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Baker, BESE, and Riley Circle the Wagons on MCAS

November 18, 2020 By Mark L. Bail 6 Comments

Fanaticism is redoubling your effort after you've forgotten your aim. --George Santayana Ars gratia artis, the motto of MGM Studios, is the Latin translation of “art for art’s sake.” The movies, MGM implied, were their own excuse … [Read more...]

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Stochastic Terrorism: A Term Whose Time Has Come

August 4, 2019 By Mark L. Bail 11 Comments

I posted this 4 1/2 years ago. This morning Jake Tapper-trying to use the word he had just learned from interviewing Juliette Kayyem--said "schotastic."  --Mb stochastic terrorism: the use of mass communications to incite random actors to … [Read more...]

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Losing Perspective, Gaining Insight: Education, Perspective, and the Original Situation

June 12, 2019 By Mark L. Bail 7 Comments

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. --Zhuangzi I recently taught George Orwell's 1984 to my Honors English 11 classes. In order to provide the historical underpinnings of the novel, I taught the basics … [Read more...]

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Worse Than Obstruction: Foreign Powers, Trump, and the Mueller Report

May 30, 2019 By Mark L. Bail 13 Comments

“All the smart folks are only talking obstruction because the counterintelligence piece is too big and confusing and the result is that Americans have no sense of the scope of the story.” --Seth Abramson Seth Abramson was the first … [Read more...]

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A Hard Impeachment Rain Is Gonna Fall

May 22, 2019 By Mark L. Bail 18 Comments

Writing to learn was once a popular concept in education. The idea was to write about what a student was learning. It was hardly revolutionary in English, but it was pretty cutting edge in math. If my recent post is any guide, writing to … [Read more...]

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Easy for You to Say: Pundits Criticize Democrats for Not Impeaching

May 17, 2019 By Mark L. Bail 33 Comments

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” --George Orwell It's finally happened. Trump's crimes have led the media to criticize the Democrats. I'm not talking nutty right-wing, but the mainstream. Not that I … [Read more...]

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A New Generation of Women Will Change Beacon Hill

January 18, 2019 By Mark L. Bail 4 Comments

Beacon Hill: where the coffee is strong and so are the Women Politicians are human. Occasional bad behavior should come as no surprise. What matters is what is done about it. And recently sworn-in Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa (D-Northampton) and … [Read more...]

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The Inauthenticity Trap and A Way Forward for Elizabeth Warren

January 5, 2019 By Mark L. Bail 33 Comments

I've met Elizabeth Warren. And let me tell you, she's likable. She doesn't send me Christmas cards, and she doesn't remember me. But I've spoken to her and had my picture taken with her at a rally hosted by my friend and state senator Eric … [Read more...]

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The New Coke: The New Politics of Seth Moulton and No Labels

November 29, 2018 By Mark L. Bail 34 Comments

"We need New Politics because our current politics isn’t working." — Congressman Seth Moulton In the 1980s, Patrick Caddell, pollster for Gary Hart's presidential campaign, parlayed the idea of a "new idea" into one of the biggest … [Read more...]

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Voter Caging: Mass Fiscal Alliance’s Dirty Tricks

October 30, 2018 By Mark L. Bail 25 Comments

This morning, my NPR affiliate broadcast a short debate on Tuesday's ballot questions. The representative from the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance (MFA) was, to say the least, untruthful about the Citizen's United. To add insult to injury, I … [Read more...]

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rwwatchma Trump's election fraud hoax undermines democracy @rwwatchma ·
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Dozen's of senior cabinet members resigned yesterday. PM Boris Johnson lost the confidence of his own team.

The threat of DOJ doing the same thing made Trump re-think his plan to overturn the election #mapoli #nhpolitics

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legislataapp Legislata @legislataapp ·
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Tweet summary for MA State House for 2022-07-06: 204 tweets from 52 legislators. Top words: women, support, massachusetts, public, care, abortion, families, time, community, free. #mapoli

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halleylgbtqma Halley 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈☮️ @halleylgbtqma ·
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We have more daily Covid deaths this year than this time last year. People’s denialism is literally murdering people. It’s time to have courage & restore robust public health #Covid_19 #CovidIsNotOver #mapoli

Dan Goldberg @DanCGoldberg

A note on Covid: July 6, 2021, when vaccines were less prevalent, the US was averaging about 14,000 new infection per day. One year later, we’re at 114,000. One year ago, we were averaging 260 covid deaths per day; now we are closing in on 400 per day!

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rwwatchma Trump's election fraud hoax undermines democracy @rwwatchma ·
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Ipswich, Hamilton investigating neo-Nazi flyers distributed to residents’ homes https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ipswich-hamilton-investigating-neo-nazi-flyers-distributed-to-residents-e2-80-99-homes/ar-AAZimCe #bospoli #mapoli /1

Nationalist Social Club has been leafleting in suburban Mass. @ADL_NewEngland's Robert Trestan says they're a neo-Nazi hate group founded in Worc. in 2019

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valleypatriot Tommy Duggan @valleypatriot ·
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https://valleypatriot.com/pdf-of-the-july-2022-valley-patriot-fentanyl-dealer-charged-in-lawrence

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mszafranski413 Matt Szafranski @mszafranski413 ·
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The legislature's COVID-19 & Emergency Preparedness Committee did not dwell on pandemic failures, though it did pan some Baker administration decisions. Overall, however, the document looks forward and urges changes on COVID policy & beyond. #mapoli https://www.wmasspi.com/2022/07/comerford-co-led-committee-counsels-covid-corrections.html

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