MrRural
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@tramforcongress.bsky.social
Your shady super PAC transfer stinks like this huge pile of horseshit behind my barn.
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Republicans’ Latest Gambit to Deny Rural Veterans Health Care
A new bill would construct an alternative referral system that would incrementally defund and dismantle rural VA services, leaving rural veterans in the lurch.
https://barnraisingmedia.com/republicans-latest-gambit-to-deny-rural-veterans-health-care/
about 23 hours ago
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Max Berger
5 days ago
The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
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State legislative audit stuck in limbo one year after voters approved ballot initiative
At the crux of the deadlock: Democratic lawmakers’ refuse to participate in an audit — they argue it violates separation of powers principles. DiZoglio wants to sue them into compliance, but Attorney ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/05/state-legislative-audit-limbo-dizoglio-ballot-question?utm_source=massterlist.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=poll-majority-supports-ban-on-ice-agents-wearing-masks-but-a-state-law-may-have-no-teeth
8 days ago
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Mamdani won. So did Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia. Their brand is still toxic. - The Boston Globe
There is only one way to solve the party’s enduring problem.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/opinion/new-york-new-jersey-virginia-elections-democrats/
9 days ago
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@ayannapressley.bsky.social
Please run so you can split the vote with Maryland's third senator and we can elect Seth.
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Ayanna Pressley is considering a Senate run in Massachusetts
The progressive Boston Democrat is quietly consulting with allies on whether to run for the seat held by Sen. Ed Markey.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/04/congress/ayanna-pressley-for-senate-00636295
9 days ago
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Characterizing Democrats, Matthew Novak, a Republican county chair in northern Michigan, remarked,“They seem completely detached from how people live here.”
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/r...
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Rural Revival
Democrats lost rural America—but with real investment and local rebuilding, they could start to win it back.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/rural-divide-democrats-fdr-trump/
10 days ago
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Seth Moulton
14 days ago
Primary challenges give voters choices and provide a forum for debating issues important to MA and our country. With Trump threatening our democracy every day, we need to have this debate now more than ever.
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Win or lose, Seth Moulton’s Senate campaign is good for democracy - The Boston Globe
Voters are so concerned about our gerontocracy that some say they favor age limits for public office. But the better solution is to have more competitive elections.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/31/opinion/moulton-markey-congress-elections/
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Happy Halloween!
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Ex-gov. aide held without right to bail after drug trafficking charges
“Instead of uplifting the community, he decimated the community with this poison from him and his co-conspirators,” Assistant Hampden District Attorney Kerry Beattie said.
https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2025/10/ex-gov-aide-held-without-right-to-bail-after-drug-trafficking-charges.html
14 days ago
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@massltgovernor.bsky.social
Glad to see you really vetted this dirtbag before putting him on your payroll
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Gov. Healey aide fired after cocaine arrest was previously charged in 2001 shooting
The former official faces charges after a package of cocaine was delivered to a government building in Springfield.
https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2025/10/gov-healey-aide-fired-after-cocaine-arrest-was-previously-charged-in-2001-shooting.html
15 days ago
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Rob Arnol
16 days ago
Can’t understand why?
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@jasmineforus.bsky.social
Please spare us a Senate run. We need workhorses and you're a showhorse.
15 days ago
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Barn Raiser
16 days ago
It was President John F. Kennedy who rightly said, “the farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.”
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Populist Ideas for Democrats to Win With in 2026
Taking on private equity. Reining in Big Pharma. These are just a few ideas for Democrats to champion if they want to win in next year’s midterms.
https://barnraisingmedia.com/populist-ideas-for-democrats-to-win-with-in-2026/
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17 days ago
Farmers, actions and voting have consequences.
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There are stupid, loser hacks....and then there is this guy
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Member of Healey’s western Mass. office arrested on drug, gun charges
The deputy director of Gov. Healey’s western Massachusetts office has been fired amid an ongoing investigation.
https://www.westernmassnews.com/2025/10/29/member-healeys-western-mass-office-fired-following-arrest/
16 days ago
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@massltgovernor.bsky.social
Hey great look here!
www.masslive.com/westernmass/...
