a meltdown — emotional, undisciplined, reckless, and increasingly desperate.

Does Graham Platner need a timeout and a cookie? Maybe some alone time in a porta potty to regroup?

Because if this is how he handles basic scrutiny in a campaign, Maine voters have every reason to question how he would handle the pressure of the United States Senate.

Somewhere inside Democratic circles, they must be wondering whether they miss Janet Mills yet.

@TheMaineWire @grahamformaine @SenatorCollins

[Cape Aerial 🇺🇸 @CCAerial]

Welcome to Maura Healey's Massachusetts where

MASSIVE EBT & CHARITY FRAUD IS EXPOSED: Immigrants Are Openly Buying Food with Food Stamps and Collecting It from Charities, Then Shipping It Overseas to Sell for Profit

In Lawrence, Massachusetts, a whistleblower revealed a welfare scam that the Dominican community has been running for over a decade.

Here is how it works: Dominican immigrants buy food with EBT cards or take it for free from food banks. They then load it into shipping barrels and send it to the Dominican Republic, where it is sold for profit in local bodegas.

We tracked the entire pipeline, from corner stores in Massachusetts to shipping hubs in New York to bodegas in Santo Domingo that are stocked with food paid for by the American taxpayer.

We are prepared to share our findings with any legitimate investigative body.

@JDVance where are you?

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

[Kennedy @KennedyNation]

When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.

[Brian Shortsleeve for Massachusetts @ShortsleeveMA]

This is a disgrace.

Maura Healey and Michelle Wu are giving free needles to drug addicts, illegal immigrants apartments, and violent criminals parole but they can’t prioritize a veteran who’s given everything to this country?

When I’m governor, we’re getting our priorities straight. Veterans first. #mapoli #magov

[I am Ken @Ikennect]

Barbara Walters writes:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton."
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper...
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less