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Governor’s WMass aide charged with drug trafficking after cocaine delivered to state building
LaMar Cook, deputy director for the governor’s regional office in Springfield, will be arraigned Wednesday.
https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2025/10/gov-healeys-wmass-aide-arrested-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-at-little-statehouse-in-springfield.html
16 days ago
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@marciabrown.bsky.social
Brooke Rollins is one of the worst-dressed cabinet secretaries.
18 days ago
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@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Just finished reading Gulag, the second book of yours I've enjoyed this year! Also loved Red Famine.
19 days ago
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ICYMI:
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Populist Ideas for Democrats to Win With in 2026
Taking on private equity. Reining in Big Pharma. These are just a few ideas for Democrats to champion if they want to win in next year’s midterms.
https://barnraisingmedia.com/populist-ideas-for-democrats-to-win-with-in-2026/
19 days ago
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'Our messaging isn't right': Former Kansas congressman urges Democrats to court rural voters • Kansas Reflector
Former U.S. Rep. Dan Glickman of Wichita proposes Kansas Democrats deepen ties to rural Kansas with economic messages and a dose of self-deprecating humor.
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/25/our-messaging-isnt-right-former-kansas-congressman-urges-democrats-to-court-rural-voters/
19 days ago
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@gblcboston.bsky.social
Why are you sending me direct mail for candidates in Boston when I live in rural Chesterfield in Hampshire County? What a huge waste of printing and postage!
20 days ago
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@kamalaharris.com
Please do us all a favor and go away!
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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'I am not done' - Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again
The former US vice-president made her strongest suggestion to date she will make another bid for the White House
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/am-not-done-kamala-harris-120037096.html
20 days ago
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“If you can sue Trump, you can sue the Legislature,” DiZoglio said. “By not doing so, she is denying the will of the people. It’s an obstruction of justice.”
www.bostonherald.com/2025/10/25/l...
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Lucas: AG’s defiance deserves a ‘No Queens’ rally
AG Andrea Campbell’s authoritarian stand on the issue is almost enough to stir up a “No Queens” rally.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/10/25/lucas-ags-defiance-deserves-a-no-queens-rally/
20 days ago
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Representative Jim McGovern
21 days ago
Trump’s tariffs are putting Argentina FIRST & American farmers LAST.
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@trenni.bsky.social
For your Belichick file:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
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How a front yard in Charlotte turned into a Halloween tableau of Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson
What started as boredom in 2020 has turned into a yearly tradition for Travis Dove: Pop-culture-themed Halloween displays.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6744978/2025/10/24/bill-belichick-unc-skeleton-halloween/
21 days ago
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Dems are so screwed
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
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Opinion | How Democrats Became the Party of the Well-to-Do
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/opinion/democrats-rich-poor.html
22 days ago
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Did they use Draft Kings or FanDuel?
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Live Updates: N.B.A. Player and Coach Arrested in Gambling Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-illegal-gambling-arrests?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251023&instance_id=164986&nl=breaking-news®i_id=167219941&segment_id=209171&user_id=cf79322cafdf5ab65abdef3651a4c280
22 days ago
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@teamtram.bsky.social
Wait, wut? You're running “to restore faith in our democracy," but your entire time on Beacon Hill has been spent rubber-stamping Speaker/Dictator Mariano by voting against House rules reforms for more transparency & accountability in the most opaque & secret state govt in US.
22 days ago
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@gmorgenson.bsky.social
I gave your great book a shout-out in this new piece:
barnraisingmedia.com/populist-ide...
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Populist Ideas for Democrats to Win With in 2026
Taking on private equity. Reining in Big Pharma. These are just a few ideas for Democrats to champion if they want to win in next year’s midterms.
https://barnraisingmedia.com/populist-ideas-for-democrats-to-win-with-in-2026/
22 days ago
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@jamestalarico.bsky.social
I used you in this new piece
barnraisingmedia.com/populist-ide...
as an example of a candidate who has a merch page but no issues platform.
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Populist Ideas for Democrats to Win With in 2026
Taking on private equity. Reining in Big Pharma. These are just a few ideas for Democrats to champion if they want to win in next year’s midterms.
https://barnraisingmedia.com/populist-ideas-for-democrats-to-win-with-in-2026/
22 days ago
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Here is a new piece I did for Barn Raiser:
barnraisingmedia.com/populist-ide...
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Populist Ideas for Democrats to Win With in 2026
Taking on private equity. Reining in Big Pharma. These are just a few ideas for Democrats to champion if they want to win in next year’s midterms.
https://barnraisingmedia.com/populist-ideas-for-democrats-to-win-with-in-2026/
22 days ago
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Silvia Secchi
23 days ago
Agriculture is a great example of how trump's voters don't really care about the economy, it's really about ideology. He was disastrous for US agriculture in his first term, and biden lavished big ag (including livestock) with subsidies. Yet they voted for this guy again. This was 💯 predictable.
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tweety
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What’s the Trump Administration’s End Game for the National Parks?
We saw it in Yosemite. But you have to look beyond the bathrooms.
https://www.republic.land/whats-the-trump-administrations-end-game-for-the-national-parks/?ref=re-public-exclusives-newsletter
23 days ago
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Video: Opinion | How the Democratic Party Lost Rural Voters
The political scientist Suzanne Mettler discusses the social, economic and political factors that drove rural voters away from the Democratic Party.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010465664/how-the-democratic-party-lost-rural-voters.html
23 days ago
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@grahamformaine.bsky.social
Hey pal, when you're explaining, you're losing.
23 days ago
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Benedict Pond in Beartown State Forest in Monterey, MA is a nice spot.
24 days ago
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Today I was at this vista in Beartown State Forest in Great Barrington, MA looking west with the Catskills on the horizon.
24 days ago
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Pathetic:
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State Democratic Parties Face a Funding Dilemma. Can the DNC Actually Help?
The DNC is giving state parties up to $10,000 more a month as Ken Martin looks to build up the Democrats across the country.
https://www.notus.org/democrats/state-democratic-party-funding-dilemma-dnc
24 days ago
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Great, Self-Inflicted Soybean Debacle
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/opinion/trump-soybeans-tariffs.html
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Opinion | America Still Has a Political Center, and It’s the Key to Winning
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/opinion/moderation-strategy-democrat-republican-center.html
25 days ago
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American Bird Conservancy
25 days ago
🚨 Massachusetts: Protect coastal wildlife! Bill H.898 would ban harvesting horseshoe crabs for bait — a vital step to save this ancient species and the shorebirds that depend on their eggs. Urge legislators to support H.898 by Tuesday, Oct 21st! Take action:
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This should be prosecuted as a violation of the Hatch Act.
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27 days ago
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This guy is running in America's second most-rural state
www.wmtw.com/article/us-s...
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US Senate candidate Graham Platner addresses deleted social media posts criticizing police, rural Americans
Platner said the posts made on Reddit in 2020 and 2021 don't reflect who he is today
https://www.wmtw.com/article/us-senate-candidate-graham-platner-addresses-deleted-social-media-posts-criticizing-police-rural-americans/69062688
28 days ago
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@trenni.bsky.social
Hard to watch as Brew Crew is being overmatched by LA. Yelich is on every milk carton as a missing bat.
29 days ago
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@massltgovernor.bsky.social
Good to see the totally unqualified Nutt-job out at MassDOT.
29 days ago
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I really love it that Pope Leo is a horse rider
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Polish donor gifts Pope Leo a purebred Arabian horse - Vatican News
A Polish man has donated a purebred Arabian horse to Pope Leo XIV ahead of the weekly General Audience, saying he was inspired by the photo of the ...
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-10/pope-leo-xiv-receives-arabian-horse-polish-donor.html#:~:text=Now%2C%20Pope%20Leo%20XIV%20has%20received%20a%20white,of%20the%20Michalski%20Stud%20Farm%2C%20in%20Ko%C5%82obrzeg-Budzistowo%2C%20Poland
29 days ago
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State Auditor Diana DiZoglio
about 1 month ago
Oct. 15th 12:30pm State House Me, you, and voters from all over Massachusetts—Republicans, Democrats, Independents—are going to rally to send a message to Speaker Ron Mariano, Senate President Karen Spilka, &
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: Follow. The. Law.
#mapoli
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NFL MEMES
about 1 month ago
Pats fans after the Bills loss to the Falcons.
#NFL
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@ty-anderson.bsky.social
The years go by, the seasons blend into one another and the Bruins PP is still one of the worst in all of hockey.
about 1 month ago
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